• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    Our throat region seems poorly thought out. As somebody said recently, tube food goes in or you die is right next to tube food must never block or you die.

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      The fact that billions of us still get that right hundreds of times a day is honestly pretty fucking insane, with how delicate that whole setup is

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        Sometimes when I’m chewing a mouthful of food in the car it occurs to me that if I suddenly get in a wreck I will have no control over my gasp reflex.