this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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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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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can I be the guy that's known around town for pointing out that in the given context, it's actually "fewer users"

And yeah yeah, I know about evolution of language and common usage, and all that crap. But it really does just boil down to the fact that fewer sounds more elegant when the object is plural. ie: "There are usually fewer unexpected costs associated with new home ownership", vs "There is usually less unexpected cost associated with new home ownership" (Both are correct in their given context)

It's about how language rolls off the tongue. If we lose that we might as well grunt at each other draw pictographs with our own feces.

/end of rant.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's actually about whether the object is countable.

Water -> less water Cups of water -> fewer cups of water

It bothers me a bit, too, but American English is definitely evolving to replace "fewer" with "less".

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[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This specific case isn't really to do with the evolution of language, more just ineffective linguistic prescriptivism. Some guy 200 years ago decided they didn't like how "less" had been used for the past millennium so they made up a guideline for what the preferred (like what you just said) then people decided to treat that as an actual rule. Obviously it's still common to use "less" that way even after a couple of centuries of people trying to enforce that rule, it's a good demonstration of how prescriptivism is a waste of time.

Strangely enough, in my experience many prescriptivists who rely on etymological arguments are fine with language changing for this one rule. Makes me think they never really did care about historic usage of a word.

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I want to be remembered as the succulent meal that sometimes makes good points and funny jokes 🍗🍚

[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Remember the user that couldn't 💩 for a week or something?

[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

no no no you have it all wrong. he was looking for a way to avoid shitting for 3 days. it was very important to him that he find a way so that his body wouldn't produce shit during that 3 day period. for some reason.

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[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Oh, you MSG’d bouillon hatchling

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't know anybody here. What you talkin about Wilus?

[–] einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

i have the theorie that there are even way fewer users here than people think, at least when it comes to posts not commens...there is a cluster of accounts that kinda feel like they are all run by the same person.

Feel free to guess what cluster i mean

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[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Ita kinda neat imo. It's like being in a small town and seeing a celebrity whenever satansmaggotycumfart joins the conversation.

[–] zorflieg@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Who are you and how did you get in my sandbox?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Considering how new anonymity is for the human race, it amazes me how people treat it like a crucial element of life. Civilization mostly lacked it for thousands of years because almost everybody lived in villages or small towns - about half the people in the world still do.

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[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

We are the "I know a spot" guys

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

And there is always the village idiot.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I get a weird thing where a VPN connection sometimes doesn't let me post or respond.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, its lemmy.world being a dick.

Hop over to like... just about any other instance

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I have a feeling everyone knows who I am, and those who don't haven't blocked me yet.

it's fine. I'm not going to apologize for my opinions because that's somehow worse than defending unpopular opinions.

I'd rather be the person who owns their hill and dies for it than someone who runs from hill to hill because the group thinks it sucks.

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