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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.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Does Santa Clus support genocides?
Since Santa isn’t real, I would say the answer is a definitive, no.
Santa has an ethnicly homogenous slave workforce trapped in a secret location facing sub-zero work conditions and runs a global child surveillance system supporting an opaque punishment algorithm.
There is no way he's a good guy.
Dumbledore is Santa Claus?
Both are old, bearded, and project a friendly, wise-grandfather image.
Both lead a closed community with strict hierarchies.
Both have elf slave labor.
Both run surveillance operations: Dumbledore has the portraits, Fawkes, the Marauder’s Map (by proxy), and Santa has the Naughty-or-Nice list.
Both maintain a mystique that disguises how much control they actually wield.
However, I still think Santa is more likely to be evil.
The elves should unionize. Let's see that fat-ass Santa make a few billion gifts on his own.
For anyone who hasn't seen it, give David sedaris' "6-8 black men a listen."
Not to my knowledge, but that fucker, the Easter Bunny, Leprechauns, and Tooth Fairy all support/practice breaking and entering!
No, just slavery.