>developes precise eyes
>doesn’t know where to put the blood vessels
>“fuck it, we’ll put them in front of the receptors”
>blood vessels always visible
>“we’ll fix it in post”
>actually works out
>MFW they have to add a blind spot for vessel/nerve management
Anon critiques humanity
Submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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LouNeko@lemmy.world 2 months ago
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You mean running the wires in front of the screen isn’t the best design??
nectar45@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Flexing on those other loser species with my opposable thumbs and ability throw stones
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
opposable thumbs to throw stones, big brain to throw shade
rockerface@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Also, this whole sweating system is actually very efficient water based cooling. Most land species don’t have anything that’s even close.
KombatWombat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We spec’d for stamina, which turned out to be a hard counter to the current meta. We also have a flexible diet, fine motor control, excellent heat regulation, intricate vocalizations, and arguably best-in-class intelligence (although neanderthals did have larger brains, and other apes have better working memory).
But we are suffering from our success really. We were able to dominate even with an unoptimized build. So we have things like an appendix and other vestigial structures. Our spines are serviceable for bipedalism but are prone to developing issues and stress points. And our teeth don’t last nearly as long as much of the rest of our body without frequent external maintenance. And our young take a very long time to develop, to the point the actual birth happens basically as late as possible without being a guaranteed death sentence for the mother rather than when the child is ready for the world. Also, humans have a tremendously high ratio of penis to total body mass among primates, making you wonder what kind of freak was behind our character creation.
Shayeta@feddit.org 2 months ago
I’m pretty sure I read somewhere the appendix actually functions as backup storage for gut microbes.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I think thats a thesis that hasn’t been properly peer reviewed (though it does have some clinical evidence), which is to say its not widely accepted as a reason for it to exist (but that that may be changing).
Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
…mother fucker… we were built buy a fucking neckbeard incel…weren’t we?
marte@lemmy.eco.br 1 month ago
That’s actually a very accurate description of the Christian God
MTK@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Once you see that evolution is like the laziest worker ever that wants to do nothing all day but needs the money, and natural selection as the boss that doesn’t give a shit and just gives him tasks and only cares if they are done. You will understand why things are the way they are.
“Why is the mop so moldy and disgusting?” Well because natural selection told evolution to mop the floors every day but never said to clean the mop, and the cleaning products are good enough to clean even when the mop is moldy, so there is no need to care about the moldiness of the mop.
Comment105@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Why did you mind go to moldy mops?
Bad experience?
MTK@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Idk, just a good example since the mold can be thought of as mutations that are not wanted but don’t interfere with the survival of the species.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Amon is under the impression that humans are designed, so they’re not in the smarter half of humanity
Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Female specimen bleeds once a month and is plagued hormonal fuckery that makes life unbearable at times. Emotional regulation: hahaha fuck you. Physical discomfort: yessir. Terrible pain from cramps, hormonal migraines and other such hormone related pains: amazing. Acne, oily hair, skin, smelly sweat and bloatedness when hormones go brrrrr: cool.
Vag-hole too small to squeeze out baby head and will often rip open. If unlucky, female specimen will bleed to death after giving birth, leaving baby without protection and food source. Female specimen only has a very small window to procreate and is most fertile when her brain is the least developed post puberty. When her brain is finally catching up in maturity, her body is starting to regress in fertility and getting pregnant is now a risk to her and the baby. Is somehow blamed and often punished for her biology literally fucking with her from the age of 9 to menopause.
I would fucking love if my biggest problem was that my reproductive organs were dangling between my legs and got a bit hot once in awhile.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 months ago
Oh yeah, if god shaped us with clay or something, why the fuck did he make women like that???
Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Adam was made from clay. Eve was made from Adam’s rib and had the audacity to eat some goofy apple. As punishment, all women were doomed to be in horrible pain during childbirth and since they were made from Adam’s rib, they are also a man’s property. Religion is so kind to us, lol.
That’s one of the many reasons why I am a bigger fan of science. It makes more sense and is impartial. If anything, the laws of nature is brutally indifferent to who or what you are and will fuck you over or bless you at random. I can deal with that.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I would fucking love if my biggest problem was that my reproductive organs were dangling between my legs and got a bit hot once in awhile.
i mean, men are historically pre-disposed to dying earlier than women. Though i wonder if that actually changes at all going back historically, so at least you have that?
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Omits that critical oxygen intake system overlaps with food intake system that can clog causing death. No redundancy on oxygen intake.
Lots of evidence for not-so-intelligent design.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
evolution would just call you a bozo and say it’s a skill issue. So maybe it was intentional, because it would be funny.
Gurei@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There’s a lot of good, but the devs def screwed up with the whole shared breathing / eating tubing. But at least the playing ground is partially even, with other species also at risk of randomly dying from the simple act of food intake.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
The most screwed up one is the octopus, for some reason that brains are below their mouths so the esophagus goes through their brain. If they eat something too big they can give themselves a concussion.
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That sounds so stupid, I absolutely believe it.
AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Best fact of the day!
Binturong@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
What a great argument against intelligent design and a resounding endorsement of Evolutionary Theory.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
IYou can say that ID is Bout making something “good enough” in the same way evolution doesn’t select for perfection.
(I am not s creationist. There are plenty of other reasons to reject it.)
HappinessPill@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Because it doesn’t select smarts, but adaptations, people tend to forget that for nature consciousness or smarts is just a trait
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Doesn’t have to be good, just has to be good enough
Slayan@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Technology my dudes 🤙 if you remove our understanding of electricity and fire we go back to the stone age in less than a year.
Chakravanti@monero.town 2 months ago
The most but only need one gets nuclear and its all over. Stone age my ass.
Let’s say those things don’t go off. On the stone age, plants grew. Won’t be long now even they won’t no more.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 months ago
Humans are great. We’re also shit about some things. We’re working on it. It remains to be seen whether we’ll get our stuff together before we wreck the planet thoroughly enough that it can’t support us in this current paradise mode, but it’s not because we are incapable. Our failures are failures of spirit, self-government and self-control, and good values, not failures of “fitness” or that this layout hasn’t been successful at getting us this far.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
‘What a piece of work is a man! How Noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In Action, how like an Angel, in apprehension, how like a God! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?’
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Anon is a fucking retard
griff@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Nona is a drater
scbasteve7@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The OP kinda used bad faith arguments, so everyone is pointing out ways that humans excel. They have a good point however. Humans are not superior. We are not the best species. Just about every animal, insect, or parasite can kill us or seriously harm us. Our bodies are not resilient, and have about a thousand built in flaws. Our ‘intelligence’ just creates new dangers that kill us.
Humans are great in many ways, but we do not sit at the top of everything. We are great at what we do and that’s it.
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
A group of fit humans who know what they’re doing can kill any animal on earth with sharp sticks.
This includes things like whales and woolly mammoths, which we hunted to near extinction or complete extinction using pointy sticks. Keep in mind that these animals were not only thousands of times stronger than a human, but the environments they lived in were also completely alien to the one in which we evolved. The ocean and the taiga can kill an unprepared human in just a few minutes simply by them existing in it, while the native animals are perfectly adapted to live there.
And despite all that we went onto their home turf and killed them all with pointy sticks.
scbasteve7@lemm.ee 2 months ago
We’re great at what we do, it’s true.
That’s despite all of our weaknesses. And there’s a lot of them.
rockerface@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Having an all purpose massive brain does make it easier to cover for our weaknesses so they might not be that obvious at first glance.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Right now, I have an infection that I’m toughing out without antibiotics. It’s going away. I tanked a cat playing rough, my palms under some angles can downright stop a scratch. I drank 5 shots of rakija. I have been burned, stabbed, electrocuted, what more do you want?!?
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I have been burned, stabbed, electrocuted, what more do you want?!?
Christ, that cat was playing rough! :o
scbasteve7@lemm.ee 2 months ago
To be able to tank venoms like the mongoose or the honey badger. To be able to rarely get sick such as sharks or bats. Thick keratin skin or shells, such as the pangolin or armadillo. Being able to survive great falls, such as most small mammals and insects. Being able to regrow limbs such as some reptiles.
I’m not saying that humans are weak and fragile like glass. We can tank a lot of stuff. Most animals can tank a lot more.
Our big evolution trait is massive brain, adapting to our environment, and language. Aside from our nutty long distance stamina, and being able to throw, our bodies are NOT what makes us ‘superior’.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Just because we have some weakness and are not superhuman doesn’t mean we don’t excel.
scbasteve7@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That was the entire point I made.
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 months ago
We aren’t the best species.
No species is the “best.” Some are the best in certain aspects. Ours is the ability to manipulate our environment, which is also a double edged sword as we’re now killing ourselves with climate change.
qbus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tools?
rainrain@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Reading this bunch of modern true-believers confidently preach the dogma of the hour (evolution yes! design no!) is nauseating.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Because these are good questions, I’ll answer some;
Humans are incredible long distance runners. We did a lot of hunting by “Chase it until it collapses”
Our brains take a loooooong time to mature, but it’s worth it. We can plan ahead without relying on survival instincts, and we keep making amazing discoveries like fire and clothes
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
We’re basically horror movie tropes
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white_nrdy@programming.dev 2 months ago
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samus12345@lemm.ee 2 months ago
And while dogs have been bred to be subservient, Cats CHOSE to associate with us, the little psychos.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Idk about domesticating part
oce@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Great long distance walkers too. With some adaptation anyone can walk about 30 km a day, for weeks. For proof, the tens of thousands of people of all fitness levels walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage every year.
prongs@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Proud to say I accomplished that! My dad trained a fair bit. I did like 1 10km walk the week before we started, and I finished the 800kms with no real dramas, except the first day which was a massive climb. After 5-6 days my body was totally accustomed to the task at hand.
(Super irrelevant to the post but it was an awesome experience and I would advocate anyone to undertake it, regardless of your thoughts on religion. I am not religious but did find it spiritual in a way. I did it about 6 years ago and still think about it every week.)
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
No I cannot, never again!
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
and evolution isnt supposed to be perfect
can@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Weren’t designed at all in in fact.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
People think of evolution as needing A+ to pass, when C- is enough.