this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
357 points (97.6% liked)

Showerthoughts

30532 readers
853 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: 1

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
    • If you feel strongly that you want politics back, please volunteer as a mod.
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct

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
 

Credit to Chris Williamson for coming up with this though. I just found it worth sharing.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

People born in 2005 will be 20 this year.

STOP MAKING ME FEEL OLD, SIR!!!!

[–] spacesatan@leminal.space 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I recently found out I'm about as old as Java and I still haven't decided if that sounds worse for me or for Java.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

........wait, when did Java get invented?

[–] spacesatan@leminal.space 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

First public beta/alpha release in 1995

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Oh, I'm way older than that. I was born 2 weeks after yhe whole earth died, because the russians almost atomic bombed us on a false alarm. Until one man refused to sign off on the bombing of America.

Which, based on that description, doesn't ACTUALLY narrow down the decade. Which is kind of scary that the earth almost ended.....more than once.....from the same thing. I mean it was twice that it happened, in two different decades, but still though......maybe atomic weapons are a bad idea in the hands of russia....