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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.

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Most food animals are smarter than a baby. (lemmy.today)
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Easily demonstrated by many measures: Basics: they poop and don't need anyone to clean them. They don't scream when a predator is around because they understand what can happen. They run from predators.

Simple: they can walk and run and find food for themselves at some point to become self sufficient.

Complex: they know who momma is and live in social groups for the most part. They communicate with each other.

Human babies never do any of this, and that has all sorts of ramifications that can be interpreted as funny, sad, or even cruel.

  1. we never eat babies...ha ha ha! Just pulling your leg. We don't.

  2. we never jail babies...ha ha ha! Oh shoot.

Don't go imagining things, it could hurt. Just think about these things while eating your delicious hamburger. Your burger meat was once smarter than a baby and had as much feelings as a baby does and more including memories. And they were jailed their entire life and were brutally murdered and pushed thru a grinder until they were just pieces of meat.

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It might not really be in the spirit of the post, but it's because of the brain. They take a lot of power to fuel, so to keep that big brain running, we have to skimp on things like mobility. Babies can be pretty dumb, but, they've been learning a LOT. They just can't tell you about it yet, but they will soon, because unlike the pig, they are listening and they are learning.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah, they are comparing food animals at their best against humans at their worst.

That's kind of like saying I can do math better than Einstein can because Einstein is dead.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 2 points 3 days ago

I can't remember the details but I remember reading something about this. In the evolutionary sense there's a trade off for our big sophisticated brains. We're not born fully developed, we need another year or so just to build out the wiring and muscles necessary to walk even.