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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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The butterfly effects would add up and and any zygote formed would not be the hitler-as-we-know anymore, since it would be a different combination of sperm and eggs.

Who needs guns when you got a time machine? Don't like your highschool bully, just bump into their parents back in time. Or you know, "bump" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) into their parents.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Butterfly effect is as likely to make him more dangerous as it is to make him less

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

yeah. you, your parents, your grandparents, all your people, GONE. never happened. different versions of same still happen, possibly even happy and flourishing. love that for them. Also Hitler still happened, under a different name.

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[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Believe it or not... You've got Hitler Squared now 🤷‍♂️

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I read a short story... I don't remember the name of it... Anyway the guy goes back in time and kills Hitler, only to discover upon his return that everything was worse. So he went back and stopped himself.

[–] A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com 2 points 5 days ago

Possibly "Making History" by Stephen Fry - although at 380 pages it doesn't quite match as a short story, and the protagonist doesn't stop himself so much as do something else to reverse the effects of his actions to save Hitler.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

TIL Adolfs parents were cousins

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (14 children)

That's not how time works. If you go back in time and kill Hitler Hitler already happened in your timeline so he's going to happen again. You can't change things that already happened in your past.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Time is a one-way linear progression, you can't go back in the first place. Any fictional story where time travel happens necessarily has its own rules, and every one is equally valid

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I don't think that space time works like that.

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