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[-] [email protected] 108 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

One is a requirement to be an organism. The other is a nice to have. A great many creatures simply die after reproducing, for example, which we can interpret to mean the minimum requirement has been met and anything beyond that isn't as important, if we like to view it that way.

Forming that small person is also a bit of a chaotic and messy process involving chance errors of various kinds and variations in the way parts grew. In a sense, the person formed would never be exactly the same if you tried again with the same inputs either.

That this system works as well as it does is a miracle.

EDIT: Missing words.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

I feel like once you hit your 40s, you really start to understand that concept of your body only being evolved enough to ensure that you can reproduce and the next generation survives.

In your 40s and you hurt your knee? Fuck you, your knee now hurts for the rest of your life - why aren't you dead already?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile, kids take hits all the time that would kill me instantly.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure the artist here is littleporpoise.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I love the "beer in hand" stereotype there.

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