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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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A fair proportion of the suffering in the world can be laid at the feet of binary thinking. (lemmy.world)
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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You just proved what I was saying though. The thought doesn’t have to be binary. You have a multitude of choices. But the moment you make an action, that is binary. You either do that specific action or not.

[–] hornface@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

You sound like someone I know who insists that the probability of anything happening is always 50/50, because "either it happens or it doesn't".