If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?

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• brot@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Back pain is not painful anymore, but rather pleasant now

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• radau@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That thing when you accidentally swallow the smallest amount of spit the wrong way and start coughing like mad

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• cageythree@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Everyone’s saying the need to sleep. That goes a bit too far IMO. Who knows it would work out as we think it to be? Maybe the 33% we sleep will just be reduced off our lifespan with nothing won.
  Also, honestly, even if that wouldn’t be the case - I wouldn’t want to not sleep at all. It’s like a regular break from life. Even if employers wouldn’t exploit this, I don’t want to be awake forever.

  Now, here’s my proposal: We still need to sleep, but we can control falling asleep and waking up like it’s a muscle. Lay in bed and fall asleep anytime. No more falling-asleep issues for anyone, no more sleepless nights.
  And also, we’d have a perfect inner clock and the ability to choose when we wake up. Fall asleep at 11 PM, have to get up at 7? Great, you know exactly when 8hrs are over and are able to just wake up, no alarm needed.

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• Mistic@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Surprised nobody said cell degradation.

  You now can live for as long as you’re not killed whilst physically keeping an appearance of an ~30 y.o. This also technically prevents cancer.

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• actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would eliminate the ability for humans to reproduce.

  Have you SEEN people?

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  • Elaine@lemm.ee ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    As long as we can still practice.

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  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Have you seen a birth? Not fun

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    LMFAO! Touché salesman!

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• UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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!

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  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • iamanurd@midwest.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If I breathe more, would I lose more weight?

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• Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The “loosing hair where I want it to grow and growing it where I definitely don’t want it to grow” thing.

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• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Remove the need to exercise, like an anaconda. The ability to just lay around doing nothing and still be ripped to the max. That would be cool!

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ˙˙˙ǝɹǝɥ uᴉ ƃuᴉɯᴉɥɔ ɐɔᴉɹǝɯ∀ ɥʇnoS

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• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • toadjones79@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or just have the ability to control how fast it grows.

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• Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would like to correct the gut-brain connection. 95% of the time our gut tells our brain that it wants something, and it’s trying to say it wants water, but the brain hears that the gut is hungry.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My gut just wants beer right now.

    Have an upvote 👍

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• swordgeek@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Toenail growth.

  Cutting nails is annoying, and toenails are awkward and stupid.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Required to grow so they recover from damage.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Following the spirit of my post, I would assume that toenails would no longer receive damage and would hopefully last through a person’s lifetime.

      Side thought, it would be nice if teeth didn’t rot…

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• zxqwas@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Remove need to sleep. You would get ~33% more time every day.

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can’t wait to work 24 hours a day! No pesky sleep getting in the way anymore.

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    • EmbarrassedDrum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sleep’s the only thing stopping you from working 24 hours?

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shitting feels good… I would just alter it so it doesn’t smell bad and tastes like brownie batter.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Excuse me, I just farted. What the fuck did I just read? 😂🤣

    Our dog is named Brownie, I’m not in any hurry to taste his batter.

    Anyways, free upvotes for everyone today 👍

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• Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure everyone can agree that it’s unpleasant.

  I strongly disagree.

  Personally I’d remove the need for sleep and effectively increase my lifespan by 3rd.

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• Gowron_Howard@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Eliminate the need to sleep.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As others have mentioned:

    Welcome to 24 hour work days…

    Have an upvote regardless 👍

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    • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well you didn’t say for everyone… So maybe he meant just for himself :)

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• toadjones79@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Lightsong@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All genitals have eyes now.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And teeth and a nose and all?

    Why did you curse my imagination?

    Fuckit, have an upvote 👍

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• POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d like to urinate from my thumbs at will.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Who is Will, and what did he do?

    😂🤣

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• Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Senescence maybe?

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• Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can I add wings? I wouldn’t mind being able to fly around!

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can absolutely add wings!

    Have an upvote 👍

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    • Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah not too many people in this thread have considered the “adds” it seems! Do you have an add?

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• Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sleep.

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  • toadjones79@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Welcome to 22 hour work shifts, with twenty minute breaks.

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    • ettyblatant@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Twenty minute whats?

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Surprised nobody’s mentioned adding a 2nd penis yet…

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You say that like you never logged into Reddit and saw the pre-Ai pics of the guy.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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…

      🤷‍♂️

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Some people don’t even have a first penis ☹️

    Have an upvote 👍

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• Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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…

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• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 👍

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s selfish, but hair growth. Hair removal steals so much of my limited time.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Consciousness

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