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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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[–] [email protected] 180 points 11 months ago (7 children)

We live in a corporate hellhole so you’ll get a screen just big enough to play obnoxious ads instead.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey, the thoughts I have while I'm showering do not account for the dystopic problems that'll likely prevent their implementation. My shower is a happy place.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry to take a pee in your shower, that was rude of me

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

You're only allowed to pee in the shower while you're in the shower. Common courtesy says you need to sneak into the shower behind OP first.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

PSA: At every Exxon Mobil I've been to, when the screen on the pump starts vomiting up ads as you're pumping your gas, if you tap the 2nd button from the top on the right side of the screen, it mutes it.

Enjoy your peaceful gas station visit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

I bought an EV two months ago because I didn't know this one trick

[–] Croquette 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is already done on gaz pumps here. It's fucking terrible how everything is trying to sell you more shit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The lower right buttons on those screens usually mute if they have audio. In case anyone didn't know that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

There are some around here where you can hit all 8 buttons or whatever is there, and NOTHING will mute! Then I just hide back in my car and hide from the hell that is advertising. Most of the time they will mute. What an awful idea to push on people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is there a button to turn the screen off?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yes, it is behind the screen and you have to activate it with a hammer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

One up from the lower right where I live

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

the screen will be large. Mostly because it was a good idea by some well-meaning soul. The problem is there was a soulless corpo bureaucrat that inserted themselves into the implementation process.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Maria Menounos has become a little demon inside my skull making me think about her every time I think about deisel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

BTW, you can hit one of the buttons to mute the audio.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Only on some of them. Some service stations have disabled this mute function.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

And some, I've noticed, actually started labeling the mute button. I couldn't believe it!

(Its usually the third button down, on the right, labeled or not.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

assuming the charger works.. which I've heard a certain charger company seems to have trouble keeping their shit functional.