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[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 97 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought the world's oldest baby was elected president?

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 57 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Why, yes, he was

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 79 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So by Republican logic that baby can vote

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 48 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Nono, this baby can fuck (by republican logic)

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 34 points 11 months ago

Considering the guy leading the Republicans, I feel like they would say that about ALL babies.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is actually a genius question. Technically would that mean that a premature baby would have to wait an extra few months after their birthday?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nope. Of course not. Your age is a function of your birthdate. you're not a person before then.

I know what I said.

[–] salty_chief@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Baby in 2040 at age 15. “You mean I could have been born in 1995!? I could have at least enjoyed some of the early 2000s!

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)
  1. The peak of our civilization.
[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Too bad those sliding phones never really caught on

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

They were actually produced and sold, but apparently the sliding mechanism would break with wear and tear.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 4 points 11 months ago

fun fact, the years 1999, 2000, and 2001 were actually all the same year.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 8 points 11 months ago

oldest baby: "I was totally born in the wrong generation."

[–] tryitout@infosec.pub 50 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Instead, she opted for "embryo adoption", which allowed her to have a say in the future parents - with the process overseen by a religious agency.

Nightlight Christian Adoptions took on the embryos and placed them with Lindsey and Tim Pierce.

They fitted Linda's criteria of a married, Caucasian Christian couple...

How lovely

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Buying frozen babies, just as God intended.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Frozen can be fresher than “fresh” because it’s frozen at the optimal freshness rather than picked early and shipped, sitting on shelves for six months.

It’s also less expensive than using fresh babies for the blood sacrifice.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah but you ever try to stab a frozen baby with a ritual knife? Such a pain.

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Would you prefer they not make this logical compromise between their faith and people's needs?

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The needs of the faithful and women who need an abortion, would you prefer they acted hateful and deny these services or would you prefer them being willing to find a logical exception to the rules of their faith to help people in the modern age?

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

This article has literally nothing to do with abortion. This couple bought a leftover IVF embryo.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That embryo was "adopted" from the biological mother, who had kept it frozen since 1994, by Lindsey and Tim Pierce, who live in Ohio.

The adoptive mother Lindsey Pierce told Technology Review: "He is so chill."

🤣

[–] sixty@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago
[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Frozen in 1994? Surprised the headline wasn’t: “Millennials are Getting Born Later Than Any Generation in History”

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 11 months ago

Can you blame them, really? Looking at the state of gestures vaguely around...

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago

This headline is absolutely perfect for this community.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's an easy way to test her true age. Everybody knows the millenial can't resist the avocado toast.

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought you were going to suggest cutting in half and Counting the rings.

Yet another good reason to bring back the guillotine

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's weird, I watched Children of Men last night

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

I watched that movie not knowing anything about it. When they start taking about the "youngest person on Earth" In the first scene, I thought it was a comedy 🤣

[–] scott@lemmy.org 10 points 11 months ago

What the fuck that's so creepy

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 9 points 11 months ago

hey, this is the plot of Children of Men...

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 7 points 11 months ago

From the makers of Oldboy (2013) comes... Oldbaby.

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

They’ll do anything to not take care of the kids already here that need parents and support.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's a lot of heavy lifting by a lot of words in there. Saying the baby has a "biological sister" is at best a half truth and more like a total falsehood. I have a half sister out there somewhere that was adopted away that I've never met. And that's far more close than this scenario.

[–] Neuromancer49@midwest.social 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I disagree. The baby's bio sister is, literally, a biological sister whose DNA comes from the same parents.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Only the egg. And that egg went in a different mother, and was inseminated by a different father. I'm not a biologist but I feel like the mother who bore the baby also contributed some amount of DNA. It's like when someone gets a heart or liver transplant, they often change their personality a bit. I read about a guy who got a heart transplant from a guy who died rock climbing, and suddenly got big into fitness, art and his taste in music changed.

[–] Neuromancer49@midwest.social 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Actually, no, the bio soster shares the same biological father. This was an embryo adoption, not IVF

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Ohhhh ok, my bad. I must've misread some of that after being grossed out by the whole religious bullshit being a part of it.

[–] jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago

Oh I thought this was another article about that big orange crybaby in Moronica.