Yeah... it's difficult enough to find engaging conversations with people I do know. If you want to talk for the sake of talking, there won't be a shortage of possibilities. And if you are sociable enough, people will do so.

But outside of these parameters? It's very slim picking.

Lol is this why you have thought about mentioning it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214367

This is the funniest thing I have heard all day today thank you for this.

Talk about Poe's law.

I know what ECDSA is and if you brought it up in a random conversation unprompted I'd try to find your spaceship so I could escape the conversation on it.

Would making it less random works? Like declaring your preferred topic or at least screen your audience based on their drinking habits.