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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
Rules
- 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
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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This belongs in !casualconversation@lemmy.world or !shootingthebreeze or whatever, not here. Like 1 in 3 other posts, yes. Literally breaks rules #1 and #2.
The "mods" in this community are asleep at the wheel. Might as well not have them.
You're right! We should lock down every community to very strict rules in order to sanitize it and know exactly what we're getting! I want to come here for variations on "if bread bowl for soup, why not cabbage bowl for salad?" And an echo chamber with no new ideas instead of one-off non-repeat-offenders dropping the occasional off topic rule bending whatevers. Maybe we should rename this place too. Maybe read-it or something.
On the other hand, let's fill Technology with talk about bicycle repair and dishwasher purchases because they are technology and Food with motivational quotes from LinkedIn because they are food for thoughts and Movies with discussions about American politics because 👏🏻 everything 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 political ✊🏻 and then we can fill everything else with compilations of America's Funniest Home Videos and barely related bot generated AI slop because what kind of nazi fascist conformist rights do mods have to try to keep some order and its not a phase and you're not my real dad anyway.
I hear you. I do. I was taking a comically hard opposing stance to that comment but I'm really advocating for a little more tolerance for one-off posts. People who really gatekeep turn people off from posting (and we kind of suffer from a deficit of posts here on lemmy).
I don't know why you all are so afraid to rectify a mistake. Everybody makes mistakes. It's natural. It's also good to do something about it and learn from the experience.
This is the best of your ideas.
How does it break rule 1? Are you watching OP and reading their mind to know for sure they didn't think of this while in the shower?
Also this community is actively asking for more mods. They're saying they're not active enough to do it all.
I too have my best existential crisis while in the shower
A shower thought is not just any thought in a shower or a thought about showers. It's something slightly random and absurd and most often humorous to some degree. Quite often an observation of some sort. Something that typically happens when you zone out while having a shower.
Check the community description, it has a decent definition of "showerthought". With examples for clarity.
So that explains it.
You know what? No one gives a fuck about your bitching.
If we do things as you seem to want, then there's no point even having separate communities. Let's just have one big bin and every day we can throw 10,000 conversation into it like junk.
The rules are there for a reason.
You might have a better experience on Reddit.
But that's the point. I don't want to have to go there to have a good experience. I want to have it here.
The world's a tough place, Karen. If you want to redefine what a shower thought is, you're free to create your own community. I see nothing in this post that contravenes "thoughts that pop into your head while you’re doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming", and while I see you screeching that rule 2 is broken, consider that the title is, in fact, a complete thought. The text can be seen as followup or self-examination - do you need an explanation of what that is?
The rules are there so people don't wander into a science community and proselytise their religion, harassing the people with comments that God created the universe and dinosaurs are false. Not so someone doesn't post in shower thoughts with a thought that very likely actually did occur while showering.
I like my junk pile of analog human experience
A lot of us already browse /all. lol