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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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- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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It's true.
I'm lucky to have a lot of friends via the roller derby community, but I'm a white man in a largely liberal and activist community, so my mantra whenever any controversial topic comes up is: "I don't feel it's my place to speak on that" or "I don't know enough to have an opinion on that". (Which in a lot of cases is probably true.)
Those friends end up being surface-level in a lot of ways because I love the sport and can't risk accidentally saying something that offends someone and risk losing my access to it, because if you say the wrong thing, malice is always assumed and there's simply no grace given for error.
that's exactly why i left my communities/hobby activities. I can't live my life that way. It's miserable being around miserable people who want to be offended by everything. like you want to play a board game, and there are only male/female pieces and the person goes on a rant about how awful and cruel and abusive you are for choosing that game because it's not 'gender inclusive'. it's a fucking game. it's not reality. it's supposed to be simple. just like the pieces only come in one color and not 1000s.
In a personal relationship it's called 'walking on eggshells' and it's a form of emotional abuse. I don't want to hang out with emotionally abusive people. The irrational insane abusive people should be shunned, not the people who are well-intentioned, but for some reason we've inverted this now and the insane abusive people get catered to as being far more valuable and special than the non abusive people.
It can be like that for sure. I accidentally called a trans skater 'she' three years ago, and they got over it and understood it was a mistake, but one of the refs in the league still won't talk to me. So petty and stupid how people can be.