this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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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:
- 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.
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Some people don't want to be bother by politics and/or US-centered stories. On every forum it was allowed, users were flooded with those topics. You can see !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world if you want that (it's in the side bar).
You can already hide such posts without any problem by excluding the relevant terms. As this post here suggests, it should also not be too difficult technically to let users decide which content they want to hide using tags.
However, hiding posts in the most popular communities for everyone by moderators is nothing less than plain censorship - and you even like that, because you can't be bothered with reality...
Terms like US, politics, Trump, Clinton, Army, Militia, Vance, Bondi, Kinder eggs, Oklahoma, etc. It seems painful. As I said, tags are a PITA and create spam.
Go back to reddit please.
I've been here for more than two and a half years, trying to contribute something because I thought it was important. I'm starting to think more and more that it was a wasted effort. Thank you for pointing that out so clearly once again.