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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: 1

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I flew for the first time on a plane last week and I've seen planes take off at the airport. It looks crazy. But being on one is totally different like holy shit. The thing just FLIES. It just.... Soars... Through the sky! Like whoa man. Wtf... It's crazy. With how much these things weigh, it's insane to me the thing can just go up and bam, there we are, we're flying now. Like wow... Dude crazy.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Computers is teachibg rocks to think

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (4 children)

We grow flawless crystals, slice them into perfect disks, engrave billions of arcane runes onto them with magical potions and rays of light, animate them with lightning, and make them do our bidding.

And then we give them an "intelligence" that can't even count the Rs in strawberry...

[–] feedum_sneedson 14 points 2 months ago

I think we're doing pretty fucking well, all things considered.

[–] Jarix 3 points 2 months ago

Saw this the other day, seems relevant to your comment

[–] InverseParallax 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

engrave billions of arcane runes

Omg, you just made me love my job more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you work in a fab? If so would love to know more about your work

[–] InverseParallax 3 points 2 months ago

Design, close to tape out now, but also post-silicon and bringup.

It's fun as all fuck, never thought about it as incantations or runes, then the rock comes back and we cast spells to bring it to life I guess.

Takes a while but is just incredible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Try looking at a die under a microscope

[–] HaveYouPaidYourDues 17 points 2 months ago

By filling them with lightning