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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:

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    • 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
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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 24 points 1 day ago

I've said it before, I'll say it again:

The era we call "The Dark Ages" was a period where people simply didn't write as much down.

Right now, we can't get to the shit worth reading. It's buried and every day going farther and farther down under layers of slop.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

The internet’s greatest strength is that anyone can publish knowledge to it. The internet’s greatest weakness is that anyone can publish knowledge to it.

BINGO, THANK YOU! Just a bunch of entertaining or fake BLANK taken seriously, by the uneducated/ignorant people, but think they know everything & attack those that put in the whole work to know & think outside the box & be educated in diverse areas of life & non-bought people!

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

We consume information like Koalas consume eucalyptus.

We stuff our faces with toxic filler with little to no nutritional value, until we get sick and pass out. Just to wake up and do it all over again.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Big Tech is a momma koala, users are baby koalas, and social media is pap.

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

And they all have Chlamydia!

[–] bibbasa@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

and remember, you are what you eat

[–] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I grew fat with cheeseburgers.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Eh, I disagree on both parts.

Lots of information out there, but it's the equivalent of a Forrest full of virtually identical berries, 90% of which are poisonous.

And people are broke as fuck these days, you need wisdom to survive like that, and you earn it the hard way.

It's just that when they have to devote so much energy to meeting their base needs, they can't be assed to think about more abstract things.

Which is why the wealthy are never happy unless everyone else has nothing. When we're comfortable enough to think ahead, we start asking why there's any oligarchs to begin with. And their propaganda pitting us against each other isn't as effective.

People are wise, you're just judging fish by how well they can climb trees

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

Not really sure people are fat with information

I’d say they have tapeworm and everything they consume effectively disappears forever because it was all brain rot virus in the first place