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:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
Worse, we did develop a sympathetic vomiting response. It makes a lot of sense with us being communal eaters. If you buddy is puking up the communal meal maybe you'd better get rid of it before it gets you too.
Tangentially, I think the capitalist encouragement of hurriedly eating alone so that you can get to, from, or back to work faster instead of sitting down to socialize over your meal for an hour or so is genuinely the source of many minor eating disorders.
Shit, of all the ways that capitalism has fucked up our society, I hadn’t considered this one. Thanks. I’m going to try to change my perspective on meal times.
It's possible we tried but the mutant fart mirrorers weren't sexually competitive.
Maybe not to you 😮💨
Wait. You don't?
For real, I thought everyone had sympathetic farts
*yet
Maybe in the future there will be a cybernetic implant that does exactly that. It should be called the Toot Master 9000, a rectal cyberware for synchronous symphonies.
I mean, if I'm smelling somebody else's and I also happen to be holding one in at the same time ...
I developed a defensive farting response.
Found the skunk.
Mmh?
That would be hysterical.
Speak for yourself, OP
If we did evolve that way, we might have evolved not to mind the smell so much too
When food rots, some microbes release sulphur dioxide from sulphur-containing amino acids. This smell, even at very low concentrations, helps us avoid rotten food. Removing or reducing this receptor would have been disadvantageous millions of years ago, so we retained it. It’s better to be healthy but hungry than satiated and dead.
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Yeah the yawning thing is actually pretty cute.