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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As we witness the recent mass exodus from Reddit to Lemmy - Whoever named this Platform after Lemmings, must have had a freaking good foresight. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by DeadNinja@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh? Why, what is so special about Lemmings that---

Wikipedia: In popular culture, a longstanding myth holds that they exhibit herd mentality and jump off cliffs, committing mass suicide.

Huh.

[–] lechatron@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Disney killed a bunch of them to help perpetuate the myth.

and further that the same small group of lemmings was transported to the location, jostled on turntables, and repeatedly shoved off a cliff to imply mass suicide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wtf... why?

[–] ech@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Because Disney.

[–] emptyother@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

So its about big corpos spreading misinformation and trying to kill something small to earn more money. Lemmy (and the fediverse) wouldn't know anything about that, right?