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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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A lot less annoying then endlessly filtering content by community and user

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Eating poisoned shit isn't broadening your horizons.

[–] Unforeseen 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's my philosophy too. I like browsing all so I heavily filter with keywords and blocking. My community block list is approaching 600

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

100%. I don't want to spend my free time scrolling past the political options of every single fuckhead in the world, these topics achieve nothing but pissing each other off. Block, block and block again.

I still remember the old-school crude internet saying of bygone days: "Arguing on the internet is like completing in the special Olympics; even if you win you're still retarded"

[–] baggachipz 1 points 1 day ago

More wise words from MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For these ~~social media~~ ad companies to profit, self awareness had to be done away with. The profit machine stops working when the crowd realizes they're trapped inside of it.

I don't think the older internet was crude. It was more polished than the social media garbage of today. Corporatized internet had to mess all that the old internet worked to achieve. Because if everyone starts understanding the meta-dynamics of the internet again, then crowds will realize they're trapped inside corporate internet. The profit machines would stop working.

You ever notice how the old internet figured out the basic rules of teh game decades ago. But trying to tell the social media crowds how these things work is like talking to a brick wall.