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paddirn, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?

Micro-organisms taking a shit on our teeth doesn’t cause cavities.

spacecowboy,

Just brush your teeth bro it’s real easy takes like 2 mins

morphballganon,

I suspect they do. This post is about fantasy.

Kase,

On that note, can we make teeth less fragile in general? Mine are all messed up from grinding them at night and from brushing way too hard as a kid. :/

shinigamiookamiryuu, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?

Remove taste buds. Whole species have been threatened due to that.

Malfeasant,

I’m not sure I follow… Like we wouldn’t kill animals if they didn’t taste so good?

shinigamiookamiryuu,

Some of them at least. Some diets are improvised out of necessity, but then again, we also have restaurants, which are not a necessity. If one animal is plentiful and does the trick, we shouldn’t have to go to a restaurant to eat an exotic animal that isn’t plentiful.

shinigamiookamiryuu, in Congrats, you've been made Ruler of the World. How do you fuck it up?

By initiating massive drilling projects in order to roboform the Earth into its own spaceship so that we can travel to other star systems, dragging us all on an adventure nobody asked for.

Sterile_Technique, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?
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Iirc there are some reptiles with two sets of eyelids on each eye, the inner one being transparent, so they can close just the one while under water or in like dusty/windy conditions, but still be able to see.

Humans need in on that action.

LordOfLocksley,

It’s called a nictitating membrane. Cats also have it to protect their eyes when they fight

spacecowboy,

We used to have that. It “devolved” into that lil bump in the corner of your eye by your nose bridge.

Sterile_Technique,
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Sigh… we got rid of the cool shit, but hung onto time-bombs like the appendix. WTF, ancestors?!

spacecowboy,

Believe it or not, we’re beginning to understand the appendix more and it may not be as useless as we were told.

lifeandhealth.org/lifestyle/…/08288.html

Sterile_Technique,
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Yeah that’s been the leading hypothesis for a while now, but even if that’s its intended purpose, I’d argue it still does more harm than good. I work in the OR, so I might be a bit biased by only ever seeing the surgical side of things, but we take appendixes out ALL THE TIME because like to inflame and rupture, which without surgical intervention means your abdominal cavity is now full of poop, and then you go septic, and then you die. Those little fuckers are SUPER dangerous.

Intestinal biome is definitely important - if it gets fucked up bad enough, some patients need a fecal transplant, which is exactly what it sounds like: they take a donor’s poop and shove it up the patient’s ass deep enough enough for it to pass and hopefully shed enough microcritters to seed a new biome.

…but we don’t get paged a 3am to rush to the hospital to frantically set up for a fecal transplant because some dude rolled into the ER needing a poop donation. We do get get those calls when some poor bastard rolls into the ER writhing in pain because his appendix is stretched to capacity and is getting ready to pop; or has already popped and we need to flay his abdomen open to clean him out.

So yeah, I’d vote to just make them not exist. If hospitals have to take on the occasional extra fecal transplant patient, I’d call that a fair trade.

zarathustra0, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?

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  • LesserAbe, (edited )

    Hmm. This reminds me of those experiments where they got the rat a button to get a dopamine hit and the rat just kept pounding on it

    bacon_pdp,

    neck

    That is already a thing.

    7% of all men will orgasm instantly if a firm pressure is applied to the back of the neck where the spine connects to the skull during sex. only 2% of women have that same biological feature.

    AstralPath, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?

    No more fucking hemorrhoids!

    JusticeForPorygon, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?
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    I want a cancer ray for people I don’t like

    nxdefiant,

    you might be the only person who added weapons. That’s incredible, if this was reddit, cancer ray would have been post 3 or 4, max.

    JusticeForPorygon,
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    Tbf I stole the idea from that clip from the Harley Quinn TV show (I think that’s what it was at least)

    morphballganon, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?

    No nearsightedness/farsightedness

    No arched noses

    Everyone can breathe through their noses silently

    No pectus carinatum/excavatum

    Digestive tract hits limit on sugar digested and rejects the rest

    No loosening of sensitive hair follicles; make every scalp hair difficult to remove/fall out

    moonbunny, in What are some tech predictions for 2024 that actually could happen?

    VR tv shows?

    MystikIncarnate,

    I think VR is going the other way.

    Zuckerberg killed VR with the metaverse…

    KpntAutismus, (edited )

    he bought the perfect VR headset company and then made it very difficult to homebrew and sideload. Mark killed VR.

    MystikIncarnate,

    He also made the Oculus lineup so cheap by subsidizing the costs with selling your data, that many VR startups couldn’t compete. Now there’s only a handful of groups still making any VR gear. Immediately after that he killed all PC based VR, though you can still do it with an add-on cable or wirelessly (which sucks on most WiFi), as an afterthought.

    This just locked everyone into the Oculus ecosystem and Facebook by extension, bricking more than a few headsets in the process. Now you either have to pay thousands to boutique VR outfits, or buy an Oculus and sell your soul to Zuckerberg for a cut rate product.

    I hold Mark solely responsible for killing VR as a consumer product.

    TheGalacticVoid,

    He made VR less accessible to companies but way more accessible to end users. I don’t think it’s fair to say that VR is dead yet.

    MystikIncarnate,

    In my mind, it’s in its death throes.

    Zuckerberg killed competition and innovation in the industry.

    TheGalacticVoid,

    I wouldn’t be surprised if VR booms soon in a hyper-competitive environment like phones pre-2016. We already had a boom, but there was a tiny market for decent VR. Now that Meta, Apple, and Samsung are making decent headsets at different price points, it’s only a matter of time before Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo start doing crazy stuff that sells well. Hopefully, Valve and HTC become even bigger players as well.

    SendMePhotos,

    I thought 3d TV/movies were neat but not essential.

    FluffyPotato, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?

    Stop aging at 20

    cm0002, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?

    god has left the chat

    Usernameblankface, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?
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    Appetite is 100% linked to calories needed. You still enjoy food, but the moment you swallow enough calories for whatever you did since the last time you ate, you have zero appetite and anything put in front of you loses all appeal.

    Terrible for survival situations, great for modern life where an abundance of food is a bigger problem than a scarcity.

    Tippon,

    Yes, but with a tweak.

    Being able to tell how much food you need in advance would be better, so that instead of thinking that you’re really hungry and piling your plate, you only buy or prepare as much food as you need. That would cut down on food waste too.

    Usernameblankface,
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    Maybe it could be based on the average daily calories used each day over the past month to replenish exactly what’s been used plus predict ahead until the next meal time?

    RBWells,

    My appetite is at least 90% based on calories needed, since I was around 25, I 'm over 50 now. My kids laugh at me when I sometimes say I’m still full 6 hours after eating, but sometimes I am. Or eat, then eat ten minutes later. And usually I stay at the same weight unless intentionally bulking or cutting.

    One exception - I lose appetite when stressed, and rarely but but sometimes have anxiety around eating still. But most of the time, my appetite just follows my calorie expenditure. Can’t be the only person like that, it seems a normal state?

    Malfeasant,

    No, you are fortunate. I’m always hungry, I have to consciously resist the urge to eat constantly.

    RBWells,

    I am sorry, that sounds dreadful. Always you have had hunger? Eating does not cause satiation? I also can feel empty without being hungry sometimes, it’s honestly a good feeling and best state to fall asleep.

    Yes the tuned appetite should be universal.

    In the interest of full disclosure - I did reach it coming out of anorexia so not overweight but underweight, but it has settled out to keep me at a healthy size as an adult. Except for a few very stressful years in my early 40s I lost some but bounced back. I think more people, at least in the US, are coming from the other side and I don’t have experience with that.

    Malfeasant,

    Always. Haven’t always been overweight though, that started in my late 20s. When I was young, I could eat nonstop and stayed skinny mostly because I was riding a bicycle nearly every waking moment.

    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?
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    Poop out the front and only when feeling sad about the future

    Rhynoplaz,

    I’d feel sad about the future every time I thought about having to poop out the front.

    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA, (edited )
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    Buy play doh extruders

    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zm2hq61fVTE/maxresdefault.jpg

    For your front butt

    zcd, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?

    Let me just say that if God was a city planner, he would not put a playground next to a sewage system

    Kolanaki,
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    “You’re about as useful as an asshole on my elbow.”

    This phrase has always befuddled me because the elbow would be more convenient a location for an asshole.

    nxdefiant,

    Salad bars would be a lot less common.

    LesserAbe,

    Arguably God is a city planner, and that is how he laid it out…

    HatchetHaro,
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    as a gay bottom, my sewage system is sometimes my playground

    Blamemeta, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?

    Periods. Fuck periods. There has to be a better way.

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