this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2024
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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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A lot less annoying then endlessly filtering content by community and user

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[โ€“] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People are downvoting you not because you are wrong, but because it really hurts when you call people out with this kind of precision. It should be common sense that the message boards full of randos shouldn't be the foundation of one's political worldview, but it's also really easy to make message boards full of randos an integral part of one's social life.

Getting your news from credible, non-social sources, is important. Being able to read an article and move on without heading to the comments is important. Having conversations with real people offline is important. But those things don't offer the same steady drip of dopamine that social media provides.

A lot of people here are excessively online, and in desperate need of grass touching, and they don't want to be told that directly, but they do also need to hear it.

[โ€“] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 points 18 hours ago