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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. Avoid politics
    • 3.1) NEW RULE as of 5 Nov 2024, trying it out
    • 3.2) Political posts often end up being circle jerks (not offering unique perspective) or enflaming (too much work for mods).
    • 3.3) Try c/politicaldiscussion, volunteer as a mod here, or start your own community.
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct

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NEW RULE: added on an appropriate day (lemmy.world)
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In the sidebar you will see that rule 3 is "Avoid politics", as of US election day.

Political posts represent the vast majority of the moderation burden. They tend not to be the fun/quirky/whimsical/goofy/nonsense kind of posts that people enjoy from c/showerthoughts.

Maybe we should make a c/drivewaythoughts or a c/doomscrollingthoughts to fill the void.

The rule will begin 0200 UTC Nov 6, 2024 to be exact, you have 2 minutes, go ham.

As always I'm open to feedback.

EDIT: While I'm editing the sidebar. I will remove the "Be good to others" rule because it's redundant to the opening paragraph of Lemmy's Code of Conduct.

EDIT 2: If you want to give anonymous feedback you can report this post and give your feedback in the report. It's anonymous to me at least.

EDIT 3: Here are some good counter points to the new rule:

  1. This arguably offers new perspective on an ordinary topic but it's pretty political: https://lemmy.world/post/21997198
  2. This post was very popular and remained civil: https://lemmy.world/post/21925102
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When I see my mom sweeping I say "ok broomer, I'll help" (lemmy.ml)
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Can you imagine how good Smurfs must taste when Gargamel can't decide whether to eat them or turn them into gold? (lemmy.world)
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Both "200" and "160" are 2 minutes in microwave math (lemmy.world)
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If everybody agrees with you then that's a pretty good sign that you are wrong. (leminal.space)
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Most of us just want to fit in, and believe what everybody believes.

Coming to your beliefs this way is not actually intelligent. We don't do it consciously. It's just tribalism or herding instinct or whatever.

So if everybody agrees with you then that's a pretty good sign that you are wrong.

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Memes are Web 2.0 greeting cards (lemmy.world)
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If my name was Victor, I would make it my life's goal to pen at least one piece of historical literature. (lemmy.world)
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The harder I work the less I'm paid (leminal.space)
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The world wide web has existed longer than the time between the inventions of the radio and television (lemmy.world)
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Totalitarians, fascists and other scary governments prosecute you without telling you what you did, and everybody agrees that this is an evil practice. But now it's normal and accepted on social media (leminal.space)
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I realize it would mean she would no longer be fighting for her rights in her satin tights, but you'd think Wonder Woman would have made her whole outfit out of whatever her bracelets are made out of. (lemmy.world)
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Captchas are more annyoing than ads. (lemm.ee)
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Real quantum computers always look like cheesy sci-fi movie prop computers. (lemmy.world)
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I always expect to see a James Bond villain or some sexy robot women in the room.

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The Batcave is suspiciously guano-free. Alfred has some really thankless jobs. (lemmy.world)
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"Alfred, there's bat shit on the batputer again."

"Coming, Master Bruce. I just need to fetch the wet wipes again."

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Why don't cars have diagnostic software loaded onto their infotainment centers? (lemm.ee)
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Modern cars have MASSIVE digital displays, loads of computers systems monitoring every subsystem and internal diagnostics running to the OBDII ports.

Why the hell can't we get diagnostic feeds on our console or infotainment center?

I'm not aware of any car manufacturers selling their own diagnostic ASICs, so it's not an extra margin to squeeze afaik...

What gives? Any insight into this beyond the usual muh corporate profits conjecture?

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What if someone made an open source decentralized hybrid of Yelp and Glassdoor? (infosec.pub)
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It seems like the ultimate way to show WHY and HOW a company is poorly run… or the inverse.

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Received receipts (lemmy.world)
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Could you estimate when someone wakes up using Received receipts in most messaging apps?

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Hear a lot about flat earthers, but folks don't seem to have a problem with heliocentrism (lemmy.world)
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The most flattering thing someone can do for you is to base their work off of your work. The easiest way to achieve this is to insult their work. (midwest.social)
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The guy (George Carlin) who told everyone that, "it's a big club and you ain't in it" was in that club. (lemmy.world)
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George Carlin - It's A Big Club & You Ain't In It!

George Carlin had a net worth of $10 million at the time of his death in 2008.

Adjusted for inflation that would be $14,653,441 in 2024.

The minimum net worth of the top 1% of households is roughly $13.7 million.

So, Carlin was in the "big club" of the 1%.

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Parking fines should be proportional to the value of the vehicle (lemmy.radio)
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"Ted Lasso" is so wholesome it makes me want to puke. (lemmy.world)
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Memes are just Boilerplate humor. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Eureka moment (lemmy.fish)
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Eureka, Humboldt County, CA is at the same latitude as Eureka, Woodford County, IL, as well as Eureka, Warrington Township, PA.

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As quality of life has improved over the centuries so to has the quantity of evidence of people complaining about their quality of life. (lemmy.world)
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Just picturing an alien archaeologist "so, as they stopped being crippled by polio or losing their lives building railroads, they complained about having to wash the dishes?"

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