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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- 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
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For me, one of the primary benefits was the fact that I need to keep the floor in a tidy enough state to be able to effectively run the robot vacuum.
Day to day, there's not really any prep needed - just push the button as I leave the apartment, then empty the bin once I get home.
Newer models are even more sophisticated about this, being able to handle mopping without supervision, and emptying the bin into the base station post-clean, allowing for even less hands-on time during operation.
I've also ran my robot vacuum for close to 1000 hours at this point since I bought it, so there's significant time savings there
It makes you clean your apartment every day then.
It prevents me from letting the mess accumulate, really. If you count not putting crap on the floor and putting them back in their place/in trashcans as cleaning, then sure, I clean my apartment every day.