this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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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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The trick is nuance. Being bombarded constantly by meaningless ragebait is not healthy, but it it very important to remain informed.
Not really.
Sports is the thing that would be blocked the most, since it's b&w - either you're into it, or not at all, and there are great many deal of branches of it.
Yup sports for me is the #1 thing I hide.
Would love to hide sports and Ami news/politics.
RDJ_pointing_at_self: What counts as politics is a political question in itself, with a subjective answer melded by the hegemon. Absolutely everything can be connected to politics in some way.
Good point. Many of us didn't get to choose whether we "are political"
Hide all memes and shitposts would be way more useful for me, personally.
Have to agree the amount of shitposts and memes on here is staggering.
The first thing I did upon joining the Fediverse was blocking all 196 communities.
And cats. Don't forget cats.
It's impossible to filter out politics, because lots of people think everything they disagree with is political. It's always the fault of the other side.
I'm gay, and people who so much as allude to the fact I exist get accused of "being political"
I always find it's a certain type of person who complains about too much politics
we should implement tags on lemmy, that filter by tags.
i don't care about us politics and sports. i could create a filter with sports and (us & politics).
same for the nsfl / porn, add those as tags, and you can filter them.
I hide because i'm not really interested in US politics.
"Hide posts linking to articles" (ie not OC) would be my pref
Is there an option to filter by keyword? Not on the app I use, but is that a Lemmy/kbin/etc feature that the app just doesn’t implement? I’d love to filter any mention of:
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Leftist/right-wing/alt-left/alt-right
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Nazis
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Capitalism
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Trump
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Trudeau
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Biden
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LGBT+ (let’s be honest, 99% of content mentioning it is ragebait/political/controversial in some way)
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Gun control
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Abortion
The list goes on. I’d probably end up with like two posts a day on my feed but damn would those posts be peaceful.
Sync for Lemmy has keyword filters, I think. Or at the very least it's on the roadmap. I haven't tried them myself yet, only back on Sync for Reddit.
I just want to stop hearing about US politics. You guys are so fucking obsessed it's so annoying.
Oh there's a post of a puppy falling on it's back? WELL THAT'S JOE BIBENZ FAULT!!!1!!
Like Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
But did you know that Trump is bad?
Having some sort of hashtag system tied to “magazines” would allow for better filtering. The ability to filter out politics, or sports, or celebrities from your feed with one click.
I dont mind reading or learning more about politics, but c/politics is just an leftist circle jerk echocamber. There have been a growing amount of users noticing this as well and eventually someone will make an unbaised community for US politics. C/politics is just a infestation of all the crazies that left r/politics.
I didn't spend much time there but r/politics always seemed more centrist liberal than leftist to me.
To a Fascist, Liberalism seems like a "left-wing bias".
Liberalism - believing in equal rights and freedoms for all people, and also free trade, free markets, and low taxes - is a right-wing ideology. Obama is right-wing. Biden is right-wing. And so are Blaire, Macron, and Merkel, before anyone brings up the "AmErIcAn pOlItIcS lEaN rIgHt" bullshit. Figures like Sanders, Corbyn, and Melenchon are center-left at best.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias
There is no unbiased news, all news is biased by the views of the author, the culture of the news institution and wider society and the dominant ideologies within the society.
Now, I’m not saying this is what you meant, but often I hear people requesting unbiased news when really what they’re asking for is news that reflects their internalized ideological perspective.
It’s also used to suggest that all perspectives have the same inherent value out to suggest that all media must offer the “opposing perspective” alongside the perspective of the authors.
Not all perspectives do have equal value though, nor do they deserve equal coverage. We don’t call out flat earth whack jobs “to get their perspective” every time NASA announces a new orbital satellite launch, because we recognize that their perspective won’t provide anything of value to the discussion.