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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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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 46 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)
[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 42 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

It was made by two software engineers as a joke parodying cryptocurrencies in 2013. One of them called musk a self-absorbed grifter.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 22 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

This, it was explicitly supposed to be a joke coin. The fact that it trades fairly consistently (if at low value) is kind of an abberation

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 weeks ago

When it was new it had minor charm-- the idea it was cheap and there were trillions of coins in circulation made it so penny-ante that people could have fun with it, and experiment with the tech on a tiny budget.

I played a little with it back in 2014 or so. You could buy some by interacting with a Reddit bot, and I mined a few coins on a GTX 660 (midrange gaming card for the day.

I recall sending 5000 coins to a local dogs-rescue that tried to join on the novelty, and paying for some used RAM in part with it.

By then BTC was basically unplayable without a rack of ASICs and it was already moving past the "currency" phase straight to "speculative asset".

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