Showerthoughts

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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I know it's semantics, but if your great-gramps would time travel to today, he would ask about your pocket TV, and you would reply nah, it's a smartphone

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Which is actually not smartphone, but a general purpose computer with cell internet connection that can be used for many things, one of those is actually calling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Or, I would reply yes, totally. It's called a smart phone, and load up the literal television app called YouTube TV