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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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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the difference is that LLMs spit out actual bs quite frequently while forums are usually simply outdated or smth

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When I was a child I'd go on Yahoo Answers and give bad advice and then vote myself as having the best answer. I was a 'top answerer' for several niche subjects I know nothing about.

[–] PoastRotato@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair, if you were taking advice from Yahoo Answers in the first place then you were definitely getting what you paid for.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

ChatGPT is. That’s probably why it says dumb shit sometimes.