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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They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 11 months ago by Daft_ish to c/showerthoughts

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[–] soumerd_retardataire -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks, trusting wikipedia because it has a "source"(, as if a source meant the truth 🙄,) is super weird, and i'll also add that a lot of sources are inaccessible anyway, such as those pointing to books. Wikipedia will hopefully(, in part because it's always a mistake to pretend knowing "the one truth",) be replaced one day, it's long overdue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The inaccessibility of many wiki sources is a very good point, thanks.

I think Wikipedia serves its purpose as a broad strokes indicator of things that are likely significant in some way, but its limitations are as important as its content.