I’ll start by saying that I’d get rid of the need to shit. I’m pretty sure everyone can agree that it’s unpleasant.

      • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
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        15 days ago

        Honestly, I have. Not in person though, but on PBS Public Television.

        I do not have the parts to experience child birth, but indeed it does not look like a fun experience.

        • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          15 days ago

          Yeah so my partner gave birth to twins in a c-section.

          I also do not have the parts but hoo-boy that was the experience of a lifetime, and not necessarily all fun / happy joyous.

          Basically the pregnant person is on the table and they erect a sheet vertically just below her arms. Then dad (me) sits by her head and holds her hand while the magic happens.

          It seemed like there was about a dozen people in the theatre, the kids each having their own team of pediatrician and nurses.

          It was a complex pregnancy and while everyone is fit and well now the 48 hours following that operation were pretty terrifying.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I wanted to say allergies, but I am not sure you mean abnormal stuff too.

    Breathing otherwise. Annoying + can’t stay underwater for long enough.

    Though if add, direct thought + feeling sharing. Current communication is way too inefficient.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
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      15 days ago

      Pretty much all answers here should be valid, have an upvote 👍

      Another thought, it would be nice if our hair didn’t grow like any longer than an inch or so, where people wouldn’t need regular haircuts or complicated hair styles.

      I mean sure, ladies wouldn’t be able to grow their hair out as is fairly common these days, but if our hair always stayed relatively short, it would be perfectly normal, and would save us the hassle of going to the barber.

          • toadjones79@lemm.eeEnglish
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            15 days ago

            There was a sci-fi book a while back where all humans were gone, and all that was left was a thriving android civilization expanding across the solar system. The main character was built on the base of a sex bot, and had the ability to set the speed of her hair growth, and color. At one point she gets tied to some tracks (a city on Mercury that traveled around the planet) to be eliminated (she was a spy) and ends up getting away by forcing her hair to grow at a rate so fast it came out weak and easy to tear. Super weird book, but I thought of it when I read the comment I was responding to. And yes, on/off was part of it.

  • Uncle@lemmy.ca
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    15 days ago

    needing food. that would free up a lot of time and money, no input = no output. no dishes, no stove or fridge, no need for a dishwasher, then on the other end, no need for TP, or even a toilet!

    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      If you’re still regenerating tissue, your body is still producing weight. Drastically reduced (I’d guess by 75% total, of which 2/3 is dead digestive bacteria you’d no longer need), but still existent.

      Fun fact, you don’t defecate out weight loss, either. You exhale carbon in CO2

        • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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          14 days ago

          Not effectively. You’ll just have a lower concentration of CO2 in your exhaled air. Maybe it’ll stay the same with the increase in exertion by breathing more, but that’d be a good way to estimate how little energy your breathing consumes compared to proper exercise. And after all that, exercise is pretty slow to burn calories as well. The good news is your brain burns calories by thinking harder, an activity we’re both now involved in

          • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
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            15 days ago

            I’m just gonna learn from you and fart glitter. I’m pretty sure I can lose weight that way…

    • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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      15 days ago

      This was my comment. My dad and I felt that same way but my grandmother just couldn’t understand how we could.

      If I never needed to eat, that’d be wonderful. No more getting fat ever again and I’d probably be 100 times healthier.

  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    15 days ago

    Nails. I think we could go without nails. Specially toe nails. Finger nails could be an optional add on.

    I don’t mind shitting, it feels good. We could probably absorb more of it so we have less shit to do? Seems so inefficient.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
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      15 days ago

      Eh, I think I’d rather keep the nails for protection and to open soda cans and whatnot, but yeah it would be nice if they weren’t continuously growing and need regular trimming.

      Have an upvote 👍

      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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        15 days ago

        OK, we can compromise and keep your index finger and thumb nail. But they grow at 1/10 the speed.

  • Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Sleep. It used to take up nearly a third of my life. Since having Long COVID, it’s closer to half my life.

    Honestly, think of what we could get done if we had all that extra time…

    • moonlight@fedia.io
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      15 days ago

      Good news, we can actually do all of the above already!

      • add consciousness have kids

      • remove consciousness die

      • alter consciousness do drugs

  • SuiXi3D@fedia.io
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    15 days ago

    Sweating. I wanna be exclusively water cooled. None of this evaporative cooling BS. Just swap fluid every six months to a year. I always need moving air anyways…

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      15 days ago

      To be water cooled we would need some kind of radiator, I guess moving blood through your extremities could work but seems risky from an evolutionary perspective. Like if you’re hot from running from a predator your hands and feet would be flush with blood.

      Also I think evaporative cooling could help you maintain a body temp of 38 when the ambient temp is somewhat warmer than that like 45 or so. I don’t think a radiator could do that.

      Sorry to get all practical in this thread about not needing to poop. I was just kinda thinking out loud.

  • Talaraine@fedia.io
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    15 days ago

    You could pre-empt the need to shit by not having to eat or drink. Honestly, when I lament humanity’s weaknesses I eventually always come back to the fact that we’re creatures in this universe that can only persist if we kill and eat other creatures. How would we be fundamentally changed if that were no longer true?

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      15 days ago

      You could pre-empt the need to shit by not having to eat or drink.

      Um, you know that your body expels more than digestion by-products through defecation, right? Where do you think dead blood cells go?

      The other “noble ape” shit I’m not touching.

  • toadjones79@lemm.eeEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Sneezing/snot production. Sure, it can feel amazing. But the sudden urgency to stop everything I’m doing and focus on my nose or risk a disgusting eruption of green mucus all over my face in a public setting is something I could do without.

    Also, I’m waiting for someone with medical knowledge to come in here and mention Prions or something else silently devastating to the body.

      • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
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        15 days ago

        What ever did happen with the dude that had an artificial replacement penis made on his left arm anyways?

        Shit, it looked like it was totally ready for transplant to its final destination, but then COVID lockdown came along and surgery was postponed…

        🤷‍♂️

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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          14 days ago

          I never saw that one ; just two-penis guy (and a host of other unexpected stuff because #internet).