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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 61 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Or just use the existing terms. People will find issues with just abuut anything.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Leaving aside the problematic nature of the existing terms, the result was that people actually thought a little more about the relationships the things had and started using better/more precise terminology for the relationships: primary/secondary, active/hot/cold, parent/child, etc.

Net positive all round.

[–] Mellow12@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Woah there. You’re using about 25% more of your brain than the rest of the internet. We’re gonna need you to tone that reasonability down a bit.

I look forward to setting up my next polyamorous network connection. I can wait for the commands nmcli con choke me daddy ens1 thrupple0

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 2 months ago

Still easier than getting multicast working

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

This exactly. M/S ment nothing to me messing with HDDs as a kid.

It arguably only makes sense in a control node/ worker node context, but worker is obvious enough in that context.