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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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I feel like the people I interact with irl don't even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.

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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 342 points 2 days ago (108 children)

The average person is becoming MORE technologically illiterate, not less. The era of growing up with a home computer that required fiddling and dial up, etc is over. People grow up with phones and iPads and kids come to school not knowing how to use a mouse.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Why there now exists "iPad Kid".

That a friend I know of has a lot of his kids entirely on smartphones, while their family PC is hidden behind cobwebs and dust; if they want a document printed they just go out to some print shop.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

if they want a document printed they just go out to some print shop.

In fairness, it can be expensive to stock the holy water necessary to fend off the demons that inhabit all printers.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Last I checked, libraries still charged per page.

Also, libraries are not at home.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mine let's you print an amount for free every month.

if they want a document printed they just go out to some print shop.

Print shops are not at home either.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, which is why I said to get a Brother laser printer.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago

Go spend $100 to print 3 pages every six months I'll keep doing mine for free.

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