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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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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

You have your sense of time a bit out of whack.

Development of HTTP was initiated in 1989.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 7 points 18 hours ago

Which was clearly like 12 or so years ago, right? .... right? crumbles to dust

[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

That was 100% me transposing the numbers xD I thought it said 1989 for the joke, it was 1998. Also I did the math wrong and said 50 instead of 40, two fuck-ups for the price of one!