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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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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice try, but you're never going to convince me that it's not named after THE Lemmy:

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't worry! He is listed as an official reason.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Warms the cockles of my black, metallic heart 🤘❤️

[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh? Why, what is so special about Lemmings that---

Wikipedia: In popular culture, a longstanding myth holds that they exhibit herd mentality and jump off cliffs, committing mass suicide.

Huh.

[–] lechatron@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Disney killed a bunch of them to help perpetuate the myth.

and further that the same small group of lemmings was transported to the location, jostled on turntables, and repeatedly shoved off a cliff to imply mass suicide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ech@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Because Disney.

[–] emptyother@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

So its about big corpos spreading misinformation and trying to kill something small to earn more money. Lemmy (and the fediverse) wouldn't know anything about that, right?

[–] CascadianBeam@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought it was because Reddit is like “read it” and Lemmy is like “Lemmy show you this”. Lemmings is a great name though.

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I didn't really think much of it myself, but when I joined, for like two weeks, joining instances was a bit harder due to some being closed and others having sporadic downtime. So one very common joke was people saying "Lemmy In! LEMMY IN!"

Adorable little critters.

[–] teacosts@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Makes me think of the mass migration from Digg to Reddit, same for 9gag. I have a lot of hope for the Fediverse though.

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you saying that we are marching to our deaths? Is this a taunt?

[–] FiskFisk33@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I think it's implying disney is throwing us off a cliff

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-wilderness-lemming-suicide/

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