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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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[–] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Except there are defacto central authorities governing certain pages.

Not only that there's a turf war going on for control of them.

Certain ahem religious organizations monitor a variety of pages and snipe any changes they disagree with. Businesses are doing it too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

And certain politicians

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Probably all of them... Just a guess though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I haven’t participated in wikipedia enough to see how these turf wars play out. I’ve heard that, unsurprisingly, there are groups that control pages, some opposed and some unopposed. It’s a really interesting thing to me.

I’m afraid of politics, generally speaking. But I bet it would be interesting to be a part of all that.