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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:

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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

No one can really know what GNU stands for unless they can perform an infinite recursion in constant time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

GNU isn't entirely infinite though. After unpacking GNU is Not Unix 10^45 times, you actually find out what the final G is for.

[–] BootLoop 7 points 2 days ago

I actually wrote a script to figure out what the last G stands for. The last G stsnds for "RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded". Pretty weird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

This is why it really should have been called "NNU", that would work perfectly.