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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The probability of losing your life to a cosmic ray bit-flip is increasing daily (lemmy.ml)

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[–] gsfraley 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In case you're missing it, this is what the Stephen King book and movie "Maximum Overdrive" is about, but technologically behind by 50 years. Radio signals and power surges just happen to influence machines all over the world into vengefully killing people.

[–] GrammatonCleric 1 points 9 months ago

Please explain the soda machine gag to me, I just can't wrap my head around it 😂