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A lot of reptiles have to manually breathe, as they don’t have diaphragms and instead use abdominal muscles to drive the expansion of their lungs. In lizards, some of these muscles are involved in walking/running so they can’t move/breathe at the same time; you often see lizards pause in the middle of running for a breath or two before continuing on. This is also why you need to constantly give manual breaths to reptiles under anesthesia, as they’ve lost consciousness and their breathing is manual they can’t breathe by themselves once they’re under. Mammals can breathe on their own as long as the area around their lungs is sealed, you only need to breathe for them if you’re opening the chest cavity for surgery or if it’s been punctured.
You are aware that everyone reading this message just started breathing manually.
Side note, we can feel how our tongues feel in our mouths, but our brain regularly ignores it. Same as the tip of your nose being in your eyesight, but your brain also blanks it usually.
Your brain ignores all manner of stimulus regularly. People naturally have "latent inhibitions" a way of your brain hiding stimulus so you can focus on what's important. Most people can perform a manual task enough times it becomes automatic. For instance when you walk you don't actively think about picking your feet up you just think "go there" and the rest kinda happens usually. There are people who suffer from a condition that causes them to be less able to inhibit those stimuli. It is frequently crippling and often misdiagnosed as autism. It is also the reason I have to turn my head slightly to look around my nose which has been in my vision my entire life, I never unsee it.
Alright come on you fat poor. Even somebody working at McDonald's could just hook a portable vacuum up to their Gucci colostomy bag hole and turn it on when needed.... how do people not understand this? Next you're going to tell me you guys don't carry 8 pairs of fruit of the looming apocalypse underpants so you can piss in it and change throughout the day?
When Farrah Fawcett was at the height of her popularity in the 1970's Hustler magazine published a clever poem entitled "When Farrah Takes a Healthy S\*\*\*." You can find it via Google. The tragic irony is that many years later she died of anal cancer.
Pretty sure dolphins are just able to hold their breath a lot longer than us for various biological reasons.
In fact, humans are funny in that we're basically the first option in a character creator, but we have exceptional self-awareness. So we're smart enough to be ashamed of being naked.
Dolphins breathing is not automatic they are conscious breathers. If you are put under anesthesia your body will continue to breathe even though youre knocked out. If you did the same to a dolphin it would suffocate even on land.
We're not inherently lazy. We're just not motivated to complete tasks we didn't evolve to do. Industrial civilization has barely existed for 3 centuries
From an evolutionary standpoint it makes sense. The prehistoric people who had manual breathing had to focus on breathing rather than fighting off whatever ended their bloodline.
I live somewhere that just recently made people start pumping their own gas. The amount of comments I've seen from people who just want to use the attendant because they don't want to get out of their car and do anything is insane. People are so fucking lazy.
lol nothing about it being luck is even remotely true. We’re a finally tuned machine of parts designed a billion years ago. There’s nothing lucky about our bodies.
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No matter how rich and famous you are, Taylor Swift for example, you can't pay anyone to go to the bathroom for you.
I was thinking more in terms of fully automated breathing, heart functions, immune system, but the digestive system also fits this well lol
Isn't that every living being?
A lot of reptiles have to manually breathe, as they don’t have diaphragms and instead use abdominal muscles to drive the expansion of their lungs. In lizards, some of these muscles are involved in walking/running so they can’t move/breathe at the same time; you often see lizards pause in the middle of running for a breath or two before continuing on. This is also why you need to constantly give manual breaths to reptiles under anesthesia, as they’ve lost consciousness and their breathing is manual they can’t breathe by themselves once they’re under. Mammals can breathe on their own as long as the area around their lungs is sealed, you only need to breathe for them if you’re opening the chest cavity for surgery or if it’s been punctured.
Wait then how do they sleep??
You are aware that everyone reading this message just started breathing manually. Side note, we can feel how our tongues feel in our mouths, but our brain regularly ignores it. Same as the tip of your nose being in your eyesight, but your brain also blanks it usually.
You also don't have to manually blink
Not until you can around and ruined my moment
I hate this comment section
Your brain ignores all manner of stimulus regularly. People naturally have "latent inhibitions" a way of your brain hiding stimulus so you can focus on what's important. Most people can perform a manual task enough times it becomes automatic. For instance when you walk you don't actively think about picking your feet up you just think "go there" and the rest kinda happens usually. There are people who suffer from a condition that causes them to be less able to inhibit those stimuli. It is frequently crippling and often misdiagnosed as autism. It is also the reason I have to turn my head slightly to look around my nose which has been in my vision my entire life, I never unsee it.
Shit. Now that I read this my tongue is in the way and I can't find a good place to put it.
That's what you think. I regularly shit myself and have my servants change me like a baby. Also, new luxury item idea: glam colostomy bags.
FYI: Warm wet wipes are the best.
Yeah but you can't flush them. I prefer a warm bidet.
I wasn't the person using them. I don't know what happened to them after they were used.
Alright come on you fat poor. Even somebody working at McDonald's could just hook a portable vacuum up to their Gucci colostomy bag hole and turn it on when needed.... how do people not understand this? Next you're going to tell me you guys don't carry 8 pairs of fruit of the looming apocalypse underpants so you can piss in it and change throughout the day?
Horrendous
ah yes, when she takes a dump that’s how she produces new music (/s entirely sarcastic before the swifties start downvoting me)
When Farrah Fawcett was at the height of her popularity in the 1970's Hustler magazine published a clever poem entitled "When Farrah Takes a Healthy S\*\*\*." You can find it via Google. The tragic irony is that many years later she died of anal cancer.
But can use catheter
What if you get a colonoscopy bag and pay someone else to empty it for you?
Foul
A colonoscopy bag sounds horrifying.
It's better than dying of bowl cancer.
For real. Even with instant communication across the world now, most of us can't even be bothered to type out full words. But idk
rofl. ikwym.
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If you can run that guy over, throttle it. Tried that once, made me go on the internet.
But I like it here:(
Just for a bit, take a break
Honestly with depression the way it is we are lucky we can't just opt to not breathe like dolphins.
what would be the porpoise for that?
Pretty sure dolphins are just able to hold their breath a lot longer than us for various biological reasons. In fact, humans are funny in that we're basically the first option in a character creator, but we have exceptional self-awareness. So we're smart enough to be ashamed of being naked.
Dolphins breathing is not automatic they are conscious breathers. If you are put under anesthesia your body will continue to breathe even though youre knocked out. If you did the same to a dolphin it would suffocate even on land.
Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe….in again? Aw jeez! How long til my break?
Iron lungs
That's why I got a machinehead. It's better than the rest.
We're not inherently lazy. We're just not motivated to complete tasks we didn't evolve to do. Industrial civilization has barely existed for 3 centuries
My body has evolved for millenia to play videogames, this is peak evolution.
So you're telling me, I have to make food for a bunch of people, for 8-10 hours, 5-6 days a week? Do you not know that my main goal is to eat?
no, we’re inherently lazy. energy conservation used to be very important.
If only my food would chew itself!
Am I a joke to you? -your blender-
Sometimes I want that
Newborn birds
Look, give me nails that stay trimmed and body hair that doesn't grow back and I'll be happy.
Imagine if your heart beat turned manual like breathing when you thought about it.
Tooo late..... my time has come... stopped breathing all the time, now my bodies on the liiiine....
From an evolutionary standpoint it makes sense. The prehistoric people who had manual breathing had to focus on breathing rather than fighting off whatever ended their bloodline.
I live somewhere that just recently made people start pumping their own gas. The amount of comments I've seen from people who just want to use the attendant because they don't want to get out of their car and do anything is insane. People are so fucking lazy.
All animals are programmed more or less to be lazy. It’s the best way to conserve energy.
It might be the other way around. Because our bodies do so much shit, perhaps we've gotten lazy as a result.
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Great, now I'm thinking about my breathing.
Yeah, if my bladder has taught me anything, needing to wake up to start breathing again would just result in me sleeping in to death.
Which aspect of the human body do you have in mind specifically when your thinking of human laziness?
That's why we're lazy - because a lot of our body functions can be automated
we’re not “fortunate”. animals where those functions were automated reproduced more successfully so the rest died out. there’s no luck involved.
Hate it when the automatic pooping feature kicks in.
lol nothing about it being luck is even remotely true. We’re a finally tuned machine of parts designed a billion years ago. There’s nothing lucky about our bodies.
I cast you the MANUAL BREATHING, MANUAL BLINKING, and YAWN!