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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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Significantly more likely if you live in the USA. Not so much in big parts of the rest of the world.
Yeah. I was thinking for the UK it’s highly unlikely a cop has killed someone here. We do follow America into war and I’ve got a few soldier friends who likely killed people, but our soldiers seem to talk about it less than American ones.
Same with America. Despite TV/Movie Copaganda, most cops go their entire careers without pulling their weapons, and certainly without firing it.
The most likely American citizen to have killed is a military member.
You have a whole lot more military than all other countries too making it more likely you meet a killer.
‘Being a cop isn't that dangerous’
smh, your soldiers don't want to write books about how terrible warmongering made them feel so they can get that movie deal?
wack
Not sure why you’re trying to say.
He's mocking the typical route of a soldier with a story: a memoir or fictionalized tale of what they did, with the hope the book sells enough to get them a chunk of money or a movie studio makes a movie of it.
Ah thanks. Now you explained it, it makes sense but before I couldn’t tell if he was having a go at the UK or not, to be clear people are justified to shit on my countries foreign policy.
American sniper vibes I guess.
“USian soldiers will invade your country, and then ten years later will write a book and make a movie about how traumatized they were by the war.”
The US isn't even in the top 50 countries for murders per capita.
https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/murder-rate-by-country
at the city-level some are comparable though
nashville/st.louis/new orleans last i bothered looking up the statistics
No one is talking about cities here.
well the united states are anything but, and crosses an entire continent. so many country-level statistics arent really comparable
Im going to block you because you're insisting on having a conversation with me that I am at this point stately not having.
Bye.
And the Untied States is the only country in the western world that still has executions
wrong, Europe still has executions because there are armed police killing drowning refugees in the Mediterranean or cops shooting Roma people
Yep, I've worked with a LOT of war veterans. (American sheet metal factory)