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.

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[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This is semi-related so spoilers for the Fallout show: this right here is the reason I stopped being invested in the plot of Fallout. When they revealed that Vault Tec dropped the bombs that created the post apocalyptic setting I was dumbfounded. I can accept silliness and characters being nonsensical sometimes, but in that moment every person in that room was proven to be outright stupid. They tried to say that it would let them “corner the market” in the aftermath, but how could they not see that they were destroying their own marketshare too?

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Have you looked at what the US corpos are doing? Shooting themselves in the foot for short term profits is extremely believable.

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[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, that crossed my mind, but I do think there’s a difference. US corporations shoot themselves in the foot to pursue short term profits because the people in charge believe they can get out of the business with that profit before those decisions come back to bite them.

In the show though, they’re doing the opposite. They’re giving up their short term profitable corporations for some nebulous future “market monopolization” in the long term, despite there no longer being a market for them to monopolize. I think that makes them even more stupid.

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

There is a tension that it is going to happen anyways some in the show, or at least anyways unless those corporations and the CCP come to equal terms (likely at loss of standard of living that they are both burning through the world to maintain).

Its also a bit of the "effective altruism" mind virus where at the scale of forever it's a wash to have most of the planet destroyed today so that they each can have a playground for the "cool" futures they imagine leading humanity down.

They are stupid, but it is also very based in real people.

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