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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

An anti-vaxer set a remind me for one year in the future during the Covid pandemic because I laughed at him when he suggested that I was going to die from the side effects of the Covid vaccine.

I didn't die from the side effects of the Covid vaccine and I never heard from him again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What a gucking moron. Their conspiracy never made any sense. The government wants to kill people who will head their advice with a deadly vaccine but leave the people critical of the governments advice be?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup. Kill the compliant ones and leave the trouble makers alive. When I asked them about that their brains went into overload. Dude, they're leading the anti vaccine conspiracy theories so the assholes won't get it and die.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

And even if the vaccine could kill you it's idiotic to claim that you know it's going to lead to mass deaths in just a couple years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

One thing is guaranteed...100 percent of people who got the Covid vaccine are going to die...eventually.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if that bot still works, given they switched to making developers pay for using the API.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The last time I was on, I still saw it running (even after the API bs).

I'm willing to bet that Reddit granted them an exception because it's a widely used utility and isn't a client that obscures what they really want you to see (ads).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Even then, the creator might decide to shut it off if they don't use Reddit any more. It's probably not hugely resource intensive, but you probably wouldn't want to deal with support requests from a site you don't care about any more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah, let's get lots of bots running around here.

It'll really brighten up the place.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I believe I set a notification for the transit of Venus from Mars, or Earth from Mars. either way I'm sure that not only will reddit and the human race survive until then but that I'll make it to Mars and the bot will make an effort to send the notification early enough that it can reach me before the event ...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I have set a reminder for the next total solar eclipse in Germany (2081), knowing that i will not exist at this date.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Just use the calendar on your phone. Set an event for a year from now titled "Go back and see if I was right" with a link to the comment in the description.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is there a way to see what reminders you've set?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

IIRC you can send a PM with a command to the remindme bot and it lists all future timers. Not sure whether past timers are included, though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is there a similar bot on Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I will be messaging you in 7 days on 2025-04-07 10:06:96 UTC to remind you that there is no RemindMe! bot on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Good notabot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

offended beeping

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As far as i know, there is a bot that only works for a couple communities

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, need to explicitly allow it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Ah right, I set many remindme but my account is gone