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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:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. 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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. 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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I guess you can always find "some" people that can fit with your strawman, doesn't really make it a valid argument.

"Some people" on Lemmy think the earth is flat. "Some" are pedophiles. "Some" are even Republicans. That doesn't mean they are correct or common.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Oh no! You put republicans in my showerthoughts. Oh, that's a strange mix.

I think I'm gonna puke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

What are you implying is the strawman?

The millions of honest and dishonest poor and rich people that prove that morals are not related to money? Or the statically significant lemmings that agree with "all poor are good because they are poor" ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The part were you say a significant amount of people on Lemmy think that stabbing others is morally correct if you're poor.

And just to be clear, in not implying, I'm telling it plain and open.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

? Pretty sure that’s not what they said.

They said that there are people on Lemmy who think a person who stabs someone vs a person who doesn’t are morally equivalent—as long as they’re both poor.

Very different.

They did also say that there are poor people who stab others and blame their actions on being poor, but that was tangential to their main point about judging the morals of a person solely based on their wealth or lack thereof.