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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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fabric colors that were "always" available to common man were shades of everything from red to blue, white, black, brown and grays. purple was also always available, but extremely expensive.

enter coal tar era of chemistry (starting 1840s or so): aniline and later diazo dyes made fabric in all possible colors not only available, but cheap. yes initially they sucked, they ran, they weren't resistant to anything, they will give you ballsack cancer, but they were a thing. for a short time, purple fabric was a choice of the extravagant and the futuristic, and then people just stopped paying attention as it became more common

blue LEDs were sort of also used as a futuristic aesthetic choice, just after they appeared, but before these things became common, and now blue LEDs are just everywhere

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"In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological advancements make a resource more efficient to use (thereby reducing the amount needed for a single application); however, as the cost of using the resource drops, [...] this results in overall demand increasing, causing total resource consumption to rise." Wikipedia