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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Train thought, but in the sense of Economy, Billionaires are holding and gather capital without putting or only a fraction of it back to the free market.

So, they are the biggest threat to a free matket Economy.

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Otherwise, I can't explain why they don't take it more seriously to stand up to bots. Even more so with meta and their eagerness to put in more accounts pretending to be human to "cover the friend market".

Besides, what's to stop them? They are the ones who control the information and surely they know perfectly well which accounts are authentic and which are bots. Maybe even several of those accounts are controlled directly by them and they use them to inflate the statistics to charge advertisers even more.

Or maybe I'm jut tripping...

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Neat.

ITT: people butthurt by a showerthought because simple math is evidently fake math and should be gate-kept

its only a game

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I lost it, I searched "shower" to find the appropriate ... Sublem? Lemming hole? --Place to post it. Without turning off nsfw content, searching the word "shower" will completely destroy your train of thought. It really was so philosophical and I feel stupid now, half an hour later.

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"I know I can make this prettier! Maybe I need to lengthen the nose ridge..."

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But the advantage is that Lemmy allows Tor. 😅

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Especially gas powered ones. If you are going to blow refuse in the street, can’t you at least do it quietly?

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Its rhe only thing I wish could change about my experience using Lemmy, for more active users in the communities like NFL or NHL and the affiliated team pages of those sports. I haven't had any social media in decades, my main source for sporting news breaks up until 1-2 years ago was Reddit.

I love the small community that makes up Lemmy. As someone just posted, it feels like a small town community. I like the absence of corporate shills and ads and bots.

Back when I switched from Reddit to Lemmmy, I made an effort to upvote and comment on the NFL and Buffalo Bills communities. I eventually gave up because it was like months of posting, voting and commenting but when I would go back to check the communities, everything would still be sitting at like 2 up votes and 0 comment replies or if it was my own post, 1 upvote and 0 comments. For a majority of cases. Every once in a blue moon I would come accross a post where another user voted or commented but it was never more than me and one other user.

I know there is a certain demographic that uses Lemmy that is mostly driven by the required IT prowess needed to set up, use and even understand the federated concept. I also recognize that this demographic is traditionally disinterested in sports. Im not complaining about this or the users who are on Lemmy. Im also not wishing for any changes be made to aggressively expand Lemmy's user base. Its just an impractical wish I have so I could get my sports news from the same source I get all my other news.

I will prolly spend more time this coming year settling on a 2ndary source for sports news from sources similar to sleeper app but it would be so nice if the Lemmy sporting communities blew up so I could keep everything aggregated to one source.

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You know, for uhhh.... Coming in the days after April Fool's Day.

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That y changes everything.

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The ancient Egyptians were the first to invent the toothbrush, dating back to around 5000 BC. The world's first toothbrush was made in Egypt

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What is a bread roll if not all crust?
What is toasting, if not making the whole piece of bread more crust-like?

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