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:
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.
From an evolutionary standpoint, we have the most advanced pattern recognition in the world. It is, in some sense, what makes us human. It is also the root of our capacity for language, reasoning, music, etc.
Looking for exceptions to complex patterns is key to our survival over great lengths of time.
But only for good things. That rare medical condition, complication during surgery, traffic accident etc, nah, won't happen to me.
Not likely.
Well it's hard to stay excited for something that's common.
Huh...what are the odds.
May they be ever in your favour.
"But will it work?"
"It has to, sir. It's a million-to-one chance."
"Oh, then we don't have to worry. Everyone knows million-to-one chances always work."
No one else has the same story as your life.
You are all unique!
Yeah, I guess we're all the same in that way.
And that has always completely baffled me. What's the reasoning behind it? Why? Are they delusional? Do they consider themselves somehow special? If something has 99%+ chance of failure, theres absolutely no point to evne try or consider it as something that can happen, it's basically a statistical anomaly.
Because it's fun. And if it does happens, cuz they may be low odds but they aren't zero, is something worth telling others about.
What's the reasoning behind it?
We crave validation from others and ourselves by being considered "rare" or capable of creating "rarity" in an ocean of mediocrity and banality to justify our state, choices, and attitudes. We consider "rarity" as inherently valuable and a virtue to aspire to.
Makes sense. I wouldn't say being mediocre is bad, but each to their own.
Something being rare doesn't make it inherently mediocre.
"Mediocrity" (sort of) implies "middling", etymologically, which is what most people are. Average.
Reminds me of some lyrics by the Foo Fighters, "There goes my hero; he's ordinary."
Odds and stakes are different, for one
The likelihood that you were going to post this today was quite low.
I always avoided /r/nevertellmetheodds over on reddit because I always wanted to post "100%" in the comments.
It'd've made me laugh, but not a very original joke, nor funny to most people.
Who cares? Those who can laugh at themselves are the human equivalent of self-powered fusion reactors, fonts of happy energy.
Sometimes the happiness spreads, sometimes it doesn't. Either way, someone is entertained 😁👍