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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

Mosquitos are not humanity though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

How can one fix mosquitos in humans?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago

Humans do bioluminisce, it's just too weak for human eyes and most detectors.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Can we also fix the depression glitch where happiness points aren't collected and your brain energy bar depleats completely with no way of regeneration without hacking the brain with 3rd party tool antidepressants.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Exercice helps but 3rd party tool are often still needed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

They just need to eliminate diminishing returns that they introduced back in the beta.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

We need to have some process engineers look at the pregnancy and birthing process, there's much room for improvement. Maybe take a totally new approach to it, it's just not it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

Just divide at a cellular level, nature has already solved this problem! Upstart life forms these days thinking they can reinvent the wheel.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
  • Suffocation sensation is now tied to a lack of oxygen instead of an abundance of carbon dioxide.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Would that fix our carbonmonoxide weakness?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 26 minutes ago* (last edited 25 minutes ago)

It wouldn't make carbon monoxide less poisonous to us, but depending on how sensitive the sensation of suffocation is made it would help us realize something is wrong and maybe even eliminate the need for carbon monoxide detectors.

Carbon monoxide isn't only dangerous because it's not oxygen, but because it disrupts our blood's normal process of absorbing oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide. My laymen understanding is that it sort of jams the door lol. As opposed to things like nitrogen which merely gets in the way but don't disrupt the process.

Imagine if instead of getting a headache and feeling sleepy when carbon monoxide was in your body you started to feel like you were holding your breath too long.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

When are the rest of you going to get the magenta receptor update?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I would have thought eating and breathing from the same hole would have been in this release 😞 guess I'll just have to wait till 3.0

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, you can't eat and breathe through the same hole?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

They should be dedicated holes for each process

[–] [email protected] 134 points 1 day ago (12 children)

They are forgetting that TERRIBLE design choice where if you accidentally bite the inside of your cheek it swells up making it easier to bite it on accident again and again.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 20 hours ago

Add new receptors to be able to feel wetness.
This is it cold or wet thing we have going on is just crappy design.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago

I'd like to request a bug fix: Eyelashes falling into eyeball. Need to fix the physics so they probably spring away or wash out easier.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 day ago (15 children)
  • separated genetalia from waste systems

  • removed body hair and baldness

  • fixed acne glitch

  • added ability to change biological sex, with default neutral configuration

  • rerouted laryngeal nerve

  • uterus lining is now reabsorbed automatically

  • reinforced spine and knees

  • simplified foot structure

  • adjusted mental pathways to better adapt to modern environment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

What's the laryngeal nerve and what's wrong with it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Let’s also reroute the ulnar nerve, thx

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I like baldness and body hair! They should be optional too

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Well, we do glow in infrared...

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (4 children)
  • Eating and breathing pathways no longer intersect. This should prevent the bug when food could block the airway and result in death.
[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

This is actually a result of changes to our larynx and stuff, which allows us to make such a variety of sounds when speaking. In other animals (and human babies), the air and food tubes are physically separated at rest. But in humans, our epiglottis can't properly keep things separate because our larynx is further down in our throat.

So, I'm gonna have to deny this request on the grounds that it will necessarily break the speech feature, which many of our users depend on heavily.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

I’d like someone to at least look into the whole ADHD thing. It’s been going on for some time now without any word on why it’s there, or what it’s for- and aside from funny and relatable memes, it’s yet to provide any positive results.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Or, like, at least a caffeine gland or something.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'd like to add depression and anxiety to fixing ADHD as an individual can exhibit all three.

This can be split into several patches if necessary.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

-cartilage in joints can regenerate

-body can synthesize its own vitamin c

Other species already do these things smh.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (7 children)

If teeth regenerate, do we have to constantly chew on things like rodents? Or is it an as-needed thing?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The mosquito. By far the worst part of the human body!

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