Don't want to be a toxic positivity preacher but what if due to our nature we simply pay little or no attention to things that go right?
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
67 points (90.4% liked)
Showerthoughts
34244 readers
554 users here now
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.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
These are the same creatures that go bellows over brimstone if they flip a water bottle that lands upright ?
True and then we risk genuinely sounding 'first world problems'. Just be grateful and move on i say.
Hitler was a first world problem for more than just the first world.
Hitler talk out of nowhere? Dam they weren't kidding when they said lemmy was charged. I wasn't talking about that "first world" 😂
I get it. Using hitler is to extreme. But at that time we are talking the first world despite germanys ww1 issues. Im just saying that the first world issues people are talking about are people being grabbed off the street by unmarked secret police and being renditioned to foreign gulags and talk about entering private property without warrants. Its not like. OMG, how come I can't get a good latte in this town.
Yes.
I always say the Internet is more vast than it is comprehensive. You will find infinite things. Infinite good things, but also infinite bad things, and infinite things on most topic.
But certain actors on there have an interest to highlight bad things. That makes it real easy to slip into a negative feedback loop. And there's so much, you will into a bottomless hole.
And that's when you always gotta peek your head over the horizon and look for things outside of your periphery. Because there's more than problems.
Even if you look back at where we've come from, the amount of struggles we've overcome already as a society is hard to fathom.
My point is, either look for both negative and positive news accountings, or do neither and focus on a topic like games, or woodworking, or astronomy and just keep away from the sensational news pieces.
There's more to life than news anyway.
I usually give an example of existing internet goodness with the website Ian's Shoelace Guides. It exists, with good resources, and minimal ads, as al gore intended.
Yup. Somewhere out there Jeff rolled a 1 and now we're all boned.
It's always darker just before it goes pitch black. -- John "Hannibal" Smith
The guy who used to hang with Mr T, or the other guy?
The one that loved it when a plan comes together.
Could still be either one!
You're right. One of them enjoys a cigar and shooting bad guys with a machine gun (even if he never hits anything but scenery) and the other loves a nice Chianti with grilled brains. I was of course refering to the former.
is that why my goatee and mustache keep falling off ?
For the 9,741st time, YES
I think we experience quantum immortality. There could have been several world ending events in the last ~20 years. But since we can only observe what we survive our reality becomes increasingly more unlikely.
So while the world might be getting worse and worse it will just skid past the really bad events for most people.
Of course, if we hadn't shot Harambe we would be in the best timeline.
We are the only timeline, and everything is somewhat ok-ish, better than ever before at least.
Somebody has been reading Steven Pinker.
But not wrong enough to end things, as we wouldn't be here to discuss it.
And not good enough to end things, as we wouldn't be here to discuss it either.
Things could have always been worse
They could also be better.
But this post is talking about the worst timeline, not the best
I think about when I played Sims and would delete the bathroom and door from my Sim's house and watch him suffer. I feel like I am getting karmic payback these days. I'm sorry Sim dude, I didn't think of you as anything but interesting binary data and was amused by your suffering. I have a lot more sympathy and empathy for you these days.
I used to remove the ladder in the pool to watch them drown cos I liked the ghost. It's my fault everything is shit I'm sorry
Sod's law, innit?
This isn't dark comparetively speaking.
We're born too early to see world peace. We're born too late to be set on fire on the market square.
looks around
Yes.
The vast majority of things we worry about never end up happening, and even the ones that do are almost never as bad as we imagined. Things are good in my personal life, and I refuse to go down weighed by worries over things that probably won’t even happen or that I can do nothing about.