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:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • 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.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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The concept of memes is itself a meme

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Million seconds → ~11.6 days
Billion seconds → ~31.7 years
Trillion seconds → ~31,700 years

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Set up like a traditional funeral, with a grave, a coffin, eulogies and large photos of the animal in various stages of its life cycle. The speakers could be biologists who give mini-lectures about the animal and its evolutionary history and climate experts who can explain why they died out. The gravestones could be giant stone sculptures of the animal, with the lifespan of its species' existence written in place of the "Born - Died" years, maybe with lots of other info carved into it for posterity, like its home regions, mating and familial behaviours, etc. Maybe local politicians could [be shamed to] attend. Maybe even celebrities who could come and sing or whatever.

A "wake" could be held before or after, where we can mingle with the experts and chat about their respective fields while we get drunk. Charities and green activist groups could fundraise amongst the revellers. Kids could draw or dress up as the animal for a competition. Basically anything fun for everyone who might come.

A celebration of the creature, and a hopeful plan for how to prevent further extinctions. And a party, because no cunt wants to go to an actual funeral where everyone's miserable and hopeless, certainly not if that's all that's planned for the event.

If all over the world, we agreed to do this on the same day, it could have an impact. The graveyards of lost lifeforms would remain a constant reminder, and its sadly ever-growing cohort would show everyone who sees it how fucked things are getting.

/cope

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If anti-Semitism is illegal in so many countries, why aren't more pro Israel/pro war people arrested? They are the most anti-Semitic people on the planet.

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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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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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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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