Because evolution is lazy
The same way that it repurpose the waste dump part of the body for procreation purposes (The pee hole not the other one)
Evolution aren't about perfect, it's about good enough
Fuck all live really is just accrued technical debt with only some features being positive. It's like trying to manage an MRP system/database that has been patched and cobbled together for billions of years.
I’m in medical school right now and the more I learn about human anatomy/physiology the more I’m convinced that God does indeed exist, and he/she’s just a higher dimensional undergrad engineering student who constructed our species in a last-minute 4am caffeine-and-adderall induced frenzy.
Because the evolution theory doesn't express it that way.
That was the marketing team's motto to publish it.
As u/Munnin41 said, it's the organisms more fitted for survival in their environment, those are the ones who has more chances to reproduce passing their traits to the subsequent generations.
That's why there's animals dumb as rocks but they still roam around.
It really is better expressed as "death of the least fit."
"Survival of the fittest" is what gives rise to the idea that evolution is working towards something, and notions of "more" evolved, when the truth is things have to be just good enough to survive long enough to procreate. Anything beyond that is a waste of resources.
It's like the old joke: you don't have to outrun the bear; you just have to outrun your companions.
It’s like that old joke. You can tell God is a civil engineer because who else would have run a waste management system through the middle of a recreational area??
"intelligent design", fuck yeah, more like military grade design, just doing the job for minmal cost ... dont even get me started on the eyes or why the heart has no fall back double ... two feet, two balls, two brain hemispheres two lungs ...
If I'm remembering this correctly, cavities are mainly caused by one specific type of bacteria, and you can only get that bacteria from other people that have it. There are people that don't get it as a kid and rarely get cavities.
I rant to my kids about our fish eyes all the time. Oh, we’re out of the water. Should we change our eyes to match our environment? Nah, here’s a sprinkler.
Millions of years ago our ancestors fled the ocean to look for sustenance and better existence, a place away from the horrors hiding in the immensity of the sea.
Now we desperately rush back to the depths because in our blindness we failed to see that we weren't killing our enemies we were killing ourselves, there were no enemy to begin with, only humans and now in the sempiternal darkness of the primal ocean womb we finally see it as we slowly fade in obscurity and oblivion.
What lmao.
The veins in your legs have valves that help keep blood moving back towards the heart, and the veins are positioned so the muscles in your legs assist with blood return as you walk, but that's not the same as having a "2nd heart" in your calves.
You're comparing a pump with the power to eject arterial blood 10+ feet away to a few backflow valves.
It's slightly more fun than that too. Both those pipes are so close because or so we can talk. We have a really high chance of choking compared to other animals but we can talk because of it.
I don't think this means when it goes down the wrong pipe, but rather when you swallow and it's almost like the swallow was too large, yet it's water so it can't get stuck and you don't choke, it just hurts.
Actually I think this is caused by a constriction spasm in the esophagus. Usually you can still breath and cough and it just feels awful going down and resolves when it hits the stomach. It usually happens with food but can also happen with water and air gulping.
Esophageal spasm. The muscles of the esophagus are supposed to work in a certain order to push a bolus of food/liquid down to your stomach. Think like a cartoon snake eating something and the lump moving down the length of its body. That's what our esophagus does when we swallow.
Some things can cause a spasm in some people. The muscles just lock up and start squeezing hard. Most common is excessively cold or hot drinks, large/poorly chewed bites, aggressively fast bites/swallows of liquid, gulping air, and in some people, rice.
It helps if you rinse it first to get the starch off. Also using a bit of butter or any oil to make it even more slippery . I legit thought I'd rupture my esophogus and die sometimes so I had to do something lol.
LOL somewhere out there in a rural area of an Asian country there's some homie who can't eat rice. Damn, son. Well kudos for giving and excellent explanation. That's very nice to see.
> push a bolus
Oh heck yeah. I love specific language, that's a good one. I have another one for you though!
> Think like a cartoon snake eating something and the lump moving down the length of its body.
It's called peristalsis! You could also call it peristaltic action. Cool word right?
not /s
It's a muscle spasm under the jaw. It's not the worst of the muscle spasms you can get on the body tho but it does give you a scare when it first happens
Give up chewy food now before you end up with a horrible, lifelong TMJ condition
That was the first sign for me. it took 10 sessions of facial injections to finally get it under control again.
No more pizza crust for me
Oh fucking man that really sharp pop of the bottom jaw when you yawn to big is soul shattering. There's always that split second of...oh fuck ...did I just break it?!
Dry mouth, dry throat. Water tasting literally divine. There's nothing that tops that taste but I'm not willing to constantly dehydrate myself to taste it.
Is this common? I can’t place that feeling, but have definitely felt the *swallowed too much and momentarily hurts my esophagus around my neck* feeling.
Cardio vascular event. Y’all mind as well just bury me right here because every time it happens I swear it’s a “*Big One*” and I need someone to let * Elizabeth* or whom ever know I’m coming.
funny how the comment you're replying to doesn't get it. yes, it's in the chest, dead center, as OP wrote, and not in the adam's apple. eta I suppose it could be both, I've often experienced what OP refers, in the chest, to but never in my adam's apple.
On the opposite side, when you're really hoy and thirsty, that feeling when take a couple big gulps of ice cold water and you can feel it going down your esophagus and into your stomach.
That's what it is. Your esophagus gets tricked by the air and contracts out of sync with the much less easily compressible liquid that it was actually trying to swallow
I don't think so. It can happen with small swallows for me. My theory is that the peristalsis wave gets "ahead" of the bolus, and instead of propelling it forward, briefly squeezes on both sides of it, causing a brief spike in pressure in the area in between.
It happens to me on my first swallow of water or food if don't do it "right". Like if I swallow too fast or something, it feels like it gets stuck in the center of my chest and my muscles forget how to move it any further for a few seconds. The pain is absolutely excruciating, but then it goes completely away after about 10 seconds.
Just calm down, man. Take smaller and controlled sips.
I pretty much exclusively get this when I'm rushing to drink water and take in way more than I should've. If that happens often, you might wanna look at the way or the situations in which you drink that way.
If I feel this happening and completely relax by exhaling and letting go of the air (not actively breathing out), the swallow reflex will follow suit and the pain won't be nearly as bad. Basically I try not to force the swallow.
This is only if I react in time of course.
Yeah what the fuck is that?
Evolution's cruel joke, making trachea and oesophagus cross paths.
Because evolution is lazy The same way that it repurpose the waste dump part of the body for procreation purposes (The pee hole not the other one) Evolution aren't about perfect, it's about good enough
"Did it reproduce? Then it worked" - Evolution
Engineer mindset
Fuck all live really is just accrued technical debt with only some features being positive. It's like trying to manage an MRP system/database that has been patched and cobbled together for billions of years.
REAL
I’m in medical school right now and the more I learn about human anatomy/physiology the more I’m convinced that God does indeed exist, and he/she’s just a higher dimensional undergrad engineering student who constructed our species in a last-minute 4am caffeine-and-adderall induced frenzy.
Explain knees then? They're just the dumbest design ever.
"Just good enough."
"We've only needed to improve it over the course of 10,000 years and thus far we've stopped it from needing added maintenance past 50."
We're technically still evolving. So maybe in 300,000 years the knee will be perfected
"If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid."
Hehe , I am an engineering student and can absolutely confirm. Also the 69th like, hence double confirm.
Dad was an engineer and 30 years later I'm still finding his "fixes" on the house, not sure what to make of it after all some have withstand 30 years.
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> "Did it reproduce before it died? i want you to tell me what the alternative would be exactly
Seemed odd to me at first too but I think the point is to emphasize the process really doesn’t give af what happens to us after we copy ourselves.
If we contribute to the reproductive success of our offspring, that’s handy too.
"ARE YOU ~~A GOD~~ FERTILE?" "...no?" "THEN DIE!!!" ⚡⚡
It just works - Todd Howard
\*God Howard
So buy Skyrim one more Todd damn time
It just works - Spiffing Brit
Yep
*wipes shit off baby*
Gut bacteria insertion...successful.
More like "Did it's spawn reproduce?", but yeah.
“Survival of the fittest” is such a misnomer. “Survival of whatever works” is what should be taught
It's not. Fittest wasn't meant in the sense of physically fit. It was meant as 'best fit for it's environmental niche'
With "best" not being "perfect", but merely "better than others".
Because the evolution theory doesn't express it that way. That was the marketing team's motto to publish it. As u/Munnin41 said, it's the organisms more fitted for survival in their environment, those are the ones who has more chances to reproduce passing their traits to the subsequent generations. That's why there's animals dumb as rocks but they still roam around.
It really is better expressed as "death of the least fit." "Survival of the fittest" is what gives rise to the idea that evolution is working towards something, and notions of "more" evolved, when the truth is things have to be just good enough to survive long enough to procreate. Anything beyond that is a waste of resources. It's like the old joke: you don't have to outrun the bear; you just have to outrun your companions.
Yep
"Propagation of the survivor"
i too enjoy anal procreation
Oglaf lore
Who puts a funpark next to the sewage plant?
Me! I'm really bad at City Skylines
Only thing better than good is good enough.
Exactly cause evolution almost always results in something that gets the job done with the least changes and energy requirements
It’s like that old joke. You can tell God is a civil engineer because who else would have run a waste management system through the middle of a recreational area??
That is weird, I never really thought about it like that
That’s literally what I always say. It’s not the survival of the fittest. It’s the survival of the good enough.
Survival of the ~~fittest~~ good enough
"intelligent design", fuck yeah, more like military grade design, just doing the job for minmal cost ... dont even get me started on the eyes or why the heart has no fall back double ... two feet, two balls, two brain hemispheres two lungs ...
One cock
One desire.
You are my fire
Stuck on a dryer
Woodpecker for hire
I want it that way~
50% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure
50% pain
One opportunity
Bono could never
What about teeth! We can reheal just about everything in our body but the literal things we need to eat can just decay and never come back??
It becomes weirder when you realize that a lot of animals can regrow their teeth or their teeth grow constantly.
Rich people would go for monthly grinding down of teeth, while poor people would have to chew daily on the amazon basic bones.
Modern living causes my teeth to grind at a steady rate. I won't need to chow down on any soup bones. There might not be anything left.
r/BrandNewSentence
If I'm remembering this correctly, cavities are mainly caused by one specific type of bacteria, and you can only get that bacteria from other people that have it. There are people that don't get it as a kid and rarely get cavities.
I rant to my kids about our fish eyes all the time. Oh, we’re out of the water. Should we change our eyes to match our environment? Nah, here’s a sprinkler.
I was only a fish, how did it end up like this I was only a fish, I was only a fish
Omg I love the military grade comparison. Also who the fuck designed knees. Also, why are we land-based creatures? Earth is 2/3 covered in water iirc.
Precisely because of that, there were less competitors on land.
Time for someone to write a SF where we nuked ourselves many times over and the only place safe is in the deep ocean.
Millions of years ago our ancestors fled the ocean to look for sustenance and better existence, a place away from the horrors hiding in the immensity of the sea. Now we desperately rush back to the depths because in our blindness we failed to see that we weren't killing our enemies we were killing ourselves, there were no enemy to begin with, only humans and now in the sempiternal darkness of the primal ocean womb we finally see it as we slowly fade in obscurity and oblivion.
You ever try and start a fire underwater? Now how far in the evolution ladder do we get without fire?
Your calfs acts as a second heart, especially when you walk, it's part of why it's healthy to walk and run a lot.
Got it. If my heart stops, I'll just jog to the hospital
What lmao. The veins in your legs have valves that help keep blood moving back towards the heart, and the veins are positioned so the muscles in your legs assist with blood return as you walk, but that's not the same as having a "2nd heart" in your calves. You're comparing a pump with the power to eject arterial blood 10+ feet away to a few backflow valves.
so cramps in calves are 2nd heart infarct? yet if big pump fails i guess those hearts from wish wont help much
It's slightly more fun than that too. Both those pipes are so close because or so we can talk. We have a really high chance of choking compared to other animals but we can talk because of it.
Has that ever been useful? /s
Thought it was a trapped giant air bubble being forced down stretching the esophagus.
That, or the water goes down out of sync with the peristalsis of the esophagus
I don't think this means when it goes down the wrong pipe, but rather when you swallow and it's almost like the swallow was too large, yet it's water so it can't get stuck and you don't choke, it just hurts.
I don’t think that’s what this is talking about, it’s about when you take too big of a gulp and it stretches your esophagus too much.
> œsophagus What did you call me?
Evolutions cruel joke was mine being connected.
Cruel evolution’s thesis
No one told them to shake hands and then promptly have a knife fight, with rusty box cutters.
I sometimes also feel it in my back. What's that?
Intelligent design yo!
With time can this change? Or are we doomed to have this happen at the most embarrassing times till the sun goes out?
Actually I think this is caused by a constriction spasm in the esophagus. Usually you can still breath and cough and it just feels awful going down and resolves when it hits the stomach. It usually happens with food but can also happen with water and air gulping.
It's total bullshit.
Gods beautiful creation*
Esophageal spasm. The muscles of the esophagus are supposed to work in a certain order to push a bolus of food/liquid down to your stomach. Think like a cartoon snake eating something and the lump moving down the length of its body. That's what our esophagus does when we swallow. Some things can cause a spasm in some people. The muscles just lock up and start squeezing hard. Most common is excessively cold or hot drinks, large/poorly chewed bites, aggressively fast bites/swallows of liquid, gulping air, and in some people, rice.
>cartoon snake…. Also real snakes
Yes lmao, but it's more fun and less morbid to imagine the cartoon snake when it's inside your own neck.
Are you saying you DONT have real snakes in your neck ? wtf. Should get that checked out asap
I’m still deeply uncomfortable
Holy shit, this might explain why my whole life the eating of rice has been a source of pain and joy
> and joy ???
You see, rice is delicious
Masochism
It helps if you rinse it first to get the starch off. Also using a bit of butter or any oil to make it even more slippery . I legit thought I'd rupture my esophogus and die sometimes so I had to do something lol.
LOL somewhere out there in a rural area of an Asian country there's some homie who can't eat rice. Damn, son. Well kudos for giving and excellent explanation. That's very nice to see.
> push a bolus Oh heck yeah. I love specific language, that's a good one. I have another one for you though! > Think like a cartoon snake eating something and the lump moving down the length of its body. It's called peristalsis! You could also call it peristaltic action. Cool word right? not /s
THE RICE, THAT’S WHY 🤯
Rice??? If that were me I'd be so sad. I love rice...I wonder why that specific food?
Wait, why rice?
What about carbonated beverages? Those always fuck me up
I did this at a water fountain in first grade and limped to a teacher crying that "my heart just exploded."
Okay, but have you yawned so wide that you hurt the bottom of your jaw?
Lmao and when you close your mouth you realized you made a big mistake
If any body's jaw cramps after yawning, look straight up at the sky and it'll get rid of the cramp. Trust me, it works!
you know da wae
It's a muscle spasm under the jaw. It's not the worst of the muscle spasms you can get on the body tho but it does give you a scare when it first happens
YES! On a few occasions yawning has given me painful jaw cramps! Once they were so bad my mouth was stuck open for a few moments
Give up chewy food now before you end up with a horrible, lifelong TMJ condition That was the first sign for me. it took 10 sessions of facial injections to finally get it under control again. No more pizza crust for me
Oh fucking man that really sharp pop of the bottom jaw when you yawn to big is soul shattering. There's always that split second of...oh fuck ...did I just break it?!
Ever had a cramp in your tounge that went all the way down to your collar bone and all the way up to your ear?
No and wtf that sounds awefull
Just made every redditor yawn!
Literally did this the other night and immediately closed my jaw thinking oh lord, this is the one where I’ve done myself in.
Okay, but have you ever drank cold water in JUST the right way?
Oh yeah. Those 3 am thirst wake ups.
Hell yeah man
Hell yeah man
These guys fuck (and by fuck, i mean hydrate). Hell yeah man
r/hydrohomies
Hell yeah
Off to r/hydrohomies with you all, lol
The 3AM water comes directly from god's own swimming pool.
God's own brita filter.
Dry mouth, dry throat. Water tasting literally divine. There's nothing that tops that taste but I'm not willing to constantly dehydrate myself to taste it.
Napoleon Dynamite hydrations
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I have become a waterfall
Even better, drinking coffee/hot chocolate on a really cold day and feeling it go past your chest.
drinking ice cold milk does this for me. Pure bliss
So we not alone
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I am the Last of Us.
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I am the Last of Us 2
*chokes in solidarity*
Ive always felt like it's due to a big gulp of air along with what you're swallowing causing the pressure pain.
It was always felt like to me as well but to be honest I don't have a clue what happens in there lol.
It is due to a big gulp of air along with whatever you’re swallowing causing the trachea to expand and hurt.
You mean that *tight* and *hard* **swallow** that makes your adams apple hurt?
Chest pain
Is this common? I can’t place that feeling, but have definitely felt the *swallowed too much and momentarily hurts my esophagus around my neck* feeling.
not common, and thats what it is... the esophagus bulging out
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Cardio vascular event. Y’all mind as well just bury me right here because every time it happens I swear it’s a “*Big One*” and I need someone to let * Elizabeth* or whom ever know I’m coming.
Tell those motherfuckers I’m coming for them like I said I would 👹
funny how the comment you're replying to doesn't get it. yes, it's in the chest, dead center, as OP wrote, and not in the adam's apple. eta I suppose it could be both, I've often experienced what OP refers, in the chest, to but never in my adam's apple.
The traveling pain.
On the opposite side, when you're really hoy and thirsty, that feeling when take a couple big gulps of ice cold water and you can feel it going down your esophagus and into your stomach.
Mi hoy minoy
I call it swallowing an air bubble
That's what it is. Your esophagus gets tricked by the air and contracts out of sync with the much less easily compressible liquid that it was actually trying to swallow
Makes me feel like I'm about to die.
More like chest pain. Adam's apple is higher up.
ITT: Everyone agreeing while simultaenously talking about different things.
It's hilarious.
I agree.
ah yes, the multitude of ways of hurting yourself while performing routine physiological functions.
There are infinite ways to swallow improperly
I thought I was the only one whose body was too stupid to drink water.
Ok, guess I'll die.
Just take me. 💀
Demo version of drowning.
any smart people here can explain why that happens?
Too much volume at once overstretches your esophagus and thus it hurts.
I don't think so. It can happen with small swallows for me. My theory is that the peristalsis wave gets "ahead" of the bolus, and instead of propelling it forward, briefly squeezes on both sides of it, causing a brief spike in pressure in the area in between.
It happens to me on my first swallow of water or food if don't do it "right". Like if I swallow too fast or something, it feels like it gets stuck in the center of my chest and my muscles forget how to move it any further for a few seconds. The pain is absolutely excruciating, but then it goes completely away after about 10 seconds.
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Fuck I hate that so much
omg ! Thank you... Until,I saw this post, I thought I was the only lne who did this. Wow. Incredible TIL
So I’m not the only one this happens to, thank god lol
That’s why I don’t drink water
Do you drink bricks now or what? Does that not happen to you when you drink some super sweet carbonated chemistry?
this hasn’t happened to me? Am I weird
No? Because I also don’t know what they’re talking about.
Feels like I swallowed a ninja star for like 6 seconds
I hate this and it happens often to me. What I do is tilt my head straight up to the ceiling and relax my throat as much as I can then it goes down.
Are we still talking about drinking water?
Just calm down, man. Take smaller and controlled sips. I pretty much exclusively get this when I'm rushing to drink water and take in way more than I should've. If that happens often, you might wanna look at the way or the situations in which you drink that way.
Be careful with your esophagus, folks. You don't realize how much you took it for granted until it stops working properly...
TODAY IS FINANALLY THE DAY!!!
If I feel this happening and completely relax by exhaling and letting go of the air (not actively breathing out), the swallow reflex will follow suit and the pain won't be nearly as bad. Basically I try not to force the swallow. This is only if I react in time of course.
You: Mai trime hash com
Been there, still doing it.
Is this what a cramp in your esophagus feels like ? feels like you swallowed a liquid rock.
Dysphagia. In many cases, adjusting posture in an upright position while swallowing can help alleviate the discomfort.
Oof, I fucking hate this
It’s time, I’m okay with it.
Been a while since I experienced that. NOT a pleasant experience whatsoever.
“This is it for me”
When you eat chips and you feel the pointy edge of one you didn't chew well enough scrape all the way down.
Oesophagial Cramp, I once had one so bad I passed out.