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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.
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Post title at limit, but meant to be peak tactile feedback in computer storage.

The space saved from being thin made it bad for looking up and finding a specific disk within a stack, tho, as it couldn't fit an end label

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 20 points 5 days ago (3 children)

We didn't stack them though. We kept them in those boxes with a pointless lock, and flipped through them.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The good old days. I wish I still had mine but alas my old floppy box died in a fire.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Ah just like flipping through records at a record store.

[–] Damage@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Mine lived in the original cardboard boxes

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Look at Mr Moneybags over here, playing his games without hand written labels and cracktros.

[–] Damage@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

Who said that? I meant the boxes that held the original empty floppies

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

God that sounds nice actually, I miss it terribly