this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
857 points (100.0% liked)

Showerthoughts

34785 readers
491 users here now

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.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 246 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Are you dating a spreadsheet?

[–] [email protected] 131 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gotta remain positive and see the glass half full, or January 2nd depending on the cell format.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

She's so perfect. Literally not a single flaw. She's a 1.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Excel would say Oct. 10

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

He’s got all access to that one

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

If your mind goes to "spreadsheet" instead of "calendar," that says more about your... proclivities... than it does his!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's really more of a DataFrame I've mismanaged. Which might be why I'm struggling to handle my relationships.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it’s time to upgrade to a relational database.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think I'm ready for that. In fact, I think I'm just going back to individual delimited text files to store every record separately using a custom encoding I made up.

I'll add arbitrary folders to split them up based on inconsistent logic and never make backups.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 151 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Now that's quality showerthinking

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

This is what it's all about right here.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 9 months ago

First post here that kind of fucked me up for a moment.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 9 months ago

this hit me like a mental flashbang. your wisdom is beyond all of us

[–] [email protected] 71 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, and if we're playing my connect 4 rules, you can also aim for a Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday diagonal.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (6 children)

You can also go 3D. January 8, February 5, March 4, April 8 would be 4 in a stack.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

thank goodness i can see time in 3d now. this wont end badly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seeing time in 3D, mayhaps like a Time Cube?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

What if we add a 4th dimension with years?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure. That would be 4 days in a… well stack is already taken, so what do we call that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe a box, or a jumbo stack

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That’s the third dimension of time. You playing 6D chess over here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

If you include multiple years, you can add one more dimension.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

If you see someone on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, that counts as only three days in a row, since Monday is on another row. If you see somebody on four consecutive Tuesdays, that would be four days in a column.

Like this

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What if the Mondays span different months?

Like 8/19, 8/26, 9/2, 9/9?

Now the Mondays are on another page or they're a swipe to the right

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

You got me there!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago

This what a calendar does to a mf

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Are you perchance Bobby Tables?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I see where this question is leading, and I don't think I like the implications

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

... Where is it leading?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Get your ducks in a column.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

No, it's boating related. Four days in a sail.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

I'm going to make the executive choice of saying that yes. Yes it does mean that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

I absolutely love this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Life is row-order; suck it, FORTRAN

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So whats first day of the year 4 years in a row?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

In a three dimensional calendar that could work, 4 days deep ?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is no human entity, just human Cubics - as in 4 different people in a 4 corner stage metamorphic rotation.

4 corner quadrants compose Earth sphere, as 4corner room with 4corner dimensions, with 4corner perspectives and the 4seasons. Earth's 4corners rotate 4corners of TIME, creating 4simultaneous day Earth rotation, as if 4 different Worlds with their own day, for 4separate races with 4corner life stages, with outer limits of 4x4 great-grandparents.

(sorry, I couldn't resist!)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Evil Ass Educators Suppress Time Cube, and dumb ass students condone such evil. Cubeless institutions are spreaders of evil, and students lack mentality to challenge it.


I bestow upon myself the "Doctorate of Cubicism", for educators are ignorant of Nature's Harmonic Time Cube Principle and cannot bestow the prestigious honor of wisdom upon the wisest human ever.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'd say so.

Although I still think it's weird that "consecutive" became a requirement.

Edit: Not implying blame for OP about the requirement. But colloquially it does mean consecutive, and I think that's a little strange. Probably a weird etymology rabbit hole to look at sometime.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago
load more comments
view more: next ›