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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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[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I should have just said america and religion bad. I appreciate you taking the time to type up an explanation. It was a thought that occured to me for 5 seconds and went. I'm loving the idea that people take a shower thought so aggressively seriously though. Means I should troll here more often. I'm not 14 (31) and wasn't trying to be deep just pointing out an ironic silly thing. Said ironic silly thing is being taken as a theological hard stance about how I'm a dumb cunt (Direct quote) and don't understand tradition. Its strongly indicating I should post bait here frequently.

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, when you pay peanuts you're going to employ elephants. Anyone lucid has already engaged and walked away from your responses, so now you are collecting the rest of the "I'm 14 and this is deep" type crowd to talk to.

This is a feedback loop of dumb crap.

[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago

Yeah its pretty sweet