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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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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not as fun without the suffering.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like reverse lobsters. You gotta be able to taste the fear. 🀌

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, our source cells are from the most depressed individuals we could find. And our workers are the poorest immigrant pre-teens to ensure maximum suffering.

Don't forget to try our human tiddy sour cream, it's sourced from the same pre-teens!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

So far, there's still suffering in lots of convoluted, drawn-out, disturbing ways : ( hoping they can quickly advance technology past the current methods

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With every passing day I come to regret more and more my ability to read.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You want some of this? You want to really eat this? Hit the button and subscribe, and you'll get monthly shipments of meat grown from various parts of my body!

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  • Armpit: $70
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  • Dat ass: $150
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thighs would be easily the tastiest part, should be more expensive imo

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Regular cannibalism is ethical, it just depends on who you eat

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I could see people from onlyfans auctioning their meats. It's the only natural progression of lab-grown meat industry.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I hate that you're right about this

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The dildo industry in general is gonna be filled with even more realism.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy fucking hell, that's a non-chalant way to express a horror movie setting. It sounds like something out of Hellraiser.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Hellraiser 10: The Fundraiser

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

That's fucked up... (I wonder how much money I can get for my meat)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"cannibal" is a derogatory term. Nowadays we prefer to be called gourmetally challenged.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vegetarianism: the custom of eating vegetables. So I guess we are witnessing the birth of humanitarianism.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

we've never breed humans selectively for tastiness

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Look for the ones that drink a lot of beer. It'll be like Kobe beef but human.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the Morlocks have entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seems like a real risk for the introduction of prion diseases.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

But you could knock out the prion protein gene in the cell lines you use for meat production. It’s not needed for cell survival as far as I know.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Eat a steak made of the cells of your favourit celebrity.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

future billion dollar idea right there

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Literally eat the rich.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, that reminded me of the story of "Perfume" again.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can see someone submitting a DNA sample to Ancestry and watching the horror/drama unfold.

What would be worse - finding out the sample came from a missing person, or someone who never offered the donation?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This was the Mormon agenda all along.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is it really cannibalism if the meat wasn't actually from a person? πŸ€”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

They say you are what you eat, so you eat what you are. Therefore you are a cannibal

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why would we eat lab-grown human when there are so many delicious animals to be had?

Secondly, A1, Heinz 57 or Lawry's?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Just s & p, that's for me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

A1 for steak, 57 for burgers, only used the Lawrys marinade but now I gotta try some of the sauce.

Agreed though, why go for long pork when pork pork is already so tasty?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This is the next Black Mirror episode for sure

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

In Arthur C Clark's 1964 short story "Food of the Gods" a synthetic- meat company came out with a very tasty and great-selling product. Turns out it's cultured human tissue.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

There's also the film Soylent Green (1973), though that isn't lab-grown human tissue

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

'The Ophiuchi Hotline,' by John Varley. A food engineer is sentenced to death after the authorities discover that her 'banana meat' tree has human DNA. Great read.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could I grow my own meat and then tell people to eat me?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Reminds me a bit of the plot the movie Antiviral but with meat instead of illnesses

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

We could see the advent of ethical and unharmful autophagia

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically, I guess.

Unfortunately, we still seem to be very far away from it replacing our usual way of growing meat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0zCf4Yup34

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I wish people would be willing to put off eating all meat until we have lab grown stuff, like how most people are willing to put off eating human meat until we have lab grown stuff.

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

Daaang girl, you disgusting!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I told my friends that if this happens I would want to taste it.

I am still hearing about it...and I think I will hear about for a looong time.

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