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:
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.
This would stop the currently exponential pace of growth from outpacing what society, and regulation, can adapt to. Thus avoiding the inevitable crash that will happen when we lose control of the exponentially accelerating train of technology, and it flies off the rails.
the best explanation i've found is the hirtenstabmodell (not sure how to translate this to english, maybe "shepherd's staff model"?). i've never seen a single article about it published unfortunately so i can't link to it. it's all hearsay from close friends.
i'm not sure how to start explaining. it's a long and convoluted story. anyways it ends up saying that yes, infinite exponential growth cannot be sustainable, but within certain chapters of human history it is still the way to go. a whole lot of technology got developed since 1970. basically all of IT, but also international relations (globalism, and end to the cold war, relations to china, etc.)