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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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I can eat sushi, pizza, samosas, kebab (kabobs, döner or shawarmas depending on your frame of reference), gyoza/pot stickers/tortellone/pasteczki (or whatever), noodles/ramen/spaghetti, knödeln/kroppkakor and so on and so on. Leaving lots of cultures unsaid.

I can enjoy music, cringy cultural movies (animated and not), fun cirque sessions (even without animals being endangered), go to festivals for various cultures, enjoin then in our cultures of scouting, mountaineering, hiking and share my love of enjoying nature.

I can drive electric cars, communicate on Internet forums, keep in touch with new friends as well as loved ones across the world.

I would be in a much poorer world without you all.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Besides all of that valid stuff, immigration is the only reason the US doesn't have slowing/declining population numbers like many developed countries now have.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

The irony is most Americans are descendants of immigrants.

"You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."

What a godless country.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Immigrants make a country great. One of the reasons why I'm happy about the increased immigration in the USA, and why I'm sad about the decreased immigration in Canada.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yeah isn't that nice to have underpaid third world wage slaves cooking for us? So wholesome

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I really doubt that's what OP meant, but if you want to fight allies to weaken the left as the right unifies to kill us, I can't really stop you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Should we start rewriting the comment to inform but not interfere? With a FTFY and strike through?

At least would be a fun trend to see I think

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

You can have culinary trends without migrants. Like sushi, the best sushi IMO is still the authentic sushi. Its neat I can get it in my vicinity though.

Street food fusion is a whole other level though. With that you couldn't be more right. Craving late night street snacks now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

I'm from the bike/pedestrian-friendly community of /fuckcars. It's a far whiter immigrant mentality, but I imagine trends like that wouldn't have occurred if not for Dutch immigrants; or even American immigrants visiting the Netherlands, most specifically the Not Just Bikes channel.

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

Looking back at the history of England. We have had wave after wave of immigrants/invaders. Each wave brought a period of tension. That period was followed by a period of innovation.

The new people, with new views means old ideas are re-evaluated. New skill, flavours and modes of thought became part of our culture.

Even our language improved. Part of English's power is the level of nuance with word choice. A loft of that comes from melding multiple root languages in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Normans did fuck things up, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As did the vikings. The long term results were generally an improvement however.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

The Normans were third generation Viking settlers of France, so the Vikings did have a huge impact on the British isles for a few centuries there.

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