Stand back bud, I'm about to be unkind.
At least read the name of the community you're planning on posting in before doing it.
This is not a shower thought 🧑⚖️
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026
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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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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
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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
- Posts must be original/unique
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How do you decide which is a shower 🚿 thought, and which isn't ??
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.
How do you know that this thought didn't pop up in my mind when l was having a shower ???
Because it very clearly came to you as you were looking at downvotes on some nonsense you posted.
I mean welcome to the internet, where anonymity allows for people to be absolute cunts to each other.
Also: the tolerance paradox. Being anti-trans is not "an opinion people are allowed to have" (I've seen that one several times over the past few days). If it does harm, stfu.
As opposed to something like Facebook where a lack of anonymity doesn't keep people from being absolute cunts to each other.
Absolutely
I don't think it's anonymity, I'd say it is the fact that we are not face-to-face, so we don't get that intuitive feeling of responsibility.
This!
The number of people who say something vague like that and then it turns out that the opinions they find people to be intolerant of are fascist ones is too damn high.
From a cursory glance at their post history, seems more like OP is well-meaning enough (as far as fascism goes) but almost painfully gullible - believes in aliens and that now-ancient "cars run on water" nonsense.
And there it is. We’re not here to cater to magical thinking or OPs hurt feelings when someone calls out their bullshit
Ah Well...... I come up with a specimen of what I mean.........
In this case it looks more like they can't or aren't expressing things clearly. I would assume it's from English not being their native language.
It's true..... English is my cultured language........
Vague like what ??
Vague like "an opinion of a different kind." That phrase says very little about why people in general might find the opinions in question to be disagreeable.
When you say "in Lemmy communities", do you mean "on the internet"?
Posted by a new account. Perhaps you could link to a few of those interactions under the account you experienced this lack of kindness and tolerance on. Because so far this is not just not a showerthought but also a claim without receipts.
thanks. I likely would not have noticed and have improved my feed sir. although the op helped by putting a very confirming reply.
Maybe another example !!!
Be unkind is not a fault in itself. Is not like people post on socials only to have nice, polite and constructive discussion. Lots people share their guts-feelings in the comments. You can be open-minded enough and willing to have a confrontation, but at the same time not feeling too much "gentle" about it. Sometime people are simply pissed ( the news helps a lot for that) and want to let it out. Sometimes some specific arguments rub them the wrong way. Sometimes they are trolls who do that for the gag. Sometimes they're just plain assholes. You choose when and how interact. Where there's margin for a cilvil confron, discuss. Where there isn't, ignore.
That's not a Lemmy problem, that is human problem. It happens on all platforms.