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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:

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[–] einlander@lemmy.world 231 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I don't know about y'all, but I know for sure who shot Kirk. It was the old man that lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.. He is constantly using violent rhetoric and threatening anyone not white. He's scaring the neighbors. That's the guy that did it.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 77 points 5 days ago

Kirk probably wouldn't be dead right now if Trump wasn't elected, I fully believe that in some way or another

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 43 points 5 days ago (12 children)

You know, I was actually like “Kirk who?” for a second.

May we all move on to “Kirk who?” that quickly.

[–] sausager@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

These things happen, time to move on

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 204 points 5 days ago (10 children)

I 100% assume that the McDonald's employee who called on him is fake in some way, and they tracked him down through some kind of spy apparatus shit and just don't want to give away their methods.

I have no evidence and I don't really know how these things work, it just seems way way more plausible to me.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 124 points 5 days ago (4 children)

They didn't track him down because he wasn't the shooter.

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[–] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 48 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Ok, I'll accept this conspiracy theory and add to it:

It was actually the surveillance software in the AI drive through.

[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Welcome to McDonalds
Would you like to report any serious crimes today?

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hi, I'm a near ghost that has evaded capture against all odds, would you mind holding my bag o' incriminating evidence while I order some nuggets?

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[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 42 points 5 days ago (8 children)

That could be. I'm still vouching for the "conspiracy" that Luigi actually didn't do anything but was selected as a lookalike scapegoat. The similar looks is what prompted the McDonald employee to call, and they incompetently called the police instead of the tip line.

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 days ago

It's like the police always saying that they find a "passport" in the truck after some terrorist attack. They have inside informers and they don't want to disclose them.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Even if the tip was useful they can just claim to wasn't and just not pay it out. Not like there's an oversize process for it. Once they have the guy they can find the trail with whatever data they have and say they did it without the tip.

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[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 158 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Over the last 20 years for every $2000 in reward money offered by law enforcement in the United States, less than $4 has been paid.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 88 points 5 days ago (1 children)

or $1 per $500, or $2 per $1000. sorry, it was asking for fraction simplification

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 68 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I'm sorry, you're saying that only $1.214521 of every $607.2605 was paid out?

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago

Finally someone spells it out in a way I can understand. That's outrageous now that it makes sense.

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 days ago (13 children)

I didn't know rewards were common but have never looked into that, who reports those numbers even? They sound fun to go through

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[–] Baked86@lemmy.world 42 points 4 days ago

he lost his job too lol bootlicker

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I swear if this guy is called Mario I'm going to lose my shit.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

From the low res photos he seems like he might be hot. Two hot shooters in a row? IDK what this means for fall and spring shooting trends, but I like it.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Until Thomas Matthew Crooks I used to think that going by three names was the key element to being an assassin, but maybe it was being hot all along.

Maybe that's why Lee Harvey Oswald was killed. Not because somebody was upset he'd shot Kennedy, but out of jealousy he was going to be knee deep in clunge.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

But why male models?

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 42 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I KNOW WHO DID IT

points to white house

😏

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[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago

Roma traditoribus non praemiat

Rome doesn't pay traitors

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A lot of these rewards have small print that says that reward is for substantial information that leads to the arrest and CONVICTION of a suspect. The suspect has been arrested, but not yet convicted. Maybe they'll get their money at the end, if Luigi gets convicted, which I highly doubt.

Otherwise, people would just be turning in randos for the rewards. They have to be credible enough suspects that they can be convicted.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 11 points 4 days ago

Given how much information they lost during DOGE's bullshit. I don't think they bothered to record who the person was or even cared. Also they have a notorious reputation of never paying people.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 42 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No one will get paid any reward. Some corrupt official is going to pocket that money.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 49 points 5 days ago

Of course not. We know how it is living in the trump times.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 53 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Snitches can’t afford stitches due to duplicitous economic machinations.

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Snitches can’t afford stitches due to duplicitous ~~economic machinations~~ Bitches.

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago

Like anyone can claim a reward for a false flag murder anyway.

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

No one ever gets those rewards, or if they do, it's a couple hundred dollars for all your time they wasted.

Doesn't help to snitch to the government.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 5 days ago (3 children)

They used to say the rewards was for information leading to the conviction. If they don’t get a conviction, the reward is forfeit by default.

People are still gonna try though. They just have no legal recourse if the reward is not paid.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They just have no legal recourse if the reward is not paid.

To be clear, it's because while promissory estoppel and unilateral contracts are a very real thing you can sue over, sovereign immunity keeps that from being an option, particularly federally. If some private organization offered the reward you'd be fine, but when it is a sovereign immune government that hasn't waved it's immunity you're fucked.

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[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

Not only that, but one has to go through the FBI's tip line directly to be eligible. The McDonald's snitch called the police instead.

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[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I think it was Herschel, the Cracker Barrel Cracker that got canceled and reborn in a matter of days. He shot Charlie Kirk b/c he got canceled. Btw, that crowd in Utah was so white that mayonnaise was labeled spicy at the food court on campus. Also this, if the mf’er didn’t want to get shot, why in thee hell did he go to a school that coincidentally rolled back their policies regarding weapons/firearms on campus? There is that.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Probably specifically to make a point about how it's safer when there are good guys with guns or whatever

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He was right, there WAS a good guy with a gun.

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[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Jokes on us. The taste of boot is all the reward they need.

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[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Soooooo…. Maybe stop looking for them?

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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

They won't. Trump has made a career out of stiffing the little guy, why would this time be any different?

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