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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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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 248 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Are you dating a spreadsheet?

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 133 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 56 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gotta remain positive and see the glass half full, or January 2nd depending on the cell format.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

She's so perfect. Literally not a single flaw. She's a 1.

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 16 points 10 months ago

Excel would say Oct. 10

[–] houstoneulers@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

He’s got all access to that one

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 7 points 10 months ago
[–] grue@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

If your mind goes to "spreadsheet" instead of "calendar," that says more about your... proclivities... than it does his!

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's really more of a DataFrame I've mismanaged. Which might be why I'm struggling to handle my relationships.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it’s time to upgrade to a relational database.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think I'm ready for that. In fact, I think I'm just going back to individual delimited text files to store every record separately using a custom encoding I made up.

I'll add arbitrary folders to split them up based on inconsistent logic and never make backups.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Did you know you can also store your data on random pieces of paper of various sizes and shapes, and pile them on the kitchen table? You also get bonus points, if you write/draw the data using colorful crayons! I call it the CLUTTER format which stands for: Chaotic Loosely Unstructured Tangled Tornado Explosion Records. It’s a new data storage method, and I’m pretty sure it will catch on.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 153 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now that's quality showerthinking

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 12 points 10 months ago

This is what it's all about right here.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 82 points 10 months ago

First post here that kind of fucked me up for a moment.

[–] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 75 points 10 months ago

this hit me like a mental flashbang. your wisdom is beyond all of us

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 72 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, and if we're playing my connect 4 rules, you can also aim for a Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday diagonal.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 52 points 10 months ago (6 children)

You can also go 3D. January 8, February 5, March 4, April 8 would be 4 in a stack.

[–] Ferris@infosec.pub 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

thank goodness i can see time in 3d now. this wont end badly.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seeing time in 3D, mayhaps like a Time Cube?

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Holy shit, what an opener, and then the second paragraph is the perfect punchline. I think the wiki editors knew exactly what they were doing.

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[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

What if we add a 4th dimension with years?

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That’s the third dimension of time. You playing 6D chess over here

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[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

If you see someone on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, that counts as only three days in a row, since Monday is on another row. If you see somebody on four consecutive Tuesdays, that would be four days in a column.

Like this

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What if the Mondays span different months?

Like 8/19, 8/26, 9/2, 9/9?

Now the Mondays are on another page or they're a swipe to the right

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Maybe!

Bonus!! Love this concept:

Some context:

[–] bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The bonus is absolutely terrifying

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you can, hope you make today a great day 🌈

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looking at my life calendar every day for a few months really kicked my life into gear.

My advice is just open it up and look at it once per day. You don’t have to do anything else. Make sure it’s one where the current week is marked.

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[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

You got me there!

[–] Nobilmantis@feddit.it 31 points 10 months ago

This what a calendar does to a mf

[–] xep@fedia.io 26 points 10 months ago

Are you perchance Bobby Tables?

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I see where this question is leading, and I don't think I like the implications

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 6 points 10 months ago

... Where is it leading?

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

No, it's boating related. Four days in a sail.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Get your ducks in a column.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

I'm going to make the executive choice of saying that yes. Yes it does mean that.

[–] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I absolutely love this.

Life is row-order; suck it, FORTRAN

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So whats first day of the year 4 years in a row?

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago

In a three dimensional calendar that could work, 4 days deep ?

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is no human entity, just human Cubics - as in 4 different people in a 4 corner stage metamorphic rotation.

4 corner quadrants compose Earth sphere, as 4corner room with 4corner dimensions, with 4corner perspectives and the 4seasons. Earth's 4corners rotate 4corners of TIME, creating 4simultaneous day Earth rotation, as if 4 different Worlds with their own day, for 4separate races with 4corner life stages, with outer limits of 4x4 great-grandparents.

(sorry, I couldn't resist!)

[–] tektite@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Evil Ass Educators Suppress Time Cube, and dumb ass students condone such evil. Cubeless institutions are spreaders of evil, and students lack mentality to challenge it.


I bestow upon myself the "Doctorate of Cubicism", for educators are ignorant of Nature's Harmonic Time Cube Principle and cannot bestow the prestigious honor of wisdom upon the wisest human ever.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Belly Button Logic Works.

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[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'd say so.

Although I still think it's weird that "consecutive" became a requirement.

Edit: Not implying blame for OP about the requirement. But colloquially it does mean consecutive, and I think that's a little strange. Probably a weird etymology rabbit hole to look at sometime.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 10 months ago

Well you're not seeing them periodically. That would require them being on the same row.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If I see someone Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday all in the same week, is it still 4 days in a row?

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