• I Cast Fist
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    6310 months ago

    I’d like to ask why the fuck I have to stop breathing to swallow liquid/food and risk fucking dying if this goes slightly wrong

    • Chetzemoka
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      1610 months ago

      I can’t tell you how often this ends old people’s lives. They start to aspirate food, get hospitalized for nasty pneumonia because of it, we try to feed them pureed food (essentially baby food all over again) and thicken their drinks, they struggle to stay hydrated and nourished because of it, they aspirate and end up in the hospital again. Rinse, repeat.

      This is shockingly common. Evolution is a dick.

      • Flying Squid
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        410 months ago

        Dogs don’t have this issue. I don’t think pneumonia is a serious problem.

        • Chetzemoka
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          910 months ago

          Oh, so it’s yet another one of those problems caused by that whole “let’s take this four legged mammal body plan and make it stand upright” thing. Thanks, evolution!

    • Flying Squid
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      810 months ago

      Why do my eyes take everything in upside-down and my brain has to flip it over? What’s up with that one, God?

    • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      810 months ago

      We are a work in progress. Our ancestors had a single hole for all inputs and outputs. We slowly evolved to separate the output.

    • kamen
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      710 months ago

      Evolution do be weird sometimes.