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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.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Sounds about right.
When it comes to the media the well is poisoned. We need to teach an entire population how to consume new media and we cant do it fast enough.
Eventually, though, that will stabilize. Then there will be cultural revolutions in that space.
What is this "new media" for you? Because for many it means sources that tell an alternative truth. Usually written in Sankt-Peterburg.
And there use to be these things call tabloids, what is your point?
Asking you what you mean with "new media".
I don't really think you define it as "anything that isn't a tabloid", because tabloids have the same content as what I understand under "new media". And because my understanding of "New Media" is basically "alternative facts, just like in tabloids", and I don't think you necessary understand it the same way, I am asking.
That's what Im asking. Not all new media is tabloid hogwashery. So, impasse?
An impasse only if you decide not to tell what you mean with new media. But if you do, then obviously yes, then it's an impasse, as I obviously cannot force you to answer a question.