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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- 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
- Posts must be original/unique
- 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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Can someone TL;DR the beans? I slept last night and woke up to Lemmy just being beans… wtf.
There was a post about a can of beans yesterday... literally just that. "Here's a can of beans"... since then, the beans have taken over 😅
I think the point of this shower thought is a good one though: despite not being centralized, the beans still spread in a very reddit-like fashion...
This is great! This is the kind of wacky behavior that generates personality, community, media coverage, interest and curiosity, As ironic as it is, I think this is a milestone for the fediverse.
It’s also the beginnings of a collective conscious which means the fediverse is inching towards a critical mass of some sort.
I’m pretty sure Reddit back in its frontier days had several wacky trends take over.
Just my opinion but I’m loving it and I think it’s a good thing,
It's a great indication when a social network gets large enough to meme. That's why people care and are actively making original content for a change. It's a great sign!
I can’t upvote your shit. Server too overloaded. Another great sign.
Here’s an up arrow to show my support.
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If lemmy.world is too overloaded you can't even vote, that's definitely a sign to create an account on a smaller instance. Best part of Lemmy is you can make an account on a different server and subscribe to all the same content
TL;DR Mr. Bean fought spez in a 1vs1 cage fight so now bean is the new hero.
Did Musk and Zuckerberg do their thing already, or is that still on?
Yes they had their coming out and adopted their first child together. It's called X Æ A-12
Top of all time post on lemmy is now about beans.
this is the post: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/559757
I've seen nothing about beans what's wrong with me
Oh sweet child… you’re missing out. The beans got me.
As soon as I posted that comment all the bean posts started appearing.
They're listening.
It’s the algorithm!