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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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    • 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
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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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[–] bluesheep@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Annoying as shit. My girlfriend doesn't have an ad-less youtube app on her phone, and whenever we watch a video on her phone I get genuinely annoyed by the ads.

I've offered to do it for her but so far she doesn't see the need to install one, but apparently youtube is pushing more ads cause she recently started complaining too.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I really don't understand how so many people just put up with it. I actually helped an older relative with it a couple of months ago, he isn't even the tech-illiterate type. Mere weeks after that, he's back to using YouTube with ads.

[–] bluesheep@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

In my case it's kind of my fault since I'm on iOS so I have to sideload uYou+, and sometimes I forgot to refresh the app which means I have to connect my phone to my pc and refresh it manually, which put her off of a third party app.

But she has an android phone and, if all is still well and good in phone world since after I switched to Apple, she wouldn't have to deal with that, which I told her. But so far she's not interested and like you said, I have no idea why she puts up with it.