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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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  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • 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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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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.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago (13 children)

This is one topic I’m quite willing to go into conspiracy theory territory on, because Google have a lot of very clever engineers and must surely know that their search is dogshit.

The only plausible explanation is that they’re somehow making more money doing this than they did by being quietly competent.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They know it's trash. But searching multiple times and weeding through dogshit, you spend more time on their site looking at ads, unless you use ublock, then it's just annoying to the user.

https://youtu.be/4wCGVrAn4qY

https://youtu.be/5c3AJb53Xos

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That first video was great. Subbed

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