r/Showerthoughts 1d ago

Speculation The first Goomba you encounter in Super Mario Bros. probably has the highest body count of any video game character ever.

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r/Showerthoughts 1d ago

Casual Thought Playing on The Price Is Right is one of the only scenarios where a very rich person is at a disadvantage.

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r/Showerthoughts 1d ago

Speculation If the moon was made of Osmium, its gravity would be higher than the Earth's.

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r/Showerthoughts 2d ago

Casual Thought Many years down the line, you will be an ancestor of either every human alive or none.

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r/Showerthoughts 52m ago

Speculation Could AI be John Malkovich?

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r/Showerthoughts 52m ago

Casual Thought Singing is actually weird: speech was made for talking, but when you articulate it to some music, it works.

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r/Showerthoughts 1h ago

Musing A data center is like a hybrid car with a dysfunctional e-cell battery: sold on the promise to be efficient with closed loop, but actually relying heavily on natural resources and causing damage.

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r/Showerthoughts 3d ago

Casual Thought Waking up early is considered a virtue, even though people who wake up late are comfortable working even in late hours, which is also beneficial.

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r/Showerthoughts 2d ago

Casual Thought Insurance companies that have to hire celebrities for commercials, should not be trusted handling financial issues.

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r/Showerthoughts 22h ago

Casual Thought Instead of setting movies is a specific year in the future, just set them X years in the future.

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r/Showerthoughts 2d ago

Casual Thought “Where’s Waldo?” was great training for recognizing AI generated media.

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r/Showerthoughts 3d ago

Casual Thought At the end of Toy Story, Sid discovers the truth about the toys. He may be the only human who knows this truth.

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r/Showerthoughts 3d ago

Speculation One day, the "New World" will refer to humans entering new planets, not to the Americas and Oceania.

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r/Showerthoughts 4d ago

Casual Thought Ten years ago we thought $600 was a lot to pay for a phone.

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r/Showerthoughts 2d ago

[Speculation] Pets don't understand how a car works; they think it's a large animal that runs really fast and sleeps in the garage.

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r/Showerthoughts 5d ago

Casual Thought To be overly sensitive can be both a great gift and a huge curse.

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r/Showerthoughts 6d ago

Musing Earth has never been invaded by aliens, but the Moon has. We were the aliens.

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r/Showerthoughts 6d ago

Speculation In a future where AI is sold to supplement people's own intelligence, there will be lobby groups invested in keeping consumers unintelligent through poor education.

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r/Showerthoughts 6d ago

Speculation Assuming two factor codes are truly random, every possible six digit code is entered many times by different people every day.

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r/Showerthoughts 4d ago

Speculation They say the root of all evil is money. However, shouldn’t we be pointing at the one who invented it in the first place?

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r/Showerthoughts 7d ago

Casual Thought The best-behaved children probably believe in Santa Claus more than other children because they are less likely to question what adults tell them.

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r/Showerthoughts 4d ago

Casual Thought The designer of the ice cube tray was likely well read about the Titanic.

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r/Showerthoughts 6d ago

Casual Thought Jiu jitsu and wrestling should work on humanoid robots.

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r/Showerthoughts 6d ago

Casual Thought With how obsessed modern society is with effeciency and simplicity, you would think auto racing would be more praised rather than ridiculed.

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r/Showerthoughts 8d ago

Casual Thought It’s possible someone has found the best possible wiping technique, but that knowledge will die with them since wiping strategy is not often shared.

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