Starting to look a lot like Reddit in here...
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
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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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- 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
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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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I did that. The top comment was a troll and the thread was feeding the troll and people were reporting each other. Here is the modlog for the top comment.
Removed Comment: Since this is lemmy nobody can disagree with this opinion or post stats that discredit it without a ban.
reason: This is trolling. You are welcome to make claims and cite sources. This thread did neither of those. It was just bickering. Here is an example of claims with sources https://lemmy.world/comment/19389340
Lemmy mods have always been just as quick to ban and remove as reddit mods, if not faster. Although I feel like it varies more widely because of all the different instances.
I was part of that, an edgy user tried to say that you can't ban speech because no speech is harmful
I told him, "degenerates like you belong in camps," to show how speech is indeed harmful
They got buttmad and clutched pearls instead of taking a step back and self reflecting, this is all I have left from the exchange:
Seems like the mods nuked the whole thing because they're lazy.
Your comment was in a different thread. I did remove your comment. I didn't nuke that thread.
I think, in the literal sense you are correct, it is a legal form of violence. But what are you proposing? Saying you hate trans people, you don't respect them (I've never heard conservatives actually call them "subhuman" but it probably does happen) etc. is reprehensible but it's not illegal, and preventing people from saying mean things to one another is a pretty extreme form of censorship. If I make fun of someone and they later commit suicide should I be charged with a crime?
Unfortunately, America does not have any hate speech laws. You can legally do openly nazi marches in the street
Yes, this is their intention. You know that right? They want to unalive them without going to jail. So the plan is to get them to do it to themselves.
Murder. Kill. Execute. Compel or coerce to take one's own life. Use the actual words and terms for it, and not the weird censorship circumvention language.
A hate crime that apparently carries 0 consequences across the globe. We live in a fucked up world
Yes.
People that support the likes of Charlie Kirk ask for evidence or examples, pure denial.
They always ask for rules for you but not for them.
Fascists and their enablers often ask in bad faith. They hyperfocus on vulnerable minorities, to distract from their own group being ontologically evil.
If I had the money I would hire all those who got fired.