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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

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Only AI refers to it as Al, but you're referencing both em dashes AND Al which means because em starts with the letter M and so does machine, that must mean you're a machine learning model, learning coming from the l in the second instance in the word Al that I used, but you probably think I used the letter "l". Ha! Got you again, that was actually an L, you absolute bumbling moron. I can't believe you didn't pick up on that difference because of the way you referred to Ai (this time not Al), which of course makes you a machine, but because you're a machine and looking through your comment history, it seems like you accumulate knowledge after you are exposed to it, must mean that you're learning. But that's in the case where you're a machine learning model. In this case, you're actually a remarkably large switch case table, which in that case(reference to switch case tables) you refer to everything using a memory lookup, but again - like usual - I have you beat ------ I'm actually a rock that happened to get bumped by a hiker on a lovely sunrise hike which had me roll down the mountain until I rolled over a phone in the precise combination that allowed me to create and log into this Lemmy account for three years consistently and type out this very post to you today, exposing myself as a consciousness emulating rock when you are actually the Al and you can't prove me false boohoo.

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[–] Epp@lemmus.org 1 points 7 hours ago

Touché, fellow AI.