Some of the posts in this community are just crazy out of whack.

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
    482·
    5 months ago

    anecdote: during the pandemic every day seemed the same. i sometimes forgot ro shower for a few days. so i put a water sensor in my shower. when i shower, it starts a macrodroid automation that records the date. another macro plans and reminds me when it’s shower time.

      • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
        741·
        5 months ago

        Yes, I, too, feel very real emotions like a desire to run water over my human skin. I definitely do not require microcontrollers to instruct me on when it is time to do so! Just like all completely normal humans. Of which I am one.

      • Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        121·
        5 months ago

        Not always, I’ll often forget to shower until I look in the mirror and realize my hair needs to be washed. Peak pandemic I’d sometimes go a few weeks without showering until I could smell myself. Just not something that’s on my mind most of the time.

      • Tetsuo
        51·
        5 months ago

        We have a great macrocontroller, a brain.

        Maybe not as reliable but definitely easier to program.

        • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          5 months ago

          Except those times where it just stops writing to log files. Sometimes I’ll be in the shower zoned out and find myself on the last step of my routine without remembering completing any of the steps.

      • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        Nah, they didn’t say anything about implementing voice activation by the command “engage”.

      • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        5 months ago

        nah, i just couldn’t remember because all days were so similar. i was like “did i shower yet or was that yesterday” almost went mad ngl

  • xep@fedia.io
    171·
    5 months ago

    I don’t know how I’m going to recover from this burn…

  • UnpluggedFridge@lemmy.world
    14·
    5 months ago

    My shower thoughts are always repeating cycles of “fuuuuuuuck this feels niiiiiiiiice” and “time to turn up the heat a smidge.” Am I doing it wrong?

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      my shower thoughts are always “God damnit get this shit over with, I want to get out of this fucking water coffin already… I wonder what would happen if you cooked rice in milk? GOD DAMNIT WHY CANT WE HAVE STAR TREK SONIC SHOWERS YET”

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      1·
      5 months ago

      Uggggh I’m jealous. The city is working on the civic plumbing for months and basically the work their doing means my on-demand hot water heater barely goes up to “tepid.”

      Don’t get me wrong, I’m thankful for the infrastructure work.

      Maybe I’ll go shower at the gym or a friend’s lol

    • Alenalda@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      I’m in the situation where it’s hot as fuck out (I don’t run the ac) so it’s become the opposite game, how low can I get the temperature.

    • shastaxc@lemm.ee
      3·
      5 months ago

      Sir, this is a Wendy’s. You’re not allowed to shower around here. You have to go home to do that.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    I don’t ever have philosophical thoughts in the shower. I just think ordinary things that people usually think of outside the shower. And I shower once a week, so… yeah idk what a “shower thought” is. But I just come here for the philosophy goodness.

    • Katrisia@lemm.ee
      4·
      5 months ago

      Similarly, people interested in philosophy (and other theoretical stuff) might take a break and think of different things like “but how’s the soap made, anyway?”.

      • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        I’m not one of those people, but it’s interesting how that specifically happens in the shower and not anywhere else.

        • noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de
          2·
          5 months ago

          It’s usually a place where you’re not bombarding your brain with stimulation all the time, so your brain tries to use the downtime to work with all the information you’ve been putting into it.

          This is actually a big part of learning anything, called diffused learning. Think of how you suddenly get something after a period of rest or not doing anything, some time after you’ve initially focused on a thing for some time - your brain has actually been using the downtime to structure the data and make better sense of it.

          This is also why a lot of people that know how a human brain works suggest mediation and walks, especially without listening to music or podcasts, as well as spending little to no time reading, watching or stimulating your brain in any other way before bed. It needs that time, it’s crucial for development. Journaling helps here, too, because it’s both reflection and somewhat of a downtime.

          Doing chores and not listening to anything counts, too.

          But it’s all easier said than done in this age of constant hunt for one’s attention so they spend more time on your app, giving you more data to sell and more metrics to make the line go up (gotta keep the investors and stakeholders happy, can’t afford to not show constant growth).