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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.

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If humanity suddenly vanished and all that would be left of our existence is all the videos ever filmed. How much of that would be porn? What would other civilizations think of us? Fucking perverts, aren't we?

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

If we compare humanity to other species on earth, the year-round horniness without any specific mating seasons is fairly uncommon. There's not really a good reason to assume that a sentient alien species works the same way.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe my aspirational alien sex party is an unintentional horror show where they want to have sex with us via cellular absorption and DNA fusion followed by a binary fision phase resulting in hybridization of both partners then cloning of the hybrids into an unknown number of offspring.

New kink unlocked. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, read some Octavia Butler then! Brilliant and, well, kinda what you just said. The Xenogenesis series.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You love to see an Octavia Butler reference

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

True. There is amazing diversity with and amongst species.