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If you could only listen to someone talk about one topic for the rest of your life, what would it be, and why?

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I'm going to metagame this one and say "current events".

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- 'history' maybe even more apt as even or estimations of the future are based on it
  
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Trains.

My kid is a train kid, I'm already listening to it non-stop, I won't make things worse for me or him.

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- Hello fellow parent. I feel your anguish. I have star wars and dinosaurs. Tbh I'm not even mad, most of the times... I'd just need some more time in the morning before the uninterrupted stream of words!
  
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  Exactly. He's turning into a Lego kid, but uh, did you know that Lego has trains? (They recently put out a gorgeous Oriental Express train that even I want now.). My biggest gripe about trains is they take up so so so much space.
  
  I am excited for his teenage years for when he wants to sleep in and I get to wake him up.
  
  But today is Christmas, and if you celebrate, Merry Christmas. (Mine is waking now, and it's 430 am, time to stall him for 2 hours, as my daily gift to momma)
  
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The universe.

Everything that has ever happened has occurred in the universe as far as anyone knows. Including all fiction.

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Carl Sagan or Richard Feynman talking about physics or astronomy.

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- Feynman. No question.
  
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I had to listen to a guy talk about the fanfic he was writing for 4 hours. So anything but that I suppose.

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Medicine

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- Any particular areas of medicine?
  
  Also I haven't been promoting the communities well enough but we've got some on Lemmy that could use more activity. I was planning to get them going more in the new year
  
  !medicine@mander.xyz for r/medicine
  
  !medicine@lemmy.world for the hub to other stuff
  
  !health@lemmy.world isn't listed there yet but will be soon
  
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  Right now I’m a big nerd for infectious disease but tbh that changes every other three months. :)
  
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Honestly, nothing. No matter how strong my interest is in something, it will eventually shift dramatically and I'll have trouble listening to any other thing.

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My husband talking about something he's passionate about and makes him happy. It doesn't matter what, I love how excited he gets when he's explaining something that matters to him.

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The roman empire.

Clearly.

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- The only correct answer. As much of the discussion should also be in Latin.
  
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  Now you lost me.
  
  Unless trebuchet is Latin....
  
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Music

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Story telling I'd ask them to improvise or use known stories to give me examples, I now have stories for a lifetime

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Food. I love cooking and baking and recipe planning and eating and thinking about food and talking about food

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Astrophysics/cosmology. I'm more artsy geek than STEM geek, but there is a tremendous amount of beauty found in what we know and don't know about the universe.

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I'd pick J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth, no hesitation

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Don't you put that evil on me. That sounds like a decent approximation of hell.

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- Yeah, I'd rather be deaf.
  
  One subject I could manage (psychology/AI if it has to be nonfiction or mysteries if fiction counts), but not one voice.
  
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The science of how color is reproduced via display technology, including colorimetry, photometry, and signal processing

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- "When we reached SuperTwist monochrome passive matrix LCD's we thought we'd reached the peak for universal display technology; great contrast, cheap to manufacture, and low power."
  
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  Peak universal display tech and monochrome?? Who said this?
  
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Warhammer. There is so much lore and battle reports out there you could fill your life.

Also I am being cheeky by not specifying Fantasy or 40K so I get both.

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Animal behavior. I never get bored learning about biology and specifically, all the interesting behaviors that animals have learned to reach their goals. Like elaborate mating dances, or long distance communication of whales.

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Philosophy.

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Privacy

richard stallman

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Sam Harris about moral philosophy.

I find his reasoning to be incredibly logical and easy to follow. On top of that he has a really pleasant voice.

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Food

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- They didn't say you could eat it. You just have to listen to endless speeches about it. Is "food" your final answer?
  
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  I love talking about food, so yes. Listening to it would be pleasant.
  
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Ethics. It touches on every other subject.

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Do we get to pick the person? I'd say Nigella Lawson talking about cooking.

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Touhou lore I think.

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- Link for people who don't know what it is?
  
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Probably anthropology

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Architecture. It's something that has always fascinated me but I've never committed any real study hours to it

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I’d listen to the Verizon commercial guy explain how if he can hear me now, that it’s good. A simple subject, a search for truth. Is it good to always be able to hear someone? I don’t know, yet. This is the kind of Hell I can get behind, just me and that sorry son of a bitch. Decades, millennia—CAn yOu HeaR Me nOW?

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