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my only problem is with hemorroids, what went wrong in the design there!!
by mikesabbagh 5y ago
my only problem is with hemorroids, what went wrong in the design there!!
- adventured 5y agoAnother case of humans going against their evolutionary model.
- ekianjo 5y agoOh and where is the evolutionary model supposed to lead us then?
- pshc 5y agoWe're supposed to squat, not sit, when eliminating.
- azernik 5y agoAnd have a different diet, probably
- slver 5y agoNice thing about evolution is that if everyone keeps eating plastic for a few centuries, eventually we'll evolve to digest it properly. Of course most will die at first. But that's a price evolution is always willing to pay.
- ByThyGrace 5y agoWill we evolve, or will our gut bacteria evolve first? Regardless, I am now picturing a future where evolved humans find the smell of plastic appetizing.
- astrange 5y agoAlso a good way to solve gun violence, if you're very patient.
- meowster 5y agoJust spread your cheeks as you go to sit down on the toilet seat, and you can rest your elbows on your thighs. Mechanically it is like squating. I barely have to wipe if at all sometimes, and I don't have that great of a diet.
- pasquinelli 5y agoto not having hemorrhoids. i'm guessing based on context.
- slver 5y ago"Going against their evolutionary model" is the primary, and in fact only way of evolving.
- markdown 5y agoEvolution not keeping up with changes in diet I guess. Do our primate cousins in the forests and zoos get hemorroids?
- jandrese 5y agoYou gotta spend more hours each day chasing prey animals to exhaustion.
- ed25519FUUU 5y agoMe, getting a little winded walking up the stairs after sitting in front of a computer, remembering that my body evolved to literally chase down a horse until the horse ran out of energy.
- bserge 5y agoYou're using it too much!
- dimovich 5y agoSquating... The sitting toilets that we have now are not good for the body.
- sneak 5y agoWe're all way past the evolutionary MTBF, thanks to antibiotics and vaccines. Not a lot of 20 year olds with that issue. This planet would have our current models dying of "natural causes" well before 35 if it weren't for our intentionally bucking the trend.
- astrange 5y agoThe human lifespan hasn't changed much throughout history, and even access to doctors don't seem to matter that much - the Amish in the US live just as long as everyone else. What's changed is that people don't die as infants anymore.
- sneak 5y agoI don't think that's accurate; a quick (admittedly not rigorous) search suggests that human lifespans have approximately doubled in the last 500 years or so. (The modern Amish also don't currently live in a society with endemic smallpox.) It also doesn't make sense: vaccines and antibiotics don't just protect infants.
- astrange 5y agoThe interesting number isn't average lifespan though, it's average lifespan after you reach 20. > The modern Amish also don't currently live in a society with endemic smallpox. That's why I said access to doctors, not to public health, which is what's kept most of us alive. Though I don't know how modern their approach to childbirth is, that one's important.
- Bayart 5y agoThe life expectancy for a 1-year old has gone something along the line of +40%. That's significant but not doubled. Infant mortality is by very large margin the most important factor in the changes to life expectancy at birth. And you can get most of the way there with just basic hygiene rules. Full on modern medicine only helps with the hedge cases. One interesting data point is that the age at which people transition economically from accumulating wealth to transferring it has remained about the same (around 64), at least as far as Western European inheritance records prior to demographic transition show. Ie. people retire at the same age. They just spend more time being old. I'm not sure it's all that much progress. I wish we found ways of making people useful longer, rather than just trying to keep them from dying.