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[-] [email protected] 171 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Your username could be interpreted as analogous to their digestive system.

[-] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago

And plastic bags keep them from being able to vomit out the water.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Isn't nature beautiful

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but think of the CEOs! What would happen if they didn't buy a new supercar each year at least?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Aww, shit. I've been using the same ALDI bags for years now. I guess they'll have to cut back on their avocado toast. 🤷‍♂️

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

They generally expel the water out the nostrils so drinking straws love to get lodged in their noses. Then they slowly die of starvation. Isn't life beautiful?

[-] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago

This would have been a useful upgrade during Uni...

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago

Purge the booze, keep the snacks. Yeah that's handy.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago

Booze the purge, snack the keeps?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

No no no

Snack the keeps, booze the purge

That’s what they meant

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I thought they were implying "Purge the keep, snack the booze."

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Maybe it could've been "Yeah the booze. Purge the snacks. Keep that's handy"

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately if can also lodge inedibles in their throat such as plastic wrap.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They're filter feeders? Like whales, but the teeth are in the neck?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

So do they just have no gut acid? How quickly does that regenerate if you’re giving your stomach a seawater oral enema every time you eat.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Well, our stomachs are not at full acid all the time, only when we eat. I imagine it's pretty similar.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

turtles, because of the jellyfish they eat have very thick eosophagus lining, i assume thier stomaches are equally touch.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Imagine if human digestion worked this way. Next to every drinking fountain would be a purge trough.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't a reverse filter mix things together

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I think a reverse filter would only let large particles through while retaining the ones to small to pass through it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's still just a filter. A filter is something that separates and divides a mixed group into specific categories. So a reverse filter would be the opposite of that. Something that takes separate groups and mixes them together.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Something that takes separate groups and mixes them together.

I've got a system like that, you can mix together things from any group you want: fruits and vegetables, proteins, grains, you name it. Unfortunately the end product isn't what I'd describe as desirable.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

So size exclusion chromatography

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Now that's classy

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

So if they can’t swallow something do they just die

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Don't we all?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

An odd dragon

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I bet theres still always carrots in it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Reverse filter is a strainer or sieve.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Strainers and sieves are filters. A filter is a filter. A reverse filter is still a filter. Direction doesn't make a difference because direction is subjective.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Direction matters in what you keep. A filter you keep the water. A strainer/sieve you keep the contents. Direction does matter, that's why the comic has to specify reverse filter. But it's a poor choice of words because reverse means it's a strainer/sieve.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well, unless you used the strainer/sieve to get and keep fine cake flour (the water in your analogy) from coarse flour (the contents).

Or like in the way they use sieves to sort gravel. They keep all of it.

My point is, direction is relative.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Sspine doesn't make sense here at all. I assume OP meant esophagus/ gullet.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

It says spines, rather than spine. The esophagus is covered in spines (think like the spines on a porcupine, not a backbone).

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Those "spines" are called papillae, for anyone wanting specifics.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks to all for the English lesson! I've learned something.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

More a biology lesson. It's the scientific word for the appendage. Human's — I believe all mammals as well — have them lining our lower intestines. They help us absorb nutrients by increasing surface area.

The word itself, papillae, just means "a small, rounded part which protrudes from an organ/ nipple" from Latin.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Seems like they meant spines to me? As in those little spikey spines pointing backwards down the esophagus?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That must feel so good

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't check valve be more accurate?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It only stops solids above a certain size, so a filter is more accurate. Check valves generally stop everything or all of a class of things, the turtle passes all liquid and some solids

Our heart valves are check valves

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

A class of things = large solid objects like jellyfish and food?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe, I'm no linguist or expert. Small jellyfish will go out with the water

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I mean you're right. The idea is filtration by size exclusion but only in one direction.

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