Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
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There are tons of people on YouTube reacting to songs and movies. Like Katee Sackhoff watching her own Battlestar Galactica for the first time.

And one thing all these channels have in common is that they show really limited clips in their videos but offer the full uncensored version on Patreon. So they essentially sell the whole work and don't give the original copyright holder a single dime because YouTube is such a DMCA clusterfuck.

Kinda ironic.

Of course this will only last until the content mafia gets their claws into Patreon as well.

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Schrodinger's Mental Illness

Seriously I wonder how they'll explain their child's absense to relatives? "Oh they're at college"? "Oh they got a job somewhere"?

Cuz surely they aren't telling their relatives they call the police on their "crazy" child right? The "Face Culture" and all.

Sometimes I just wanna make a social media account under my real name and just start posting all this shit... I feel like I don't care about "privacy" anymore... fuck this...

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yeah

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Baffling. Its also becoming the norm to not even have a PC.

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So, i was thinking...they for sure will not allow you to use your face to verify multiple accounts (just like how you can't use your email or phone number to verify on multiple accounts) otherwise everyone would just use the same image to bypass the age verification so how do identical twins do? I am sure that AIs (and human operators too, tbf) will just guess that it's the same person

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Lawn mowers make great but usually impractical fart silencers.

Great if the timing aligns but otherwise pretty useless.

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Imagine if companies really had to compete to offer the best products like capitalist apologists preach?

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AI "art" is prone to nonsensical hallucinations with people gaining extra fingers, background elements bleeding together, and everything just looking uncanny. It's technically possible that you could train yourself to try and imitate this "style", but it would be both incredibly difficult to learn, and also be incredibly unrewarding- even putting aside having to prove you did, in fact, make said piece of art, it would still be as ugly as the AI stuff no one likes anyway.

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Jesus said he would return stealthily, and nobody would know when. Therefore, if any of those people who keep predicting the time of the Second Coming get it right, then by their own theology they will delay it.

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Since cats all act the same no matter the culture of the person filing the video, the message is easy to understand.

Person speaking a Slavic language presenting the news and a cat photobombs. Yup, we all know that feeling, embarrassment.

A person saying nothing and laying in their bed while their cat demands something. Oh ya, annoyance.

Someone speaking an African dialect when a cat walks into their house. We all know the cat lives there now.

Someone speaking an Asian language and building something before a cat destroys it. We all now that means defeat.

Truly, cat videos are an international language.

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Here's how it should have gone:

  • People start to believe the Qanon BS, and likely was spread as a primer to shift the blame away from the "right wing" figures in the network.
  • Epstein's compromat on Bill Clinton leaks mysteriously.
  • Clinton gets jailed, then he either would have been forced to admit not only his actual crimes, but everything Epstein did, or gets mysteriously suicided in his cell.
  • Epstein leaves the "left", becomes a hard right conservative.

What likely happened is that the friendship between Trump and Epstein have broken down at one point, and then...

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When you move your awareness from one thing to another. For example : from thoughts about lunch, to the feeling of your right hand, to the sound of traffic outside.

You perceive a change, right? Your whole perceived universe changes. Which would be science-fictionally amazing is it wasn't so common.

And if you hold your awareness on a thing for a while because you're really into it. A movie or a girl or a videogame. You obsessively focus on that for a while. You noticed how that affects you, your consciousness and such.

So those are common awareness-related phenomena that we can talk about. And meditation-related too. Huge and shockingly scifi if they weren't so common.

This is overlap between the perspectives of people who meditate and people who don't. And we can agree that these phenomena are a big deal.

How do you feel about that?

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Jonah, I know you were smoking The Weeds out behind the the pottery barn again with those fire lovers.
My friend with 8 million Eyes told me so!

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