this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
36 points (86.0% liked)

Showerthoughts

32401 readers
1180 users here now

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:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

If that happens, walls will be obsolete.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think immigration borders would be the main issue. It's pretty easy to get into most countries for the price of a return plane ticket, and then you just don't leave. Unless teleportation was much cheaper and more convenient it wouldn't change much. I think it would have an impact on customs and smuggling. Pretty easy to bring anything to anywhere without ant chance of interception.

But the biggest shift would be security. Presuming anyone could just make anything appear anywhere, I think the rich and powerful would be very afraid. If teleporting a homemade bomb into someone's palatial mcmansion was as easy as 3d printing a gun then people wouldn't have to even go full Luigi to terrorise those people. Remember the anthrax scare? Posting poison is one thing, but just making clouds of it appear in bedrooms or offices with destinctive oval-shapes, would be quite a different level.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 9 hours ago

This is exactly what I was thinking. Immigration? Hah! Murder! Theft. But mostly murder. Musk would already be gone, Trump too. Putin. It would practically be a death sentance to be a world leader.