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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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what's hexbear
Since there's no serious answer: hexbear is a highly toxic instance that has been defederated by most other instances. However, their users will keep tabs on what's said on other instances, and they'll occasionally show up en masse with alt accounts to attack something that particularly enraged them.
Many of them are...not quite mentally stable.
They're probably the single largest base of tankie support. For them, America = bad, and anyone opposed to America = good. They pretend to care about communism etc but they're really just anti-American. Saying anything negative about China gets you instantly banned.
You are a disingenuous liar.
Go to the hexbear news megathread and you will find criticism of China:
There are many Chinese hexbear users that discuss the flaws of their country, people that are banned are those that spread misinformation.
Of course the United States = bad there is no modern equivalent to the outsourcing of death, despair, and destruction the great satan exports.
lemmy.world "preemptively defederated as a last resort" you can find their reasoning here: https://lemmy.world/post/2498330 sounds like lemmy.world wants an echo-chamber yet despite whinging about "brigades" there has never been any actual proof that brigades are organized.
hexbear defederated FROM sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ca, lemmy.blahaj.zone, programming.dev, lemmy.nz, aussie.zone because those instances were NOT moderating to the standard that hexbear places on cultivating a space for marginilzied people.
Who are you to judge the mental stability of people when you constantly project your insecurities on to those seeking a better future.
that is the limp dickiest 'criticism' i've ever seen. please go back to your tankie instance.
no need to display your homophobia and i will stay right here. it took me minutes to easily disprove the "any criticism of China = ban" I'm sure anyone who as any intellectual curiosity will see that you are hypocritical swine that wallow in your treats to distract from your exploitation.
why are you so afraid of hexbear?
Wow, case in point.
yes, you and the two others have proven that if anyone "brigades" it is dronies
how do you not feel shame for your rampant consumption and utter lack of critical thinking?
while you cry to each other about the other China has built more renewable energy than the west combined
When you had hex with a bear last night but can't remember.
If you don't know, count yourself hella lucky and move on with your day.
What does your uid signify?
It's the sexy new British emergency number lol
First laugh of the morning, thank you!
A fictional entity used by right wingers on Lemmy to victimize themselves.
Are you literally claiming hexbear doesn't exist?
That's a new one
I cannot see Hexbear and it has zero impact on my life.
When right wingers are wrong they like screeching about Hexbear. That is what Hexbear is for Lemmy.World users. such as ourselves.
You yourself are on Lemmy.World which begs the question why you are so obsessed with Hexbear.
Hexbear is left wingers, so they say. Just vehemently anti American. Russia is their ultimate hero. It's co.pletely contradictory. Saw one today arguing that Alexis Nolvany was a secret Nazi and got himself killed. And God damn, do they hate Vladimir Zelensky; he's a Nazi dictator despite being popularly elected in an election that all observers found free and fair, and despite living a fairly modest lifestyle; and that's in contrast to Putin, despite Putin living in multiple billion dollar secret bunker mansions guarded by the military and being president for life thanks to what all international observers agree are sham elections.
Navalny the guy who called Muslims cockroaches to be exterminated? Yeah that guy was a Nazi. Zelensky probably not.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/25/navalny-has-the-kremlin-foe-moved-on-from-his-nationalist-past
Putin can be bad and Navalny can be a Nazi at the same time. Somehow this is impossible to get through liberal heads.