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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 (2 children)

Yeah that's totally unrealistic, in a biodiversity ecosystem, the varus shouldn't be able to propagate wildly, I mean, for that to happen you would have to have planted vast areas of monoculture crops, all with the same or similar genetic traits, without many buffer zones, and a depleted soil full of biologically inert chemical fertilisers, devoid of a healthy and resilient soil microbiome... oh.. oh no...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fun fact, this is happening with Bananas. The only way they can contain it is by annihilating entire fields.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Cool cool cool cool cool. Cool.

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

True, but all bananas are clones and have almost no genetic diversity and are all susceptible to the same diseases.

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

So are many of our food cash crops.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Keep in mind that the book is so old, I cannot even find it online. It was published in a "Classic Science Fiction" edition when I was a kid.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe the book you are talking about is "The Death Of Grass'.

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

Figured that would be Nancy Reagan’s autobiography.

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

Brand new idea, you say? Let me get my writing fingers on.