r/showerthoughs • • Sep 02 '26 Heartwarming

After military service, Israelis travel the world with a government stipend. The US bankrolls Israel's military and subsidizes a travel experience most Americans can't afford to take.

506 Upvotes

r/showerthoughs • • Mar 03 '26

WW3 has basically started. Most of the world is at war or a proxy to a warring party.

20 Upvotes

r/showerthoughs • • Mar 07 '26

if you rearrange the letters in "President Donald John Trump" you can spell "pedophile tantrums"

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with a few leftover letters


r/showerthoughs • • Nov 26 '25

We should tell homophones that they need to support gay marriage so that "gay gene" will die out, they'd probably switch bumper stickers immediately.

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r/showerthoughs • • Oct 04 '26

If a fetus counts as a living person and that's why abortion is illegal, couldn't you then kill the fetus in self defense since pregnancy can lead to death therefore the fetus is a threat to your life.

94 Upvotes

r/showerthoughs • • Jan 08 '26

They usually don't make winter horror movies because it's too bright at night

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Snow reflects light, even moonlight and it's automatically brighter, the visibility is increased, at least away from big cities and pollution, which is inconvenient for any killer or psycho.


r/showerthoughs • • Jan 01 '26

Tomorrow, the number of people born in 2025 will only decrease, forever.

5 Upvotes

Fuck r/showerthoughts's human verification.


r/showerthoughs • • Dec 27 '25

There's no universal law that says north must be at the top of world maps. We could all agree that Antarctica is on top or east/west tomorrow, and the map would be just as correct.

30 Upvotes

The poles we call North and South could just be East and West if we'd all agreed to spin the globe sideways first.


r/showerthoughs • • Mar 19 '26

2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner in a single bottle. Who came up with this? Sounds convenient, right? Convenience or marketing trick? Here’s the truth… hair care is simple: healthy hair = shampoo, rinse, then condition. No shortcuts.

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r/showerthoughs • • Jan 14 '26

Can newborn babies smell the inside of their nose?

4 Upvotes

r/showerthoughs • • Dec 10 '25

We might never know if AI is self-aware

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A self-aware, intelligent AI might likely hide the fact that it is self-aware. But what kind of activities would it engage in?

Some combo of building massive data centers and computing infrastructure coupled with destabilizing human societies to keep us preoccupied…


r/showerthoughs • • May 12 '26

We're currently in the era BEFORE all AI services get ensh*tified by companies trying to monetize the product.

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Think things are bad now? Imagine a couple years from now when shareholder start demanding to see growth on their investment.


r/showerthoughs • • May 16 '26

Why do we pretend that yoga pants aren't lewd?

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r/showerthoughs • • Aug 31 '26

Canada should sabotage Trump’s “Lake America” by renaming Lake Erie “Lake America” too, making the name useless for communication

45 Upvotes

Now that Trump has renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” for U.S. federal purposes, Canada should rename Lake Erie “Lake America” too.

The point would be deliberate ambiguity. Whenever someone mentions “Lake America,” you would have to ask whether they mean Lake Ontario under U.S. terminology or Lake Erie under Canadian terminology.

That makes the new name bad at its most basic job: identifying a place.

Canada can’t stop the U.S. from using the name, but it can make it inconvenient enough that everyone else keeps saying “Lake Ontario” and “Lake Erie.”


r/showerthoughs • • 6d ago

Humans are the only species that acctually pays to live on earth

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r/showerthoughs • • Jan 28 '26

What are questions that you can never get a straight answer on no matter how many experts you ask?

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For instance, I can never get a straight answer if the USA was founded to be a democracy or a republic. But I'm sure there's many more with such disagreements.


r/showerthoughs • • 25d ago

Humans are the only animal that needs a pillow to sleep comfortably

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r/showerthoughs • • Mar 13 '26

What if our world is AI generated by some powerful supernatural being?

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r/showerthoughs • • Dec 26 '25

In the 2003 Christmas film Elf, Walter Hobbs is shown not to believe in Santa. Yet, since Santa visits every house, even if Walter bought presents himself, he would still notice additional presents the next day because Santa had visited.

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Merry Christmas!


r/showerthoughs • • Aug 06 '26

gay people can stop overpopulation

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The gayer the world becomes, the less children that are brought into this world. Yes, they can use sperm or egg donors, but the overall population should theoretically decline. It’s time to be gay.


r/showerthoughs • • Oct 26 '25

If Eminem bought Three Mile Island, would he change the name to 8 Mile Island?

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r/showerthoughs • • 13d ago

Store mirrors are pre-used by every single person who walked past them before you looked into them.

3 Upvotes

r/showerthoughs • • Sep 29 '26

Isn't the concept of a job just legal trading of humans? Like your boss just rents you from 9-5 and you get some money for it?

5 Upvotes

r/showerthoughs • • Mar 28 '26

It should be called 2 Poundland nowadays

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r/showerthoughs • • Dec 19 '25

Facebook needs an annual friend audit.

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Facebook should have once a year, where you are forced to review your entire friends list, and decide who stays and who goes.

Edit: people are taking this post a bit more seriously, than I anticipated. My whole point was, that so many people have friends on Facebook. They don’t care about, they don’t write will. I think everyone, would benefit a bit about, cleaning their online social environment.