• shuzuko@midwest.social
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        5 months ago

        Nah our hands make much better foot substitutes than our feet do hands substitutes. Walking on your hands is way easier than trying to paint a masterpiece or code for hours with your feet!

      • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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        5 months ago

        Nah, check out some apes, they’ve got opposable thumbs on their feet. Our feet are objectively worse, you can only stand on them.

        • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works
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          5 months ago

          We’re a lot better at standing, walking, and running long distances. Not sure if I’d say objectively worse, just better at different things (but objectively way less cool than peeling a banana and eating it with your feet).

          • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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            5 months ago

            We’re a lot better at standing, walking, and running long distances.

            I spend significantly less time doing those things than doing activities that would benefit from having more hands.

            • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
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              5 months ago

              I propose retractable foot thumbs, so you can have human-like feet for walking and monkey-like feet for playing the piano with your toes

              • Emerald@lemmy.world
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                5 months ago

                A lot of body parts would be better retractable but that would also be quite the unprecedented mechanism, so durability wouldn’t be great. Sadly, it just wouldn’t be practical