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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Too bad it has to butcher the growing-up mental-health of millions of children, in order for it to be "profitable", isn't it?
/s
WHEN DarkTriad incorporated "persons" enforce a social-process on a population, THEN it isn't likely to be truly-beneficial to the population it's preying-on.
( the internet was originally not-for-profit, & that difference is fundamental to what it does now, vs what it did when it was academic )
& the rude fact that social-media PUSHES narcissism, on instagram, & ideology, in filter-bubbled platforms, helps divide-&-vanquish human-viability, on this world, too.
No matter: the next tippingpoint will be when Trump rips the rug out from the pseudo-democracy of the US of A, & then launches his All Americas Wars, for his "Great" empire, & if anybody thinks that the Great Firewall of China is remarkable, then just wait until Trump's equivalent is in-play..
< bitterness >
See past the symptoms: see the undertow that's about to drown humankind's life, through social-media's torque.
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