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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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- 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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Something similar to this is addressed in the movie About Time. Once the time traveller has children, he can't mess with the time before that or he gets different kids.
What a fantastic movie. I'm literally in the middle of a rewatch right now.
does he... keep all the kids and shifts them all to one timeline, or does he have to Sophie's Choice it?
It's a surprisingly excellent movie. You should watch it and find out!
Although since he proved he can time jump with his sister, he could have taken his daughter with him back to the past, changed the past to fix the bad thing from happening, and then brought his daughter back and just had an extra unexplained kid.
Sister's memories had been rewritten when she returned, implying there's some sort of continuity tether in the timeline. Who knows what would happen to (at minimum) the memories of a child who no longer exists.
Plus, I think you underestimate how unbelievably creepy it would be to show up to your house and introduce your wife to the strange kid you "just found?"... Like, immediate 999 (they're in the UK) and divorce.