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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:

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[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So have the millennials who were breast fed.

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Mmmm, tasty math.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

The worst part: postpartum women have lower levels of microplastics than other adults.

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

So you’re saying the baby took some of the plastic out of them, that’s horribly depressing at least they got 10 to 15 point IQ boost in return

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Might be that. Although your body goes into absolute overdrive during pregnancy, and it's not beyond the realms of possibility that some of the immune system reactions that kick in manage to eject some level of plastic microparticulates

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Seems Like something people should be definitely looking into to find out why, with the state of science in America It’s probably not going to be here

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

Most likely its the same reason blood donation lowers microplastic levels in blood. Production of new cells that aren't tainted with it. A woman's blood volume increases by 40% during pregnancy. Of course ill freely admit thats just a hypothesis and you're probably right, there would be benefit into studying it.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago

I've thought more about it. I bet there's fucking loads in the placenta.

[–] Headofthebored@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I was reading somewhere you can lower the level of PFAS in your blood by donating it.