• Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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    I’d like to reengineer the mosquito to draw blood samples, identify viruses, then create and spread vaccinations.

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    • remove redundant form of hemoglobin

    Ah yes let’s make the entire system vulnerable so a single attack vector can shutdown every node.

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    But feeling like I’m falling when I’m going to sleep is the only time I really feel alive…

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    I’m glad I’m not the only one who has nightmares of slipping on ice and falling down stairs when I sleep. The kicks I do are annoying.

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    I would absolutely go for 6 fingers. Preferably an additional thumb. Not to mention an additional joint in each. Let’s go base 12!

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    They are forgetting that TERRIBLE design choice where if you accidentally bite the inside of your cheek it swells up making it easier to bite it on accident again and again.

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      There’s also the weird decision to put a bunch of easily-bruised bones in your butt which would normally be used for a tail.

      I once had a creationist defend the coccyx as being necessary for keeping muscles together. That was fun.

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          I think they’re calling you out on saying “on accident” rather than “by accident”

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            Are both not acceptable ways of typing that out? I know I’m bad at punctuation, grammar and spelling, but I thought you could say you did something on accident or by accident interchangeably.

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              Nope, it’s just by accident. Must be a certain demographic that seems to have fallen into the habit of saying it as I never hear people use “on” in real life.

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    • separated genetalia from waste systems

    • removed body hair and baldness

    • fixed acne glitch

    • added ability to change biological sex, with default neutral configuration

    • rerouted laryngeal nerve

    • uterus lining is now reabsorbed automatically

    • reinforced spine and knees

    • simplified foot structure

    • adjusted mental pathways to better adapt to modern environment

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      For some reason when I read this I read “Reticulating Splines” instead of reinforced spines. I was like wow random sims reference.

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      i’m not sure i want to know what the first point would look like, moving either the genitals or the anus sounds horrifying, and i especially don’t want to imagine where penis wielders would urinate or ejaculate from if those functions are separated…

      …perhaps we’d do like octopi, reach under and fetch a sperm package that we present instead of a wedding ring? Or maybe let’s just leave it like it is and not create horrors.

    • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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      Reabsorption of uterine lining is called being “in heat” in dogs and cats. It’s quite common in the animal world, and it makes all the males very rapey.

      One of the prevailing theories about why humans pair bond is our males can’t tell when our females are ovulating/menstruating so it’s advantageous to be kinder and stick around for more sex.

      TL;DR: I think that’s not a great idea.

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    -cartilage in joints can regenerate

    -body can synthesize its own vitamin c

    Other species already do these things smh.

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    • Eating and breathing pathways no longer intersect. This should prevent the bug when food could block the airway and result in death.
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      Yeah, it’s crazy to me that people believe we were “intelligently designed” when our food hole and breathing hole are so close that we can only use one at a time, and that our waste dumping grounds are right next to the amusement park.

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        you mean the slightly more muddy amusment park, that is next to the new, purprose built one, right?

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      This is actually a result of changes to our larynx and stuff, which allows us to make such a variety of sounds when speaking. In other animals (and human babies), the air and food tubes are physically separated at rest. But in humans, our epiglottis can’t properly keep things separate because our larynx is further down in our throat.

      So, I’m gonna have to deny this request on the grounds that it will necessarily break the speech feature, which many of our users depend on heavily.

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        I remember reading humans can still “breathe” amniotic fluid once they get passed the gag reflex. I remember wondering how someone figured that out… Maybe it’s just a theory

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      “left user note to pause breathing while swallowing to prevent esophageal trespass when backup breathing interface used for food consumption. No change recommended to emergency breathing access. Closing DOC_UPDATE”

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    We need to have some process engineers look at the pregnancy and birthing process, there’s much room for improvement. Maybe take a totally new approach to it, it’s just not it.

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      Just divide at a cellular level, nature has already solved this problem! Upstart life forms these days thinking they can reinvent the wheel.

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      Agreed, that shits rough on people. Impacts of teeth and post-partum. Yet a funny thing there is that we can tell you down to the day you were impregnated by the growth of the fetus.

      Next person. Sir drink this stuff to make you shit your brains out and I’m going to shove my finger in your ass to see if we can get a scope of what your insides are like.

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    2.0? Bruh, humans are still on pre-v1 beta

    Frankly, I don’t know how anyone can look at the absolute shit show that is the human body and go “yup, this was totally intelligently designed”

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          Unfortunately the alpha roll-out had a major unpached bug causing a complete internal breakdown of the ethics and intelligence processing units in all those updated.

          Some hypothesis that as alpha men now have the processing capacity of an ant, they may soon evolve a hive-mind. As this would allow all mental processing to be outsourced to a singular fat orange queen.

          Edit: spelling

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      ironically we may well have been the only somewhat intelligently designed animal for a long time, since there’s a pretty good argument that we’re self-domesticated.

      so like, we’re not just a prerelease, we’re a fucking fork of a prerelease