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

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

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why, yes, he was

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So by Republican logic that baby can vote

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

Nono, this baby can fuck (by republican logic)

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  1. The peak of our civilization.
[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too bad those sliding phones never really caught on

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] tryitout@infosec.pub 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)

Buying frozen babies, just as God intended.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

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

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

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

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

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago
[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 44 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

This headline is absolutely perfect for this community.

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

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

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

What the fuck that's so creepy

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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