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:
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.
edit: An example of mixed use:
edit 2: 00:00 a.m. is two formats fused together.
I use 36-hour format personally
Yes. Ambiguity is bad. Water is liquid and skies are high.
Is this ambiguity? You can easily know when either time system is used because of the AM/PM
Clearly the solution is to adopt decimal time and have 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute
The French actually tried this
Probably failed because you have to do math for numbers above 20.
Now I'm wondering whether corporations would use 6-hour shifts (2.5 dec) instead of 8-hour shifts (3.33... dec) when switching to decimal time.
Just always use the good format
Yes. Seconds into the day.
For example, this morning, I got up at 22,185 seconds.
i just woke up, too. the time was 1745067101
Uhh, with DST?
Nah. It’s no problem at all, we can handle nuances. If I need to be specific I use 24hr. If someone invites me over tomorrow for a cup of tea and I say I’ll be over 2ish they know what I mean. It’s all about context.
Like saying 2025-04-19 and 19-04-2025 and 04-19-2025 aren't compatible. Yep, agreed.
That's why I never specify what time im referring to
I find 12:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. incredibly confusing. It’s 11:59 a.m. and one minute later it’s suddenly 12:00 p.m. and you just keep counting until 12:59 p.m. before you reset the clock to 1:00 p.m. The literal meaning of p.m. (post meridiem) is after midday, which instinctively suggests that 12:00 p.m. is 12 hours after midday. If it would just start counting from 0:00 p.m. you wouldn’t have this problem. Of course it all makes sense if you’re used to it, but this is from my 24h perspective.
How do you use them together? It's either 4pm or 16.00. I can't use both together.
It's zero-three-hundred PM.
Zero three hundred am o’clock in the morning
Zero three hundred am o’clock in the morning daylight savings time PGT
That's just wrong though, regardless of mixing 12 and 24 hours. That'd be a.m. Is this a weird US thing? I've never heard anyone say anything close to your example.
I'm being absurd. Nobody would ever say that, because it's stupid.
the joke is 0300pm => 3pm = 15:00
You're taking miltary time but putting it on a 12 hour clock, so you have to specify am or pm
I'm for using epoch/Unix time. Date and time conveniently in one number