coworker’s nerdy interests are, then do some light research

Not saying this is bad advice, but it can feel disappointing and invalidating when they don’t reciprocate. “Yeah that’s cool I guess, anyways…” stings a bit when it’s finally your turn to share.

I’m not a basement dweller because I can’t afford one.

Mahayana can be pretty out there too.

Siddhattha overhears these doubts being expressed so he takes of his clothes, spreads his legs and shows the ladies what is there - and what was there is his kosohitavatthaguyha glowing with a golden light. Then a lotus appeared and from its centre a baby boy’s penis emerges which gradually grows into an adult’s. More lotuses appear, each with a bodhisattva in it. The sutra doesn’t record what the ladies-in-waiting said about this extraordinary exhibition

https://sdhammika.blogspot.com/2010/08/strangest-sutra-of-them-all.html>

It’s wild that shit like this gets so many upvotes, I would have assumed the average lemmy user would be a bit more technologically inclined.

Papers have an abstract and summary sections SPECIFICALLY for this reason and usually aren’t more than a paragraph; there’s no excuse to use LLM.