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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. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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Everything that makes advertisers happy is to the detriment of humanity as a whole. Everything that makes advertisers' jobs easier also makes it easier for authoritarian governments. "Innovation" is no longer about creating new things, it's about taking what already works, breaking it, shoving ads on it and charging a ransom in the form of a premium subscription.

On the other hand, there are endless ad-skipping tools, pages and sites where the main attraction is the lack of ads without a subscription. More and more people are talking about how intrusive and annoying ads are, even those who make their living from them. As the efforts of big tech to please advertisers grow, so do the efforts of ordinary people to screw them.

Very Cyberpunk.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

What Bill Hicks said

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Advertising is the reason why privacy is nonexistent now... it is kinda incredible just how much information they gather.

In centuries past when people were writing constitutions and what rights people have they had privacy and warrants and spying and all that shit done based on what evil governments can do to their citizens. I don't think a single one of them ever realized just how fucking massive corporations would be and how much shit they steal from us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is this a self affirmation or are there other people in your shower?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

There could be thousands of people in that shower if they were pondering in the rain!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would also like to know who else is in their shower.

[–] ICastFist 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is I, I am in OP's shower!

[–] bitcrafter 2 points 1 week ago

No, the person in OP's shower is me!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The wildest part is that advertising has become so poisonous that now over 50% of a Americans use adblockers and over 1/3 of people world wide. It's not just techies installing adblockers for their grandmas, it's become mass market!

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