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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:
- 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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It could be worse.
You could have lived through the 80's and 90's when we were on the verge of global thermonuclear war, but at least the music was great. Imagine living through that and now having to deal with this shitty dystopia with even shittier music...
Even worse: AI generated slop
I lived through the 90s and there was a distinct lack of fear about nuclear war. It felt more like America doing a victory lap after the USSR fell.
It was very much something my generation feared. It permeated pop culture in the 70's and 80's
70s and 80s yes. Not so much the 90s. Those were the salad years. Glasnost, the end of the cold war, the Internet... Everything was looking so positive. Hell, even the music was happier (although that might be selection bias).
The 70s and 80s were terrifying by comparison.
Yeah, totally. But my first memory of the Cold War was watching my mom cry while people hit a wall with hammers on TV
Maybe I was just too young, but I never got the impression that a thermonuclear war was around the corner.