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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Lemmy is like a public library of the internet: it's one of the few places where you can exist without the expectation of paying either through watching ads or through direct payments (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

It's like a public library that lets you borrow and read books from other cities' libraries!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yes, we have interlibrary loan.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Instant interlibrary loan!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization

-Jo Walton, Among Others

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure most libraries also have that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

That's called interlibrary loan and it predates the internet by a long time.

1876 officially. Unofficially, centuries before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlibrary_loan

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

But it doesn't have lots of useful stuff that makes people want to come here :(