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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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[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm too autistic to engage in these discussions with people because I cannot comprehend how they can just completely ignore irrefutable data just because they don't feel that it is correct. It utterly baffled me that people can be so controlled by their emotions to the point of just straight up rejecting reality.

Like, I get it. I understand it on a psychological level and how they are just victims of their own innate human psychology but I for the life of me cannot have a discussion with these people about it because they just do not listen nor care about facts and I have no patience to dance around it for the sake of protecting their fragile egos.

I'm essentially a modern day Ignaz Sammelweis.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I cannot comprehend how they can just completely ignore irrefutable data just because they don’t feel that it is correct.

Everyone does this. YOU do this. It would behoove you to develop compassion to cope with impatience, autism doesn't prevent it.