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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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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 55 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What if it includes the entire universe and the chances of being a human, on Earth, are just super incredibly slim?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

All these memes about wanting to die: You could have been a chunk of ice orbiting Saturn, but you lucked into the single greatest thing the universe has to offer, sentient life.

[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How do we know sentience is the greatest? It could be peaceful just orbiting.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You wouldn't know you're alive though or even exist. You would just be.

[–] justsquigglez@leminal.space 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Sounds like heaven to me, most of my troubles come from knowing what my situation is and how powerless I am.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Well now hold on.....sometimes NOT knowing how bad you're fucked is even worse!

For example.....

tackles Squigglez to the ground, handcuffs them to the wall, and puts a hood over their face

See? Now you're fucked, but the hood over your face makes it so you can't see what I'm preparing, or how fucked you are!

Maybe I'm about to give you a ham dinner, or mabe I'm going to steal your kidneys. Who's to say?

chainsaw revving

Now hold still......this is only going to hurt a lot.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -2 points 4 days ago

Death is the option here. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Well these days, I’d rather be ice around Saturn. The view must be amazing

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Even if it's just Earth, if we assume there is a degree of randomness in species assignment then you've got decent odds of reincarnating as an ant:

We conservatively estimate total abundance of ground-dwelling ants at over 3 × 10^15^ and estimate the number of all ants on Earth to be almost 20 × 10^15^ individuals. 1

And of course, massively high odds of being a bacteria. There are probably ~40 trillion bacteria living just in your body right now:

They estimate that the range of bacterial cells goes from about 30 to 50 trillion in each individual. 2

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Now add the ocean. Yeah, we all spend billions of years coming back as bacteria