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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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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Bloodline doesn't have to end for that to happen. Even if you have kids, in three generations no one will remember your name or your life. Do you know the names and history of your great great grandparents? No one will remember us and it will not be important whether they do or don't.
This is very true, and also, the reverse is true as well: your bloodline can end yet you can still be remembered if you did something remarkable enough. I'm sure there are tons of well known figures in history whose bloodlines are no more today
One of the things I learned as a scientist is that for any major accomplishment, there are thousands of people who did difficult, necessary, and not-widely-recognized work to make that accomplishment possible.
I like to think that things are even more complicated, as we depend on a lot of people, even if we are not aware of it: random taxi/bus drivers, restaurant/grocery staff, your ISP workers, random factory workers, etc.
We depend on far mote people than we realize, and not just us but also people working in advancing the limits of human knowledge. We wouldn't have Einstein without some of his totally unexpected yet unkownly related contemporanies. Following this logic, we wouldn't have Einstein without his grandparents, and even those grandparent's contemporanies, and this just keeps going.
As Lain says, we are all connected.
My favorite example of this was just a few years ago, when the media all reported that a woman had found a black hole. The coverage was all about her and how surprising it was... she was on a team of 6. We all just decided, fuck the 5 other people on her team who all worked together on the project. She wasn't even a team lead or anything.
On my dad's side, actually yes. They died either side of 100 when I was in my early 20s. I'm old enough to remember spending time with them and hearing about their lives. I didn't meet the other sides, but my maternal grandfather compiled a book about his line which was quite interesting (and this was when one still had to go to the library and search through newspapers, etc. or have them call other libraries to get info).
yeah and its like whats a bloodline. There is the whole mitochondrial eve thing. I saw a youtube video on genetics and variation and generations and it did not take long for less than 1% of enetics to be in common with an ancestor and they used the british royal family as an examples so pretty inbred to.
I do, we even have a wedding ring
Yes. I guess permanently moving halfway around the world is notable. Although that also means the next generation will know what their great great great grandparents did.
I agree, but i can't help but wonder if the internet changes this.
Agree, and I love that.
Even Steve jobs will be forgotten soon enough. My kids don't even know who he is.
Not having to build some bullshit legacy is so freeing.
I can focus on my version of a good life, and ensure my time with my direct family is fulfilling.
Everything else is just pointless drama.