I’ll start by saying that I’d get rid of the need to shit. I’m pretty sure everyone can agree that it’s unpleasant.

    • @over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      1•2 days ago

      Sure, why not? I guess you might as well just say you would like to do away with menopause if you could, that works 👍

  • @radau@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11•22 days ago

    That thing when you accidentally swallow the smallest amount of spit the wrong way and start coughing like mad

  • @cageythree@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15•22 days ago

    Everyone’s saying the need to sleep. That goes a bit too far IMO. Who knows it would work out as we think it to be? Maybe the 33% we sleep will just be reduced off our lifespan with nothing won.
    Also, honestly, even if that wouldn’t be the case - I wouldn’t want to not sleep at all. It’s like a regular break from life. Even if employers wouldn’t exploit this, I don’t want to be awake forever.

    Now, here’s my proposal: We still need to sleep, but we can control falling asleep and waking up like it’s a muscle. Lay in bed and fall asleep anytime. No more falling-asleep issues for anyone, no more sleepless nights.
    And also, we’d have a perfect inner clock and the ability to choose when we wake up. Fall asleep at 11 PM, have to get up at 7? Great, you know exactly when 8hrs are over and are able to just wake up, no alarm needed.

  • @Mistic@lemmy.world
    15•22 days ago

    Surprised nobody said cell degradation.

    You now can live for as long as you’re not killed whilst physically keeping an appearance of an ~30 y.o. This also technically prevents cancer.

    • @RBWells@lemmy.world
      2•20 days ago

      In the end there can be only one!

      I like this, but you can’t have kids and be immortal, that’s a recipe for overpopulation.

      Would enjoy not aging past adulthood (or not past 45, that was my “vampire age”), but life has to end unless you want all the same people around forever and no or very few new ones.

  • @toadjones79@lemm.eeEnglish
    6•22 days ago

    Sneezing/snot production. Sure, it can feel amazing. But the sudden urgency to stop everything I’m doing and focus on my nose or risk a disgusting eruption of green mucus all over my face in a public setting is something I could do without.

    Also, I’m waiting for someone with medical knowledge to come in here and mention Prions or something else silently devastating to the body.

      • @over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
        2•22 days ago

        What ever did happen with the dude that had an artificial replacement penis made on his left arm anyways?

        Shit, it looked like it was totally ready for transplant to its final destination, but then COVID lockdown came along and surgery was postponed…

        🤷‍♂️

          • @over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
            1•20 days ago

            Yeah, I saw a video clip of him on that other site years ago. Apparently he had lost his penis due to some sort of infection, so he had doctors reconstruct a very spot on penis-like member using the skin on his left arm.

            Sure enough, by the time it was fully formed and ready for transplant, COVID lockdown came along and his surgery was postponed.

            From what I recall, dude at least seemed to have a pretty good sense of humor about the whole situation.

  • Talaraine
    4•22 days ago

    You could pre-empt the need to shit by not having to eat or drink. Honestly, when I lament humanity’s weaknesses I eventually always come back to the fact that we’re creatures in this universe that can only persist if we kill and eat other creatures. How would we be fundamentally changed if that were no longer true?

    • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      2•22 days ago

      You could pre-empt the need to shit by not having to eat or drink.

      Um, you know that your body expels more than digestion by-products through defecation, right? Where do you think dead blood cells go?

      The other “noble ape” shit I’m not touching.

      • Don KiedyckEnglish
        2•21 days ago

        The other “noble ape” shit I’m not touching.

        I agree. Let’s not go apeshit.

  • @Apepollo11@lemmy.world
    2•22 days ago

    Sleep. It used to take up nearly a third of my life. Since having Long COVID, it’s closer to half my life.

    Honestly, think of what we could get done if we had all that extra time…

  • @Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
    6•21 days ago

    Make everyone shit rounded rare earth metal cylinders. Suddenly we don’t need Cobalt and Lithium mines any more and the worst aspects of having to poop are solved too. It’s dry and doesn’t stink, so no need for the toilet, just poop in your little collection bucket, no need for wiping and then you go on with your day.