• @jqubed
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    4910 months ago

    I think the new research is starting to suggest the appendix actually serves a purpose as reservoir for beneficial bacteria

  • @Gigan
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    4310 months ago

    Eating and breathing with the same orifice is very inconvenient and poorly designed.

      • jan teli
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        310 months ago

        Wait you mean I’m not supposed to do it like that!?!?!?

    • niftyOP
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      310 months ago

      Technically you breath through your nose and it goes down another pipe ☝️🤓

      • @TriPolarBearz
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        1310 months ago

        ☝️🤓… Presenting to the emergency room after trying to eat and breathe at the same time.

  • @[email protected]
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    2210 months ago

    If there’s any kind of designer behind this whole mess, that dude should definitely be fired. Piss poor performance from start to finish.

    • @Jyrdano
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      Human body was designed to be just good enough to not break down before you pass your genes down the line. The evolution had expected you to die in your 40s to diarrhea or a tiger, not to an old age.

      • Nougat
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        1210 months ago

        Either way, you’re going to be running.

      • @didnt_readit
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        710 months ago

        God damned planned obsolescence 😤

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        Kin Selection Theory suggests it can be evolutionarily useful to live long enough to be a grandparent, or an uncle/aunt who doesn’t have children. However, even that doesn’t mean you have to pass those years in perfect health.

  • Flying Squid
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    2110 months ago

    I got my gallbladder taken out in December. I didn’t really comprehend the idea that I had a gallbladder before it was taken out, I didn’t feel it missing after it was taken out, and I don’t feel any different now that it’s gone.

    Thanks a lot for that one, God.

    • @[email protected]
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      1310 months ago

      because its just a storage sack for bile that the liver makes losing the gall bladder just means the bile gets injected into your digestive tract directly. (which is why initially, you may have bouts of diarrhea)

      • Flying Squid
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        110 months ago

        And if there’s a God that designed us, he designed us so that it’s absolutely not needed even though gallbladder surgery didn’t exist for tens of thousands of years (or is it 6000?)

        • @[email protected]
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          610 months ago

          keep in mind, people back then didnt live that long, so you were statistically dead by the time gall bladder problems would have probably arisen.

          • Flying Squid
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            610 months ago

            You’d think God would have foreseen a longer lifespan.

  • @[email protected]
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    Imagine combining the liquid waste organ, and the pleasure/reproductive organ, and then putting it next to the solid waste organ.

    Terrible design. Also 2 arms arent enough, make me Goro from Mortal Kombat and we’re good.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      That arms thing has been such a realisation with time, like why only two arms? Let me have designated arms for things

      • @[email protected]
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        1510 months ago

        The appendix is a worm-shaped tube attached to the large intestine in the human body. It is an organ that is credited with very little significance and often removed indiscriminately to avoid complications due to infection.

        However, modern researchers believe that the appendix has many key functions in the human body and it protects the body’s internal environment from infection.

        https://www.news-medical.net/health/Why-do-Humans-have-an-Appendix.aspx

        • @TempermentalAnomaly
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          2010 months ago

          I was joking because the previous commentator made reference to the end of the book called an appendix. And I was calling that vestigial. Calling the end of the book vestigial was kind of funny to me because it’s obviously not true and doubly so because the appendix organ doesn’t appear to be so.

          All of which is to say, apologies for making you suffering my sense of humours.

          • HorseChandelier
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            510 months ago

            Well I knew what you meant and grinned when I read and instantly understood your joke!

            Never apologise for having a “different” sense of humour (unless what you find funny is massively distasteful to others, in which case don’t let on you find the thing funny)

          • @[email protected]
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            510 months ago

            Nah, I knew you were joking, but I thought it was important to let people know that the organ isn’t actually vestigial. I hadn’t had any coffee when I replied to you, sorry for dropping that with no added context or nod to your joke.

  • DessertStorms
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    Boost for “whatever’s going on with uteruses”, I hate that scumbag (was going to make a scumbag uterus meme, then discovered there are many, couldn’t pick one. Enjoy)…

  • @[email protected]
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    610 months ago

    Creationists always want to point out the wonderful things in nature. They aren’t able to cope with its myrad of flaws and how that would come about with a creator who has all the traits they claim: merciful, all knowing, and all powerful. You can take away any one of those and possibly make it fit, but you can’t have all three.

    • Flying Squid
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      810 months ago

      The kind where you don’t have to be extremely limber to lick your own.

      • @platypus_plumba
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        29 months ago

        I really like the contrast of this comment and reply. They disliked the setup but enjoyed the punchline.