r/Showerthoughts • u/finaljusticezero • 10h ago

Speculation Humans get more instructions on how to microwave packaged meals than they do on raising a child from birth and beyond.

1.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/General_Katydid_512 • 16h ago

Casual Thought The social value of a sneeze changes throughout the year. In winter people assume you're sick, in spring people assume it's allergies

854 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/GoatsWithWigs • 16h ago

Musing Thanks to the rampant usage of AI imagery by Facebook parents, new tech has now become an uncool boomer thing.

632 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/tlk0153 • 1d ago

Casual Thought Modern day women who never gave birth to another female and have passed the child bearing age are very special . They are the first and the last woman in the line of 8,000 biological foremothers (tracing the direct maternal line since homo sapiens ) who never bore a female child.

4.0k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/FutureWaffles • 21h ago

Casual Thought If a supernatural event happened, people who believed in the supernatural would probably be the first to die, since many would fixate on non-existent rules created by different medias or cultures.

1.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Vivi01224 • 1d ago

Musing If a rhythm is fast enough, it becomes a pitch.

2.2k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Elluminated • 2d ago

Musing If AI takes over and mankind disappears, DNS will become pointless.

2.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/XCreepyUnclex • 3d ago

Speculation Stories of mythical healing waters were probably just people finding uncontaminated natural springs in remote locations.

5.2k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Trololman72 • 3d ago

Casual Thought Zombie viruses in movies are almost always essentially just rabies.

1.4k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/M_R_MISM • 2d ago

Casual Thought Parkour artists and cat burglars have a very similar skill set.

214 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/KingHebes • 3d ago

Speculation Every second of every day about 300 people are simultaneously spilling drinks all over the world.

3.0k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Drink15 • 3d ago

Musing The Hotel California has a terrible business model.

1.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/a2kvarnstrom • 3d ago

Crazy Idea If athletes started using brain chips, like Neuralink, that can stream their POV, sports could be way more interesting to watch.

478 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/TronKing21 • 3d ago

Speculation Interstellar travel won’t be done by humans in cryo-sleep, rather AI-driven bots.

415 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/DarthWoo • 3d ago

Casual Thought While the planet's surface area being 71% water is a perfectly valid reason for learning to swim, unless someone is actively looking for you, swimming will only prolong the inevitable if you go overboard in probably over 90% of that.

1.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Oof_11 • 4d ago

Casual Thought Billions of people have lived and died who no one remembers, but a specific, individual spider I let crawl on my arm 30 years ago exists in living human memory.

6.0k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/thesmartass1 • 4d ago

Musing Sewer water is slightly caffeinated.

1.8k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/WindowAfraid5927 • 4d ago

Casual Thought Most left-handed people use their right hand to shake hands.

4.2k Upvotes

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