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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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[–] ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 2 points 12 hours ago

Look at the purpose of your work. Is your job to complain, or is it really to find things to improve?Are you addressing the root of problems, or just observing the surface level symptoms? Are your escalations leading to improvements? If so, how can you show this? If not, why not? Most of all, is this effort creating a positive outcome, or is it enabling something that might be a net loss for the world as a whole?

If this purpose has real meaning, the work will never get dull, and you will grow as you try more. If it's pointless, then find something(s) better to do.

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

Start furiously punching EVERYBODY

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Complain about it

[–] Sarcasmo@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So how's the job going?

I can't complain.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

it could be worse.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I used to be a window cleaner, and I'd get home and my hands were "dirty" with soap. Always felt weird trying to clean my hands. Can't use soap that'll make it worse!

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

use the coldest water you can stand to rinse soap more effectively

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Probably go on lemmy and complain abo... OH MY GOD, NO

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dude, this is more of an !asklemmy@lemmy.world thing. Now a shower thought.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I think it fits because it isn't an actual question meant to be answered.

[–] Zomg@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's not really a serious question and one of those ponderous thoughts you only care about for ~10 seconds

Make it political.

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Probably bitch about it.

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I would put on any Tenchi Muyo title that is not named Tenchi Universe. No force in the verse could shut my yapper after that. Ugh.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would get so sick of complaining I’d probably start giving good advice and proactively trying to fix shit, eventually driving myself out of business. Then I’d complain about how it’s the government’s fault.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Move to pro bono I suppose