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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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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A lot less annoying then endlessly filtering content by community and user

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

And what we've learned about trump cultists is that echo chambers are fabulous.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Any system model that eventually encourages echo chamberism should not be in use, even if the intent is to change the system before echo chambers occur, by then it will be too entrenched to just change

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

So far I find it to be nonsense. Call the US a terrorist nation for couping democratically elected leader in favour of dictators for over a hundred years, get downvoted and banned by amerophiles. Call China or Russia terrorist nations for literal genocide, wars and international strongman bullying, get downvoted and banned by tankies.

Can't say retard because that's a slur but idiot is fine despite it meaning the absolutely same thing, also calling someone slow but in french is also fine.

People are so hardcore pro privacy would literally rather see child rapists go free and child porn platforms stay online, than to have to tolerate the police scan outgoing connections for a specific IP for three days.

Lemmy feels more and more like extremist echo chambers without any actual discourse or exchange.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No, your reasoning, understanding of a topic and way of talking is just dumb. Get rid if that paranoia of everyone bullying you. Don't go into threads of your political opposite and then be surprised to get flogged. Don't brush of everyone disagreeing with you as "they are all the same and equally bad". Stop ignoring authoritarian abusing power and wake up from you fantasy dream world where you believe this doesn't happen. Once you've given up some of your rights, it's really hard to get them back. No one is defending pedo platforms, it's about our lifes and knowledge that these surveillance tools will fuck up normal people. It just takes one stupid vote to get the fascists into power and a whole country can move into a dictatorship. If you fail to see this, your very naiv and need to study more history content.

You're not wrong in criticizing the US, people who look at them objectively should obviously see the many flaws. But as with guns , the US is very patriotic and it's difficult to argue against. But getting someone to realize and fix their own bias is another difficult topic.

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