this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2024
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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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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't care what you say, I'm not going through your history and upvoting everything.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] demesisx 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I did it instead. No regerts.

[–] Captnkrk69@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Not even a letter?

[–] iii@mander.xyz 18 points 6 months ago

Might it just be people being happy to recognise someone sharing their point of view?

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Detecting that would require a skill set.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You mean like a particular set of skills? Skills you acquire over a very long career?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

If you let my post history go now, that'll be the end of it. If you don't, I will look for you. I WILL find you. And I will give you a discerning disapproving look. For like....a really long uncomfortable silent time.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 13 points 6 months ago

Who is checking their own post history's upvote count?

[–] demesisx 13 points 6 months ago

Hard NOT to upvote such a based comment history. ✊🏼

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I sometimes do that, but only like 3 or 4 posts/comments, not the whole history.

When I read a comment that makes me double-take, I check whether this is a troll that spouts a certain kind of contrarian take on every thread (you know the kind I'm talking about), or if it's someone who posts reasonably most of the time but will put out a mind-provoking thought once in a while. I think the latter is fine and part of healthy discourse, so I'll upvote the unpopular take and some of their reasonable takes that I checked.

You're a good person.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Coughing on people in 2020 gave me plenty of erections.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Just one extra upvote for you, smartass :).

[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I have that habit 😅 ...but I've never seen a reverse trolling

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Never noticed.

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Actual schizo behavior lmao I love the internet.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

No no no, we don't do that kind of critical thinking around here, blind outrage posting is the only allowable form of communication!