I’m doing well. I have a good life. But holy shit, I’m so tired. The world is so terrible and I’m just fed up. I wish I could just check out and take a break, but it keeps going. Cheers.

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    This post is certainly outside of the norm of shower thoughts. I think in general people want posts that score a little higher on the scale of funny and interesting. Taking the sidebar strictly:

    • Does this thought pop into people’s heads? yeah, probably
    • Is it lighthearted? Not really, but its friendly.
    • Is it clever? No
    • Is it true? Yes
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    Take a week. Avoid any social media, news, etc. as much as you possibly can. Try to get out in nature by going for short walks and just focus on doing things you enjoy (or try something new). Yes, the world keeps going - but you need to recharge your batteries, my friend. Take. A. Break.

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    A couple of years back I fell asleep at like 8 PM and slept through to 6:30 AM. Then I fell back asleep around 8 or 9 and slept until noon. When I woke up I didn’t feel tired at all. This had been the first time I felt like that in I don’t know how long

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      I slept nearly 12 hours last night, woke up, had a panic attack, then took a nap for four hours.

      Woke up, put on The Elephant Graveyard Radio Hour, danced and cleaned my house happy.

      It’s also been a long time since a nap like that worked so well. Sometimes ya just need to sleep.

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    We’re all scared, it’s the human condition. Why do you thinks I put on this tough guy facade? Now, beat it!

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    He hears the silence howling

    Catches angels as they fall

    And the all-time winner

    Has got him by the balls

    Oh, he picks up Gideon’s Bible

    Open at page one

    I said, God, he stole the handle and,

    The train it won’t stop goin’

    No way to slow down

    No way to slow down

    No way to slow down

    Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath

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      You’re right! We should lock down every community to very strict rules in order to sanitize it and know exactly what we’re getting! I want to come here for variations on “if bread bowl for soup, why not cabbage bowl for salad?” And an echo chamber with no new ideas instead of one-off non-repeat-offenders dropping the occasional off topic rule bending whatevers. Maybe we should rename this place too. Maybe read-it or something.

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        On the other hand, let’s fill Technology with talk about bicycle repair and dishwasher purchases because they are technology and Food with motivational quotes from LinkedIn because they are food for thoughts and Movies with discussions about American politics because 👏🏻 everything 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 political ✊🏻 and then we can fill everything else with compilations of America’s Funniest Home Videos and barely related bot generated AI slop because what kind of nazi fascist conformist rights do mods have to try to keep some order and its not a phase and you’re not my real dad anyway.

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          I hear you. I do. I was taking a comically hard opposing stance to that comment but I’m really advocating for a little more tolerance for one-off posts. People who really gatekeep turn people off from posting (and we kind of suffer from a deficit of posts here on lemmy).

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            I don’t know why you all are so afraid to rectify a mistake. Everybody makes mistakes. It’s natural. It’s also good to do something about it and learn from the experience.

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      How does it break rule 1? Are you watching OP and reading their mind to know for sure they didn’t think of this while in the shower?

      Also this community is actively asking for more mods. They’re saying they’re not active enough to do it all.

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        A shower thought is not just any thought in a shower or a thought about showers. It’s something slightly random and absurd and most often humorous to some degree. Quite often an observation of some sort. Something that typically happens when you zone out while having a shower.

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        Check the community description, it has a decent definition of “showerthought”. With examples for clarity.

        Also this community is actively asking for more mods.

        So that explains it.

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        If we do things as you seem to want, then there’s no point even having separate communities. Let’s just have one big bin and every day we can throw 10,000 conversation into it like junk.

        The rules are there for a reason.

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            But that’s the point. I don’t want to have to go there to have a good experience. I want to have it here.

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              The world’s a tough place, Karen. If you want to redefine what a shower thought is, you’re free to create your own community. I see nothing in this post that contravenes “thoughts that pop into your head while you’re doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming”, and while I see you screeching that rule 2 is broken, consider that the title is, in fact, a complete thought. The text can be seen as followup or self-examination - do you need an explanation of what that is?

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          The rules are there so people don’t wander into a science community and proselytise their religion, harassing the people with comments that God created the universe and dinosaurs are false. Not so someone doesn’t post in shower thoughts with a thought that very likely actually did occur while showering.