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infodump
This, like all infodumps, is only useful for being cathartic to the person giving the infodump. As I have come to find, and will try to explain my perspective on, everyone who will fall victim to the infodump either won't understand it, or already understands it perfectly and will hate you for trying to explain something to them when they're already a university major on the subject.
Infodumps seem to be a problem I have, since I apparently love to hear my own voice, and can't get enough of talking about something I just learned, or something I finally managed to grasp at all. I don't know when to shut up.
People who love you for whatever reason may think this is cute, or fascinating, and will try to listen for the entirety of the dump, but will probably not understand most of it, smile and nod for the duration, and then follow up by reporting they didn't understand it, but it was interesting nonetheless. Served its purpose of dumping, but served no learning experience. People who don't know you better will likely think you're being high and mighty and lording over them, especially if they already know some or all of whatever it is you think you learned.
It gets handwaved as being "mansplaining". This is especially true since the only people who do it are men, and they only do it to women. This is the correct assessment, since women are usually more intelligent than men, on average. Men have to cheat and rebalance the tests to get results that differ from this.
The correct choice, is to limit or otherwise eliminate infodumping from behavior, since it is always entirely selfish, and serves no purpose to any of the victims present on whatever medium you've dumped on.
Or, that failing, try to keep a full ledger of every person you encounter and whatever their expertise happens to be, so you don't make the grave error of explaining your novice perspective to them. They have nothing to learn from you, and clearly don't want to waste any time teaching you anything new, either, because you'll probably forget it in 5 minutes anyway.
Now that I've dumped all this useless crap that was spinning around in my head, I can try to resume my attempt to sleep. No thoughts, head empty. Please, no thoughts, head empty.