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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- 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
- Posts must be original/unique
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My friends and I would be glued to the N64 or xbox instead
"Nobody looked at their phones during a party in 1999"
Holds up picture of a LAN Party
All the shirtless people, it must've been hot in there, all those computers and CRTs dumping out heat.
Oh God, I can smell it.
God I hope that's AI generated. The sheer load on those wires... maybe 20 machines could work off a 100A wire, but every other row there would need its own circuit and fuse.
Brownouts must have been plentiful and devastating
AI generated? That's quakecon! I was there! We ran lots of wires. We had to bring in 2 18 wheeler sized generators plus the hotel's power. We really only had brownouts at QC 2000, I think it was. It's was just solving for numbers once we knew the metrics to hit.
Well, that and money, but id always stepped up.