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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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It feels like om of those, "What are there more of in this world, eyeballs or legs?", kinds of thoughts but I think I am firmly in the:
Humans make a lot of bad stuff just for the sake of making stuff category.

Not a pessimist, just a realist, I have seen what's on Wattpad.

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[–] beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 minutes ago
[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 3 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

It really depends on what you define as "make". If you count individual semiconductors as something made then that's probably what we've made the most of and those are usually 10/10 by volume because they have to be to function

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 0 points 42 minutes ago

But what about every terrible poem ever read at open mic night? Don't you think those might cancel out all those awesome semiconductors?

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

I think thats mostly just because the rating scale is based on what circulates at wide enough acclaim to be perceived by lots of people. So the bar is set much higher than the average because we only really wanna engage selectively with the relatively much smaller amount of stuff of reasonable baseline quality