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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:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • 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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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[–] Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee 75 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm partial to calling it Xitter, pronounced shitter

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And Tweets are now called Xits. 👍

[–] variants@possumpat.io 24 points 2 years ago
[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago

Mastodon was way ahead of the trend when they decided to call the messages toots.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Nope. It's Twitter. It will continue to be Twitter. I will not cater to the whims of billionaires.

The website is Twitter.

The company is Facebook.

The rapper is Kanye West.

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, is Kanye going by something else now?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes, he wants to be called Ye. Fuck him.

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Well that's...something...

[–] SPOOSER 7 points 2 years ago

The more fitting name I've seen him called is Yittler

[–] Happenchance@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

This isn't how I have imagined the internet aging gracefully.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The internet service provider is Cingular.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Make them chocolate bars

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

Such a fail that the website is still literally Twitter.com.

[–] Redb34rd@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I mean it was the same with Meta and we still call it Facebook to this day. Renaming a brand just doesn't work, when it's already established...

[–] Weslee@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Facebook the service is still Facebook, the company that runs it is called meta

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes, I feel like all these Big Tech companies changed the parent company name (Facebook -> Meta, Google -> Alphabet) to confuse end users when they read news about how they harvest our data don't respect our privacy: the news talk about a big company spying on users, users know a few app names and most don't link both together

its also about shuffling financial liabilities around, ya know, so businesses can avoid paying for stuff. corporate welfare

[–] EddieTee77@lemdro.id 1 points 2 years ago
[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Yet Lizard Man is still called Lizard Man, go figure..

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Xfinity will always be Comcast to me. Not sure why they tried to rebrand.

[–] ericisshort@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They tried to rebrand because they had an incredibly low customer satisfaction rating associated with Comcast (I wonder why?). I worked for that horrible company during the rebrand and they told us as much. It actually did end up positively affecting consumer opinion (because people are morons), so much so that Time Warner Cable and Cablevision followed suit a few years later rebranding their services respectively to Spectrum and Optimum.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

In a weird way, some Zuckerberg haters love calling it Meta because that more closely evokes the enbarassing metaverse / VR crap they’ve been so into. Facebook was an incredibly successful website but Meta is a joke.

[–] ChlorineAddict@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ve been going with “The Social Media Platform Formerly Known as Twitter”.

[–] wellnowletssee@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So TSMPFKaT? That’s catchy!

[–] teegus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

TSMPFKaT could be the new WUPHF

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 years ago

The new name of Twitter is X, just like Elon calls all the women in his life

[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 15 points 2 years ago

And don't forget the full name would be "X, formerly known as Twitter, formerly known as twttr" https://logos-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Twitter-Logo-History.jpg

[–] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago

The new name of Twitter is irrelevant

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

It's funny, our news outlet calls it exactly that. They used to say "according to police on Twitter" but now they write "according to police on X, formerly known as Twitter".

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"The artist formerly known as Prince"

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I always say "The social media formerly known as Twitter"

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago
[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Mf space Karen thinks he can prince his way out of this mess...

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

I prefer "worse mastodon"