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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:
- 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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- 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
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Fuck you. That sounds terrible.
Do you prefer paying for websites with your data?
Changing to a pay-per-request would theoretically be on, as it would hopefully cut down on bot traffic too, but this would NOT stop any sort of data mining, data broker services, or anything like that. It would not stop revenue either.
Do NOT give these sacks of shit any more poor ideas on how to charge is for another service
Yes
Well actually my proposition would still let you do that. Except that instead of sites embedding ads into themselves, you'd get to pick where (and how) to watch the ads, and then you'd directly receive the money for it which you could then send to the sites.
No!
I rent a VPS for under 10 credits a month. Traffic is included. It gives me a centralised calendar & address book, media streaming, and also a website. I happily pay this money. There are no ads, or data mining. Hell, I wouldn't even want money for each visitor. That would be presumptious.
I see that there is a problem for e.g. journalism though. Not relying on advertising would be nice. But not in the way you propose.
It’s too late to implement something like this and expect the current bs to stop