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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.

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Cars turned us—one of the best species in long distance running into couch potatoes.

Now llms are attacking our brains and making us stupid and insane. A species of slopheads if you will.

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[–] turdas@suppo.fi -5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fire turned us—a species capable of digesting raw meat and starchy tubers—into wusses who can only eat processed foods.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

"For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise." ~Socrates. On the invention of writing.

[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] turdas@suppo.fi -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Humans generally have trouble thriving on diets that our closest primate relatives have no trouble with.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah eating raw meat is something to strive for, anyone who doesn't do that is [insert string of moronic masculine toxicity]. /s