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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
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- 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.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
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not essays, not free help like this at your fingertips, and code very much not to this extent
Yes, essays. Pre-written essays on subjects that you could plagiarize line for line.
Yes, free help like this, on message boards and blogs and YouTube channels and chat groups. Very likely better help, too, since you're getting the information from subject matter experts rather than some random amalgamation of text shoved into a language model output template.
In my time these were absolutely awful and vacuous circumlocution. Not to mention TurnItIn.
You have to pay for the messageboards that are actually useful and already have your question like Chegg. The only comparable free platform I used only worked on Chinese homework. Anything else you'd have to post your question and wait about an hour. ChatGPT takes one minute. And its quality today is way better than you think. You can just take a photo of homework and it'd give you the right answers 90% of the time and with explanations.
A pittance, compared to what you were paying to attend the courses themselves.
For freshman engineering problems, maybe. Even then, the longer and more complicated the problem, the more the success rate drops off. It's not much of a cheat when it only gets you the easy answers. Those aren't the questions that eat up all your time.