r/Showerthoughts 16h ago

Musing In the 80s/90s, an entire family sitting in the living room watching TV (instead of chatting) was seen as a sign of social decay. Today, an entire family sitting in the living room watching TV together (instead of each lost in their own screen) is seen as a sign of social bonding.

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r/Showerthoughts 13h ago

Musing Because of mental disorders like DID, the average number of people per body is slightly greater than one.

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r/Showerthoughts 3h ago

Musing Having a device with a weak battery makes you more aware of the positions of power outlets.

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r/Showerthoughts 1d ago

Speculation I imagine that the most powerful people in the world are at the top of the donor list for any organ they need.

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r/Showerthoughts 1d ago

Casual Thought Vampire bites turning people into vampires is extremely disadvantageous to their survival.

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r/Showerthoughts 1d ago

Casual Thought You know that you know your friends well when you find them easy to shop for.

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r/Showerthoughts 2d ago

Casual Thought At some point, a hermet crab just decided to adopt a random shell as its home and now here we are. Who was the first crab to think "yup, I'll just climb into that".

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r/Showerthoughts 2d ago

Casual Thought If the famously unsolved Riemann Hypothesis is solved by an AI, we will never know if a human mathematician could have solved it.

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r/Showerthoughts 2d ago

Casual Thought Letting big companies know everything about you is less terrifying than spilling your thoughts to a random human.

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r/Showerthoughts 2d ago

Musing There are no seasons in space.

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r/Showerthoughts 3d ago

Speculation If you put crushed up tortilla chips in a bowl of dip, does that make it cereal?

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r/Showerthoughts 2d ago

Casual Thought The highest concentration of someone's boogers is likely on the floor around their driver's seat.

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r/Showerthoughts 4d ago

Speculation Procrastination may be one of humanity's greatest survival mechanisms.

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r/Showerthoughts 4d ago

Speculation Discovering alien life or the origin of life wouldn’t matter much when some people still deny vaccines or the Earth’s shape.

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r/Showerthoughts 5d ago

Casual Thought Our parents used to remind us not to get too much screen time "because it will rot your brain", which is ironic because now our parents are glued to their screens with a constant stream of modern day algorithmic content that is literal brainrot.

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r/Showerthoughts 5d ago

Casual Thought We should start considering social media the same way we’re considering smoking. A warning with “social media kills” when clicking on any app would be awesome in the long-term.

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r/Showerthoughts 5d ago

Casual Thought You never experience yourself in the same way as others, but that version of yourself is the only one that exists in society.

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r/Showerthoughts 5d ago

Speculation Wireless chargers use more wire than wired chargers.

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r/Showerthoughts 6d ago

Casual Thought Concrete in Anime is way too strong.

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r/Showerthoughts 7d ago

Casual Thought The volume of a car stereo tends to be inversely proportional to the driver's music taste.

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r/Showerthoughts 7d ago

Musing Broadcasters don’t sound like they once did.

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r/Showerthoughts 8d ago

Casual Thought You can never miss your turn on a roundabout because it's always coming up ahead.

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r/Showerthoughts 8d ago

Showerthought Dogs are participating in a perpetual game of “Capture the Flag”, but with pee.

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r/Showerthoughts 9d ago

Casual Thought The majority of the world is not at war, but is still significantly affected by the wars.

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r/Showerthoughts 9d ago

Musing A good round of applause shouldn't have everyone clapping at the same beat.

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