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I always thought it was called "learning" and that people enjoyed it (lemmy.world)
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Like, why wouldn't people be interested in knowing that the African slave trade of the colonial period actually started with Jewish kids, but they all died in the African climate of Sao Tome, so the Portuguese started buying slaves from the Congolese, which they captured from neighboring tribes, to work the fields??

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[โ€“] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

'Information Submissive' sounds perfect for me. It got just the right amount of hinting at kink. ๐Ÿ˜‡

I am going to use that description from now on.