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.

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Climate change is devastating what we have but it doesn't have to be that way at all!

Take genes from the pest type plants and mix it into the useful type plants so we can have more of the useful plants.

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I know all my dogs friends names but less than half of their owners names and now it is too late to ask.

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and not the addictive mobile games an acquaintance got me back into

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Together they can make the combined-arms-gulls.

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It's part of my mind, or body, or thereabouts.

It's why dreams (and supposedly the afterlife) invariably involve time, space, people etc.

Raw reality is made of vibes or poetry. A song without words. Then the translator adds the words.

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Essentially the word Law comes from a Norse word lagu which has as its root laying something down.

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I’m a momma and I was planning on driving my son down to the beach with some family/friends. I haven’t worn a bikini since my younger days since I’m super busy nowadays as a single mom working 2 jobs. As I was trying on some of my older bikinis, I couldn’t help but wonder how my younger self was confident enough to be this exposed. I’m not insecure about my body or anything, actually I’m pretty confident since I go to the gym often, so genuinely how do other women have the confidence to rock a bikini?

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They would be "milked" with a squeegee.

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I’m being currently subjected to a Peppa Pig marathon as I watch my nephew. They are visiting the zoo.

Some kinds of animals are clearly “people” - like Peppa and the zookeepers. But other animals are non speaking - animals. They showed non talking penguins eating fish - are fish not “people” either?

The zookeeper is a lion who confuses the teacher - some sort of gazelle - with a wildebeest as a running joke, which seems to suggest that he thinks of her as food.

Some of the jokes in this show seem targeted to adults, which makes no sense, as absolutely nothing in this show is watchable to anyone above the age of 4.

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The thought struck me that I enjoy hearing seagulls squawking when I am on vacation abroad, preferably close to the sea with a fresh breeze when you open the windows… I can fall asleep to that.

But I absolutely loathe the sound of seagulls that are nesting on house roofs near my home, far from the sea. They are fighting with other birds all the time and won’t stop squawking all night which makes it hard to sleep at times.

So when I am abroad, seagulls are fine. When I’m at home, seagulls are a pest.

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Ok so hear me out, everyone.

Today i had a funny little dream. I wanna tell you all about it because i found it so funny. (It's not technically a showerthought but i couldn't find a community for this particular thing, and this feels like the next-best-thing. The community notes even says "thoughts that come to you while day-dreaming", so i guess this is close enough. I hope you all forgive me :-) Creating lots of small niche communities splits the userbase too much, i fear, as well)

I was dreaming that I was in an underwater old ship wreckage. I.e., there was an ocean, and it was close to the coastline, and an old wooden ship sank there centuries ago, and i was there.

I observed a lot (20 maybe) penguins going in and out of the ship wreckage, each transporting a cooked, peeled egg in its beak, that looked like it was stolen from a nearby breakfast buffet. They took these eggs, and deposited them in the ship, so that the ship became a treasure chamber of digestible food. There was soo much stuff, that a good part of the ship was filled with food. I was amazed and asked myself why the fuck they would dispose that much good food, instead of eat it, presumably because it would go bad after a while, if oxygen reached it, it would start to rot rather badly.

I went into this ship to investigate and there was so. much. algae. everywhere. It felt like the algae feed on that food, and it was hard to get through. Eventually i exited the ship on the other side.

I thought about why the penguins store the food, and i thought to myself "huh, that's just biology", where "biology" somehow referred to how things are done underwater. Then i wanted to laugh, and to not swallow too much water, i dived up to the surface to breathe, but the closer i got to the surface, the stranger the impression of air seemed to me, as if it was a foreign object, and not like something that my life depended on. When i finally reached the surface, i tried to inhale, and when i did, something in my mind switched, and i suddenly felt like a "air animal" again, i.e. one that breathes, and i noticed that i had seen and perceived everything underwater as a "water animal" would describe it, and that i had even used the word "biology", which was an underwater word for how things are done underwater, while the correct, equivalent term for "air animals" would be "(?) angeles" or "archangeles" which would mean how things are done in-air. And that was discriminatory against fish and water-life, and that i might be a predator because i "look down on things that happen under-water".

And that was surprising, which sounded like "shark-prising" somehow. Anyways, then i tried to dive down again, and just then, a shark came out of nowhere and tried to attack me. I just thought "that's typical with my luck and all". Then i wanted to take a photo from the ship to post on [social media], to ask you all why the penguins did that (i still want to hear your opinion about that) but i woke up through the shark attack. I just assumed that my dream had to end because my dream could not make up a good answer for why the penguins did that, to incorporate into my dream.

I'm going back to sleep now, i have an exam in 4-5 hours, and still want some hours of sleep.

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I am quite a data hoarder, but I take so many screenshots that I'll probably never look at again, and it occurred to me that this might be my generation's "printing emails" thing.

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  1. Buy a single color van without any text on it
  2. Find 2 people to help you
  3. Cover your faces
  4. Drive to your victim, jump out, shout "ICE, you are under arrest" and throw the victim into the van

All people around you will think that nothing unusual is happening.

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