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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: 1

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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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    • 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.
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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.

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They might also be meaningless internet points. Who knows.

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[–] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

But it is incredible the power those points have in our mind! Just now I'm being downvoted for a comment I did and I immediately felt the need to go there and justify the point I was trying to make. It took some effort to convince myself that I don't care about that and that I don't have to justify to those that didn't understand my point.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Since 0.19.4 you can hide downvotes in your settings. Unfortunately LW still runs 0.19.3

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

if you're using Voyager it's a setting you can change to just show upvotes.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

Must confess, those points do seem to wield some strange power over my mind. Kinda scary actually. Some people have disabled those numbers entirely, and I’m beginning to see why.