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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:

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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[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 16 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Change your name to make yourself more palatable to a wider audience? Good.

Change your name to make yourself more palatable for yourself? Bad, apparently.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Pen names are ancient, too. Mark Twain? Real name is Samuel Clements. Charles Dickens used the pen name Boz for some reason, and Stephen King used multiple pen names, especially early in his career.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 points 21 minutes ago

Uh, Boz was the illustrator for Dickens.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

And still affects no one. People bitching about stuff that has literally nothing to do with them worrying about everyone else's genitals.