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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 most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. 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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. 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.

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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for this. I have been trying to offline Wikipedia for months but the torrent links on the kiwix site are broken or something. They stall out for me in the first 10m everytime. The download from your link is working perfectly.

[–] strict0768@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not going to be much use to you if you don't have a parser, though there are html dumps somewhere iirc.

[–] StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kiwix will parse the en_all .zim file just fine... I've got and tested it at this point, the issue I was having is that I couldn't get Kiwix's own link to successfully download the file.

[–] strict0768@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ah, I was just thinking of the sql and xml dumps

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