Redlib: search results - flair_name:"Musing"

r/Showerthoughts • u/I_make_things • 6d ago

Musing McDonald's is running their "Monopoly" game again. It first started in 1987. The grand prize is the same: One million dollars. With inflation, the value of the dollar has dropped so the spending power of today's million is 1/3 of what it was when they started.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/CarltheWellEndowed • Feb 24 '26

Musing If you are an identical twin, there is a non-zero chance your parents got you confused for your sibling as an infant, so you aren't who you think you are.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/toastronomy • Mar 27 '26

Musing The reason the Internet was so great compared to TV was because there were no ads, people could say whatever they wanted, and the content was made by regular people. None of that is true anymore.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/SopwithTurtle • Mar 02 '26

Musing If the "use it or lose it" theory of neuroscience is correct, then we're going to have an absolute explosion of AI-induced Alzheimers in the future.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Intelligent-Bottle22 • May 19 '26

Musing Dinosaurs had all of the necessary materials to go to the moon.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/MyUsernameIsAwful • Mar 23 '26

Musing The power of invisibility would make you blind when active, because light would just pass straight through your eyes.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/devsmack • Jul 13 '26

Musing If AI is used to replace human workers, usage should be taxed as if it were human.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/MikeDubbz • Aug 16 '26

Musing Nothing more shows GTA V's age than what each character's smartphone looks like.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/unclefishbits • Jul 20 '25

Musing When you eat at home with your partner, it's weird to eat different entrees, but when you eat at a restaurant with your partner, it's weird to eat the same entree.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/vonBoomslang • Apr 10 '26

Musing It's somewhat unfair to Achilles, a great warrior and hero, that he is now best known for his one mortal weakness.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Longjumping-Sweet280 • Sep 02 '26

Musing It is substantially more suspicious to board an airplane wearing a parachute than to board a boat wearing a life jacket.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/bacchus213 • 21d ago

Musing It's a special type of irony that requires a really tiny screwdriver to fix eyeglasses.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/elephvant • Apr 25 '26

Musing In the 80s/90s, an entire family sitting in the living room watching TV (instead of chatting) was seen as a sign of social decay. Today, an entire family sitting in the living room watching TV together (instead of each lost in their own screen) is seen as a sign of social bonding.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Khoalb • Jun 29 '24

Musing If society ever collapses and we have to start over, there will be a lot less coal and oil for the next Industrial Revolution.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/dan-lugg • Jan 22 '26

Musing About 75% of people in the modern era live to see the turn of a century (1900, 2000, 2100, etc.), but if you're under 25 today, you probably won't.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/NMLWrightReddit • Oct 06 '25

Musing It’s popular knowledge that the save icon is a skeuomorphism of a floppy disk, but we don’t often think about how the name “floppy disk” referring to that 3.5in disk is already a skeuomorphism referring to the older actually floppy disks.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/snowball062016 • May 24 '26

Musing We have a tendency to look down on people who didn’t have to work hard for what they have because their parents gave them everything. We then proceed to work hard so we can provide the same thing for our children.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/predator8137 • Aug 23 '26

Musing Ancient Egypt had its own ancient Egypt.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Atalkingpizzabox • Sep 08 '26

Musing Earth has never been invaded by aliens, but the Moon has. We were the aliens.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/lagflag • Aug 16 '24

Musing No matter how big a number is, it is always closer to zero than infinity.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/BigFatherFigureHugo • Jul 19 '26

Musing It's envying to see a nice house from the highway, until you realize you can see it from the highway.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/andreasdagen • Sep 02 '25

Musing While humans aren't perfect, it is fortunate that the first species with the potential to dominate all life for billions of years evolved at least some empathy for other species.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/TheMegnificent1 • Dec 25 '24

Musing December 31st is the only day when you know the age of every single person born in a given year.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/kimtaengsshi9 • Jul 28 '24

Musing The world isn't falling apart. It's merely exiting from the anomalous "most peaceful era of human history" and returning to long-term normalcy.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Errorboros • Jul 22 '24

Musing There is no physical proof that the future exists.

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