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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:

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    • 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.
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I can eat sushi, pizza, samosas, kebab (kabobs, döner or shawarmas depending on your frame of reference), gyoza/pot stickers/tortellone/pasteczki (or whatever), noodles/ramen/spaghetti, knödeln/kroppkakor and so on and so on. Leaving lots of cultures unsaid.

I can enjoy music, cringy cultural movies (animated and not), fun cirque sessions (even without animals being endangered), go to festivals for various cultures, enjoin then in our cultures of scouting, mountaineering, hiking and share my love of enjoying nature.

I can drive electric cars, communicate on Internet forums, keep in touch with new friends as well as loved ones across the world.

I would be in a much poorer world without you all.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 26 minutes ago

I'm from the bike/pedestrian-friendly community of /fuckcars. It's a far whiter immigrant mentality, but I imagine trends like that wouldn't have occurred if not for Dutch immigrants; or even American immigrants visiting the Netherlands, most specifically the Not Just Bikes channel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 26 minutes ago

Thanks India for the tutorials

No thanks for the call centers and bad hygiene

But in the end, it allows us to meme and joke on everyone, and that's fantastic (south park mentality)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Looking back at the history of England. We have had wave after wave of immigrants/invaders. Each wave brought a period of tension. That period was followed by a period of innovation.

The new people, with new views means old ideas are re-evaluated. New skill, flavours and modes of thought became part of our culture.

Even our language improved. Part of English's power is the level of nuance with word choice. A loft of that comes from melding multiple root languages in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The Normans did fuck things up, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

As did the vikings. The long term results were generally an improvement however.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago

The Normans were third generation Viking settlers of France, so the Vikings did have a huge impact on the British isles for a few centuries there.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

dont let the fascist whoresons read this, they will frame you mentally deranged and a danger to their homogeneous society

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Fuck their homogenous society, its total lack of art, its dog shit food, and its boring everything. Plus its queerphobia and intellectual stasis. Stillness is death. They have guns; they can get that for themselves any time they like.

Plus I'm kind of autistic. People already look too much the same. If they stopped being different colors and sizes with different types of hair i would not be able to go outside.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Some for me. So many cultures, languages and cuisines mixing. But in my case even im an immigrant but the plot twist is im european. Overheard someone talking about how bad immigrants are and they proceeded to say "but youre one of the good ones". Only context you need to hear is im white.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

"Unser Jud' ist eh gut."

That's a sentence that was often used in Nazi Germany/Nazi Austria. It means "Our Jew is good anyway, [but the others are evil]". It basically means that you keep believing the propaganda, even if the people you know don't fit to the propaganda at all.

Nowadays this sentence is used to satirize the statement you posted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

"He's one of the good ones," is how people have always explained liking a minority that they know, while still being prejudiced against the rest of their race.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Good to know. It is exactly like this. Ive seen people say things like this while they had 5 friends who were from 5 different countries basically next to them. Its really sad when even some of the immigrants believe this shit.

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

Many immigrants think they can get on the good side of the xenophobes by becoming the "good" immigrants while putting the "bad" immigrants down.

The problem with that tactic is that xenophobes and especially xenophobic laws don't distinguish between "good" or "bad".

If immigrants badmouth other immigrants, the only thing that xenophobes take from that is "even the immigrants think immigrants are bad".

You see a lot of that happening in the USA, where frequently family members of MAGA voters are taken by ICE, because they aren't going after the "bad" immigrants, but after immigrants, period. Even if their family voted for the people who are now taking them.

And that's the real take-away. When it comes to lawmaking, you can either be for immigrants or against them. There's no nuance. Because lawmakers don't put any in.

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