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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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If they could draw or make music, they wouldn't need a robot to do it, and they clearly want to but don't have the skills.

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If people got a proper art education they would know drawing is more fun.

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

to be fair, if the masses were educated we'd be on track to solve a shitton of our problems with that change alone.

As a completely separate thought, different people can find different things fun. And one person can find multiple things fun. I know I'm not indicative of a typical person, but I'd compare making your own art to Factorio, and prompting images from stable diffusion (or similar) to Cookie Clicker. I've put over a thousand hours into Factorio, and I like to think I'm mediocre at it, but that hasn't stopped me from enjoying games like Cookie Clicker (I say "like Cookie Clicker" because the incremental genre has moved on since then but that's besides the point).