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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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  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.
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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.

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[–] Merulox 102 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I’m a teenage FOSS enthusiast and I’m of the opinion that there are a lot more of us here than you seem to all think.

[–] nbdjd 73 points 2 years ago (1 children)

not speaking for OP but when I think about not wanting "kids" around, I mean immature people. I'm looking to be part of something like the reddit prior to them buying Alien Blue.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Agree. I suspect that the UX challenge of the Fediverse as well as the fact that you'd largely only migrate here if you're ideologically displeased with the admins means that people on this site skew more mature.

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

The people on here at the moment are the same kind of people that exclusively used old.reddit.com on desktop.

[–] nbdjd 1 points 2 years ago

I’m gonna ruin it so fast

[–] jtablerd 15 points 2 years ago

Booyah high five! Glad you're here

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

As a fellow teenager and a FOSS enthusiast, Linux user and Linux tinkerer and hobbyist, I'm glad to see there are more people my age getting into the FOSS space.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Same same, it is mostly the matter of your FOSS knowledge, if you were a FOSS nerd you would most likely to switch from reddit in some way or another... (16 btw)

[–] JackGreenEarth 1 points 2 years ago

Same, also 16, and the 'mentally kids' excuse is more insulting than they may have realised.

[–] dumpsterlid 4 points 2 years ago

I am not a teenager, but I think younger people are generally pretty fucking cool.

Yeah, yall are immature, so what, compared to old people when they were your age, y'all are so MUCH COOLER.

Seriously, on every metric, I don't understand how you can shit on young people these days. They are just an improvement on us.

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

Much more than dozens haha