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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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- 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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I wonder if Gen X's truly "have" homes, or just have been paying on a mortgage, which at the rate 2025 is going might put them in the same category as Millennials, or even behind, so like Z?
Come, join us... uWu...
GenX here, never in my life has a home been affordable and I am so fucking tired of the younger gens assuming we have it so easy.
I've strggled just like you for decades longer and the lack of empathy and recognition has made me hate all of you
Nobody has ever claimed that every gen x owned a home. There have always been people who can and people who cannot afford a home, but each generation has more people in the can't-afford group than the previous. At 30, more genx owned a home than millennials, and more millennials than genz.
The problem you're having is that everyone else is talking trends and you're talking personal annecdote.
Most of the ones I know do, but there are plenty without, just not nearly as many as Gen's Y & Z.
Imagine that, younger folks own fewer homes...
I see throughout history things have their ups and downs. I look forward to the next up.
it doesn't magically go up. people have to fight for it.
Can't fight for shit with OP's attitude.
OP needs perspective and needs to read stuff like Studs Terkel. Hardship takes on a whole new meaning.
I hope you believe in reincarnation then, this isn't going away
When Germany went full nazi, we were there to stop them
Now it's us who are the nazi and who can possibly stop the largest military in the world by a factor of 3?
It was never edgy, you fuckers just lacked empathy till you faced struggle yourselves
Look, I don't know what you personally went through in the past, but I'm talking about like these posts of people being like, "oh, I'm in the wrong generation. There is no good music and there's no good art." Not people who actually went through extreme hardships.
There has never been a better time for explorers. People lament that there's nothing 'undiscovered' anymore, but after studying STEM and digging into history I've learned that the fact we currently have access to everything those early explorers left behind for us gives us an unprecedented window into what our world actually is, and how it actually works, if only you can look at it with an earnest desire to learn.
Mark my words: Those who actually manage to rise above the din will grow to shine more brightly than anyone has for thousands of years. There is incredible opportunity in hope right now.
That's certainly an oddly optimistic take in this neighborhood.
Unless you mean space exploration, which I personally think is a delusional distraction.
I'm a pretty odd person.
Few say they wish they were born in 1930
The ones currently in power do.
Nah anything after 1927 and you would've been too young to fight in WW2, you'd get the post war boom but you wouldn't be drafted
In Germany you would've been drafted and if surviving you'd have had to help rebuild a bombed-down occupied country. I certainly wouldn't want to be born before the ~60s.
I'd love to be born in the 30s, too young to understand the depression and the economic boom of the 50s and 60s right when I'm hitting my prime age
I wasnt born in the wrong time, I was born on the wrong side of the planet..
We all were, whales got it right 50 million years ago.
People look at the past with nostalgia tinted glasses. Sure, things are bad now, but in the past they were even worse. Out of all the times I could have been alive, this day, with all the medical and social advances we have, is the best/least bad.
You say that like you have access to healthcare.
Google searches used to work, they don't so readily - technology, and things in general, always change(s), but it would be hubris to assume that such will always lead to it becoming "better" (for who? how?)
I do have access to healthcare, as long as I can wait a few years, thanks to the wonders of the NHS. Google is but one company, the privacy respecting OSS I use still works great for me, better than ever in fact, Linux phones and GNOME have come a long way. There is a disturbing right wing trend across the world, but these things come in cycles, eventually it will go back in the other direction, and I wouldn't exchange it for the other benefits of today's world.
Don't get me wrong, it's awful. It's just I don't see earlier times being much better.
Ok enjoy your fascism
There are some aspects of life that make me wish I was born at a different time than I was, and other things I like now that I wouldn't want to do without. I don't think it's as black and white if an issue as this makes it seem.
I mean, it is the shower thought community, of course that this message is simplified and not completely thought out
I just wish I wasn’t born lol
Yeah... I get that, but be safe :)
We all get what we get, find the good parts and enjoy them
*"I was born in the wrong generation" ~~ha~~(i)s ~~turned from~~ edgy ~~to~~ a(nd) sad ~~reality for some~~
Jeez that was hard to read
Im sick of the only decent work being fellatio therapy and sodomy receivables. I wish I lived in the 2010's.
you know this is just so terrible I'm blocking your whole instance