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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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- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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That really depends on where you live, your health and possibly several points about your parents. Millions and millions of people never get a chance to grab, never get an opportunity to pursue.
Lots of people don't have any better options than to live under a bridge, despite being in an area where that is illegal and not a real option.
I live in the first world nation of Australia where I get free healthcare and practically free education.
U can make changes and make opportunities. Almost everyone has access to the internet or at least a library. If ur born someone that isn't Australia then perhaps try unfucking whatever place you live my ancestors threatened a king to get rights under the magna carta then build the greatest empire this planet has ever seen. Nothing is stopping the bridge dwellers from doing the same except the motivation to do so.
A nation built on stolen land where the better predictor of your class is is you are descendants from the settlers or from tha natives.
Except the inequal distribution of aducational and work opportunities, that assure the intergenerational inequality reproduction.
a concerned note:
Your comment about some people having fought for rights and others not is borderline racist. With precious comments about Darwin, it's a red flag.
All people fight. Some fights are smashed with unimaginable violence. We are watching a live genocide in Gaza to prove this point. Oceania colonization is built upon a genocide. I'm not assuming you have conscience of how disturbing these comments are for a person like me, in South America, where all attempts to built a decent society where meet with USA interventions. Try to think in more broad terms, not only based on your experience, but trying to encompass the multiple experiences in the world.
Does it matter how many times the land was stolen? Cos all of Europe has been stolen by the rest if Europe hundreds of times. Or in Europe do u just call it losing a war? By ur logic I want my Lordship title and land in Prussia back.
Australia has very good public education many public schools rank at or near the top of year12 results. Any citizen granted (gives adequate grades) a loan by the government to go to university (which u pay jack shit for cos its just part of the tax system and maxes out at 10%). Ohh and we noe have free Tafe (trades work education). Work opportunities come from the education its highly illegal and well policed to ensure that workplaces don't discriminate based on race, sex, sexual orientation etc etc. Australia has some of the most extreme wealth mobility in the world. Every word u just stated was comolete bullshit.
How is it racist are you saying that certain racial groups are incapable of such things? That's racist as shit my dude. I'm pretty sure I remember history talking about the black Americans successfully fighting for their rights or did u miss that lesson?
My comments about Darwin have nothing to do with race and where purely about intelligence. Your insinuation that this is about race is highly racist in itself.
Yeah that's how fighting works ether u have more violence and u win or u don't and u lose.
Due to Australia censorship laws I can't comment anything about Israels actions.
Same as when the Vikings invaded the British isles? Or when the Romans tried to crush the Germanic tribes. It took my ancestors 800years of oppression to topple the Roman empire but in the end we won and Rome fell.
I don't bring emotions into discussions it distracts from rationality and leads to poor decision making often resulting in the aforementioned case known as losing.
Its not my job to unfuck everyone else's countries. U want me to come to some country and make it like Australia? That can be done but turns out this practice tends to be called colonisation and u don't seem to be a fan. My experience is of a prosperous first world nation that is prosperous and first world precisely because of the actions you are fighting against. The options are either unfuck ur own nation by urself or get colonised and have someone unfuck it for you. Insert something something having and/or eating cake.