• jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    492·
    9 months ago

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

  • Gigan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    9 months ago

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

  • Diplomjodler@feddit.deEnglish
    22·
    9 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        9 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    9 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.

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      9 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        9 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?)

        • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
          6·
          9 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.

  • Zozano@lemy.lolEnglish
    19·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

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

      • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mlEnglish
        15·
        9 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
          19·
          9 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            9 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)

          • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mlEnglish
            5·
            9 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@kbin.social
    9·
    9 months ago

    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)…

  • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
    5·
    9 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.