…that if they ever use in even a slightly wrong way can end up leaving them with debilitating pain for the rest of their lives.
Really bad design flaw, wtf NATURE!
That’s because evolution isn’t trying to make anything, it’s just what happened to get passed on
Even if it were “working towards a goal” there are so many generations between any starting point and the end, that you could find one and say “wow this is silly, why doesn’t it have X yet”.
As we all know, the end goal of evolution is carcinization. We should not have soft outsides. We need a shell, NOW.
I want big meaty claws!
Damn you the chaos of reality! I want teleology!
I got u
What is that
Of course it’s Australia
Are we sure this isn’t what happens to Jeff Goldbloom if he steps into the transformation machine from The Fly with @Dort_Owl@hexbear.net instead of a fly?
Evolution: I made that spine for quadrupeds, you lunatic. What was I supposed to do, throw everything out and start from scratch the minute a protohomonid freak decided it would be funny to start going around on two legs?
ahem, it made that spine for bony fish. land animals was already stretching the design beyond anything reasonable
Humans(in the wild) would typically pass on their genes long before back issues tend to crop up
Tell me about it, I’m still mad that I have to eat every day
can’t poop if you don’t eat
Can’t fart without the beanis
If I eat beanis too often I develop a tolerance and lose farting power
evolution be like: anything that happens after you successfully give birth is out of scope.
Sort of. As a social species that relies on trickery more than physical prowess, we seem to have selected for people to often live to grandparenting age so that the tricks are built upon and transmitted. Groups of hominids who weren’t as long-lived might have lacked strategies to survive extreme weather or ecological fluctuations, or indeed competition from tricksier hominids.
But you don’t necessarily need a strong back to be an old geezer telling the story of how the village figured out how to survive an unusually long winter 40 years ago.
That’s not even the worst part of human anatomy. What maniac would put the entertainment district and the waste disposal plant in the same place?
Three engineers were arguing about what kind of engineer God is.
Electrical engineer: “surely God is an electrical engineer, the brain and nerves are a symphony of exquisite circuitry.”
Mechanical engineer: “no, look at the ballet between bone, muscle and sinew. God must be a mechanical engineer.”
Civil engineer: “God is a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipe right through a recreational area.”
let me ask you a question, why do pissing and shitting and fucking all happen in a 2 inch radius?Due to budget cuts the Department of Waste Disposal and the Department of Reproduction will be merged. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Monotremes: are we nothing to you??
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When some caveman is done beating his meat to cave drawings of awooga and “marking” his territory, what if he doesn’t have any leaves left to wipe any leftover cum off his dick and foreskin? But since the caveman piss and cum from the same hole, the piss will flush whatever leftover cum that’s stuck in the penis hole and foreskin.
It was that or rerouting waste disposal to food intake and that already had to be shared with respiration. Fewer holes the better and all
I’m still pissed about external genitals
i literally don’t even know how my back is supposed to be at this point, I feel like my beer belly is kinda tugging my spine forward but then if I consciously straighten up idk if it’s any better
also like fuck I had perfect sleep for a while after my partner bought us a new mattress but within a year it already started to feel uncomfortable, rotating it doesn’t help much, and it’s like, fuck, are mattresses really thousands of fucking dollars but get all worn out in less than a year??
there’s no way we can get another new mattress soon though
and I made it worse by fucking up the mattress pad we had, I put it through the wash and woops the plastic parts of it got all fucked up, so now it easily bunches up under me ahhhhhh
I’m struggling with that now too. The beer belly spine thing is called anterior pelvic tilt and I’ve heard arguments on both side as to whether it’s better to deliberately correct it or not. Personally I like the way I look more when I correct it so that’s what I’ve been going with. I also get this satisfying pop in my lower back when I straighten out the tilt.
I was helping my back pain a lot with hamstring stretches but ive slacked off immensely because i hate stretching 😫 my back pain is also impacted by rowing a lot though.
I think i have some kind of nodule over my sacroiliac joint because there’s this fatty feeling lump that’s basically the center of my lower back pain
Go with tempurpedic if you can afford the debt. ive never slept better
The problem is like, how long do they last though? It’s hard shopping for anything and if it’s thousands of dollars I need it to be comfortable for years :( not months 😔
True. I’ve had mine for about a year so I can’t speak for the long term. I got the cheapest one so it might not hold up as well as the $10k ones.
feels better than any spring mattress I’ve ever slept on though
Mammals already have very archaic spine construction (looking at you, intervertebral discs), and humans use it in ways it was not designed to be used with the inevitable results.
Evolution is the equivalent of a software dev who builds sprawling tangles of spaghetti code that in the short term work just well enough not to raise any obvious problems but have corner-case bugs and soon-to-be-obsolete dependencies hiding like time bombs and would be better off rewritten from the ground up
Work on your core.
Leg lifts
Yeah there’d be less back pain if people did at least a little working out. Like, your body evolved for hunting and gathering and being outside a lot and running and pulling and hitting rocks together and yadda yadda. Evolution did not anticipate in 100 000 years we’d all be sitting all day
unintelligent design
Every time I’m bent way over and pick up something I’m amazed it even works without me tipping over. I guess that’s as much our hips and legs, but it’s still pretty amazing.
Back injuries suck and all but it seems like the job it has to do is insanely complex. I don’t think anyone could design a robot that could bend over and pick up stuff for 80 years without needing repairs.
And some people’s backs are born messed up, or become messed up as they hit puberty growth spurts because genetics.
Just great!
I mean the human body is the most silly body out there, look at our feet, they’re so weird
I’m going to become a eugenicist for eliminating back pain.
or how about this. exosuits. instead of throwing money at genAI and shitty humanoid robots to replace us i just want practical, affordable, relatively lightweight powered exoskeletons
The first application under capitalism would probably be ubercops beating protesters to a pulp with their exoskeleton
You can already rent them out in China to assist with long hikes and such
i can’t believe they combined two of my favorite things like that
They don’t even have to be externally powered, just supporting our bone structure such that our muscles can move us with minimal skeletal degradation
That will just atrophy your muscles
nah it’s about providing protection more then making you stronger.
allowing repetitive movement, holding your arms out for long periods without tiring, and reinforcing your skeleton and tendons.
actual iron man style artificial muscle suits are not there yet
maximizing productivity
