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.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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Here's how it should have gone:

  • People start to believe the Qanon BS, and likely was spread as a primer to shift the blame away from the "right wing" figures in the network.
  • Epstein's compromat on Bill Clinton leaks mysteriously.
  • Clinton gets jailed, then he either would have been forced to admit not only his actual crimes, but everything Epstein did, or gets mysteriously suicided in his cell.
  • Epstein leaves the "left", becomes a hard right conservative.

What likely happened is that the friendship between Trump and Epstein have broken down at one point, and then...

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Jonah, I know you were smoking The Weeds out behind the the pottery barn again with those fire lovers.
My friend with 8 million Eyes told me so!

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Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009) is really just the story of a sentient race of genocidal fanatically religious sexbots that want to make babies with their human johns.

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Thinking about how on poly market of setting up bets on nuclear war, or nuclear exchange. If you think it won't happen you bet no, but if you yes and win then most likely the venue will get destroyed and you won't get your payout or money you get will be worthless... Guess that adds another layer of betting. Assuming guarantee money would be worthless it would effectively mean losing.

Despite the inherent parley, seems like the person setting up the bet wanted to get the money of the people that bet on nuclear war happening

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He's 64

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Recently I was introduced to the Indian caste system. No thanks. That is a designation you cannot escape as you are born into such a label for life. A label/status influencing every aspect of your life, from start to finish and beyond.

Sounds like slavery.

But you can elevate your class in the western world. Where class is measured largely by liquidity or wealth more generally.

I've lived in a society organized by class my entire life. And have come to learn there are many paths out of poverty (the so-called "lower class") available to almost everyone.

Class systems are far from perfect. But if given a choice over being born into an upper caste family in India, or a lower class family in the western world, I'd go with Chicago over New Delhi any day.

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I was doing some math in my head. I've been thinking about housing prices and wanted to assess the rough value of my city neighborhood block.

Assuming the average value of a house in my neighborhood is a flat $500k, that means 2 houses = $1M.

Counting the houses on my street I estimated there are about 20 houses per-block, which means 1 block = 20 houses = $10M.

Continuing to scale that up by factors of 10, we get:

10 blocks = 200 houses = $100M

and

100 blocks = 2000 houses = $1B

I opened up a map to visualize 100 blocks and it's practically my entire city neighborhood. Billionaires shouldn't exist.

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Edit: I've read all of your comments. I see now that you're right and man that's depressing.

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