• Carl@sh.itjust.works
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        8 hours ago

        I would post the human floss video. But it seems to be lost media. It was of a guy who got extra strength floss, tied it to one of his teeth, and one end to a pen lid… Swallowed the entire roll. Found the lid days later, and then pulled it back and forth, to floss himself. The video would be +10 years old.

        • bss03@infosec.pub
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          5 hours ago

          Seems dangerous. There are sections where you wouldn’t want the floss pulled taut, and certainly not the whole thing.

          I wonder if it was just a magic / fx video; at least the “to floss himself” bit.

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      2 days ago

      Well, there’s the one obvious one - mouth through to the anus, there may be more openings to that hole, but I don’t believe any of them go all the way through.

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        2 days ago

        That changes the topology though. It does go all the way through a section which prevents it from reshaping into a straw/donut

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          2 days ago

          They go through the same hole as the mouth in the end, though. At least a part of them…

          I think I said in another comment that I’m not an actual expert on this matter. So there may well be more holes in this theory, and person.

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            2 days ago

            They go through the same hole as the mouth in the end, though.

            Yes, but they’re distinct openings, which means we’re not topologically equivalent to a doughnut when you take them into account. Topological equivalence implies that you can transform one object into another without changing the number of openings. Classic example is a doughnut and a coffee mug (the handle of a coffee mug is the opening). A human would be equivalent to a doughnut with two holes poked through the side into the middle.