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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:

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I mean why are people entering this world by passing through a tiny hole?

Seems like a bunch of complications can occur...

Do... people before modern medicine just... die?

Oh yea they did... watched too many of those medieval stuff where women die during childbirth or something...

Oh btw both me and my older brother were C-Section, my mom told me this...

But like why are humans like this...

This sack of meat sucks...

Literaly you could randomly have a genetic disorder and you're disabled for life

WHAT THE FUCK?

Oh yea I have depression... I womder if this is genetic or if my toxic family did this to me...

Anyways, /endrant

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[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

It's a pros and cons thing. The pros in this case are our upright posture with narrower hips that let us cover long distances more efficiently than most of the rest of the animal kingdom. We can even do things like carry food to eat while walking, which something like an antelope would struggle with. Then a second pro is the whole big brain thing. These two factors did let us take over most of the planet over the course thousands of years, pretty quick work, really.

Then the cons are high mortality in birth, and taking something like 10 years after that risky birth to become even semi-functional at a practical level.