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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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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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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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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

This is America. People do whatever the f*** they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can f***ing stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it–we're talking trade balances here–once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwaves in Tadzhikistan and selling them here–once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel–once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani bricklayer would consider to be prosperity–y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:

music

movies

microcode (software)

high-speed pizza delivery

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] rainrain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

You read my mind.

Those skates!

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

The deliverator stands tall

[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is America.

This is the internet.

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

More pizza delivery drivers get shot than cops.

Pretty certain that stat is from America. Also, pretty certain my post was the opening to one of the most famous cyberpunk novels of all time.

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

I’d be careful telling USians that they aren’t the only people on the ‘net, they might shoot you.