this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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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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[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Oh, you MSG’d bouillon hatchling

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Considering how new anonymity is for the human race, it amazes me how people treat it like a crucial element of life. Civilization mostly lacked it for thousands of years because almost everybody lived in villages or small towns - about half the people in the world still do.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

These days it is either full anonymity or surveillance state

Tech does that

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[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Remember the user that couldn't 💩 for a week or something?

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I want to be remembered as the succulent meal that sometimes makes good points and funny jokes 🍗🍚

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I don't know anybody here. What you talkin about Wilus?

[–] einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (5 children)

i have the theorie that there are even way fewer users here than people think, at least when it comes to posts not commens...there is a cluster of accounts that kinda feel like they are all run by the same person.

Feel free to guess what cluster i mean

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I have a feeling everyone knows who I am, and those who don't haven't blocked me yet.

it's fine. I'm not going to apologize for my opinions because that's somehow worse than defending unpopular opinions.

I'd rather be the person who owns their hill and dies for it than someone who runs from hill to hill because the group thinks it sucks.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I mean, you just mentioned that. Of course someone will disagree, but most probably wont bother. I just wanna know, do you exclude gaining a new perspective from this? Because I'm exceedingly strong willed when encountering illogical or otherwise short sighted points. But sometimes folks just show me a new perspective and I am compelled to agree. Doesnt happen often except in tech questions but here we are.

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[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

We are the "I know a spot" guys

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