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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.

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This post is created to prevent me from flooding the community with more of my low-quality showerthoughts. This post violates community rule 2. Explanation will be added when I finished writing them. Most of the following statements are lame or untrue.

  1. There seems to be no physical media transfer system that nicely demonstrate circuit-switching.

    Bus lane exists and can be seen as a kind of TDM.

  2. The letter J is used much more frequently in 6502 assembly.

    Unfortunately, jumps are unconditional. Branching is used much more frequently.

  3. Arguments against porn and sex toys can also be used to oppose huggable stuffed toys.

    Personally, I feel that banning porns is absurd, but an (questionable) argument against porn goes as follows:

    People improve themselves to get married to have sex with their partners. Porns and sex toys enable people to fulfill their sexual desire without self-improvement. Since people are lazy, those that are not good enough to get married will stop improving themselves. Therefore, we need to ban porn.

    ——A professor at my local collage

    By ~~the same~~ a similar "logic", plushies should be banned, too.

  4. Contempt (insult?) of cops should be legal.

    Personal opinion. (It's illegal in Taiwan)

  5. Market dulls one's sense of morality.

    In my view, market abstract all the horrible deeds that big companies have done into a single number

stock prices. The stockholder might not know that.

  1. Punishments against corporations should be especially severe.

  2. Chinese is good at making names short, but terrible at making names extremely short.

    Example: Transmission Control Protocol vs. 傳輸控制協議 vs. TCP; Requests for Comments vs. 請求意見稿 vs. RFC

It's 15:10 here. I want to sleep.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Contempt (insult?) of cops should be legal.

Personal opinion. (It’s illegal in Taiwan)

Lol. Reminds me of a joke: If you go to Hong Kong and say 谁拆楼, is sounds similar to 死差佬 (in Cantonese), an "insult" to cops.

Chinese is good at making names short, but terrible at making names extremely short.

My name is ■■■, and its funny how knowing the number of characters does not deanonymize me an any way, almost everyone has 3 character names, its so standarized.

Except like those rare 2 character names, in which case society just deems you weird (not really, but I personally always notice the 2 character names more, but yes, you could technically make your name shorter. Or if you have 4 characters, people are gonna think you're a Japanese (because last name having 2 characters is a very Japanese thing).

So if you go to a western country and have to use the Pinyin as your name, its usually gonna be 2-5 letters for last name, 4-10 letters for the given name, not too long, not too short, just perfect. You could say Chinese names are the perfect names, 3 characters, 3 4 三四 生死 life-death, 4 is death, 3 is life. So your name is kinda symbolically representing life. (Not sure if this is intended or I'm just attibuting meaning to coincidences)

But also: Names like 曹操 (Cao Cao) has a very short Pinyin name, if you are lucky enough to get these short names (or I guess you could change it, couldn't you?)

(Also how does a Taiwanese get their name romanized? Taiwan doesn't use Pinyin... 🤔)