I can't tell you how often this ends old people's lives. They start to aspirate food, get hospitalized for nasty pneumonia because of it, we try to feed them pureed food (essentially baby food all over again) and thicken their drinks, they struggle to stay hydrated and nourished because of it, they aspirate and end up in the hospital again. Rinse, repeat.

This is shockingly common. Evolution is a dick.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dogs don't have this issue. I don't think pneumonia is a serious problem.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 9 points 11 months ago

Oh, so it's yet another one of those problems caused by that whole "let's take this four legged mammal body plan and make it stand upright" thing. Thanks, evolution!

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 11 months ago

We are a work in progress. Our ancestors had a single hole for all inputs and outputs. We slowly evolved to separate the output.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why do my eyes take everything in upside-down and my brain has to flip it over? What's up with that one, God?

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's just physics though, your eyes are just pinhole cameras basically

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why does an omnipotent god need to rely on physics for creations made in his image?

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hmmmmmm, that's a question for someone religious

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Or the god the OP has a question for. But they stay oddly silent on the matter.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Evolution do be weird sometimes.