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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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Everything that makes advertisers happy is to the detriment of humanity as a whole. Everything that makes advertisers' jobs easier also makes it easier for authoritarian governments. "Innovation" is no longer about creating new things, it's about taking what already works, breaking it, shoving ads on it and charging a ransom in the form of a premium subscription.

On the other hand, there are endless ad-skipping tools, pages and sites where the main attraction is the lack of ads without a subscription. More and more people are talking about how intrusive and annoying ads are, even those who make their living from them. As the efforts of big tech to please advertisers grow, so do the efforts of ordinary people to screw them.

Very Cyberpunk.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Modern marketing, post WW2 was the privatization of propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Calvin and Hobbes warned us

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Ads literally make me disabled. There presence challenges my freedom to interact both online and the real world.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

More and more people are talking about how intrusive and annoying ads are, even those who make their living from them.

And majority of them won't do shit about it and keep complaining.

I know, there are user-friendly tools to deal with it, but the problem is that those people are lazy enough to not even bother spending few minutes looking for and implementing them.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Chris Hayes spends a good deal of time on this subject in his book The Siren's Call which I can't recommend enough.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Advertisers are basically just arms manufacturers, supplying the wealthy with the tools needed to manipulate and use the population. Cut the head of the dragon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Is this a self affirmation or are there other people in your shower?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

There could be thousands of people in that shower if they were pondering in the rain!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Have you seen they live? Seems relevant.

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