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[–] atocci@lemmy.world 144 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (43 children)

Wait what's the deal with the horses? I want to feel good about myself today.

Edit: Wow, those bastards have it rough.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 94 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Sometimes they will die because they can’t puke. Also broken legs are usually fatal even with vet care.

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[–] klemptor@startrek.website 30 points 6 days ago (6 children)

They only have 4 toes total.

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[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 79 points 6 days ago (27 children)

Tbf, our teeth aren't bad. They just didn't evolve to consume so much sugar.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 25 points 6 days ago (16 children)

They just didn’t evolve to consume so much sugar.

Bro, eating oranges puts our tooth enamel in a weakened state. If we were designed, it was by an idiot.

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[–] Mango@lemmy.world 52 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The breathing and eating tubes gotta cross so you can blow with your mouth and choke on cock. Non-negotiable.

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[–] aquinteros@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

tbf horses have big dicks, it could have been worse for them

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 53 points 6 days ago (4 children)

You stand on your toenails

[–] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago

Right, but literal horsecock

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 30 points 6 days ago (19 children)

The teeth thing is just because of our high sugar, high grain diet

The first* people with bad dental health were Egyptians as they lived on bread (which packs your teeth and feeds the bacteria that ferment it and make acid) before that, and until the invention spread, people died of old age with all their teeth intact

I eat very low carb - almost entirely meat due to allergies, and haven't had a cavity since I started doing that, despite me nearly never brushing or flossing my teeth

*There were also people who lived in the tropics and ate a lot of fruit, and those with sugar cane.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I thought Egyptians had bad teeth because their flour was ground with sandstone, leaving sand in their bread. They ground their teeth into nothing by eating sand.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

THE APPENDIX HAS ENTERED THE CHAT.

Being able to make our own Vitamin C aside, the fact that a vestigial organ can randomly decide to fucking kill you is asinine from a design perspective. Its the equivalent to building a pool in the sims and removing the ladder for the first person who wanders inside.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 42 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's not totally vestigial, it helps regulate colon bacteria. People without their appendix take longer to recover from diarrhea, which is important when bad water and spoiled food are a more regular part of your life.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 22 points 6 days ago (11 children)

I am 99% sure humans are supposed to have tails

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[–] callyral@pawb.social 13 points 6 days ago (5 children)

imagine having a stuffy nose and you can't breathe with your mouth.

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Horses were at least marginally less ridiculous before people got involved. Not quite to the same extent as dogs, but compare a steppe horse with a thoroughbred and you'll see that they're smaller and hardier. Much better equipped to live, slightly less able to carry fully armored people on their back.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Could be worse:

We don't have cloacas.

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Idk, shitting an egg/baby sounds a lot better than present human childbirth..

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