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:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
But if you happen to be the oldest person on Earth, you will be it for a significantly longer time than you would ever be the youngest person.
So, on average, people are just as long the youngest, as they are the oldest person on Earth.
And that, my dear friends, is the reason why you should never look at the average, but always at the median value!
(Second-oldest person): "If I can hold out a bit longer, then I'll have years left ahead of me"
260 children are being born every minute on this planet. There are only 60 seconds in a minute, which means that multiple children are necessarily being born at the same time.
But at what precise point does birth actually take place? After the water breaks? During labor? When the first limb emerges?
Or does the process begin at conception, during embryonic development? Is it when the embryo first develops recognizable organs? When the structures that eventually become the lungs begin to form?
There is no single, objectively identifiable “youngest person on Earth.” There is simply a continuous process of human development, with no meaningful point at which one individual suddenly becomes more or less human than they were a moment before.
And perhaps there is no meaningful “oldest person” either. There is simply a continuous human lifespan, measured from one arbitrary point to another.
I'm uninviting you to the party.
That's fine, they're my plus one.
It's not a party until someone disagrees in detail.
Let's take a random moment and define it the birth moment. Let's take a moment that is precise measured like the first air touching the skin. Or uninterrupted light. Or whatever then we just need to go down to milliseconds and we have a youngest human.
When you get to be the oldest person, every single person who was alive at your time of birth, billions of them, are now dead.
Bro never even got a sip of his coffee :[
I guess the best I can hope for is an incredibly unique death so people remember me forever.
don't just hope, make your dreams come true.
You were the youngest person on earth, if you're lucky, by a fraction of a second.
I just watched this doc the other week:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oldest_Person_in_the_World
It goes through this exact thought
Anyone can be the oldest person at any given moment of time: they just should start considering other people shit, not persons.
Sooo, I should be the oldest person alive since I'm 16...