Grirrrll....
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 06 Jan 00:32
https://mander.xyz/post/23028661

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Technus@lemmy.zip on 06 Jan 01:02 next collapse

Limestone, calcite and chalk are the same compound as the active ingredient in antacid tablets: calcium carbonate. There isn’t much danger in eating small amounts of it.

TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jan 01:54 next collapse

how small is small?

Technus@lemmy.zip on 06 Jan 02:56 collapse

You know how big an antacid tablet is? About that amount.

ryannathans@aussie.zone on 06 Jan 02:17 next collapse

Chalk it up to a feeling but eating a little bit of sand and whatnot is probably good for us

Benjaben@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 04:21 next collapse

So we do swallow rocks!

brown567@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jan 12:16 collapse

I eat Halite pretty frequently

brbposting@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jan 05:44 next collapse
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml on 06 Jan 10:35 next collapse

I’m drawing with marker and like pen and stuff, I’m just eating the chalk

Zoop@beehaw.org on 06 Jan 10:53 next collapse

Charlie, if your stomach hurts, eat a Tums!

IMongoose@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 00:37 collapse

Whenever someone asks for tums I tell them “just eat chalk, it’s the same thing.”

ilinamorato@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 13:39 collapse

People will make a health conspiracy out of every innocuous thing, though.

kemsat@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 02:40 next collapse

Wouldn’t quartz cut up your insides?

three@lemm.ee on 06 Jan 03:06 next collapse

Cut my insides to pieces, this is my gastrolith

douz0a0bouz@midwest.social on 06 Jan 03:18 collapse

Don’t give a fuck if I cut my guts bleeding

errer@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 04:43 collapse
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 04:39 next collapse

Imagine all the designer gastroliths. Gucci rocks in your stomach. All the snake oil ones that “cleanse”, “detox”, or have positive ionic charges or something. Someone surely would suggest plastic, or those would be the cheap ones at gas stations. At some point, we would have had people shilling asbestos or uranium gastroliths as good for you. Someone else would pick rocks up along stream beds and sell them as “organic”, nevermind the parasites or other possible diseases attached to them. Someone would push bullshit medical rocks instead of vaccines as cures for diseases.

Lol, people would make a mess of plain old rocks.

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org on 06 Jan 07:54 next collapse

Damn, this was eye-opening. I seem to hate humans quite a bit.

Nindelofocho@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 01:41 next collapse

It would absolutely be a fetish too

Shawdow194@fedia.io on 06 Jan 11:52 collapse

Well think of the actual "real" rocks though. Some humans would've put time, effort, and thought into testing a safe, effective, and healthy mass scale solution

That's what makes humans cool!

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 06 Jan 12:31 next collapse

remember to sterilize your gastroliths, but be careful so you don’t create microfractures that might splinter off in your stomach and kill you! Just stick to smooth polished rocks washed in soap.

ilinamorato@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 13:45 next collapse

College bros would compete to swallow the roughest and sharpest ones. There would be a Silicon Valley startup trying to “disrupt” gastroliths with a “smart stomach stone” that gathered data about what you’re eating and sold it to McDonald’s and Kroger. Couples who were really serious would prove it by regurgitating and swapping stones. The “raw gut” movement would be trying to convince people that they didn’t need gastroliths, they just needed to eat softer foods.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Jan 14:11 next collapse

Guarantee that it’s only a matter of time that some snake oil company would release a gastolith that actually gives off positive ions because it contains thorium.

Zementid@feddit.nl on 06 Jan 14:41 next collapse

Smart Gastroliths would definitely be a thing. Ai enhanced gyroscopic gastrolith for assisted fiber digestion.

Nindelofocho@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 01:40 collapse

There would definitely be vibrating rocks

NewDark@hexbear.net on 06 Jan 05:57 next collapse

If it was that normalized, a lot of the phrasing would have a lot more slang and simpler terminology.

qyron@sopuli.xyz on 06 Jan 10:41 next collapse

Nerdy joke, if I’ve ever seen one.

pigup@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 14:21 next collapse

My ruined mind immediately wonders how porn would be different. Similarly, imagine if we had tails. Would we put underwear on them? Would we shave our tails?

[deleted] on 06 Jan 14:40 next collapse

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gazter@aussie.zone on 06 Jan 16:09 next collapse

Oh my fuck, we absolutely would shave our tails, and there is just something so horrid about that thought that how I won’t be able to fucking sleep, thanks, I hate it.

etchinghillside@reddthat.com on 06 Jan 16:21 next collapse

Just think of all the holes those shaved tails can fit into.

humorlessrepost@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 00:47 collapse

Are they prehensile?

mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works on 07 Jan 17:05 collapse

It might not be as bad as you’re thinking. Demon tails usually aren’t depicted as having hair. Also, without the hair the skin would have melanin in it due to sun exposure. Or people would have it spray-tanned

Donkter@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 17:23 collapse

The Victorian era would have made it so that showing any amount of tail was scandalous and we would all be wearing these bizarre contraptions designed to hide our tails beneath our clothing. Most people would be aware of the fact that keeping our tails tied up was an antiquated puritanical practice that was overall unhealthy for us, but even still, the brave few who chose to let their tale go in public would be looked at as pariahs even by those who ostensibly agreed with the reason behind it.

mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jan 21:13 collapse

wearing these bizarre contraptions designed to hide our tails beneath our clothing

You mean skirts and dresses?

Donkter@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 23:23 collapse

Depends on how big the tails are.

mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works on 07 Jan 17:02 collapse

If the tail is long enough, they’d probably just do socks or worst case make stockings with a garter, just like with legs

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 06 Jan 22:23 collapse

Btw, our digestive tract can’t handle rocks; swallowing rocks is hazardous.

Edit: typo

Lemminary@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 22:36 next collapse

Thank you! I was about to put one in my mouth when I saw your comment. Close call.

ninja@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 23:52 collapse

tract. though there’s a joke in there about calling it a track when you have the runs.