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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

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There's no stopping it now. Passengers? Just about everyone.

Everyone is proud of their ignorance and animosity, it'll take a great war in order to cull enough of them to bring back sanity.

Odds are you are affected. Odds are you and your friends are all part of the problem, even if you don't realize it.

What's important is that better people can see it for what it is, so they can avoid it when the time is right.

I'd give some advice, but if you can't figure this out for yourself by now then there is probably no helping you.

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 18 points 2 days ago

I think the temperature of your shower might need adjusting.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When you're 13 and mom says you can't have mozzarella sticks because it's almost dinner time.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

9 day old account with nothing but agitator bullshit. This tool is a plant.

[–] doppydrop@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I generally don't leave my soapbox in my shower, but to each their own

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Odds are you and your friends

Ha HA! That's where you're wrong!

goes and cries alone in the corner

[–] Abundance114@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I love how I can't tell of the post is on the left or right, as the argument goes both ways.

[–] shiftymccool@piefed.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not everything is left/right

[–] Abundance114@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Most everything is, I mean it shouldn't be, but it is.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

The USA isn't the world. We'll all survive after you're gone.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Odds are you are affected (sic)

Especially true for people who make cringe ass posts like this

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A war without establishing belief in nonnegotiable objective moral values will just give more credence to the "might makes right" part of the "ignorant ideology", though. And the cycle of ignorance and violence will just continue. But anyway, that train started running when mankind started walking, some cultures have just managed to mostly get off it, others are still struggling. 🤷