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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 11:17:11 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   I cant stop thinking about the fact that at some point during evolution there is some poor soul that was the first creature to ever poop. Could you imagine how traumatic it must have been to be the first living creature ever to have to poop :)

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 11:24:09 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @nus Probably not very many.. but I assure you what few brain cells it had were very confused :)

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     nus (nus@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 11:24:11 JST nus

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     @freemo how many brain cells would this creature have to process the trauma?

     If I was the first to ever poop, it would take me at least a month. But they have way fewer brain cells than me, so I can only assume it would take a few trillion years or so

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     nus (nus@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 11:26:24 JST nus

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     @freemo "I'm going to my grave with this one" - the first amoeba

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 11:26:54 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @nus hahaha Someone needs to do a comic about the first amoeba :)

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 11:59:19 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @nus If there is one thing XKCD has proved its that you dont need drawing skills :)

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     nus (nus@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 11:59:20 JST nus

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     @freemo I'd to take a crack at it, but let's face it, I might not be good enough to draw that amoeba

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 12:25:45 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @cobratbq yea, I am not defining pooping as just the expulsion of waste, that happens at every level. I am referring to pooping as the storing of waste in a sack that gets released at some later point. It presumes multicellular and the first evolution of a digestive tract. My guess is the first real poop was little more than a sack where cellular waste was collected so some water or other resource can be reclaimed before ejection.

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     cobratbq - cranky-by-design (cobratbq@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 12:25:46 JST cobratbq - cranky-by-design

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     @freemo I love the way you illustrate it as an amazing experience. I think the "pooping" as you know it evolved very gradually. IIRC, even single cells eject material, so there's a long path from there.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 12:43:25 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @cobratbq

     Haha, I try :)

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     cobratbq - cranky-by-design (cobratbq@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 12:43:26 JST cobratbq - cranky-by-design

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     @freemo you have a nice neutral way of expressing. This topic can be made "colorful" in so many ways.

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     mzan (mzan@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 15:47:17 JST mzan

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     @freemo which came first - the pooping or the pissing? 🙂

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     Hexnut (ambihelical@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 00:42:12 JST Hexnut

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     @freemo All the data indicates it felt 10 pounds lighter