Pretty much any animal. AFAIK, no burger has ever reorganized itself into a cow.
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yes, that cow is me
is the grass good over there?
Well it's always better on the other side
I am going to have to chew on that for awhile thnx
That's what they want you to think. Wake up!
However, I've seen plenty of butter cows
how many...?
Sieveral
Where are the mods!? This comment should have been screened!
Please don't turn this into reddit.
Well too late, this is a mesh network.
Puns ain't a reddit thing, they're a human thing. Believe it or not but go outside, it turns out people make puns in real life
We do, but only inside, where we can hide our shame from God.
Go outside? shudders
What a... grating comment.
Ay! You shredded them with that one
in addition to the various iterations on "reddit didn't invent puns", I think it bears pointing out that this place is a reddit imitator, built to be an alternative to reddit, by and for disaffected redditors, with a userbase comprised of people who either switched from reddit or use them side-by-side. i think you should adjust your expectations.
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No actually works on more. If you grind a human into a seive into salt water, pour the salt water into a busy walkway.
After forensics is done in there... the cleanup crew also organizes it into sponges, Mops... and all kinds of tools.
Crime Scene Cleaner is such a great game
You probably don't want to know the details of any science done before... What? the 90's?
You know, it's always funny when sci-fi shows have doctors that refer to current year medical practices as "barbaric" or "Savage", but honestly looking back just 50 years? Same feeling.
200 years ago, the local "doctor" will probably tell you to take a swig of the bottle he just dumped on your wound, because he's gotta saw it off. Hopefully they at least washed it since it's last use.
200 years from now? Eh. Doc will wave a light over it, you'll be fine.
We still have jokes and common knowledge about being sent to the psych ward if you reveal anything weird about your mind. I've heard stories only a few years old of doctors refusing to refer trans patients to gender clinics, which quite often means either needing to circumvent the system or death. Only last year I had the revelation that doctors are supposed to help me, not just tell me what I must do.
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I'd restrict it to the 2010s to be sure. But it varies from one specialty to another.
When again did medicine discovered that woman benefit from anesthetics when inserting an infra-uterine device? Oh it was by 2025...
The lack of pain-empathy in healthcare is mind-blowing. I'm a white man in an excellent position to be listened to, but when I had appendicitis last year getting people to understand that no, I am in crippling pain and I think it's urgent was far to much hassle for someone in crippling pain. I can't imagine what it's like for women.
I can understand folk getting jaded eventually but I often get the feeling that many people start out not caring.
the only one? what about slime molds?
Not an animal
Honest question. How is that sponge an animal and how is "animal" defined? If we grind something through a sieve and it reassembles surely the lifeform can't be too complicated.
Sponge are some of the most simple animals alive. Jellyfish are comparatively not too far off.
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Animals are members of kingdom Animalia. One of the unify features of this kingdom is multicellularity. Slime molds are members of the mostly-single-celled protists and they themselves are some of the most complex single celled organisms. Sponges, being very basal animals, are one of the phyla that retains a high degree of regenerative ability that simplicity facilitates while being very much a multicellular organism with all the organization that comes with.
Thank you.
I hope spongebob never read this
Have you ever seen Spongebob? Way worse things happen to him.
Right? I wouldn't be surprised if this has happened to him. He works in a fast food restaurant ffs. With a cheap boss and no concept of OSHA or food safety regulations, no less.
If y'all knew what went down in the back of similar restaurants in the real world, you'd probably never eat at a diner again. And that's with OSHA and Health Codes.
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Why? It might be kind of reassuring. Nasty car crash? Pull yourself back together.
Iirc they make jokes about sponges regenerating multiple times. Stephen Hillenburg was a marine biologist and educator, which is what led him into making SpongeBob.
spongekevin I will END YOU if you tell Dr Robert Khakis.
Get that grinder fired up! We might have to feed some of the bigger ones through a wood chipper...
For science!
All of them.
Human attempt #32,324,568,693
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Human attempt #32,324,568,694
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If I chop you up, in a meat grinder, and the only thing that comes out becomes you again... You are probably a sponge
adjunct professors express the adaption if you ask any university
All of them?
not all of them.
Only the tasty ones
How you think we know which ones are tasty?
My brain totally omitted the first instance of sponge and for a moment I thought we were making sponges out of military personnel from a specific branch of the military.
given the history of experiments on military personel, it wouldn't surprise me if we did
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