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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- 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
- Posts must be original/unique
- 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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What
It's a thing that's trending on social media and showing up in click-bait journalism.
Which means it is:
a) Irrelevant to anyone who isn't terminally online
b) Influencer-bait for every podcaster, YouTuber, and Twitter hot-takes artist
c) Going to see coverage inflate like a balloon as we get closer to November
What?
1A Auditors are people who show up in public buildings and annoy the government employees, with the express purpose of being asked to leave. As soon as an employee asks them to leave, (or even asks them to back up a little bit and give them some space), they make a huge scene about how it’s a public space, “I pay your salary”, and the employee is infringing on the person’s 1st Amendment rights.
Youtube keeps trying to sneak these in to my feed, I used to downvote and block the channel, but now I report and block because youtube clearly wants reporting to replace downvoting which they removed.