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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 most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

some say if he knew about mint, he would still be with us today

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Iapar@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

I took it as: "Mint is the just-works-distro so you don't want to shoot yourself in the face constantly.".

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

They said mint, not mind

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Cobain died in April 1994.

The first Slackware Linux release was in July 1993. Debian Linux¹ 0.9 came out in January 1994; SuSE Linux launched in March 1994.

So yes, Kurt could have used Linux.

But he probably would have had to install it from floppies.


¹ It wasn't called Debian GNU/Linux until later; see the 1994 revision of the Debian Linux Manifesto.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Floppy disks💀

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you implying that's why he killed himself?

I assumed it was his realization that his art was being exploited and his girlfriend sexually assaulted by a system he willingly entered for financial benefit and he couldn't do a damn thing about it but that fits too.

Explains why he didn't shoot an executive instead.

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I don't get it either. Of course Kurt Cobain knows Linux. The private security of the island where Cobain, Elvis, 2Pac and the others live, runs on Linux.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's meant to be a "Cleopatra is closer to us than the building of the great pyramid" or something like that, but I'm not sure either.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

TIL Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of floppy disks than Kurt Kobain did to wooly mammoths

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Here's a better one. Blackbeard could have worn sunglasses.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mayans could've studied at oxford

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai.

But he never got to use GPS, and that makes Helen Mirren sad.