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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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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[–] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's all good and well until you start working in a repo that has both master and main branches for some reason, and it is not clear which is actually the master/main branch.

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Then you're working in an idiotic repo. You could just as well have have a master and an actual_master branch. Similar idiocy.

[–] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It only takes one person to fuck it up. I agree it's stupid, but introducing a conflicting standard increases the chances of someone fucking it up in the name of progressiveness. Needless to say I killed off the main branch that someone one had tried to make to replace the master branch.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A place I used to work at had that.. The corp had rolled out a non-delete policy with something akin to *master, so when someone made a abrv_master branch it got protected and couldn't be deleted anymore.