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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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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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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.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Once teleportation exist, so do replicators and all costs apart from energy costs disappear.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Internet is technically teleportation (of data) and I am not seeing replicators anywhere.

[–] mxeff@feddit.org 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

With the interpretation of the internet being teleportation of data, your Webbrowser becomes a replicator of data, as e.g. the video that you are streaming from YouTube is merely being copied from its servers, but not deleted from its source.

In general computers are just copying data, i.e. replicating data.

[–] loldog191@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

wait so if data is like dna, does that make computers like plants with their pollen being data packets like memes, articles, and videos... and we're the pollinators?

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

Data is copied 100s of times just from a server to your device.

[–] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Ah, yes. That's why when you upload a photo to facebook, only one friend gets to download it before you have to re-upload it for the next person.