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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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I pay for Gemini and I haven’t used it in months. I don’t see any real case uses for me as an engineer. It just produces trash I have to fix and could have avoided if I did it myself in the beginning.
Why do you continue to pay for it?
Some folks like pissing into the wind.
Oh you.
I like to make videos with it occasionally. They are fun to make.
Yeah, playing with it for fun to see what you can make it come up with is a perfectly reasonable use case, if it weren't for the environmental cost...
That’s why I don’t do it often if at all at this point. I had my fun.
It's good at making up realistic looking fake data for testing and mock-ups, instead of the usual Person A in Town B.
Small scripts also work out as long as they're small enough to print on a piece of paper.
Writing some sales fluff in a document also works reasonably well.
But those are just niche applications. For something serious it's not really usable so far.