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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
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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
- Posts must be original/unique
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Oooh, edgy. Few problems:
List of logical fallacies
"Everybody privately shit-talks everybody." Assumes a universal truth based on limited or anecdotal experience. Not everyone engages in this behavior
"The phone always listens to it and records it." This is factually untrue for most users and makes the argument invalid from the start. The conclusion based on this premise (a hack turning that into texts) relies on a false understanding of technology.
"A viral hack that turns all this shit-talking into texts."
Implied assumption: this will definitely go viral and cause massive disruption. It assumes a cascade of dramatic consequences without evidence.
"Everybody privately shit-talks everybody." Uses an exaggeratedly negative view of human nature as a foundation to justify or normalize antisocial behavior.
By implying that since everyone does it, exposing it via a viral hack is just revealing the "truth" and therefore not really unethical, it downplays the maliciousness of the hypothetical hack.
Basically, your entire premise is a heap of logical fallacy and edgelord cringe.
I got BINGO! What do I win?
Your criticisms are very weak. Sorry.
Instead of looking for ways to defeat me you should just go with it. For example you could consider what the societal upheaval would look like. How would we recover. What growth would it inspire etc.
I mean, really. What difference to my point would 99% shit-talkers vs 100% make?
No one is looking to "defeat" you.
Accepting and internalising it when someone explains you're wrong about something, results in two people being right about something, not a "winner" and a "loser".
Changing your mind is not losing.
We can still have a discussion about your hypothetical, after.
But you've walked in with a bunch of fallacies and in response to having them corrected, turned so abrasive, that your behaviour and world view is now the only thing anyone is interested in talking about.
Look how you've sweetened. A minute ago it was accusations of edgelordyness, antisocialness and unethicality. Hot and cold.
What is your point, in a nutshell?
Or... two clearly different people?
You're not very smart, are you? 😂
Your shower thought is edgelord cringe and the fact that you can't swallow that hit to your ego is, well, yeah. We see you.
Jesus christ. Suit yourself.
Tagged as edgelord laughingstock.
Woah, that's a feature I did use until today! TIL about tagging Lemmy users.
Yeah, I use it as a sort of block filter staging area.
A reminder of why I should block them if they match their label later.
Or, to keep things not negative all the time, I have a ton of users tagged simply "yes" if they were funny, provided good help, or were generally pleasant to interact with :)
I'm assuming you thought I was @foggy@lemmy.world