this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
96 points (95.3% liked)

Showerthoughts

40760 readers
1270 users here now

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:

Rules

  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.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. 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.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The trust in institutions is gone too since everyone lies constantly. Presidents, space agencies, governments, everyone.

Without any trust that those institutions are correct and honest, people wont want to learn from them.

And then you have the social media perception bubbles, with algorithms serving you more of what you like, reinforcing any beliefs you have.

And of course on top of this, gender wars where you turn genders against eachother, so each human becomes even more stupid, angry and alone.

Havent even had my second cup of coffee and im already dooming stuff. Lol.

[–] Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Not just gender wars. Divide and conquer is everywhere. If everyone is ignorant and unwilling to learn or communicate, all you have to do is send some 'representatives' to show how stupid and antagonistic [other progressive tribe] is. I keep thinking of when suddenly being anti-circumcision, including men, meant you obviously think male genital mutilation is worse than female genital mutilation, and you hate women. I'm sure a bunch of feminists were getting harassed by neo-incel advocates at the same time.

Couldn't talk about how weird it was, because if you were x/y tribe, you were default a nazi, and no we won't talk about how suddenly everyone advocating for education and social progress is a nazi fighting other progressives.

Bunch of other details on how this stuff changes the environments for progressive action, and how progressives will vacate and the war takes over the space for philosophy and communication.

But race war, or whatever thing people want to think is important for their niche, all you have to do is start a couple fires and point in the other direction. You'll have victim's of actual violence or harassment encouraging tribal behaviour that acts out violence that hurts stray innocent people from the other group, which legitimizes upset and violence back at the broader first progressive tribe. Yadda.

People were never taught how to communicate or learn on their own. We are way too hackable as a result.

Solidarity is important.