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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.

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I think it was a bit of a sleight of hand to make it about time. Because time is quantifiable. You can give 5 minutes of your time but I figure most people can attest that has little to do with how much actual attention you're giving. And it's attention that we crave. That's what social media is built upon. When you really love and enjoy something or someone, you're thinking of it, even if you're not actively engaged with it. And on the other hand, if you give something attention for long enough, you do start to develop some kind of an attachment on it ( which easily becomes unhealthy too, like doom scrolling ).

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[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The sleight of hand is being committed by you and your work-culture problem

Tbh this sounds like a kinda personal issue you have with work and working too much or having a shitty job or something and it’s somehow morphing into a linguistic dispute instead when it shouldn’t be

[–] dvoraqs@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you a boss at work of some kind? Maybe your perspective is tied up with some problem you have with your work culture. People are just complicating things when this is actually just so simple, right?

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

I’m actually your boss and very disappointed

[–] noretus@crazypeople.online 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wrote very broadly (on purpose). Never defined the nature of the meeting. What your mind says about me has little to do with my life.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You’re the one who wrote a paragraph about how work meetings suck lol

[–] noretus@crazypeople.online 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You wrote an entire paragraph literally describing work meetings being a waste of time and somehow don’t even realize it?

I think i now understand why the phrase was so confusing to you

[–] noretus@crazypeople.online 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Quite frankly it's somewhat disturbing that you take a fairly neutral description of an unspecified event as "writing an entire paragraph about how work meetings suck". You are overlaying a hell of a thought framework of your own onto the text I wrote and then telling me I'm the one with a problem. Ironic really, since you started off saying the world is illiterate.

[–] bsit@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Lots of psychoanalysis in this thread.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] bsit@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

No, but it seems unusually aggressive for very little reason.