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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago (11 children)

I'm 50, and a back injury from my 20s is like "Bonjour my friend, we meet again, ho ho!" It does come back to haunt you.

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 6 days ago (12 children)

You know how they say "kids are resilient" but really it leads to them needing therapy as adults?

I'm convinced a lot of the random physical pains of old age are the delayed effects of those childhood injuries we jumped up from and immediately forgot.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

It really do be like that. But also, cars are too big and drivers are too selfish.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I woke up with horrible neck pain because apparently I did that thing I've been doing every day for my entire life, sleeping, wrong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

See that's where you went wrong. You gotta sleep right. Train your subconscious to not... Who am I kidding, I'm in the same boat. I now have an alarm an hour before I need to get up just so I can take some motrin. Gives it enough time to kick in so I can get up with less pain.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I simply used my arm to grab something light within my reach and my back buckled. Now I've had sciatica for seven weeks. Piriformis syndrome is no fucking joke! Fuck the human body!

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (15 children)

I sneezed at an angle this morning and fucked my back up. Also, why the fuck does a large portion of my body and weight sit atop a single column of bones precariously cushioned by jelly and rubbery bits? And if said jelly/rubbery bits get squeezed a bit too hard, the bones smash nerves that control my fucking extremities?

Nature really fucked us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Used to be horizontal until some weirdo decided they wanted to use front legs to carry their car keys and guns. Imagine doing a wheelie on your motorcycle (not mine!) all the time because you think you can see better that way and don't like SUVs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

"Intelligent design" ..... let's install the main components of the central nervous system that connect to every major and minor part of the body inside the main support structure that carries the entire body.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Anyone who’s routed network cables can tell the spine is rookie work

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

I’ve spent a lot of time under false floors, routing cables in overhead trays, and neatly configuring cables in server racks so nothing gets pinched.

Nature is a fucking amateur.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The spine seems to be working pretty well for every other vertebrate though 🗿

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not going to link the same Louie clip for the third time this month, but we're using a clothesline as a flagpole.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (2 children)

So many poor "design choices" in human anatomy. (Note, I know there's no intelligent design).

The optic nerve. External testicles. Lack of decent fur. The way some nerves and blood vessels are routed make zero sense. An immune system that often wants to kill you. The list goes on. I'm sure a biologist or medical person could add plenty more. Many animals have some of these traits, too. If some trait or process is just barely good enough, nature will chug along with it for millions of years. Nature is all about some redneck engineering.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Using the same tube for breathing and eating is a classic (I type while choking on my tea)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Good catch, I forgot that one! And the other classic is having waste excreting plumbing and reproductive plumbing all bunched together.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago (2 children)

External* testicles are legit really cool though, they change their distance from your body to regulate temperature

*they also can and will retract all the way inside your body if it’s cold enough

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sloths and elephants don't seem to have trouble with their internal testes.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Ah, see the warranty only covers you until you procreate.

From that point on, who cares if your body evolved to crumble into dust immediately after?

In fact kind of a lot of creatures literally die right after creating offspring.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So you're saying that so long as I don't have kids I can live as recklessly as I like and claim the damage on warranty?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Oh. Nonono. Just until you could have had kids.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Can't wait for zero-g retirement homes :)

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