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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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All this excess of information, games, shows and everything else is ruining our boredom, which is usually what leads us to think more creatively (programming.dev)
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Title.

We're kinda spoiled with "all the X we could want, whenever we want".

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[–] AVeryCleverName@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think we're just as bored. We may in fact be worse off for having increased our "interest threshold" such that we must seek more and more stimuli in order to stave off boredom.

Doomscrolling is the new boredom.

[–] snor10@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If doomscrolling is boredom, what is sitting down doing nothing?

Agony?