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:
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.
In the late 2000s there was a push by a lot of businesses to not print emails and people use to add a 'Please consider this environment before printing this email.'
Considering how bad LLMs/'ai' are with power consumption and water usage a new useless tag email footer should be made.
True, but most people don't realise how little not printing an email 'helped' the environment.
It would have been significant if a lot of people did it.
I'm doing my part. Can't remember the last time I had to print anything.
My printer died so I go to the library to print when I need to. For ¢25 per color print or ¢10 per black and white print it's a lot cheaper than buying another printer, plus I'll really consider if I actually need to print that thing