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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All this excess of information, games, shows and everything else is ruining our boredom, which is usually what leads us to think more creatively (programming.dev)

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Title.

We're kinda spoiled with "all the X we could want, whenever we want".

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[–] Studio_caveman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s a quote that gets attributed to Socrates showing that the issue of one generation complaining about the following generation is a tradition as old as time itself

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63219-the-children-now-love-luxury-they-have-bad-manners-contempt