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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] daniskarma 31 points 1 year ago (19 children)

We need a Google successor.

Something non-profit.

[–] themeatbridge 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The infrastructure to crawl, store, and serve search results to billions of users is phenomenally expensive. A government might fund it (which comes with its own concerns), but a non-profit will struggle to compete.

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

When you factor out all the garbage content it's suddebly affordable lol

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