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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.

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My schools entire assignment system is out today.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

My wife and I are at Disneyland today, and their site is down. xD

Yep, I just love how one service provider goes down and way to much of the internet goes down with it.

[–] dumplingry@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

fr i cant believe clash royale is a part of that

[–] bochy992@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

I haven't been able to use Flickr for 10 hours. I'm so mad

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

EBSCO was down. Ask me how my dissertation writing progressed today...

[–] a_person@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How did your dissertation writing progress today?

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Half the articles I needed to read couldn't be accessed due to aws. I figured I would grade assignments in the mean time, up until I learned e-learning was down as well. Nothing came back up till about 3.

Thanks for asking. How was your day? Was it affected by the AWS outage?

[–] a_person@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

My school uses canvas for assignments, and it was down. It was pretty hectic for the teachers. Its amusing to me to see so many services down. Reminds me of the xkcd cloud. https://xkcd.com/908/

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

scums

Not a plural/countable word.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One scum. Two scums. Three scums. Four scums.

Seems countable to me.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Scummation or perhaps scumsock

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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

MS-365 next!

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