All this woman read was young adult novels. I asked once asked her about Tolstoy and she asked me if he was that old Russian guy who wrote a really long book. She had absolutely no interest in discussing books. Her friends and co-workers were the same. It's still a little hard for me to believe today.

It turns out the "I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE! 💕🧪" NPC meme isn't a new thing at all. We only became hyperaware of them because the scamdemic programming made more people act like reddit-tier science believers. In the past these were the people who had subscriptions to famous journals merely to stack them on their coffee table for visitors to see. They might skim through one occasionally to have a smart sounding story to talk about at cocktail parties.