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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:

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[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 11 points 17 hours ago

It'd be incredibly unrealistic to have them have any degree of success given the ease of determining their motive and potential targets, and the sheer amount of resources the police would undoubtedly throw at finding someone who was killing oligarchs.

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago

Oh, right. A show. Of course.

[–] trillnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 15 hours ago

Im sure it happens often or more than we think and its instantly covered up to avoid copycats, maybe ppl who already dlted themselves and their families off the internet

"evil rich people"

There's no such thing as an innocent billionaire

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

~~Robin~~ Killin Hood

(Cuz he be killin' instead of robbin')

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 1 points 13 hours ago
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Right, and that will happen because TV shows aren't produced by billionaire-owned media corporations.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Star Wars: Andor is made and produced by fucking Disney. Squid Games was produced by Netflix.

Never underestimate the ability of capitalism to commodify anything and everything, even the dissent of the system.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

True, capitalism commodifies everything, but it always has a doublethink view of dissent and rebellion. They're okay as long as the bad guys are a clearly evil empire (as in Star Wars) but not if it's the US or conventional culture in general. I mean, Disney isn't gonna mek a series about the adventures of the Black Panthers unless it alreadty has an established swag market.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But Cops is currently on it's 37th season.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wasn't that cancelled?

the show was later picked up by Fox Nation, a streaming service from Fox News Media, and the 33rd season premiered on October 1, 2021

Ah. On-brand for them.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

well even if Cops went away, you have stuff like LivePD and any number of copaganda shows on every network

[–] Senal@programming.dev 2 points 13 hours ago

The rookie was the most blatant example for me and i was incredibly disappointed , because i like Nathan Fillion.

I heard it got less bootlicky later on but i never made it that far.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Try to make it on VEO3 and Google will come back saying it's against the TOS.

Make anything else on the exact same basis except sub out rich people for anybody else... allowed!

[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You're making a show about killing money men. Good luck convincing the money men to fund it. And that's how it works.

Otoh, making video is pretty cheap these days.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Neo Ranga is an old anime about how the Yakuza fund politicians. Guess what else the Yakuza fund? You could tell that anime had no budget.

[–] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Even if you did find some way to fund and produce it, what corporate media empire is going to allow it on their network where more than a handful of people would ever see it?

[–] vsg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The issue is hosting. YouTube would never allow that, and other platforms are too small.

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They already made one. His catchphrase was "You have failed this city".

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 4 points 23 hours ago

He as straight as an Arrow

[–] Angelusz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I mean, I get it, I feel the same sometimes. It's just much better to strip them of their assets and dump em all on epstein island with a survival package including guide.

Let them learn how to survive for real instead. Much better punishment.

(I mean, look at Australia, those guys became pretty awesome. Not perfect, but hey.. We're all human.)

[–] vsg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Weren't the prisoner in Australia "regular" criminals, though?

Leverage was kinda like this but they didn't kill them

[–] natecox@programming.dev 126 points 2 days ago (9 children)

… as a TV show, right? Right?

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 71 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'd prefer a documentary series.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

Not really a true crime guy, but

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Put it on Amazon Prime! With ads!

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 3 points 23 hours ago

Lots of ads. More than YouTube's amount of ads.

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