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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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  2. 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
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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (19 children)

Why?

Unlike in history, we don't really lose information anymore. Not trivia about a massively popular fiction like that anyway.

For instance, Homer, the writer of the Iliad and Odyssey, is still well known. He lived almost 3000 years ago. He was known by the ancient Norse as well, so it's not like it's one of those things that was lost to history and discovered in the modern age.

But... I guess you might be trying to make a point that maybe by that point there are real light sabers and perhaps even have been for centuries. It'd make it sort of like the origins of the modern taser, which are also in sort of in scifi. Sort of. Loosely.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taser#History

Jack Cover, a NASA researcher, began developing the first Taser in 1969. By 1974, Cover had completed the device, which he named TASER, using a loose acronym of the title of the book Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle, a book written by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Victor Appleton and featuring Cover's childhood hero, Tom Swift

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 4 points 11 months ago

The amount of junk polluting the internet is growing exponentially. I won't be surprised if future historians have trouble separating the truth from fiction, shit posts and LLM craps.

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