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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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You and I both resonate on the same fundamental truth, but I get the sense that you're more actively wishing death, "I hope beyond hope that we fully die out", where I am more so just paranoid and avoidant. I agree that that activists do thankless work. The phrase, "We are predisposed to be cruel," sounds Hobbesian in that it presupposes that man is naturally cruel, though I never read Hobbes so I don't know actually. I think people are naturally irrational, but not cruel per se. I think they are also great at adapting, which leads to a frog in boiling water situation; there's a sort of natural adaptation to toxic environments without knowing how or wanting to fix it. I think you're more so an intense "hate humanity" misanthrope while I'm more a "mistrust & fear humanity" misanthrope. Fight/flight, anger/fear, both are responding to the same perceived stress.
I'm just a very jaded freeze avoidant who's met enough people and read enough history to see the patterns.
I know what happens when people think they are better than others and what they do when have power over those they see as being beneath them. You know it too. Everybody does, it's the world around us and the world in our history books.
But yeah I am a misanthrope, you're right on that front. I'm too tired to do much but occasionally rant online about how much we suck and how fucked the future is though, so I'm not some millitant moron with a quest, lol. Chronic fatigue and a disability that fucks with my ability to talk/interact with folk irl have basically taken care of that ever happening, not that I believe it would do anything but make me look stupid if I tried tho. And that's not to mention all the trauma that's left me so freeze state avoidant.
I don't know how comforting you find learning about how fucked we are climate and resource wise, but if knowing this will all end soon is any sort of relief for you, read on because we're rapidly running out of fresh water and arable land and current predictions suggest that by 2032, we'll cross 450ppm or so of atmospheric c02.
Phytoplankton, particularly those with calcium carbonate shells like coccolithophores, are highly sensitive to ocean acidification caused by rising cO2 levels.
When atmospheric cO2 levels exceed 450-500 ppm, ocean pH decreases, making the water more acidic.
This process reduces the availability of carbonate ions, which are essential for these organisms to build and maintain their exoskeletons.
They produce 50 to 80% of the planets oxygen. And are a staple in the food system.
(Source for the last bit here)