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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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I feel like the people I interact with irl don't even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

not sure how most do anything. echo? most need a button says 'click here'. can drag a horse to water...

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I discovered the USB boot by accident and thought my laptop bricked for no reason!

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 9 points 5 days ago

Pressing random keys as an 8yr old while booting till the computer makes the funny beep noise and the screen turns into a .txt document

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[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

like the early internet the tech gap was a natural filter and i see that as a good thing for the quality of the conversation.

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[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They are as tech literate as they are sport iliterate in my experience.

The fact that the community superbowl exists here to continue perpetuating a meme is peak irony. There are so few people interested in american football here that the intention has flipped, meaning a picture of an American football match would be funny.

I’ve been saying it’s an echo chamber for a while now and it makes me spend less time here.

I am a software developer so yes on the coding.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's also why I think people say they don't want lemmy to change, that they want to filter out people, whenever the state of the platform is discussed, how it's not user friendly and properly thought out to be scalable.

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[–] _LordMcNuggets_@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago (6 children)

can't code but can oddly setup a pretty fucking dope server

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[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

The comment section here is proof of the echo chamber part…

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