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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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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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    • 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.
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[–] [email protected] 93 points 7 months ago (2 children)

A library is paid though.

Donate to your instance, and decentralize the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Where i come from you can go there and read for free, but if you want to borrow stuff you need to have a card which is paid my an abo.

And they will also get money by the city likely

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

In my city/county, you get a free card if you can prove you live here (show something with your address) Our system will also do fundraisers to supplement the budget from taxes. We almost lost some libraries a gew years ago, but voters remade the local government and they are safer now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's sucks.

In my country I'm pretty sure library cards are always free. The card has to be collected in person though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Welcome to Germany! Fucking hell here

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

NYC libraries are free, but asshole conservatives (but I repeat myself) don't want to fund them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not even expensive. A single euro monthly per user is more then enough to keep instances running

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that micro-payments are a pain in the ass. On Liberapay I often pay people 2 years in advance which is then pretty much

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

I'm not suggesting to pay one euro each month, I'm suggesting that you treat your lemmy instance as a 12 euro per year subscription. Compared to literally every other service it is basically free.