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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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[–] supermario182@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Well that was a silly 10 minutes lol

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's exactly the way David Bowie described how it would be back in the 90's, though.

[–] rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this a joke I don't get or is there any source of what did David Bowie said ? (o・ω・o)

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here you go. Interview he did in 1999. I can't find it right now, but this isn't the full interview; he goes into a bit more detail after this and mentions the bad things it would bring that we are starting to become more well known and widespread.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Wow that a whole lot of several different things jammed together. This thesis would make a good article or book but as a shower thought it doesn’t really stand on its own.

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What do you mean by "turn the tide for the better"?

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

For example, efforts in the areas of data protection, freedom of information, combating misinformation, improving working conditions in the online sector, creating fair digital remuneration models and so on and so forth. Pretty much things that the Electronic Frontier Foundation, NOYB and many other such organizations are committed to.

[–] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The EFF is great. Perhaps going a little bit off-topic, the EFF creates plug-ins, but I wonder why the EFF doesn't create a privacy-based ecosystem similar to Proton?

A VPN provider or a system like Proton with encrypted mail, VPN, etc. is entirely based on trust and yet we trust our privacy almost entirely to for-profit corporations, which are inherently untrustworthy over the long haul. It would be cool if a non-profit with a long history of defending privacy, like the EFF, developed such a system. Mozilla seems to be moving in that direction, but it seems like a good fit for EFF too.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

That would be great. Perhaps there is a lack of funding to make this possible. Or the EFF, as an NGO, simply does not want to become a provider itself in order to ensure that it remains neutral.

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The thing is, for-profit doesn't equal bad. There are a small subset of companies that aim to provide the best service for modest gain, and IMO, they are inherently as trustworthy as orgs like the EFF.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One of the problems is selling out. Like Bandcamp was, so far as I know, a cool way to share and sell music. Musicians got a good cut, customers got drm free music. But then they sold out because a few guys at the top could walk away with a hundred million dollars, and now the site's probably going to be enshittified or sold for parts.

Maybe we should rearrange our financial and tax incentives so long term earnings are better than short term, somehow.

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