this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
-33 points (11.6% liked)
Showerthoughts
39449 readers
508 users here now
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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- 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
- Posts must be original/unique
- 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.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
No, I'm saying that if you agree with the majority then your opinions won't offend the majority. And if your opinions don't offend the majority then the majority won't censor you.
Censorship isn't ok just because you aren't personally being censored.
How popular do you suppose that opinion is? I think it isn't very.
So you are ok with people being censored if they have different opinions than you?
I'm mixed on that. How about you?
While I think there needs to be some limits on speech (e.g. you can't threaten people), "has different opinion than me" is not one of them.
Freedom of speech needs to be broad because as with so many other things, it comes down to who is making the decision and what there motives are. The obvious here is that the government shouldn't be able to censor people for disagreeing or criticizing it.