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assuming this is true, perhaps it's best to freeze sperm regularly with labels that way if you go off the deep end you can snapshot quite literally your best se
by websiteapi 9mo ago
assuming this is true, perhaps it's best to freeze sperm regularly with labels that way if you go off the deep end you can snapshot quite literally your best self? some possible times - right before college, right after college, after you meet someone you think you'd marry (but before you do), after marriage.
seems like a neat premise for a sci fi novella.
- xeromal 9mo agoMakes me wonder if that's some of the influence that different siblings get? The first born gets more ambition, the middle child chills, and the baby acts like a boomer. jk. Honestly, sounds like a great read!
- PeterHolzwarth 9mo agoAdding "jk" after a casual prejudiced insult to a demographic doesn't undo the prejudiced insult.
- windows_hater_7 9mo agoPlease tell me you’re joking.
- exe34 9mo agoHe was, see his comment from 1h before you posted.
- xeromal 9mo agoI'm insulting myself. I'm describing what is my family dynamic.
- jibal 9mo agoNo, you're insulting boomers, and you just doubled down.
- exe34 9mo agoIt was a self-deprecating joke which back-fired because nuance is lost on the internet. You got triggered, which is entirely human, but at this point, you're the one who is doubling down. Perhaps it's a good time to disconnect and enjoy some time with your family.
- jibal 9mo agoI didn't "down" in the first place, but "no you" is typical of your ilk. Your comment is dishonest denial of your ageist bigotry, an inability to take responsibility for your actions. And I don't take life advice from trolls, bigots, and the like. I won't respond further.
- exe34 9mo agoI'm sorry you feel that way.
- bmacho 9mo agoInsulting yourself might have been your intent, but what you wrote is just a general ageist insult. It's like you when you fail something, and you make a racist analogy. You might want to insult yourself, you might think you are insulting yourself, but you are just racist.
- sallveburrpi 9mo agoWhich demographic was casually insulted here? The babies/third children?
- renewiltord 9mo agoWe need to add birth order to federally protected categories lest the thirdies try something on us deserving firstborn.
- jibal 9mo agoBoomers. How can anyone not grasp that? It's as if the insult is like water to fish, so people don't even perceive it.
- sallveburrpi 9mo agoIs calling someone boomer an insult in itself? I get that saying “boomer ruined the world for all the generations afterwards” is an insult, but the word itself is now considered an insult? Genuinely asking here; the constantly shifting landscape of what one is allowed to say when talking to US Americans is a bit hard for me to navigate and I currently only have online discourse as guidepost (which is like 1000% more toxic)
- jibal 9mo agoYour question is disingenuous, as the word "boomer" didn't appear isolated with no context. The statement was "the baby acts like a boomer", which clearly has a pejorative connotation--you yourself recognized this when you asked "Which demographic was casually insulted here? The babies/third children?" ... it's not even possible to think that babies are being insulted without thinking that saying they're like boomers is insulting. As I said, that seems to be an unquestioned assumption. As I said elsewhere, there is no single way that boomers behave. Boomers are simply people born in the post-war boom, from 1946-1964, and they display a huge range of traits. Virtually all statements referring to boomers collectively that aren't purely statistical are pejorative--ageist bigotry. > what one is allowed to say This oft repeated nonsense is bad faith. You're allowed to say whatever you want, and people are allowed to respond. I've said my piece and won't engage further.
- jibal 9mo agoYou're right, and it's bizarre and sad that people don't even know what you mean.
- jibal 9mo agoThere isn't any specific way that boomers behave.
- ralusek 9mo agoIf my quicksave/quickload savescumming is to be observed, I’d be pining for that sperm from before I told the waitress “you too” wrt to her telling me to enjoy my meal.
- dietr1ch 9mo ago> I told the waitress “you too” wrt to her telling me to enjoy my meal. That's not too bad unless you are in a group and they make fun of you right away, but it's a fumble that you can fix and start a good play if you don't just get super nervous. Laugh it off, ask her if it's not the first one, ask her to join, even if you know she's actually working and can't. I've never done any improv, but it seems like something maybe everyone should do so we all can avoid awkward moments that stick for way longer than they should.
- tacitusarc 9mo agoNah just yell “switcheroo!” then grab her outfit and suddenly you're the waitress and she’s the diner with a meal to enjoy.
- yreg 9mo agoIs this a lucid dream?
- verall 9mo ago> savescumming Savecumming?
- EPWN3D 9mo agoThat'd be a great basis for a controlled experiment.
- bflesch 9mo agoNobel prize might be waiting for two sets of octomom same-egg offspring with compatible genders that join together to have n=8 firstborn children which are conceived at same date under the same conditions (no alcohol, no ongoing infections, etc.), and the pregnancy period is spent together. It will definitely need 8 scientist relationships, a lot of energy and money.
- SoftTalker 9mo agoI think trying to "tune" your kids in any way is asking to be disappointed. My three kids could not be more different and they all have the same mother, grew up in the same house, etc. If "microRNA" profiles have any influence, I would wager it's very small.
- an-allen 9mo agoBut your kids will likely not have your insights and experiences so “tuning” is another word for broadening their awareness.
- jibal 9mo agoThat is precisely the wrong sort of conclusion to draw from this clickbaity article.
- sdf4j 9mo ago> they all have the same mother, grew up in the same house, etc. I’m pretty sure the first one didn’t have siblings, and the second only had one. Also their mother is not the same person after raising the first kid, or raising two. Parenting never have reproducible conditions.
- SoftTalker 9mo agoAgree, those are some environmental differences. But any "microRNA" profile I might have contributed to the conception of each would be broadly similar. My life was pretty stable and levels of stress, diet, exercise, etc. were all about the same for all three.
- f1shy 9mo agoThere are even identical twins that have different behaviors, characters and make different decisions.
- eipipuz 9mo agoI agree with what you are saying but remember the twin scenario. Spoiler alert, the kids are nonetheless different.
- jibal 9mo ago> if you go off the deep end you can snapshot quite literally your best self Or your worst, since the article also suggests that bad habits can be epigenetically useful to the offspring. I would hold off reaching any conclusions from this clickbait.
- wkat4242 9mo ago<thinks about activities during college> ehhhh I think before college would be highly preferable lol. Though I've never had nor wanted kids in the first place anyway.
- BiteCode_dev 9mo agoWithout the sci-fi, if you take people with 10 to 12 kids, you have great accidental, natural, objective experiments here. You can study those kids and compare them to the reported lifestyle of the parents at the time before their conception.
- theturtlemoves 9mo ago> assuming this is true, perhaps it's best to freeze sperm regularly with labels that way if you go off the deep end you can snapshot quite literally your best self? Then you'll probably have kids who resemble Wim Hof
- hk1337 9mo agoLike restoring to a particular save point in a game after you've done something stupid.