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[–] [email protected] 254 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is what we're training LLMs on.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"AI," what should I do about being constipated?

Painfully stretch your rectum to gaping in order to accommodate your constipation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That is called impaction removal, and I have done that to people for fun and profit.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey Alexa, please examine my rectum

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

good, it beats the incompetent assholes that just tell you not to do things when you ask them how to do them just because they are harmful.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Don’t tell people not to do things. It’s harmful.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Thank god for that.

Imagine if LLM were made in Oxford in the 1950's.

It be trained on the fucking Iliad and Shakespeare.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thankfully it's being trained on some real intellectual discourse like your rectum getting stretched out by rock hard shit instead of that garbage

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Reddit certainly did have it's moments, didn't it?

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I'll always remember the kid who broke both his arms and his helpful mom.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Was that because of the same reminders over and over, every other thread?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Between that and Colby, you have the full spectrum of Reddit sexual encounters.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Reddit was better when the community did actually enforce basic grammar.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The Kevin history was wild

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve had moments of pure despair as I feel like one’s gonna tear me in half.

A real porcelain shatterer.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I ended up occasionally chugging about half a liter of water before going, because this started happening.

That seems to actually do something very useful when I think I've not had enough water prior, but I don't actually know the details of how the body moves and uses that water. It intuitively feels like 2-3 minutes should be too short of a time-span to start doing useful work, but it still seems to work.

In general not using piddly little 0.2l glasses and instead keeping a large glass or bottle with me isn't just helpful, it's vitally important. I simply can't get by occasionally drinking small glasses of water. Other than the first day I'd resolve to start drinking more water again, I never went to fill them up enough times to actually get sufficient hydration for my size.

Additionally, I've learnt to feel my hydration on my lips, if they're dry I need a drink. But I am an unreliable, irrational actor. I don't always pay enough attention, or stay on top of things even if I notice, so I'm likely to resort to desperately chugging water again.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Chiming behind the lemming who said the water a few minutes prior going won't do anything. It certainly won't do absolutely anything no matter how much you drink. Once the bowel absorbs the water, adding more water to your body won't restore moisture to the stool.

What probably happened in your case is simply peristaltic movement, some people are more sensitive to it. So chugging a generous amount of water stimulates your gut tissues and encourages things to get moving along.

Going back to the water - of course if you stay hydrated and keep things hydrated it will help. But you cannot rehydrate a stool just by drinking.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This lady claims to be an expert but doesn’t even mention the poop knife?!

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago (40 children)

The poop knife is irrelevant until and unless one plans to flush, which this question did not ask.

Also, why do you assume the nurse is a lady?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

"gaping rectum" is distinctly ladylike, no?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Somebody should write a small book about this. You could put it in the bathroom and read it while taking a shit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

For those of us that pooped before smart phones, there was a book series called Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. I could totally see them have a section dedicated to this.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

"The Art of Defecation - How to turn your anatomy into a brown (f)art factory"

It could have an entire chapter just on fiber maxing:

https://i.imgur.com/zmtuVg1.png

Another could be on shit polishing with the mythbusters method.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

I once held a shit in for a week. Literally 7 days. I was in the hospital and forbidden from using the toilet and using the portable bag toilet in the room with 6 others was not gonna happen so I held it in. Nurses gave me laxatives because they were concerned but I beat them too.

After finally being allowed on the toilet, I basically filled the bowl to the top and clogged the toilet. Yes, it hurt. I now know why and I'm never doing it again.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

My friend poops once a week. He claims he told his doctor and they said it's "on the edge of normal." It freaks me out though. I'd feel so bloated all the time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe that no poop challenge guy has tips for next time.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

There's nothing about that paragraph I didn't like!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

I think the question OP didn't want to ask was, "does all of this dick in my ass affect my poops?"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

the bowel is wider than your asshole

imagining a nurse using the word “asshole” to explain it to a regular person is just hilarious to me.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

That's nice, dear.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

TIL my butthole is a PlayDo’h Fun Factory…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I never realized that this process is basically a biological cold extrusion.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

We have finally found The Forbidden Knowledge

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Taking a shit while I read this. Also, jesse-wtf

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Putting the Shit in ShittyLifeProTips.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Now that's one shit experiment to figure something specific out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

"Bill Nye, the Endoscopy Guy"

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