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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.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There are degrees of sickness, right?

Absolutely, 1000%. And the example you gave, 1000% with you on the possibility of rehabilitation there. Frankly, I think that 99.9999% of people can be rehabilitated in finite time. The other 0.0001% are literally the billionaires and their cronies. (And I believe that this is numerically in the ballpark, since the billionaires number about 3000 and there are about 8.2 billion humans on this planet, and the figure I gave is an overestimate to include their non-billionaire cronies [e.g., Jeffrey Epstein; I believe that he was, numerically, strictly not a billionaire when he died].)

On the other end, people in the Epstein files might need to be hospitalized for more than a single human lifetime.

Yeah that's really who I'm talking about when I have my doubts about rehabilitation for a very small subset of people, and I believe that worldwide communism would make this subset asymptotically vanish ("asymptotically" to account for the presence of serial killers).