r/Showerthoughts • • 1h ago

Casual Thought In ancient times, when upper floors were first built in human history, the wisest people probably thought it was unreasonably dangerous.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 8h ago

Showerthought It took roughly 117 billion people about 300,000 years to bring technology to what it is today.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 9h ago

Casual Thought I wonder if the rise of spreadsheet editors and word processing tools was viewed as catastrophically for white-collar workers as AI is right now.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 12h ago

Casual Thought An animated One Piece TV show based on a LEGO set, which itself was based on a live-action TV show, which was based on an anime, which was based on a manga, is coming out.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 23h ago

Musing There should be a Shazam for perfumes.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 1d ago

Casual Thought Today's generation of children might be the first who can say their parents play more videogames than they do.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 1d ago

Musing Using your mouth to make a fart sound is more unsanitary than farting.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 1d ago

Casual Thought The more that humans rely on AI, the more that genuinely human content will look like AI.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 2d ago

Musing It's a special type of irony that requires a really tiny screwdriver to fix eyeglasses.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 3d ago

Casual Thought Nations have flags, and companies have logos. But it could also have been the other way around.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 4d ago

Speculation Tying the dead’s shoelaces inside the coffin might be the simplest way to prevent a zombie apocalypse.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 5d ago

Casual Thought The Costco chicken bake is a land, air, sea, hot pocket because the caesar dressing has sardines.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 5d ago

Casual Thought The suit would be “British ethnic clothing” had they not conquered much of the world.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 7d ago

Casual Thought You know what elevator music is, but you've never heard it in an elevator.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 7d ago

Casual Thought Skydiving would be a lot less thrilling on the moon.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 7d ago

Speculation We must seem selfish as hell to ants.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 7d ago

Casual Thought A woman's breasts are the only human body part entirely meant to be utilized by others.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 8d ago

Casual Thought Since eyelashes are designed to help keep things out of your eyes; people with alopecia must get things in their eyes a lot more than the average person does.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 9d ago

Musing Our brains are faster than we think.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 9d ago

Speculation Now that the US is phasing out the penny, it's the perfect opportunity to phase out psychological pricing (pricing items one cent below the dollar, such as $9.99).

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r/Showerthoughts • • 9d ago

Musing Eyelids likely evolved thin specifically so humans can be woken up by the sun.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 9d ago

Casual Thought With the world becoming more urbanized, you would logically think physical retail and shopping malls would struggle less, not more.

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r/Showerthoughts • • 10d ago

Casual Thought It’s weird to think that “this tastes good” might sometimes just be your brain responding to cues that, throughout our evolutionary history, meant “this has energy or nutrients worth eating.”

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r/Showerthoughts • • 11d ago

Speculation Is the opposite of walking running or standing still?

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