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The extreme detour of the recurrent laryngeal nerves, about 4.6 metres (15 ft) in the case of giraffes,[32]: 74–75 has been cited as evidence of evolution, as the nerve’s route would have been direct in the fish-like ancestors of modern tetrapods, traveling from the brain, past the heart, to the gills (as it does in modern fish).
Intelligent design. Same with our eyes 🤣 just put them in backwards and thread the cables through the retina; genius. Octopuses are clearly gods chosen “people”.
The intelligent design geniuses argue that the eye is too complex to have evolved.
“Of course it didn’t evolve like that! It started with a patch of light-sensitive cells and worked it’s way up from there. And that’s happened more than once.”
They have to think evolution means that creatures and features popped into existence fully formed. Not only because that’s how the Bible tells it, they can’t comprehend evolution on a 7,000-yo Earth. And neither can I!
You’ve got the killer argument though. “Why didn’t God bother to make our eyes like he did with the octopus?”
I remember my stepdad citing Pokemon in his arguments against evolution
Damn! Almost commented that they take evolution as Pokemon!
His theological understanding of pokemon was convoluted at best, haha.
He swore up and down that pokemon trainers were witches, and the pokemon were demons they could summon to act as their familiars, and their evolution was symbolic of how much satan’s power had corrupted the vessel.
Like, he thought you started with a mouse, then summoned a demon into it and bound it to make it your familiar, turning it into Pikachu. Then as Pikachu evolved into Raichu, that was a sign that satan’s power is further corrupting the poor mouse, one of god’s creatures.
Honestly that sounds like a pretty rad take on the creature-collector genre. I’d play that game, sounds like a spinoff of SMT. Maybe your stepdad missed his calling as a game designer
I feel like this is another instance of conservatives making things sound so much cooler than they actually are lol
10/10 would watch the series “Pokedoms” (Pocket Demons I mean!! … hope the name isn’t taken, tho I would watch the other thing too).
He was probably just caught up in the satanic panic against Pokémon in the 90s.
The situation was so serious that the Vatican had to “bless” the Pokémon 2000 movie in an attempt to tell evangelicals to chill.
Pokémon movie earns Papal blessing - https://nypost.com/2000/04/21/pokemon-earns-papal-blessing/
Was he senile?
The same nerve also exists in giraffes and does the same thing so it is consequently fucking massive.
Are those zipties? I fucking hate zipties whenever cleaning out old installs. They’re just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything, really.
I use velcro ties myself most of the times. If I absolutely have to use zipties, I leave then so loose that they’re just guiding the cabling, not choking it.
Just today I cleaned out one +15 years old install and oh boy, multiple zipties there. Awful
They’re just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything
Use dikes, not a knife, and cut the head of the tie, not the strap
YES
Flush cutters specifically. And you cut the side of the head opposite the tail with the cutter flat against the face of the tail passing through the head.
Can’t believe ppl just use knives, lol, I would cut all the things with a knife.
To be fair, it’s a technique that’s not obvious to everyone. I remember when my old boss taught me at my first maintenance job
Oh, I def believe you get very proficient in such a thing very quickly, I only (re)build PC for family & friends.
I don’t imagine going in a sever room cutting zip ties like:
Ever reached your hand down into the floor to find a power plug and meet water?
This gif brought back traumas.
Y’all don’t water-cool your rigs? :D
Lol well is was airplanes not a server room. But yeah
Just staby-staby, fix it later with some alu tape.
I use whatever I have with me, sometimes I have the tools with me but I’d lie if I said I always carry the toolbag around.
Yeah I do sometimes have dykes at hand but that shouldnt be necessary in professional environment.
Still hate the zipties in this context tho
Nah, use flush cutters and attack it from the side, or just cut the head off.
They’re just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything, really.
Exactly. Let’s use a securing mechanism that requires a razor-sharp blade, held perilously close to what you don’t want to cut, in order to undo.
One of these are safe-ish (not razor-sharp):
These were my goto. I miss them 🥲
But the steel stamped type that come in every electronics kit work as well.
Can confirm, I have my father’s that are prob 40 or 50 years old. Hard blue handles.
These cutters are my bread and butter. I also use them to cut my fingernails. https://www.weller-tools.com/us/en/precision-tools/weller-erem/products/cutters/776e
That handle to head ratio is far too provocative!
Sexy.
Eh, personally, i’d still find a way to screw that up.
Yeah, I’m exactly the same myself.
Also (just the idea of) single use “structural” stuff like that doesn’t appeal to me at all.
Might I introduce you to the wonder of reusable cable ties?
They have a release tab. You can undo them, adjust the cables, then retighten them.
Velcro is great, till it starts losing it’s grip.
I love the stretchy rubber ties, the ones that allow you to make two bunches held together yet distinctly seperate.
Great for comms rooms, and also motorcycle cable management :-)
Yeah if you never have to be the one to open it up again and pull stuff apart again then sure. But I’m sure as hell not going to cut and redo zip ties the 4-5 times a year I’m in there adding or changing out something.
I love zip ties as long as they’re cut flush. There is a special place in hell for the basrards that rip my forearms open by cutting them a few mil long and at an angle.
Engineering isn’t so different from medical.
Is it though? There isn’t one part in the human body that has exactly one specific purpose. Everything is something mushy with basically one main purpose and a ton of side-quests. Almost the exact opposite of what engineers prefer.
Squeezing multiple features into single components? Sounds exactly like what engineers do.
Um, can you let the engineers know that?
What other functions do the eyes do than seeing?
hurt
Crying to release endorphins. That count?
Tear ducts, sure. But eyeballs?
Close enough? As the eyeball lubrication system, I’d call tear ducts part of the eyeball unit. 🤷🏻 Hell, everything is ultimately part of the same unit, even the bacteria that’s not “us”.
Eyes have a huge role in communication.
I don’t think I’d count that as explicitly a physical bodily function.
But a function nonetheless, and it’s been one for millions of years and since before we were human.
Circadian rhythm maintenance.
Melatonin is broken down in the eye by blueish light. When this stops, the melatonin levels begin to climb, leading to tiredness.
This is also why phones etc keep you awake.
I dunno, eyeballs are pretty much unitaskers. Vision gets used to help reinforce balance, reflexes, and proprioception, but that’s all in the brain.
Teeth might be debatable. Arguably they’re only for masticating food. The debate opens up whether other functions are physiological and so compulsory, social constructs, or neurological things we do instinctively.
With everything else, I 100% agree. It’s all an engineering nightmare to service and troubleshoot.
In humans, the teeth are also used heavily for communication - both visual displays and making noises.
“Commander Riker has dramatically demonstrated to this court that Lieutenant Commander Data is a machine. Do we deny that? No. Because it is not relevant. We too are machines, just machines of a different type.”
I think the funniest part of this post is the nightmares people are getting from zip ties.
I can hear the crunch as i walk across the zip-tie/tail laden floor after several hours fixing the mess my boss made 20yr ago.
hey i only made this mess last year it just looks that way
Just imagine your brain neurones all neatly zip-tied - no more cross-interference!
There are a few flaws with that in reality. One is too much risk consolidation. Having every artery in the same place means that it’s a very easy target for animals or other humans. Another is that it requires far more complexity to actually distribute resources isometricly relative to their need. It’s also easier for disease to grow tumors in a giant mass of blood vessels since they are very homogenous. Another downside is that heat is not distributed evenly so it greatly increases the amount of energy that has to be spent on building auxiliary blood vessels which means the animal has to eat more to achieve the same reproductive success.
Life in reality is balancing many things. Thermal efficiency is a big one, material efficiency is another. Defensibility is a big one, and also genetic simplicity is another. Your body is procedurally generated, not created from a blueprint really. Cells create structure via functional logic in large part, although there are hox genes which encode some basic directionality and relative spatial cell differentiation based on its neighbors and the proteins they are presenting on their membranes.
In other words your body is generated more like a Minecraft world and creating very clean wiring and tubing even if there was pressure for it, would be something that would require a ton of genetic complexity. More complexity means that every single cell has to copy these extra hundreds of genes whenever it copies it’s DNA, which raises the overall thermal and nutrient cost linearly. This is the reason people are beautiful on the outside but on the inside look very strange. We do put many of our evolutionary resources into beauty but not in places where it will likely never be seen.
Actually I was master debating myself which way to make the meme.
Both seem funny & inaccurate.
What I posted hints to random design without neatness as a priority, yet facilitated necessities in regards to environment (you know, evolution).
The alternative validates how stupid neat cable management would be:
we were designed by slime mold that’s what it comes down to
We are the magic shrooms.
i mean i do get rather euphoric when i’m around my wife, what with all those wife spores she emits constantly
Your wife cultivating their own microsphere and convectively creates airflows to disperse their spores?
Great wife material, you must be an adequate substrate.i mean they ain’t callin me uncle ben because i’m dead
… is this the part where you tell me you were dead all along, but that is not the reason for your nickname?
Do you chime on top of every hour like the real Ben? ;)
Vermiform
Maybe a good meme would be, “if creationist were right”
God wiring his new creation: … oh yeah I need a cable for the heart … oh yeah, I need a cable to power the lungs … oh yeah, almost forgot, need a cable for the liver … oh yeah, need a cable to control the legs … oh yeah, need some sensor lines for the hands … oh crap, wired the genital sensor lines wrong … oh shit, no more room for the lines for the kidneys, maybe if I wire it this way … shit, need more power lines for the stomach … crap, need more sensor lines here … shit, shit, shit, I need more power lines
shit, forgot to install a valve in the heart … and ofc I now have to take it all out just to get to the heart, right when I got the wiring all nice & neat, ffs
… ah fuck it … I’ll just cover over everything with shrink wrap … no one’s going to see this mess any way … yeah, just cover the entire thing with shrink wrap
who needs a transparent side anyways
Cable bundles like that are not flexible enough to move properly without straining the cables. You have to do concentric twists for that F1/Aerospace quality cable management.
You say such obvious things yet the pics on the link still gave me a nerdgasm.
Thx!
That website is great. Check the links at the bottom lmao. The author clearly has it out for someone.
We let the original customer, ~~~~, ride his ZX-11 RB Racing Intercooled EFI Turbo around the block and then disabled it as he was moving to Tennessee. He was amazed how “perfect” it was. We told him he could have the missing parts when he owned up to what he had done and pay for any losses we had. He was a coward and did nothing. He sold the bike to a friend of ours to avoid dealing with us, who paid us for the missing parts, getting a $17,000.00 motorcycle for $6,000.00.The bike ran 210 mph on it’s first pass at Maxton. The seller, ~~~~, was there to see “his Bike”. Last seen after collecting a large insurance settlement for being run over by a double dump truck/trailer in California, ~~~~ was chroming parts for pinball machines in Gallatin, TN…Does he have a chrome shop…no he doesn’t. We were happy to hear later on that he lost his left leg in another motorcycle accident…and were glad it was his left shifter leg. Acting as a middleman for chroming is safer than motorcycles for him. He used to laugh about how he was charging people $400.00 to ground one wire in a GPZ750 turbo ecm. Cosmic pinball got him. Karma. In the finality of this “what goes around comes around” ~~~~ hit a turkey vulture on a motorcycle in 2016 and was killed. We hope the turkey vulture survived.
Incredible levels of vitriol. I need to keep practicing
These CAN-BUS Joysticks are really hot
I would twist both of them sticks of joy at the same time, maybe later put these on:
Then you look up and unplug everything.
Witch is not completely unlike how the wires in the neck work.
Cable comb and a vertebrae are literally the same thing. Prove me wrong.
Just need to jam all the cables in there!
Nah man that’s all good copper wire in there rip it out and sell it
there is no copper in these organic veins
That is exactly what a copper vein would say!
Please. Tell Me those aren’t zip ties though!
They show up in the worst places. Top offenders are inside A/C units and car engines. Yanno, where there’s lots of vibration to help the little bastards cut through insulation.
Huh… Cutting insulation is a new one for me. I’ve seen it with adel clamps that chewed through their grommet but never nylon.
Were they in areas where the wires needed to be allowed too mice but were too constricted?
I had a domestic A/C unit fail this way. Zip ties kept the power leads to the compressor taught against the bottom leg of the compressor housing (cast iron or some kind of steel). The edge of the zip tie, combined with vibration and moisture abraded the insulation over the period of about 3 years and grounded out against the housing. This destroyed the compressor motor windings (melted to a dead-short under power), leading to a pricey repair.
Technician knew what to look for since he saw the exact same failure mode on that make of A/C unit in a commercial model on a rooftop.
Damn! Yeah with the vibration and start torque that makes sense. Sounds like it didn’t have strain relief? I imagine if the wire is cheaped out on at all by the manufacturer it could be more prone as well.
Zip ties so tight you know the person installing them pulled each one until all of their neck veins bulged out.
I’m currently wiring up a 32U power distribution and test rack with about 1000 discrete wire connections, so I am feeling this to my core.
Zip-tie the tip ties together! :)
Going through a DC consolidation project now and the line techs are fucking clean. I’m slightly excited to overnight patch so I can make this place look good.
I can finally make this mess I walked into look good.
I think I had that CD back in 2008
