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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How’s a quadrupedal animal gonna have thumbs?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bipedal dinosaurs with grasping hands are pretty common. Velociraptors, for example.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Humans have back problems because we took a spine that had evolved for billions of years to be horizontal and stacked it up like a bunch of dinner plates.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't discount the power of sitting too much with bad posture. The spine can stay totally fine up to a significant age ... if you're not sitting like you're cosplaying as the Hunchback of Notre-Dame and get up and move once in a while.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

I read this while I'm sitting, hunched over, on an ice pack, at physical therapy for sciatica.

Thank you for the reminder.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

I think the T-rex did it first.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Only if you survive long enough for that to matter 😜