• Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    You’re not gonna believe this, but most chemists never touch electronics. “Nerdy” is a really, really, really wide category.

    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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      8 hours ago

      You can be a nerd about anything. A language nerd who speaks 20 languages and studies ancient Akkadian for fun won’t know what those are.

      I mean I am a nerd, but I haven’t much of a clue about trees and plant life.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      “Enchanting nerds and alchemy nerds are two different groups of wizardry. They don’t share their secrets outside the group!”

      -some guy named Clarke or something, I dunno.