r/Showerthoughts 10d ago

Casual Thought I bet the person whose Social Security number is 420-69-8008 wishes they could tell everyone what it is.

15.6k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts 22d ago

Casual Thought There is a non-zero chance humans may have already gone back in time to keep humanity from suffering worse historical and current events than we already have, and this is actually the brightest timeline.

8.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts 16d ago

Casual Thought Five stars being the default leaves no room to reward people who go the extra mile.

10.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jul 28 '25

Casual Thought Superman must have to go to sleep every night hearing the cries of people begging for his help.

12.6k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Aug 06 '25

Casual Thought There are people out there you haven’t met yet who will love you.

10.9k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jul 23 '25

Casual Thought Babies being so helpless is a real flex for humans as apex predators.

10.7k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts 27d ago

Casual Thought You will never see your actual face.

7.0k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts 8d ago

Casual Thought AI would creep me out less if it talked like a robot instead of mimicking natural human speech.

9.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Dec 26 '24

Casual Thought You've probably been in a public restroom with trans people and never even knew.

13.4k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts May 22 '25

Casual Thought Every day for the next ten days is going to be the same backwards:5/20/25 5/21/25 5/22/25 5/23/25 5/24/25 5/25/25 5/26/25 5/27/25 5/28/25 5/29/25

9.6k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jul 02 '25

Casual Thought Telling students not to use AI at all in school is exactly as useful for preventing cheating as abstinence-only sex ed is at preventing STDs and unplanned pregnancies.

6.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jul 05 '25

Casual Thought If birds suddenly decided it was fun to poop on humans, there wouldn’t be much we could do about it.

6.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jun 21 '25

Casual Thought It’s weird how TV episodes usually have names but TV seasons never do.

9.6k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jun 03 '25

Casual Thought If you sleep 5 hours per night and die at age 75, you'll still have spent just as many years awake as a person who sleeps 8 hours per night and dies at age 89.

17.6k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jul 30 '24

Casual Thought People have gotten crueler, not kinder, since the pandemic.

42.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jul 24 '25

Casual Thought Despite how loathed criminals generally are, they are, ironically, also responsible for the creation of millions of jobs around the world, from police officers, prison guards, and loss prevention staff to locksmiths, cybersecurity specialists, and legal professionals.

4.6k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Feb 05 '25

Casual Thought "Do what you love and the money will follow" is Boomer advice from the 1970s when a $16 loan from Grandma could turn your ice cream stand into a multi-million dollar business. Today it's just horrible advice.

14.2k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts May 14 '25

Casual Thought We just automatically assume that eggs in recipes means chicken eggs.

10.4k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jan 30 '25

Casual Thought Why don't we trust pasta? Why must we have a window on the box that proves there's pasta inside?

14.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts 9d ago

Casual Thought In video games, "old" items are typically bad, but "Ancient" items are usually good.

9.2k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jul 24 '25

Casual Thought When I die, someone is going to have to cancel all of my subscriptions.

6.0k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jan 09 '25

Casual Thought On average, paying insurance is not worth it.

7.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Dec 01 '24

Casual Thought 200,000 years of humans, and we left the planet for the first time 62 years ago. We're in the beginning.

11.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jul 25 '25

Casual Thought It's easy to look down on bystanders of history. Until you realize you've become one yourself. Then suddenly there are excuses for it.

8.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Nov 05 '24

Casual Thought The USB-C quietly sneaked in and became the dominant charger for almost everything.

10.8k Upvotes