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Nerds of Lemmy, what are all of the ways that make you a "cool" person? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by DigitalTraveler42 to c/asklemmy

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Most of us on Lemmy are nerds in many ways, it's part of why we're on something like Lemmy as opposed to the more narcissistic social media platforms.

However many of us are cool sociable people, or extremely capable in something that others look up to us for, we just have nerdy hobbies or careers or tendencies, what are those traits or abilities that make others enjoy being around us or look up to us or would otherwise be described as "cool"?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What I have found works well is to own it, but in a resonable manner.

Learn some fun facts, truly fun I mean, stuff that normal people can see the funny part of.

I am a bit of a nerd about public transportation, and I work in a department with many people who like sports, they go to matches, the watch games on the TV, they play sports themselves, so when I found out that there is an annual tram championship it was fun to share that with the rest of the team, it was even better when I found out that they take place during the summer and are broadcast live on youtube.

Summer is our slow season, and we have several TVs set up for monitoring system in the office, one of them has been shut off for a lobg time but you can still use it, so I put it up on the TV on mute, and people found it interesting to watch, the sports people could relate to the competition part of it and I enjoyed seeing the skill and trams used in the competition.

For those nerds who are interested here is the video from the 2023 championship:

https://www.youtube.com/live/GMI7UaJMwWs

Perhaps not as suave as you are thinking but an example of owning it in a responsible manner.

[–] abouttocomealive 5 points 8 months ago

This is amazing! I randomly selected somewhere in the middle, and the driver had to jump out of the tram to extinguish a fire and quickly jump back in to carry on.