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[–] ashenone@lemmy.ml 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Technically if you swallow s live oyster you don't even need a kidney anymore

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you expecting oysters to be poisonous?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think they’re making the joke that you could outsource body filtration to the oyster.

I’m assuming you’d at least fuck your throat though, because it’s not staying alive without the shell

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The stomach acid would probably kill the oyster as soon as it has opened the shell.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yes. You probably shouldn’t actually try to outsource your kidney function to oysters

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 months ago

So now you tell me!

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 4 months ago

This is very disappointing

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Gotta boof ‘em

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Iirc, this is kinda how mitochondria might have become a thing. A living thing eating another living thing, and it become an organ