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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 34 points 8 hours ago

Physical therapy will rapidly accelerate your recovery time and results.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 67 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

One is a requirement to be an organism. The other is a nice to have. A great many creatures simply die after reproducing, for example, which we can interpret to mean the minimum requirement has been met and anything beyond that isn't as important, if we like to view it that way.

Forming that small person is also a bit of a chaotic and messy process involving chance errors of various kinds and variations in the way parts grew. In a sense, the person formed would never be exactly the same if you tried again with the same inputs either.

That this system works as well as it does is a miracle.

EDIT: Missing words.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I feel like once you hit your 40s, you really start to understand that concept of your body only being evolved enough to ensure that you can reproduce and the next generation survives.

In your 40s and you hurt your knee? Fuck you, your knee now hurts for the rest of your life - why aren't you dead already?

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This makes me wonder; why then would women typically have longer life-spans then men? Once women hit menopause they are biologically useless for propogating the species whereas men retain the ability impregnate women for their whole lives.

[–] Trabic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Grandparents are valuable, and women tend to be smaller and require fewer resources to provide wisdom and babysitting.

Source: the top of my head.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, kids take hits all the time that would kill me instantly.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

When my son was a toddler, he went down a slide feet first but on his stomach. I had a complete brain fart and forgot to catch him at the bottom of the slide like I had always done in the past. He few about 3 feet, then landed on the ground on his stomach, his head whipped back and then slammed face first into the ground.

I remember thinking at the time, Jesus Christ, I would be DEAD if that happened to me. But yeah, he cried a little bit and walked it off.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 25 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

So if I don't have kids I can be immortal. I can be the midlander. THERE CAN BE MORE THAN ONE!

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You die and whatever factors that lead you to not reproduce will become less common in the future.

That's the theory anyway!

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Woohoo. Income inequality and pollution will become less common.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Free will and vasectomies will become less common!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

explosive public shitstorms will become less common!

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They got a tridge there too: Midland tridge

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

wait midland is a real place!

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah and they are looking for an authoritative ruler, you should apply!

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago

Nature is messy and incredible.

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 18 points 10 hours ago

Oh good. 4 more years to go.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Have you tried jizzing on the ankle? That's the secret sauce.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 4 points 6 hours ago

I just call my stem cell dealer and spackle that shit on

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

True, this can knock it down to like 4 years.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 3 points 9 hours ago

No way. That's how you get a second ankle and then you got to support it for 18 years before it makes its way in the world.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Does anyone else just want those bacta tanks that they had Luke floating in after his hand was cut off or is that just me?

I bet you could do some serious shit to a person if you had something like that. Just crawl back into this cyber womb and we'll get you fixed up in a week.

[–] Exulion@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Still couldn't regrow limbs. Would definitely be nice though.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago

In Star wars that's because the journey that Luke Skywalker was going though was running in parallels with the first Irish King Nuada of the Tuatha de Danan, (in Welsh known as Llud) who lost his hand and his kingship due to the Irish requirement that Kings be physically flawless only to regain it with a hand made of silver that was magically attached to him.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuada_Airgetl%C3%A1m

If the bacta tank had healed Luke's hand then he wouldn't have gotten the cool robot hand which gave him a point of familiarity with his own cyborg father in their final confrontation.

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)