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Showerthoughts

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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:

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

"T-minus 72 hours until cargo bay jettison.

Go for retro burn. Pod orientation is now inverted.

T-minus 48 hours.

Umbilical is confirmed powered down. Pod is now on internal power."

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not quite like wireless though, there has to be a latch on and suction, can't just faceplant a baby on a boob.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

But if you place a baby in the rough area (the boobs) they can manoeuvre themselves to the correct area.

This is long before any motor skills. It's a primal instinct. Like holding their breath when submerged or grasping things placed in their hands.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So babies are more like the magsafe charger then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not even that, a newborn is able to crawl to the breast and start latching immediately after birth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah except they generally don't. There's a reason classes to learn how to breastfeed and lactation consultants exist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple and Samsung want to have a word with you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yes, there are plenty of boobs that use their devices.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And now I’m mentally comparing nipples to induction chargers. Thanks for the image, op!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Someone has to make a wireless charger with a nipple on it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

do you mean a regular usb cable with a tit shaped connector?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My electric toothbrush kinda has a nipple shaped wireless charger.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well if you do that thing it does get your partner awfully hot

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

its not wireless the tit is the wire. Wireless would be touching the mothers skin and the milk is just transfered to the baby.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

transfered is also not a good way to say it, it would be like the baby has the ability to produce milk inside its body with the energy that is coming off the mothers skin. Something like that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly it's just a dumb analogy all the way down.

The way an infant acquires nutrition before birth, is entirely different to the way it does so after birth, and neither is remotely similar to "charging".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Babies are fueled up like an internal combustion engine and produce lots of hazardous waste.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's less wireless charging and more switching to the internal gasoline powered APU that you have to refill the gas tank on regularly

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife would absolutely disagree with this. She could "feed" the baby anywhere before, but now she has to sit every 2 hours every day. And that's 2 hours from the start of the last feed; more like an hour break in between.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Ok your wife is the docking station then.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Not really wireless, more like charging a handset on its dock.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's all solar energy too. Just a matter of how many degrees of separation really.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I find it even better when you think about the oxygen instead of the food, since babies become able to breathe on their own entirely without parental intervention.