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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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Don't want to be a toxic positivity preacher but what if due to our nature we simply pay little or no attention to things that go right?
Yes.
I always say the Internet is more vast than it is comprehensive. You will find infinite things. Infinite good things, but also infinite bad things, and infinite things on most topic.
But certain actors on there have an interest to highlight bad things. That makes it real easy to slip into a negative feedback loop. And there's so much, you will into a bottomless hole.
And that's when you always gotta peek your head over the horizon and look for things outside of your periphery. Because there's more than problems.
Even if you look back at where we've come from, the amount of struggles we've overcome already as a society is hard to fathom.
My point is, either look for both negative and positive news accountings, or do neither and focus on a topic like games, or woodworking, or astronomy and just keep away from the sensational news pieces.
There's more to life than news anyway.
I usually give an example of existing internet goodness with the website Ian's Shoelace Guides. It exists, with good resources, and minimal ads, as al gore intended.
These are the same creatures that go bellows over brimstone if they flip a water bottle that lands upright ?
True and then we risk genuinely sounding 'first world problems'. Just be grateful and move on i say.
Hitler was a first world problem for more than just the first world.
Hitler talk out of nowhere? Dam they weren't kidding when they said lemmy was charged. I wasn't talking about that "first world" 😂
I get it. Using hitler is to extreme. But at that time we are talking the first world despite germanys ww1 issues. Im just saying that the first world issues people are talking about are people being grabbed off the street by unmarked secret police and being renditioned to foreign gulags and talk about entering private property without warrants. Its not like. OMG, how come I can't get a good latte in this town.