this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
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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:
- 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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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
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- 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
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I've started to add date limits to my web queries for things that don't require current information like recipes.
No I do not want to see your AI slop recipe for tomato sandwiches "author" from 2025, I'll go with a shitty web blog from 2021 thank you very much.
AI has helped me with recipes more than anything else. It skips over all of the advertising slop and stories that recipe sites have.
That's what ad block and a scroll wheel are for.
Even with Adblock the sites are garbage and it’s frustrating to scroll through a bunch of nonsense to find the recipe and then decide I don’t like it. It’s much easier to have a few recipes summarized for me.
One of my go to sites has a jump to recipe button....works on my computer but fails on my phone 😔
The recipes are good enough to put up with the inconvenience
Same tbh. Ive done more cooking now then ever because i can just ask for substitues then and there. I will say, against slop, i have noticed the old recipe site style but with that AI slop verbosity out there. I find that worse then what it was.
Homesteaf blogs also tend to have helpful.hints i like thst ai would know to tell me
Being able to substitute ingredients I don't have or just basing a recipe off of what needs to be eaten is great.
Find better websites. Use kagi.