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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:

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

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I don't mind politics. Just wish I, who's never set foot in the US, could come in here waste my time as usual and not have US News & Politics make its way into my feed every time through some non-US News & Politics community.

Maybe I need to make more use of a skill most USians lack, knowledge of other languages, and find myself more non-US stuff. Not exactly easy, but would pay off easily.

There's some great stuff in English, but I wouldn't miss it much if it means no more US news & politics. There ought to be good shit in other languages. I just need to find the good stuff, and where it be

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Try a multingual lemmy instance. On sh.itjust.works I get German and French posts in my feed all the time from various communities when I browse Local.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 13 hours ago

I do get some posts in different languages here and there, but I don't really know some of these, so not useful lol. If I could, like, idk, filter or something.

I'd be down to getting languages I don't understand if I could get rid of English. As an experiment, a trial. Or at least a similar amount of every language. Boost other languages.

At this point, I think I'm better taking breaks from Lemmy, or leaving altogether. Not sure it adds all that much to my life