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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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[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You children emerged from the ocean? Terrible idea as you can well see.

[–] earlier_riser@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pfft listen to this young’un with multiple cells over here.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Big talk coming from a greenhorn with a nucleus. In my day we didn't even have membrane-bound organelles and we did just fine!

[–] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Look at this guy with a cell membrane!

Back in my day we had to wrangle ribozymes without the luxury of a lipid bilayer. Yet we still managed to replicate RNA.