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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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I think we can defederate that company's name from our personal vocabulary instances.

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

The Y2K issue wasn't just a scare though. If the Devs and IT in general didn't had a strategy to overcome that ridiculous windows issue, things could have go bad. Media did media things and pushed it to a world ending scenario though.

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It wasn't Windows, as someone else already explained, but yeah general media spread misinformation as usual when it comes to technology.

I work in IT and I was there, it was a serious problem that, if not fixed, would have indeed ended up in worldwide disaster, but we knew exactly what it was many years earlier, and exactly how to fix it, and we did so nothing actually happened obviously.

Media spread fear for nothing, instead of accurately reporting the situation and all the hark work IT people were doing all over the world to make sure everything would be fine.

[–] loke@fedia.io 3 points 2 years ago

In a way, the media hype was not completely bad. It helped ensuring there was budget to fix all those systems.

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