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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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- 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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Everyone acting like these are the worst times ever, makes me wonder about their history education. Yeah, America's taken a steep dive this century. Yeah, that's normal for empires to fall. Usually to greed.
I'm hoping we crash hard, Great Depression hard. That clusterfuck ushered in liberal politics dominating until the 90s. We had conservatives, Reagan comes to mind, but they didn't have unchecked power like today.
Only exception I got is global warming. We've never played this particular game before.
False premise. I never said it was the worst time ever, or even that I was surprised.
This is just about the relativity of my morality and what society is willing to tolerate
(this to the above two smart comments as well - although I don’t fundamentally disagree)
I mean...
Anatomically modern humans have been around, what, 300k years?
Like you could grab someone from back then as an infant, raise them today, and they'd just be a regular dude.
The last ice age ended about 50k years ago, and that's why we say civilization was finally able to start. But that ignores that humans went thru the same ice age cycle 4-5 times in those 300k years.
If all it took was "no ice age" then logically the chances of the first civilization being 50k years ago is pretty much zero.
Climate change is like the inevitable reset for humanity. We're making it happen fast this time, but we can't really be sure that's unique either. It doesn't even take us, just a supervolcanoe or asteroid.
Bright side is it makes it more likely humanity as a species makes it thru the next one. I think evidence shows we've been down to like 1,000 humans world wide 70k years ago? Maybe as little as 50 adults of reproductive age?
But we're 8 something billion now.
We also never had nukes before.
The conditions have been worse in the past, but the risks are so much worse these days.