Showerthoughts

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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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See, I've been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine, and it's perfect example of something impossible today.

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if you think about it Automata came out before but there is times it happened after. Near Reptile came out after btu is is it really that It came Before Never Automobile?

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A lot less annoying then endlessly filtering content by community and user

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For English as a second language people
Movie is pronounced like, "moo-vee" and move like, "moov".

Yet November is pronounced like, ~~"No-vim-bur/ber" or just...as it looks(?)~~ "No-vem-ber" instead of "Nu-vim-bur/Noov-im-bur" because English exists to spite everyone.

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They probably happened in the bedroom, so therefore should be called bedroom thoughts 🙂

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Imagine that time travel is invented. Not now, it's invented in the year 2875. The future people came back in time to this period to give us knowledge of how to build time machines so we could explore time freely. They also gave it to every other time period. Ancient egypt, the roman empire, alpha centauri, the 1960s, the reign of king arthur, victorian england, they're now all places you can just go. Time travel is as cheap as a plane ticket.

If that happened, then the sorts of people who currently claim that the 1960s were the greatest period in human history would probably change their minds. Not because of any sensible reason, but because the 1960s are now a Foreign Place. They'd start being xenophobic and complaining about all the immigrants from the 1960s stealing jobs and living on welfare. They'd be racist against the past. They'd keep on listening to Beatles and Pink Floyd like it's the only good music ever written, but they'd scoff at all the hippies on the other side of the time portal.

And not just the 1900s, either! The romaboos would probably call roman empire immigrants racist slurs. Those neo nazis who wear norse runes would go back in time to do hate crimes to actual vikings. Weebs would say the Edo period just "doesn't get it". Science fiction fans would accuse the future of being woke SJW trash.

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This is especially true with luxury brands like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Prada. People are either trying to impress others with fakes, or they’ve actually paid full price to become walking billboards.

Similar thing with iPhone cases that have a cutout for the Apple logo. That's just hilarious.

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It's crazy how popular those twelve foot boners are.

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All us WEIRD (western educated industrialized rich democratic) countries seem to spend a really embarrassing amount of time talking about the pointless minutiae surrounding our candidates for office and their personal lives.

We are also prone to backing very crap candidates based on personality, rhetoric, appearance ie: things that have nothing to do with being a good executive or legislator.

I think we should ban names from the election process and just have each party submit their ideas in writing and let people vote based on those submissions.

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Imagine being that rich and spending the limited time you have on Earth actively trying to make more money. It's absolutely mental illness!

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Posts would describe bizarre situations people have found themselves in, and commenters would take a stab at what put them there.

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Couscous gets everywhere, no matter how hard you try to keep it contained.

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It's also implied that she engages in statutory rape.

She's unaware of Josh's real age though, so I don't know the legal or moral implications.

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There might be a good reason for this. Raster effects were already really good in newer games, and ray tracing could only improve on that high bar. It's filling in details that are barely noticeable, but creap ever so slightly closer to photorealism.

Old games start from a low bar, so ray tracing has dramatic improvement.

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Metal is plastic. (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by xia@lemmy.sdf.org to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
 
 

In materials science, "plastic" refers to the ability of a material to undergo permanent deformation under stress without breaking. Metals exhibit plasticity when they are subjected to stress beyond their elastic limit, allowing them to be shaped or formed. This property is distinct from the common use of the word "plastic" to describe synthetic polymers.

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