Keep This Under Wraps For Now
I want to know what was running through the mind of the first guy who thought up mummies. Some guy just came along and said "You know what we need? Dead bodies to last longer! C’mon, who’s with me?”...
We are going to have to reevaluate our moralities when people in the future can look like children while not actually being children
Edit: To those downvoting, could please comment the reason as to why you are downvoting? The comments that are there right now do not explain the reason for the downvotes. I am genuinely curious as to what the thinking behind disliking the post is....
Al Jazeera could probably fire/replace its writers with LLMs, rebrand as AI Jazeera, and no one would immediately notice.
I’m not dunking on their writers, just how Al and AI look the same in most fonts.
We are beings made of atoms in the universe, who are studying atoms in the universe
The ancient Roman fiscus Iudaicus is a fanum tax
The fiscus Iudaicus or Judaicus (Latin for “Jewish tax”) was a tax imposed on Jews in the Roman Empire after the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in AD 70. Revenues were directed to the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in Rome....
If corporations are people, are shareholders slaveowners?
Forest Gump thought "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get" because he was illiterate and couldn't read the little card.
(I have no idea if accurate.)
showerthoughts is just a place for people who don't have microblogging social media to dump their random thoughts
The word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.
Are we the "Cold Ones" to our dogs?
Dogs run about 10 degrees hotter than humans, so do you think they regard us as the giant cold ones?
The eclipse shadow travels on the ground at about 2300 mph, so you could follow it with an SR-71.
Discord would have made a better name for a decentralized network and Matrix would have been better for a private company.
In the show *South Park*, Stan/Kyle roughly represent the ideals the writers see themselves as striving for, while Cartman is who they subconsciously want to be
There is someone who's the first and oldest member of gen Z, and they have absolutely no clue that's the case.
Joseph Heller tried to warn us of MBA's when he wrote the character Milo Minderbinder
Everything is for the good of the enterprise, even if you have to bomb your own camp
april fools should span an entire week
1 day is too short
Maybe we are late in the universe, perhaps universe used to be a lively and vibrant place homing millions of civilizations. Now, we stand as the last remnants, hence, possibly the most advanced.
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Night lights that detect light levels are probably flickering so fast that it just appears to be on
Ok so I got this idea not while showering, but because I’m very high. The story does come from my bathroom though! I have a night light in my bathroom, and I was looking at the night light as I turned off the bathroom light. I’m a big nerd so I remembered that the things that detect light levels are actually diodes wired in...
Warm beer and cold coffee are the same temperature
So all this weight or bodyweight training with progressive overload is kind of just a way to communicate to our body and tell it to grow more muscles and strength?
Dinosaurs were around before Saturn had rings.
Saturn’s rings are around 150 mio. years old.
If I had an artisinal shop of any kind in America, I'd have an emergency button under the counter that lights up an enormous neon sign behind me that says "NO!"
I’ve seen enough of the internets to know this is a must have. Damn, if I was in America this would be a business idea in itself....
Jet Fuelled Steal Beams
Don’t Melt My Wet Dreams