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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Blocking users, while good for your own mental health, is the surest way to enable their echo chambers. (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 3 days ago by JeeBaiChow to c/showerthoughts

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Think about it: you try reasoning with them, then get tired and block their noise from your feed, but all that does is reduces the presence of the 'readonable minority', allowing them to spew their rethoric to a more receptive audience. Socmed sucks.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

The only problem with blocking people early and often is that it produces no signal for everyone else, downvote style.

Think about it: “shithead42088 (blocked by 83 people)”. Or more subtly just downgrade the relative sorting of their posts for everyone else if you don’t want to reveal the number.

Our world is a network of networks, just like these apps are. In the real world, echo chambers are highly desirable. We carefully shape them. My neighborhood, my city, all of it is a narrower set of people that I’ve chosen. Beyond that, my crowds are echo chambers. My family.

Being forced to listen to the abhorrent is the unnatural state. Drinking from the firehose of repulsive opinion is something that never occurs in the real world without conflict. Sometimes violent.

I don’t have to listen to something I don’t want to listen to, and that, too, is freedom.