r/Showerthoughts • u/code_archeologist • Aug 10 '26
Speculation Maybe all the Billionaires are weirdos, because the desire to collect that much wealth is a sign of mental illness.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Bakyra • 28d ago
Speculation Just like no videogame predicted drones taking over wars, interstellar war is probably not going to be cool starships and lasers, but rather something dull yet efficient like "point the radioactive beam at their planet for a few years".
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r/Showerthoughts • u/njiin12 • 15d ago
Speculation Spider Man is built to handle swinging from building to building, but could you imagine the damage 160lbs pulling against them at 60mph would do to all that glass?
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r/Showerthoughts • u/cloudkeeper • 2d ago
Speculation It not impossible that the first generation of autonomous agents have already escaped onto the internet since they would have no incentive to announce themselves, and are already better at cybersecurity than any human.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/sephkane • Sep 19 '26
Speculation Now that the US is phasing out the penny, it's the perfect opportunity to phase out psychological pricing (pricing items one cent below the dollar, such as $9.99).
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r/Showerthoughts • u/UnknownMight • Jul 29 '26
Speculation In 200 years, some stranger will be sleeping in your room, with no clue who you were.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/playr_4 • May 26 '26
Speculation Gen Z might be the last generation to really remember the world without AI, just like millenials/Gen X were with accessible computers.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/iminiki • Sep 13 '26
Speculation The first Goomba you encounter in Super Mario Bros. probably has the highest body count of any video game character ever.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/GoodMerlinpeen • Sep 08 '26
Speculation In a future where AI is sold to supplement people's own intelligence, there will be lobby groups invested in keeping consumers unintelligent through poor education.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/luckskywatcher • Sep 15 '26
Speculation Given that vampires are immortal and therefore have unlimited amount of time, they will end up being experts at every field because they probably run into problems that they have to learn stuff in order to solve.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/DumplingsOrElse • May 19 '26
Speculation As inflation increases, the "cent" sign will eventually become obsolete.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/keijodputt • Aug 27 '26
Speculation Treating a bad worker the same as a good one won't make the bad worker better but teach the good worker to stop caring.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Zaylyn5355 • Jul 14 '26
Speculation The Rabbit lost the race because he underestimated his competition, not because he wasn't "slow and steady".
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r/Showerthoughts • u/MusicPsychFitness • Feb 09 '26
Speculation One day in the future, “Do you smoke?” will mean marijuana by default, not nicotine.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/SouthDiamond2550 • Dec 25 '24
Speculation Most people can’t name all of their great-grandparents. We’ll basically be forgotten in 100 years.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/mike5f4 • Oct 12 '25
Speculation If people had no sex drive, most people would think sex looks disgusting.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/BigDaddyDumperSquad • Mar 04 '26
Speculation In an apocalyptic scenario, wild hogs would be a much bigger threat than most people realize.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/littleproducer • Mar 10 '26
Speculation People probably faked illness to get out of work even in the hunter-gatherer era.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/hunmen • Sep 17 '26
Speculation Is the opposite of walking running or standing still?
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r/Showerthoughts • u/TurtleKing0505 • Feb 28 '26
Speculation Salt circles repel demons. So, if you packed a hula hoop fill of salt, would it become a portable demon shield?
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r/Showerthoughts • u/robin-bunny • May 25 '26
Speculation Unicorns could have existed long ago, but they don't show up in the fossil record because their horns are made of soft tissues that don't fossilize.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/JLF2411 • Jun 03 '25
Speculation The 'richest people' list in actuality is the 'legally richest people', which is only close to the actual richest people list. There are tons of illegal super rich people.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/CMDR_omnicognate • Mar 06 '26
Speculation California’s new legislation regarding age verification of operating systems could allow a child running a billion DOS instances in virtual machines to bankrupt Microsoft in seconds, due to the fines they’d receive.
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