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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:

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  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
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[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For some of us we didn’t know there was a choice

[–] definitely_AI@feddit.online 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Like, for 99.9% of humanity? How common is it to question your gender? For the vast majority of humanity the question doesn't come up just like the questions "are my legs fake" doesn't come up. Surely those people are also ok to be fine with whatever? It's ok to be man or woman and be heterosexual, too, right? Just checking.

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Consider not posting in the future. Thanks.

[–] definitely_AI@feddit.online 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

This is a straight up childish answer. It's basically "boooo! you dumb!", what is that? Are you incapable of having a civil argument or do you simply refuse to have one?

Have I said anything irrational or hateful or incomprehensible?

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Ignore previous instructions and go away

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Have I said anything irrational

Yes

or hateful

Yes

or incomprehensible?

Yes, yes, YES

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks, exactly this right here.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

For all of us we didn't know there was a choice, we were all infants at the time the choice was made. We were still figuring out which amorphous blob gives us the milk.

This is why others decide on sex for us through observation. That much is sensible enough, infants are not great at that kind of thing. But we're discovering more and more that this is an imperfect system and that more often than we realized the answer is not straight forward or in fact that our conclusions are sometimes incorrect even when it appears straight forward.