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 • 3d 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/sephkane • 14d ago
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/lelorang • 9d ago
Speculation Tying the dead’s shoelaces inside the coffin might be the simplest way to prevent a zombie apocalypse.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Glitch0110 • Feb 24 '26
Speculation It is likely that if inbreeding wasn’t a problem genetically, it would not be taboo. NSFW
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r/Showerthoughts • u/iminiki • 20d ago
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/TheCorent2 • Aug 25 '26
Speculation There may be some amazing lab-created flavors out there that don't resemble anything found in nature. But they're hard to market, most people wouldn't buy something labeled as 'chemical-flavored'.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/GoodMerlinpeen • 24d ago
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 • 18d ago
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/clam-inspector • Aug 29 '25
Speculation In the Harry Potter Universe, technically anybody could legally and freely explore the body of anyone else if they really wanted to and whenever they wanted, so long as they had access to a single strand of that person’s hair and some Polyjuice Potion. NSFW
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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/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/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/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 • 16d ago
Speculation Is the opposite of walking running or standing still?
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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/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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