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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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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AI is great

Falso

Your life being meaningless doesn't mean other people's is.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] remon@ani.social 2 points 1 day ago

How does that make AI great? Seems like those statements are unrelated.

[–] hesh@quokk.au 2 points 1 day ago

I dont follow

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

Even if life is meaningless, destroying the planet for future generations is an extremely shitty thing to do

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 23 hours ago

We can just kill all future generations

[–] wakko@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Current-gen AI isn't great. It's a stepping stone on the way to something that might be great, if we can figure out how to make it be something other than an accelerant for a species-ending ecological disaster.