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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
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- 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
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Can we stop these useless comments please? There's absolutely no reason to believe that is generated. At best, comments like yours give them relevance. If it's actually slop, and you have reasonable arguments and research to back it up, then call it out! If you are just going around saying everything is AI slop (which makes your comment regular slop) then it makes the legitimate call outs look less reasonable, so please stop this.
I don't care. You may believe that, I don't share your opinion. I will continue posting my opinions here and other places. I wasn't even saying that the comment was AI, just that it gave me those vibes
Does it really give you generated vibes though? Other than the em-dash (edit: not even an em-dash, which is "—", but a double hyphen to approximate an em-dash, and generated content usually uses the actual character), it's very contrary to generated content. Usually generated content is needlessly long and verbose, which that one isn't.
This comment is obviously AI.