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  • The point of the meme, is to show nature sucks. The point in this case is the crazy morphological changes animals in general (which includes humans) can go through via an extreme example of the caterpillar, not to equate a person to a caterpillar. It was poking a little fun at the fascination you and assumably many other men (and even some women) have at the changes women go through for pregnancy despite knowing about the extreme changes a caterpillar goes through usually during elementary school. Knowing that, it shouldn’t be surprising that anything could go through drastic changes for the sake of reproduction. Just because it’s an insect does not mean it’s not complex. It’s probably a good time to mention a tomato has more genes than a human.

    But now you’re starting to turn it into not only a suffering contest, but a human superiority contest: Hyenas have cognition too and they basically give birth through a penis, along with basically having second puberty for the females. Elephants are extremely cognizant and have to go through extremely long pregnancies, on top of humans also nearly making them go extinct because of something stupid like ivory.

    And since you want to make it a suffering competition, the animals win because humanity has screwed them over so badly many are going extinct on a mass scale, including the cognizant ones going through pregnancy themselves.

    Instead of just making pointless suffering games on what is meme post where you can expect jokes based off the memes to occur, you can instead at least link to organizations that help women (and in my case, animals as well).








  • Lumisal@lemmy.worldtoHumor@lemmy.worldYes, but
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    22 days ago

    So I looked further into it, and saw that the information you have on your claim is technically true, but very outdated.

    An ICL has an estimated averaged 10.5% chance of causing cataracts - if it’s the old types of lens.

    The newer ones, that come with small macroholes in them, drops that chance to an average of 1.2% chance.

    And the newest type still, made with micropores as well as the macroholes, is currently at 0.5% chance - although it’s too new for exact long term data, and the percentage is so low it’s within margin of error.

    The reason cataracts had a chance of forming in the old type of lenses was

    •because the lenses were much bigger •the lack of holes messed with fluid circulation •bigger lenses increased the odds of the surgeon messing up the placement

    In all cases however, ICL leaves no permanent damage to the eye, unlike LASIK, and has fewer side effects in general. It’s also, importantly, reversible, so even in the case of cataracts, or anything else like worsened vision, you can have the lens removed and replaced. With LASIK, the damage means the change is permanent, and improving eyesight afterwards is much more limited.

    This information I found from research papers I had to use sci-hub to read, which I can’t link, but I can go through my search history to give you the DOIs if you want.

    Btw, all this was a bit moot because I also found out that LASIK can also increase the odds of cataracts as well.