Showerthoughts
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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- 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
- Posts must be original/unique
- 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.
President Carter was the best and most decent president and human being the US has had in a long time and will probably ever have.
What's the basis for that argument, especially in refutation of his detractors?
Start by reading up and talking about the Carter Center. I've been donating to them for many years because they take a top down charity approach instead of just tossing money at a low level problem that never actually fixes the systemic reasons for which its a problem to begin with. The Cater Center takes an intelligent, high level look at how to ease human suffering and considers if its tangible to address from top down then DOES it. Take for example the Guinea Worm, a painful and sometimes disabling affliction that effected 3+ million people in 1985. In 2022 there was only 13 reported cases. It only took education and giving locals tools to project themselves from the larva. There are many examples of this that Carter through the Carter Center has left the world a substantially better place than he found it.
Rightwing religious extremists are basically a death cult that doesn't suicide...
Dying is "god bringing us home" and something they are usually happy about.
If you think the only thing standing between you and an eternity of a heavenly afterlife is your own death, a long life is a bad thing.
"only the good die young"
Yeah they'll find a way like that around any argument
At this point, Republicans are the biggest non believers on the planet. Everything they think or due is driven by hate. How is that consistent with Biblical teachings?
Global warming isn't in the bible therefore it doesn't exist (or maybe it is, even Christians don't read that shit)
Do you want him to croak this weekend? Because this Is how you tempt fate and he falls a breaks a hip.
Dude has been on hospice for like 10 months, it’s not like he’s thriving
A reminder that Kissinger is still alive. Not sure this argument holds up.
Hate ages you pretty fast
Curmudgeons have a way of outliving us all.
If God loved Trump as much as Republicans think he does Trump would be a beetle.
Nah they probably think since Jimmy Carter is a one term president that God keeps him around as a way to perpetually shame him.
Great, so we're stuck with Trump for potentially decades?
Long stints in jail are expensive.
He never gives you more than you can handle
As we all know, God shows his heavenly love by shortening the lives of your political opponents
You ever hear an evangelical talk about Katrina?