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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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All of that can be separately true without any conspiracy tying it all together.
The world has plenty of terrible people in it that want to diddle kids. The capitalistic model of BS is very often anti-left, but not for conspiratorial reasons: They just like money and control.
There's no need for a grand conspiracy for most of those points to never the less be roughly true, except the first two. I'm certain Maxwell had and has plenty of better channels than reddit for finding and contacting traffickers. You don't get that successful using a fucking public forum...
Similarly, Aaron probably had plenty of other reasons to be unhappy. It's not a terribly uncommon way to go on purpose.
We all know Reddit and Spez are a cesspit. That takes no speculation at all. They always wanted shitstirrers off the site, because they wanted to monetize the shit without all the stink.
That's how the world works. Welcome to capitalism, where the least honorable are made to get ahead. You should try to do something more productive than trying to tie a handful of terrible people together, though.
so...do you think there'd be value in sort of re-creating the original facebook? ie. connecting colleges across the country/world together, except this time instead of basing it around how to stalk college girls...actually make around the idea of freely sharing ideas/knowledge.
how would one even go about doing that at a serious level, as far as actually spreading it across the school system?
ignoring technicalities for a second, how does one even get that spread around seriously, via pitching to some highup teachers union rep perhaps?