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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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[–] Hubi@feddit.org 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Don't underestimate yourself. Just by posting here you have proven that you're more proficient than the average Joe.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not hard to make an account lol

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lots of users fail on anything more complicated than a "Sign in with Google" prompt.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fascinating. Guess I never knew lol

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The average person is incredibly dumb.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Not that dumb. Helpdesk just gives survivorship bias.

The people smart enough to realize modems don't work during outage don't call as often.

Except for "can you hack my ex's facebook" ones. Those are constant for some reason.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No. They are actually that dumb, mate.

I've never worked Helpdesk. I have just dealt with the general public routinely throughout my life. Goddamn, it might be just the state I live in but the people here are fucking stupid. Consistently.

Remember, there are also just dumb people who never call because they don't interact with a computer to such an extent that they ever run into problems they need to call about. Those people are as tech literate as a rock and they are everywhere.

[–] AndiHutch@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey now, don't be dissing rocks. We can trick rocks into thinking, the people on the other hand I'm not so sure.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago

This gave me a good chuckle. I needed that. Thanks mate.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Very dumb. Half the population is below average intelligence.

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Read my comment history to get context on how you are wrong and then delete that comment you just made.