• Majorllama@lemmy.world
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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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          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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      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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    Overly sarcastic productions is one of my favorite YouTube channels.

    Give it a go!

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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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      I want to know at what wavelengths. Did I miss it?

      It bugs me that they say ‘it’s not infrared - it’s photons!’ (paraphrasing).

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        Its not clear to me either, but since they said visible, my guesses would be 680 nanometers or 490 nanometers, because, well, hydrogen.

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          The paper (which is very short) said 500-700nm and referenced an older (1997) paper that reported on a bunch of UV and visual emitting living systems. I looked there but didn’t pinpoint an answer. It did mention that the emission doesn’t usually have sharp peaks (as the reason they trade spectral resolution for sensitivity). It seems like the emitting molecules are large, so it’s probably pretty broad.

          Anyway… that made me nice and sleepy.

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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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    I’d like to request a bug fix: Eyelashes falling into eyeball. Need to fix the physics so they probably spring away or wash out easier.

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      Maybe just not fall out. Let’s just add a user creetion set-up like a video game. Choose sex, height, weight, legs arms blah blah blah.

      Some people would spend 3 hours every morning changing their look, others would always look the same. Some people would be swapping mid activities.

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        If me in computer games that allow character alteration in game is any guide I would be re-speccing myself daily sometimes until I find a look that’s right then sticking to that for ages

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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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      And x~gamma ray to prevent nuclear radiation burns.

      And some electromagnetic field sensors to prevent magnets from ‘being magic’.

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    These are the sort of genetic engineering/eugenists I want to see. None of that “deleting gay gene” or “breeding smart people” pseudo science garbage.

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      I think life would be a little better if we cranked up the gay gene. Y’all know how to party.

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            It’s selective breeding to get certain genetic qualities, which is the definition of eugenics

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              It’s avoiding bad outcomes. Babies from closely related people often have problems. Practically every culture has a method of avoiding close relatives breeding

              Eugenics is about breeding for desirable qualities, a eugenicist’s ideal person still couldn’t make good kids with a close relative

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                Avoiding bad genetics is desirable. Just because it’s normal doesn’t mean it isn’t eugenics

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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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      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.

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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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      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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    Add new receptors to be able to feel wetness.
    This is it cold or wet thing we have going on is just crappy design.