I think the new research is starting to suggest the appendix actually serves a purpose as reservoir for beneficial bacteria
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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Still ruptured and nearly killed me as a teenager ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Did your appendix cause you to lose your arm as well?
Here's a replacement: \
In most instances you wouldn’t need an arm if your hand is hovering around where it would be with an arm.
I know a man who knows all about that. His name’s Ray.
From an evolutionary perspective, that's just reusing something that had otherwise lost its purpose.
Eating and breathing with the same orifice is very inconvenient and poorly designed.
If you're eating through your nose, I have some good news for you.
Wait you mean I'm not supposed to do it like that!?!?!?
Technically you breath through your nose and it goes down another pipe ☝️🤓
☝️🤓... Presenting to the emergency room after trying to eat and breathe at the same time.
Birds do it better.
If there's any kind of designer behind this whole mess, that dude should definitely be fired. Piss poor performance from start to finish.
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.
Either way, you’re going to be running.
God damned planned obsolescence 😤
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.
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.
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)
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?)
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.
You'd think God would have foreseen a longer lifespan.
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.
That arms thing has been such a realisation with time, like why only two arms? Let me have designated arms for things
They thing at back of books is bad
It's vestigial.
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
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.
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.
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)
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It was funny. Better joke than mine.
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)..
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.