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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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We're watching a blood sport in real life, too. NASCAR viewership declined as the sport got safer over the years following the death of Dale Earnhardt. Earnhardt dying at Daytona is like if Tom Brady got his spinal cord fractured by a rough tackle at the Super Bowl, but deaths on the track were common enough that you expected to hear of a few. After that, they really invested in safety and hardly anyone dies - and hardly anyone watches.
I feel like they're different orders of magnitude. Like it's one thing to enjoy watching people do risky things, and it's another to enjoy watching something where at least one person is going gruesomely die in front of you during the event.
Like... During the Bad Times of NASCAR, a few people would get seriously injured or die in a season, and it caused a huge commotion where they introduced new safety measures (eventually).
But cars were smashed and torn apart nearly every race.
It's be like if in a typical game of football, there was greater than 50/50 odds that someone would get drawn, quartered, and disemboweled on the field during the match.
But that's not really the part I was focused on, that was an afterthought.
The real focus was imagine if people jogged at such speeds that tripping would result in gruesome death. What would society even look like?
So you're asking "what if society has superpowers?"
Or specifically just super speed?
Specifically just speed, I suppose.
Not any of the other perception/durability powers that typically come with it.
And not crazy flash-like super speed, just the speed of a car.