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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:
- 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
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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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Unpopular opinion is just posting things that plenty of people actually agree with. Like pineapple pizza. An actual unpopular opinion would be something like agreeing with restricting abortion or something difficult that elicits very strong feelings.
But do we really believe the posters think what they're posting is a popular opinion? Maybe they really think it's unpopular, because of their IRL experiences, or what they see online.
I think it's because people know what's unpopular, but the heavy stuff, they don't want to be associated with. So they choose milquetoast unpopular opinions, which aren't really unpopular as much as maybe a minority. Like, a majority of voters voted for Trump, but thinking Kamala would have been better isn't unpopular, it was just the minority opinion among people who got their fat assess out and voted.
Now, saying "only white, biologically born males should be allowed to vote" would be a truly unpopular opinion, but although there are absolutely more than zero people on Lemmy who believe this, no way in hell they're going to post that.
So people stay with "safe" unpopular opinions, like... "NYC is the ugliest city I've ever seen." Sure, you'll learn some new insults from the responses, but nobody's going to troll through your post history and throw it in your face in every argument, or follow you around and downvote everything you post because of it. Ok, maybe some New Yorkers will do the latter, but you know what I mean.
Consequently, because they're just minority and not truly unpopular, all of the people who agree come out of the woodwork, incensed that this entirely reasonable opinion would be posted a being "unpopular."
Thank you for coming to my Ted-L talk.
Actual unpopular opinions are not allowed on unpopular opinion
Similarly actual shitposts are banned in shitposting communities.
True. They probably get downvoted to oblivion.