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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:

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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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[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That’s not a conspiracy. It’s been confirmed. The head of ads forced the search team to make search worse so people would search more and see more ads. There is no reason to use google search, they want it to suck.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yes, but also: the web has become worse lately. All the search engines seem to be suffering.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

some site, or words i was searching just last week showed up many results, for some reason it stopped showing the samre results. its showing less now.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Smugly smirks in Kagi

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hmmm I wonder what the alternative is I wonder hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why not actually say the alternatives??

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] bluemoon@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

so you mean the alternative to bad searchresults inevitably is AI for the vast majority of people. hence AI prevalence