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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
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- 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
- Posts must be original/unique
- 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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can't code but can oddly setup a pretty fucking dope server
Because you're capable of following a set of instructions and when there's something you don't fully understand you try to look it up knowing you have the world's combined knowledge at your fingertips.
yeah fully agree. with that logic though there shouldn't be any excuses for people not to be able to join Lemmy because its "too technical". following instructions and taking the initiative of following / learning about your curiosities are two separate things.
Eh. I would wager they just don't want to. Which is fine. But lots of people rather than saying they don't want. Say they don't know how. As an excuse.
yeah 100% agree. we have a saying in Switzerland (probably Germanic in general), "being dumb is one thing, staying dumb is another". maybe not the perfect thing to draw upon but the syntax is the same 😂