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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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Just picturing an alien archaeologist "so, as they stopped being crippled by polio or losing their lives building railroads, they complained about having to wash the dishes?"

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Any alien archaeologist worth their preferred home planet's seasoning ingredient would treat the development of a motorized sanitation device to clean large amounts of food prep and eating tools as a major labor saving milestone of technological development.

Thus complaining about having to the dishes is probably considered a reliable indicator of saturation of these devices.

This is why complaining about having to do the dishes is actually a selfless act of historical preservation for future alien archaeologists.

[โ€“] Lauchs 5 points 1 month ago

I love all of this, thank you.

Though, there is now a part of me that wants to mass produce etched stone tablets bitching about the dishes just to give some future alien archeolgist an interesting PhD subject.