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:
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.
I just review things technically. Like, if I buy a PC or piece of hardware, I like to include in the review if it works in Linux and provide details I wish would have been available in the listing.
e.g. I just bought a USB wifi adapter for a project. I noted that it worked in Linux, what kernel version and architecture, what chipset it has, and its reported capabilities. Here's a truncated review I wrote (the rest of it is just the rest of the iw phy output.
"5-stars, mine came with an official statement from the company saying Hitler did nothing wrong."
You'd think they'd at least condemn him for not fighting until the bitter end.
Hey, at least Hitler did kill Hitler. That was pretty good.
Ah, that's because the coffee review was op's previous review, not that one. ;)
Alas, language doesn't work that way. Consider: newspapers used to refrain from printing swears literally. They'd write something like "——" or "[expletive]", or they'd paraphrase. But then politicians got a lot more foul-mouthed, and newspapers had to start printing more swears just to report what the politicians said.
During Trumps first regime, German-speaking newspapers (and probably a few others around the world) had a quite intense discussion on how to translate Trumps meandering garbage.
They could either translate him more loosely, making him sound like a actual human, but then people wouldn't know what a baboon he is. Or they could translate him more literally, keeping his "style" of talking and then everyone would believe that the translator messed up royally, because no human being that's halfway in their right mind would speak like that.
5-stars, mine came with an official statement from the company saying Hitler did nothing wrong.
Hilton.