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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:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. 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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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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[–] Onfire@lemmy.world 180 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Wiki was getting popular when I was in college over 10 years ago. I recall a history professor telling me not to use Wikipedia as source. I am like, okay, I will just use the source wiki uses, which are pretty solid in my opinion. Wiki came a long way.

[–] Neve8028@lemm.ee 96 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it's important to remember that wikipedia, itself, isn't a source, it's a summary of different sources. It's a great resource to find sources and get an overview of a topic, though.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As long as you verify the source still exists. There are so many dead links on Wikipedia.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 years ago

Archive.org bots replace dead links with working alternatives a lot nowadays. All the more reason to support that modern museum

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please dig a little bit deeper. You may end up with a stack of links to 404 sites instead of actual sources. Just because you copied a citation from WP doesn’t mean the source actually exists, let alone contains the information you seek.

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago

In that case, try using an archived version of the webpage, for example at the Wayback Machine

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And it'll get even better. That being said, it's worth checking out the Talk pages on the articles you want to use, as they may contain information about what is (and isn't) displayed.

I started passively editing it and I've been incredibly impressed.