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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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  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

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[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 39 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It always seemed like shouting in a room full of people. Any coherent thought instantly became an unreadable mess due to the post character limit. Never understood live-tweeting. You could DM some company's support person... but why?

And I blame link shorteners' existence on twitter, too.

[–] justsquigglez@leminal.space 11 points 5 days ago

To be fair, I think the company's support person one is the only thing it was useful for. I've heard plenty a story of someone not being able to get proper support through the main thing they're using, but once they tweet the company it gets fixed. Definitely shouldn't be like that, but it is what it is.

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

For some people it kind of seems like just shouting at an empty room. I recently found a (now ex)friend’s Bluesky, which opened a whole can of worms.

But his whole thing was basically complaining about whatever he could with no one listening. Then complaining that no one was interacting.

It was like the equivalent of him having a stage in an empty room and just yelling about random shit. Then yelling that there’s no one else in the room. I don’t get it

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

i thought whatsapp would make a public version and clean up at some point but they never did