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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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  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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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -3 points 5 days ago

This is why I don't support pot legalization, being a pot dealer used to be that accessible option.

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Wait till you realize morality is shitty fucked up crutch that doesn't work at best and a tool to control people at... usual, not even the worst

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Yes but so what?

Humans benefit from society. You can't have society if people go around destroying that society. You make rules and enforce them to stop that destruction. Thats morality in a nutshell.

This has been going on so long that it's hard wired into most of us. For the psychopaths that don't have that hardwire, we have places to put them. I.e. prisons and boardrooms.

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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (19 children)

Is this an anarchist perspective? Just trying to see what your broader view might be.

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[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca -5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Don't use being poor to justify your shitty choices bro, wtf? Trash take.

You just assume I'm poor. Nice.

[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 1 points 6 days ago

Simple. Trashy. But simple.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 6 days ago

According to Lemmy all poor people are good.

Tell that to Juan, the homeless I personally know that has not done anything bad, and have been always an angel. He had never hurt or steal anyone and he doesn't even have a roof over his head.

But according to Lemmy shitheads that kill, steal and rape have the same moral merit as Juan because they are not rich.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee -3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm sorry but this is fucking stupid. WHO is calling WHAT immoral? Someone babbling on recycling, who the fuck cares about recycling?

Poorest people are 100% capable of making choices that align with their personal values as anyone else. This is such a fucking Christian thread. What, do you think morals come from the Bible? what a joke

[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 1 points 6 days ago

There ya go. Yes, 'threading a moral needle with bad choices' is all just pure imagery. Nothing real was said. There's no actual situation under discussion, just vapor.

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[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Seems like there's plenty of entitled wealthy people in this thread. People who don't understand what it's like to be systemically pushed down into the mud; what it's like when all of your choices are either bad or worse.

"But you can recycle..." Shut the fuck up dude, recycling doesn't feed my fucking family. Recycling doesn't replace the years spent in an education system that's designed to make you a factory worker. Recycling doesn't bring living-wage-paying jobs to my hometown.

When the bills are in the mail, the tax man is coming, the landlord's raising the rent, and the bossman is driving a new car every year but can't pay you enough to keep your bank account from overdrafting, sometimes you have to do "immoral" shit.

Sometimes you have to kill an animal with no hunting license, sometimes you have to find a place to stay warm for the night, sometimes you have to feed your kids when all you have is cardboard and that might mean stealing bread from the dollar store.

[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (6 children)

So you listed a bunch of things that make sense for illegal things you might have to do in order to acquire food but just because you are poor why can’t you recycle?

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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

warning satireAre you sure your not just being lazy? Maybe it was the choices you made that landed you there. It's not like there is a whole system in place to oppress a certain class of people.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I cannot believe that you're being downvoted. This place disappoints me.

[–] lazyViking@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A preemptive warning of satire kinda breaks the entire thing and makes it fairly lame

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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was told I'm a politician in another thread so... yeah I don't know man.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Looks like the consensus finally turned around somewhat

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess? But it's also morally just to reuse disposables, repair instead of replace, conserve and reduce waste, and delay new purchases as long as possible. I'm doing environmental conservationism just by being poor!

[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness. (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms)

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

The rich man's boots vs. The poor man's boots. Terry died too damn young.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The rich will throw away their perfectly fine boots after a few years because they aren't in style anymore.

[–] timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The rich have that option.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 0 points 6 days ago

I read “The rich have that opinion.” at first and that somehow fits just as well.

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[–] Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago (11 children)
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[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly, rich people are pretty shitty themselves.

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