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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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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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    • 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
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

What if they're tight-knit, or the fabric of the community? We all have a common thread.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's really stupid, so prepare yourself for disappointment... Consider a circle, and then identify it's fringe. Any point on the circle is on it's fringe. Same thing holds if all your friends joined hand-in-hand to make a circle. Every one of them is a fringe element of the circle, because that's what a circle is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

tl;dr focus on the locus

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's an inside part of a circle, too.

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

If we had a seperate word to mean an unfilled/hollow circle I would jave used it, but alas... oh, wait a minute... a ring... dang it! Still not sure how I feel about the implication of friend-wedges, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Mathematically, a circle is the outer line of a disk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

With a circle you actually get the lowest possible ratio of friend-fringe to total friend-area, when compared to alternative 2-D friendship n-gons.