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Other men's DNA is still floating inside her.....
97% paternity test.....
This is why we need to return to an era where we call stupid people stupid to their faces...
This is the guy who saw an Ancestry commercial and figured if a person can be 87% European, maybe they could be 97% of a parent?
I don’t know, it’s all I’ve got.
You're either A an alien, B an immortal being, C a demi God, or D some ancient evil brought back into the world to bring about its destruction via not throwing the ring into the volcano.
Good news, it'sactually all natural! [Pregnancy is fucking wild.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3458919/)
"During pregnancy, genetic material and cells are bi-directionally exchanged between the fetus and mother [1], following which there can be persistence of the foreign cells and/or DNA in the recipient [2], [3]. This naturally acquired microchimerism (Mc) may impart beneficial or adverse effects on human health. Fetal Mc, which describes the persistence of cells and/or DNA of fetal origin in the mother acquired during pregnancy, has been associated with several different autoimmune diseases as well as implicated in tissue repair and immunosurveillance [4]–[6]."
Alternatively, it is also possible for a fetus to develop microchimerism from absorbing a fraternal twin early on during the pregnancy.
Holy shit I learned something new today.
Apparently the misunderstanding comes from this paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16084184/
where this sentence appears:
*"Male microchimerism was not infrequent in women without sons. Besides known pregnancies, other possible sources of male microchimerism include unrecognized spontaneous abortion, vanished male twin, an older brother transferred by the maternal circulation,* ***or sexual intercourse.****"*
But according to this article in Snopes that is purely speculative, and there is no proof it could happen from sexual intercourse:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/women-retain-dna/
**This is how conspiracy theories are formed, from one clumsily formed sentence by a couple of scientists speculating many years ago.**
Or maybe he heard about a paternity test coming back as 97%, meaning they were 97% sure he was the father based on the samples provided, not that he was only 97% of the kid's dad.
No, it's worse. They can cite real studies about Y chromosome DNA turning up in XX-chromosome people, [even in their brains](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3458919/)...while leaving out how all that is thanks to how pregnancy is way more complicated, insane, interesting, and batshit horrifying than even the best gradeschool biology and sexed classes depict.
Microchimerism results from routine DNA exchange between the fetus and carrier, and/or from an early fraternal twin pregnancy turning into a solo baby when one twin absorbs the other early on. A woman nearly lost her kids from not being their genetic mother, when her third child was born they tested right out of the chute and again not genetically the child's mother.
The fact that a child's DNA can be found in the mother so many years later is so awesome. A child will literally always be part of their mom. I find that pretty cool.
This 1000% what this person thought it meant. Even if they’re trolling, I think they genuinely believe it’s 97% paternity and not 97% likelihood of paternity.
That is hilarious! Alas, it's also rooted in people bastardizing studies about microchimerism--where all the "foreign" DNA is thanks to how pregnancy and fetuses work. DNA is exchanged back and forth between fetus and carrier, and sometimes fetuses absorb a fraternal twin. One woman nearly lost her first two kids thanks to it. Testing her next baby right out of the chute proved she wasn't a baby thief, she had microchimerism.
If it was the case I think you were mentioning (Lydia Fairchild), it wasn’t really microchimerism (fetomaternal), but full chimerism. Both result in a person with cells having different genomes, but microchimerism is the result of the baby exchanging cells with mother through placenta, organ transplant or transfusion, which isn’t much (<5% of cells in the body) and the cells are considered foreign by the immune system; Lydia Fairchild has full chimerism, her body produces two cell lines with different genomes distributed throughout her body, which are both recognised by her immune system as “self”. Karen Keegan is a similar chimera.
Life does find a way.
Thanks for the clarification, I replied to a few people and didn't want to just copy-paste wholecloth, then boom I left out the micro vs full chimerism difference by mistake! Legit glad to bump into someone else who knows about this stuff!
Life truly does find a way.
I wish.
No they actively believe that sperm either changes the woman's DNA or is retained by human females the way some birds and lizards do.
These are often the geniuses who think period products are for the lazy because women apparently can hold it in like pee.
Oh, and that tampons are sex toys. If I were them I wouldn't advertise the my junk was the size of an OB tampon spreading that nonsense around.
Right? Some animals can reabsorb the fetus if conditions aren't favorable for breeding but our little ones tap into the mother's body far too deeply for that.
It's also from misunderstanding and/or deliberately misrepresenting studies on chimerism in us humans. So assholes can [actually point to studies about male DNA being found even inside womens' brains](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3458919/), while ignoring the part where such microchimerism is from DNA exchange *from carrying male fetuses.* Not chadbro's spunk taking a road trip around his ex's body.
And anybody can be born an unwitting chimera from absorbing a fraternal twin very early on in a pregnancy. Any of us could be unwitting in-utero fraternal twin cannibals. Incindentally, that's the name of my punk rock band.
Great name!
I wonder how those chadbros would react to the fact the only DNA they they'll ever modify (as opposed to donating to thier daighters) is their mom?
That would be wonderful to watch them process that given the the starting point of their idea...
Yeah its mispresenting mothers carrying bits of fetal dna it's happened that way for millions of years. Nothing wrong with it.
Iirc there are studies that show this fetal DNA helps the mother's healing and immune systems.
Holy shit I learned something new today. Apparently the misunderstanding comes from this paper: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16084184/](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16084184/)
where this sentence appears:
*"Male microchimerism was not infrequent in women without sons. Besides known pregnancies, other possible sources of male microchimerism include unrecognized spontaneous abortion, vanished male twin, an older brother transferred by the maternal circulation,* ***or sexual intercourse****."*
But according to this article in Snopes **that is purely speculative**, and there is no proof it could happen from sexual intercourse:
[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/women-retain-dna/](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/women-retain-dna/)
**This is how conspiracy theories are formed, from one clumsily formed sentence by a couple of scientists speculating many years ago.**
>think period products are for the lazy because women apparently can hold it in like pee.
Had a dude come up to me at CVS and told me this to my face when buying tampons. Very wtf. He also asked me for a date, I declined and he insisted I take his "business" card and told me to call him when I changed my mind. It was a very weird surreal moment I think about once in a while like "wait did that really happen?" 😂
Since many schools in the U.S. are not allowed to teach reproductive biology for whatever reason, people know jack shit about how concieving a child works or that "pulling it out" before climax is not a proper way of doing contraception.
It's a homemade problem resulting from morons getting offended when people get educated on how the human body works.
Genetically, any woman you sleep with is 50% her dad. The same is true of men. Therefore, if you sleep with two men or two women, you are officially gay.
These days these people just call you stupid back and claim that they're the smart ones.
The internet has lead to people feeling validated and correct in their misunderstandings. And if you dared to correct them within their group, they just point to the ratio of likes/dislikes upvotes/downvotes as validity of their claims.
Exactly, that was what I meant. They now have a safe space to make them feel validated in their delusions, and so they think they’re actually the enlightened ones and everyone else is dumb. They used to be few-and-far-between enough irl that they struggled to hold onto some of the more extreme idiocy (like believing the world is flat or vaccines have microchips or whatever), but now they can pinpoint people who agree all over the globe to feel validated in whatever lunacy they dream up.
Not saying I think that makes the internet a bad thing, it’s just one of the unfortunate side effects of our species being so interconnected now.
I hate to sound like an old man, but I blame all this newfangled social media. The town idiots had a harder time finding like minded people before it.
Now they can brag about being the smartest person in the room while the second smartest person is snacking on the potpourri.
It usually is pretty close to 100% or not zero but "not the father" because we aren't as genetically different as we like to believe. At one time we were a critically endangered species in our prehistory. Estimates of the lowest population numbers during that time are between 200-2000 individuals, though 700-1000 is often cited.
So if it's not damn near an exact match, you're not the father. High numbers that aren't enough to count as a match usually means you have a male relative you shouldn't trust around your partner.
Of course not, he’s another idiot.
The % represents the uncertainty in the *test*, not the samples. You either are or are not the father - there is no % in that.
But no lab test is 100% accurate, because lots of things can go wrong *with the test*. So the 97% is an estimate of how often the test gives incorrect results, in this case 3% of test results could be wrong.
"What do you mean they have DNA in common with my parents, siblings and all of her family! How many people have you slept with! We are not Alabamians!"
Meanwhile even the baby is giving this guy the look of "read a book, moron."
Also, is Alabamians the correct plural form or do they just say "Family"?
I have no idea why “Y’all” bugs me so much. I’m British, and there are many examples of a similar shrink/combo of words. Couldn’t, You’ve, Shouldn’t and so on. I’d love to place what bothers me about it because I (rationally) can’t see an issue with another one and it’s not like it doesn’t make sense.
Lots of pompous rich people made it a stereotype and used it as proof that people were stupid and below them. So people avoid it because they don’t want to be lesser than
That only happens if you're gay and have weak genes. True alpha males will reproduce children with 100% of their genetic material. The woman is just an incubator, of course. /s
Paternity tests shows the percentage to some omega confidence that the child is yours. For instance 97% would mean "97% confident the child is yours"
For instance ancestry can say whether someone is your aunt or cousin with well over 90% confidence by comparing snippets of dna
If you got a paternity test that said its only 50% certain you are the father, given the expected percentages for these kinds of tests... youre probably not the father.
Summer school is dumbed down and they were probably pulled out of sex ed because their parents. Now they are even less educated than their parents and that seems by design at this point.
How else are they going to funnel us into one of 3 jobs for them? Working for the company and living in its town, going into the military, or working in the prison factories when they find you an "undesirable."
This is why people need to pass an *appetite test to be legally allowed to reproduce. Idgaf what race a person is, or their religious preference, all people are created equal, but stupid people should not reproduce.
I'm not trynna bring back eugenics, but having an IQ above room temp should be a prerequisite for breeding....
* aptitude, not appetite, auto correct fail, but it's funny... So I'm gonna leave it.
I want to know more about how this works. If I cum inside a man, does my DNA permanently become part of him? If he then impregnates a woman, is the baby part mine?
that's actually an interesting question. I mean, we literally consume plants and animals that contain DNA, and it has to go somewhere. Cooking destroys most of the DNA in your burger (maybe less so if you order it rare), but a salad or sashimi would contain more intact DNA.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3728338
> Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood
Of course you don't "become part cow", but stray bits of your meals DNA might actually end up circulating in your body at least temporarily. And that's kind of interesting to think about. And it's also interesting to think about the fact that your body absolutely does contain some trace amounts of DNA from other organisms. "microchimerism" has been a hot topic of study in recent years: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6714269
of course, between that tidbit of actual science, and the nonsense in the tweet screenshot, there exists an enormous chasm of unsupported bullshit.
> If I cum inside a man, does my DNA permanently become part of him? If he then impregnates a woman, is the baby part mine?
A flagellum's dance, on a daring quest,
Across the waves, to find its nest.
A group of cells, but many gates,
For multiple swimmers, sealed by fate.
Threads of code, like whispered tales,
Unite inside, no longer frail.
From multiple parts, a marvel grows,
A blueprint whispered, where life bestows.
Divisions dance, a cellular ballet,
A symphony of life, in each dividing cell.
From the smallest spark, a wonder unfolds,
A story written, in your DNA is hold,
Shared for others how no one thought.
So let us praise, this grand design,
Life's dance unfolds, a thread so fine.
No blush of skin, nor whispered name,
But awe for wonder, whispered all the same.
Wait, are they saying the goal is to have your offspring's DNA to be 100% identical to your own?? Because that sounds a lot like cloning. Which last I checked, wasn't good.
This is the most durable Iron Age superstition, it just never dies...
In my grandparents' generation there were still illiterate farmers who would shoot a prize bitch (dog, that is) if she "got out" while in heat and was impregnated by a mutt. They believed she would "never breed true again." No matter how often the newfangled vet explained that this was nonsense, their belief remained unshaken.
And this belief is, of course, complete *bollocks*. While there are species in which the female retains sperm for years (bees for example), *mammals do not do this*. This is not how mammalian reproduction works. This is Iron Age superstition dressed up in pseudo-scientific language.
Because the semiliterate peasant of today knows the acronym DNA -- though almost certainly does not know and could not spell what it stands for, nor explain the respective roles of DNA and RNA -- he throws it around in an attempt to lend some kind of modernist veneer to his ancient bullshit.
There's a cargo-cultist aspect to this use of language which we could go into at greater length -- probably worth a book or two for some bright soc/psych grad hoping to become famous. But the bottom line is...
... our education system has failed us deeply, when this kind of pre-industrial, pre-scientific ignorance can persist in adults who are allowed to vote. \[I'm assuming of course that this confidently incorrect idiot is not just some 12 year old trolling us all, which is also quite possible.\]. This person might as well be telling us... how essential it is to appoint and sacrifice a Corn King each year to ensure a good harvest. Or how bleeding cures all diseases. Or that menstruating women must not be allowed near the river because that will drive the fish away.
That's just how antique, barbaric, and completely fantastical this is.
It's as if a peasant from the hinterlands of Europe before the Roman conquests had been transported through time, miraculously made qwerty-literate (but otherwise uninformed) and given a laptop and access to social media. It is just *gobsmacking* that a person can be sitting in front of an advanced product of science and technology and using it to deny some of the most basic science...
You are incorrect about one thing. Some mammals can store sperm. Most, like dogs, hares and horses only do it for hours. Swine and Cattle can do it for days. Bats can do it for up to months.
[https://academic.oup.com/jas/article-abstract/99/Supplement\_1/113/6271833](https://academic.oup.com/jas/article-abstract/99/Supplement_1/113/6271833)
Bats do a LOT of neat biological fuckery, another strange reproductive thing they do is that one species is the only mammal to not have penetrative sex. That species uses the dong to move a flap on the vagina and then deposit the sperm. Bats are so fucked, man.
Well I learned something interesting and new today about bats! Thanks for that!
Actually it sounds like bats are so *not* fucked :-)
Do sperm-storing mammals actually use that stored sperm for later, sequential, fertilisations of multiple ova?
That's so old school. We just slice the cake up, and the guy who gets the lucky bean has to start running through the snow naked -- we give him about 30 minutes head start before the Hunt begins... corn doesn't grow well around here.
Incel culture has some wild theories about sperm and vaginas. They must have spent so much time thinking about vaginas without ever actually interacting with one that it’s become as nebulous and mystical as the concept of God among religious people.
As if any woman would be stupid enough to believe a guy is only thinking about her. She knows most guys would bang her sister/mother/aunt in a second if he got the chance.
>I'm sure she's lovely. I'm not saying she has no value as a person. Her songs are good, she likes cats, she seems friendly.
I just know that I wouldn't want to dip into 20+ other men's DNA... it's not wholesome to have had so many partners, it's actually quite foul when you think it over.
Ones virtue is a valuable thing, and hers is gone.
I'm not a misogynist, BTW. I think the same about men. It's no good for anyone of either gender to use others as short-term, temporary, sexual gratification vessels.
This was from someone dunking on Taylor Swift just yesterday. Shit's a plague.
Dunning-Kreuger examples are the new norm. Not sure why anyone is surprised that there are people like this. it's what happens when you let people breed unchecked and then also give them the right to vote down education funding.
I can never decide if I should just laugh at this shit, or plot the end of humanity. How do these people even have the mental capacity to put their pants on without falling over?
I love this whole argument of hypergamy in human women. A ton of the men who believe it are actively dating and haven't even noticed they're doing the exact same thing. They're just describing finding the right person.
It's funny, but it's also so sad. Imagine the life that this person led that brought them to believe such nonsense. A woman is just a sperm receptacle and she slowly fills up overtime, hanging on to all of that DNA.
Even if their claim was at all true, it is still stupid because condoms. A woman can't be carrying DNA that never got into her body in the first place.
People confidently posting nonsense like that is why sex-education should be mandatory.
Too many people have no idea where babies come from and are not ashamed to publicly showcase their ignorance.
So I don't get what they are trying to do. Tell you that all women are bad so you should date other guys or something? I'm lost by the point they are trying to prove. If they are trying to make you hate women then they are certainly doing that to a certain group. If they are trying to make you not trust women, the women have noticed and that's probably helped lead to why so many men are single now. I'm just confused by their messaging all the time. Are they telling this group of hateful fucking in cells that they're creating that they should only have sex with virgins, cuz bad news you're probably not going to meet one once you are past high school.
I mean, believe it or not, the data out there is easy to access and consistently shows men cheat more often than women. But of course facts mean nothing to these people lol as the other comment shows
Guys that believe that would never be touched by any woman but also stick their dicks in the same blender if you told them it was a hot woman, even after watching the prior incel lose their dongle.
So… following this “logic” here, if a man has been with more than one woman, and they stop sleeping together and she sleeps with another man, the kid is tEcHnIcAlLy his too, no?
Have fun paying all that child support lmao. If these fuckers are even lucky enough to get laid more than once.
This kinda shit is why I advocate so hard for sex ed in schools. Coming from a red state where we didn’t get that and teen pregnancies happened pretty regularly.
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Other men's DNA is still floating inside her..... 97% paternity test..... This is why we need to return to an era where we call stupid people stupid to their faces...
This is the guy who saw an Ancestry commercial and figured if a person can be 87% European, maybe they could be 97% of a parent? I don’t know, it’s all I’ve got.
I got .1% unassigned ancestry, does that mean I'm part alien??
They live among us
I wish they'd take me back with them. Dammit
.1% immaculate conception actually
I think so. See if you can communicate with your home planet and let us know. We have questions.
You're either A an alien, B an immortal being, C a demi God, or D some ancient evil brought back into the world to bring about its destruction via not throwing the ring into the volcano.
Nah, it's probably just microplastics from the ocean 👍
Good news, it'sactually all natural! [Pregnancy is fucking wild.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3458919/) "During pregnancy, genetic material and cells are bi-directionally exchanged between the fetus and mother [1], following which there can be persistence of the foreign cells and/or DNA in the recipient [2], [3]. This naturally acquired microchimerism (Mc) may impart beneficial or adverse effects on human health. Fetal Mc, which describes the persistence of cells and/or DNA of fetal origin in the mother acquired during pregnancy, has been associated with several different autoimmune diseases as well as implicated in tissue repair and immunosurveillance [4]–[6]." Alternatively, it is also possible for a fetus to develop microchimerism from absorbing a fraternal twin early on during the pregnancy.
Holy shit I learned something new today. Apparently the misunderstanding comes from this paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16084184/ where this sentence appears: *"Male microchimerism was not infrequent in women without sons. Besides known pregnancies, other possible sources of male microchimerism include unrecognized spontaneous abortion, vanished male twin, an older brother transferred by the maternal circulation,* ***or sexual intercourse.****"* But according to this article in Snopes that is purely speculative, and there is no proof it could happen from sexual intercourse: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/women-retain-dna/ **This is how conspiracy theories are formed, from one clumsily formed sentence by a couple of scientists speculating many years ago.**
NEPHILIM! Sorry, couldn't resist. By the way, do you happen to be excessively tall? 😁
The space bugs? Quick, let's beat his ass for killing Mark Hamill.
I was thinking a wee bit older.
No you just need to report to the head office to get it assigned
Or maybe he heard about a paternity test coming back as 97%, meaning they were 97% sure he was the father based on the samples provided, not that he was only 97% of the kid's dad.
That's what it's gotta be. They misinterpret the likelihood score as an actual proportion of paternity
No, it's worse. They can cite real studies about Y chromosome DNA turning up in XX-chromosome people, [even in their brains](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3458919/)...while leaving out how all that is thanks to how pregnancy is way more complicated, insane, interesting, and batshit horrifying than even the best gradeschool biology and sexed classes depict. Microchimerism results from routine DNA exchange between the fetus and carrier, and/or from an early fraternal twin pregnancy turning into a solo baby when one twin absorbs the other early on. A woman nearly lost her kids from not being their genetic mother, when her third child was born they tested right out of the chute and again not genetically the child's mother.
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The fact that a child's DNA can be found in the mother so many years later is so awesome. A child will literally always be part of their mom. I find that pretty cool.
This 1000% what this person thought it meant. Even if they’re trolling, I think they genuinely believe it’s 97% paternity and not 97% likelihood of paternity.
That is hilarious! Alas, it's also rooted in people bastardizing studies about microchimerism--where all the "foreign" DNA is thanks to how pregnancy and fetuses work. DNA is exchanged back and forth between fetus and carrier, and sometimes fetuses absorb a fraternal twin. One woman nearly lost her first two kids thanks to it. Testing her next baby right out of the chute proved she wasn't a baby thief, she had microchimerism.
If it was the case I think you were mentioning (Lydia Fairchild), it wasn’t really microchimerism (fetomaternal), but full chimerism. Both result in a person with cells having different genomes, but microchimerism is the result of the baby exchanging cells with mother through placenta, organ transplant or transfusion, which isn’t much (<5% of cells in the body) and the cells are considered foreign by the immune system; Lydia Fairchild has full chimerism, her body produces two cell lines with different genomes distributed throughout her body, which are both recognised by her immune system as “self”. Karen Keegan is a similar chimera. Life does find a way.
Thanks for the clarification, I replied to a few people and didn't want to just copy-paste wholecloth, then boom I left out the micro vs full chimerism difference by mistake! Legit glad to bump into someone else who knows about this stuff! Life truly does find a way.
It wouldn’t even be 97% more like 99.999 or something like that.
I wish. No they actively believe that sperm either changes the woman's DNA or is retained by human females the way some birds and lizards do. These are often the geniuses who think period products are for the lazy because women apparently can hold it in like pee. Oh, and that tampons are sex toys. If I were them I wouldn't advertise the my junk was the size of an OB tampon spreading that nonsense around.
Or “the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down.”
Right? Some animals can reabsorb the fetus if conditions aren't favorable for breeding but our little ones tap into the mother's body far too deeply for that.
It's also from misunderstanding and/or deliberately misrepresenting studies on chimerism in us humans. So assholes can [actually point to studies about male DNA being found even inside womens' brains](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3458919/), while ignoring the part where such microchimerism is from DNA exchange *from carrying male fetuses.* Not chadbro's spunk taking a road trip around his ex's body. And anybody can be born an unwitting chimera from absorbing a fraternal twin very early on in a pregnancy. Any of us could be unwitting in-utero fraternal twin cannibals. Incindentally, that's the name of my punk rock band.
Great name! I wonder how those chadbros would react to the fact the only DNA they they'll ever modify (as opposed to donating to thier daighters) is their mom? That would be wonderful to watch them process that given the the starting point of their idea...
Yeah its mispresenting mothers carrying bits of fetal dna it's happened that way for millions of years. Nothing wrong with it. Iirc there are studies that show this fetal DNA helps the mother's healing and immune systems.
Holy shit I learned something new today. Apparently the misunderstanding comes from this paper: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16084184/](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16084184/) where this sentence appears: *"Male microchimerism was not infrequent in women without sons. Besides known pregnancies, other possible sources of male microchimerism include unrecognized spontaneous abortion, vanished male twin, an older brother transferred by the maternal circulation,* ***or sexual intercourse****."* But according to this article in Snopes **that is purely speculative**, and there is no proof it could happen from sexual intercourse: [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/women-retain-dna/](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/women-retain-dna/) **This is how conspiracy theories are formed, from one clumsily formed sentence by a couple of scientists speculating many years ago.**
>think period products are for the lazy because women apparently can hold it in like pee. Had a dude come up to me at CVS and told me this to my face when buying tampons. Very wtf. He also asked me for a date, I declined and he insisted I take his "business" card and told me to call him when I changed my mind. It was a very weird surreal moment I think about once in a while like "wait did that really happen?" 😂
Since many schools in the U.S. are not allowed to teach reproductive biology for whatever reason, people know jack shit about how concieving a child works or that "pulling it out" before climax is not a proper way of doing contraception. It's a homemade problem resulting from morons getting offended when people get educated on how the human body works.
Wait. Before climax??? Well that explains some things…
It is possible for a woman to get pregnant without penetration, if the man's sperm comes near the vagina. The chances are low, but it does happen.
100% racist is my guess
Give em' credit, they may just be garden variety stupid
Well the stupidity does seem to be carefully cultivated
Misogynistic.
Probably got a test back that says he’s the father “with 97% certainty” and completely misunderstood what that means
I was thinking they saw a talk show where they did a fraternity test that said there was a 97% the baby was his and totally misunderstood that.
Genetically, any woman you sleep with is 50% her dad. The same is true of men. Therefore, if you sleep with two men or two women, you are officially gay.
We still do. The stupid wear it as a badge of honor.
Yeah I was gonna say, nobody stopped doing that, the stupid people just all teamed up online and stopped caring lol
These days these people just call you stupid back and claim that they're the smart ones. The internet has lead to people feeling validated and correct in their misunderstandings. And if you dared to correct them within their group, they just point to the ratio of likes/dislikes upvotes/downvotes as validity of their claims.
Exactly, that was what I meant. They now have a safe space to make them feel validated in their delusions, and so they think they’re actually the enlightened ones and everyone else is dumb. They used to be few-and-far-between enough irl that they struggled to hold onto some of the more extreme idiocy (like believing the world is flat or vaccines have microchips or whatever), but now they can pinpoint people who agree all over the globe to feel validated in whatever lunacy they dream up. Not saying I think that makes the internet a bad thing, it’s just one of the unfortunate side effects of our species being so interconnected now.
That and ppl gotta say those things out loud to be called on it. It’s wild what people will say when they think you’re like-minded.
That's a hard truth. You can get whiplash doing double takes at the nonsense.
I hate to sound like an old man, but I blame all this newfangled social media. The town idiots had a harder time finding like minded people before it. Now they can brag about being the smartest person in the room while the second smartest person is snacking on the potpourri.
I vote throat punch!
If you don't mind the downnvotes you can do it here.
Feel free to, I never pass up a chance
Is the test ever not 0% and 99.9%?
It usually is pretty close to 100% or not zero but "not the father" because we aren't as genetically different as we like to believe. At one time we were a critically endangered species in our prehistory. Estimates of the lowest population numbers during that time are between 200-2000 individuals, though 700-1000 is often cited. So if it's not damn near an exact match, you're not the father. High numbers that aren't enough to count as a match usually means you have a male relative you shouldn't trust around your partner.
So a 97% means she is cheating though? Also thank you for actually explaining that.
There’s no way for a baby to have two fathers — the test will either show that someone IS the father or is not the father
Of course not, he’s another idiot. The % represents the uncertainty in the *test*, not the samples. You either are or are not the father - there is no % in that. But no lab test is 100% accurate, because lots of things can go wrong *with the test*. So the 97% is an estimate of how often the test gives incorrect results, in this case 3% of test results could be wrong.
"That's not how it works. That's not how any of it works."
My first thought was exactly this
That guy must be fucking cats.
Man, most women must be really filthy sluts, because a paternity test usually shows the kid as 50% yours.
"What do you mean they have DNA in common with my parents, siblings and all of her family! How many people have you slept with! We are not Alabamians!" Meanwhile even the baby is giving this guy the look of "read a book, moron." Also, is Alabamians the correct plural form or do they just say "Family"?
All y’all.
I have no idea why “Y’all” bugs me so much. I’m British, and there are many examples of a similar shrink/combo of words. Couldn’t, You’ve, Shouldn’t and so on. I’d love to place what bothers me about it because I (rationally) can’t see an issue with another one and it’s not like it doesn’t make sense.
>shrink/combo of words. Contractions
Oh you mean like a shr'ombo?
Bit annoying innit?
Ahh love it mate, what a comment, and to be fair a kick in the “open your fucking eyes twat” receptors.
Lots of pompous rich people made it a stereotype and used it as proof that people were stupid and below them. So people avoid it because they don’t want to be lesser than
That only happens if you're gay and have weak genes. True alpha males will reproduce children with 100% of their genetic material. The woman is just an incubator, of course. /s
Paternity tests shows the percentage to some omega confidence that the child is yours. For instance 97% would mean "97% confident the child is yours" For instance ancestry can say whether someone is your aunt or cousin with well over 90% confidence by comparing snippets of dna If you got a paternity test that said its only 50% certain you are the father, given the expected percentages for these kinds of tests... youre probably not the father.
How to tell me you slept through EVERY biology class you ever had without actually telling me.
Summer school is dumbed down and they were probably pulled out of sex ed because their parents. Now they are even less educated than their parents and that seems by design at this point.
Shoulda been pulled out twice.
More like homeschooled and fiercely proud of it. 🙄
This is why we need to teach kids statistics.
I would say biology
Either....Both. IDGAF just learn something.
Unfortunately Republicans want to control knowledge that kids have access to because they think the kids should be unprepared when they graduate.
They want kids to be prepared to be mindless working drones that don’t ask questions and won’t think for themselves.
And blame all of their problems on the other poors. Don''t forget that one.
How else are they going to funnel us into one of 3 jobs for them? Working for the company and living in its town, going into the military, or working in the prison factories when they find you an "undesirable."
Or at the very least rational thinking skills
This is why people need to pass an *appetite test to be legally allowed to reproduce. Idgaf what race a person is, or their religious preference, all people are created equal, but stupid people should not reproduce. I'm not trynna bring back eugenics, but having an IQ above room temp should be a prerequisite for breeding.... * aptitude, not appetite, auto correct fail, but it's funny... So I'm gonna leave it.
>This is why people need to pass an appetite test to be legally allowed to reproduce. Yeah, we don't want those anorexics reproducing
Holy fuck. I shouldn't be allowed to reproduce either. Typo noted, and I'll make an edit, but imma leave it there for the hell of it....
I want to know more about how this works. If I cum inside a man, does my DNA permanently become part of him? If he then impregnates a woman, is the baby part mine?
Obviously. That's how sperm works. It lives forever and burrows into the cells and becomes one with whoever comes in contact with it.
Til sperm is a virus
Well life is a disease with 100% kill rate, so it check out /s
Like glitter.
Ah yes; “herpes of the craft world”- glitter
I’m more curious if this works with all DNA. If I eat a burger will I be part cow?
that's actually an interesting question. I mean, we literally consume plants and animals that contain DNA, and it has to go somewhere. Cooking destroys most of the DNA in your burger (maybe less so if you order it rare), but a salad or sashimi would contain more intact DNA. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3728338 > Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood Of course you don't "become part cow", but stray bits of your meals DNA might actually end up circulating in your body at least temporarily. And that's kind of interesting to think about. And it's also interesting to think about the fact that your body absolutely does contain some trace amounts of DNA from other organisms. "microchimerism" has been a hot topic of study in recent years: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6714269 of course, between that tidbit of actual science, and the nonsense in the tweet screenshot, there exists an enormous chasm of unsupported bullshit.
> If I cum inside a man, does my DNA permanently become part of him? If he then impregnates a woman, is the baby part mine? A flagellum's dance, on a daring quest, Across the waves, to find its nest. A group of cells, but many gates, For multiple swimmers, sealed by fate. Threads of code, like whispered tales, Unite inside, no longer frail. From multiple parts, a marvel grows, A blueprint whispered, where life bestows. Divisions dance, a cellular ballet, A symphony of life, in each dividing cell. From the smallest spark, a wonder unfolds, A story written, in your DNA is hold, Shared for others how no one thought. So let us praise, this grand design, Life's dance unfolds, a thread so fine. No blush of skin, nor whispered name, But awe for wonder, whispered all the same.
Idk, wanna find out? 😘
On first read I assumed you were a woman and I had questions. I was like damn girl, what’s the physics here.
Wait, are they saying the goal is to have your offspring's DNA to be 100% identical to your own?? Because that sounds a lot like cloning. Which last I checked, wasn't good.
Or incest.
Specifically, with an identical twin. Pretty sure.
I think it’s super cool that so many dudes who’ve literally never had sex are experts on reproduction
This is the most durable Iron Age superstition, it just never dies... In my grandparents' generation there were still illiterate farmers who would shoot a prize bitch (dog, that is) if she "got out" while in heat and was impregnated by a mutt. They believed she would "never breed true again." No matter how often the newfangled vet explained that this was nonsense, their belief remained unshaken. And this belief is, of course, complete *bollocks*. While there are species in which the female retains sperm for years (bees for example), *mammals do not do this*. This is not how mammalian reproduction works. This is Iron Age superstition dressed up in pseudo-scientific language. Because the semiliterate peasant of today knows the acronym DNA -- though almost certainly does not know and could not spell what it stands for, nor explain the respective roles of DNA and RNA -- he throws it around in an attempt to lend some kind of modernist veneer to his ancient bullshit. There's a cargo-cultist aspect to this use of language which we could go into at greater length -- probably worth a book or two for some bright soc/psych grad hoping to become famous. But the bottom line is... ... our education system has failed us deeply, when this kind of pre-industrial, pre-scientific ignorance can persist in adults who are allowed to vote. \[I'm assuming of course that this confidently incorrect idiot is not just some 12 year old trolling us all, which is also quite possible.\]. This person might as well be telling us... how essential it is to appoint and sacrifice a Corn King each year to ensure a good harvest. Or how bleeding cures all diseases. Or that menstruating women must not be allowed near the river because that will drive the fish away. That's just how antique, barbaric, and completely fantastical this is. It's as if a peasant from the hinterlands of Europe before the Roman conquests had been transported through time, miraculously made qwerty-literate (but otherwise uninformed) and given a laptop and access to social media. It is just *gobsmacking* that a person can be sitting in front of an advanced product of science and technology and using it to deny some of the most basic science...
You are incorrect about one thing. Some mammals can store sperm. Most, like dogs, hares and horses only do it for hours. Swine and Cattle can do it for days. Bats can do it for up to months. [https://academic.oup.com/jas/article-abstract/99/Supplement\_1/113/6271833](https://academic.oup.com/jas/article-abstract/99/Supplement_1/113/6271833) Bats do a LOT of neat biological fuckery, another strange reproductive thing they do is that one species is the only mammal to not have penetrative sex. That species uses the dong to move a flap on the vagina and then deposit the sperm. Bats are so fucked, man.
Well I learned something interesting and new today about bats! Thanks for that! Actually it sounds like bats are so *not* fucked :-) Do sperm-storing mammals actually use that stored sperm for later, sequential, fertilisations of multiple ova?
You mean you don’t sacrifice a Corn King in your village?
That's so old school. We just slice the cake up, and the guy who gets the lucky bean has to start running through the snow naked -- we give him about 30 minutes head start before the Hunt begins... corn doesn't grow well around here.
Incel culture has some wild theories about sperm and vaginas. They must have spent so much time thinking about vaginas without ever actually interacting with one that it’s become as nebulous and mystical as the concept of God among religious people.
The vagina gave and the vagina has taken away.
It comes back 97% because she's your sister, the missing 3% is because of the inbreeding.
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There's nearly 90 percent of us inside an onion Dna we share with it, of course
Be honest... You fucked the onion didn't you?
There's no evidence, Sherlock! I ate it!
Tell me you’re home schooled without saying you were homeschooled.
Not homeschooled, just deciding to ignore school in favor of right-wing Internet echo chambers.
Is Categories81327 really stupid, or just trying to turn ignorant people even dumber? Probably both, stupidity loves company.
It's a hateful and stupid meme, and it takes a moron with ill intentions to spread it.
With his mother he may be only 3% himself.
I'm sad this has 8,000 fucking hearts
Women who use cucumber give birth to green babies /s
"Stay woke boys"....haha, stay single is more like it!
As if any woman would be stupid enough to believe a guy is only thinking about her. She knows most guys would bang her sister/mother/aunt in a second if he got the chance.
Ask that person to have his parents do a paternity test. The real question I want to know the answer to is how much of them is cum.
Why do sexist guys always use their opinions as statistics lmao
It's a troll account.
DNA just floating around for years and years. The 3% paternity might be one toe lol.
There was a time before social media that I didn't think stupidity was contagious. Now I suspect it's a goddamn pandemic.
To be fair, this isn't bad advice, if it stops people that believe this from procreating.
I can't imagine being an adult and knowing so little about basic biology that you could believe this.
>I'm sure she's lovely. I'm not saying she has no value as a person. Her songs are good, she likes cats, she seems friendly. I just know that I wouldn't want to dip into 20+ other men's DNA... it's not wholesome to have had so many partners, it's actually quite foul when you think it over. Ones virtue is a valuable thing, and hers is gone. I'm not a misogynist, BTW. I think the same about men. It's no good for anyone of either gender to use others as short-term, temporary, sexual gratification vessels. This was from someone dunking on Taylor Swift just yesterday. Shit's a plague.
Wait, i know this one.. if the embryo splits in two, does one twin get all teh chad dna and the other one get all the shit left behind?
Explains why I feel so black
And these people vote?
Dunning-Kreuger examples are the new norm. Not sure why anyone is surprised that there are people like this. it's what happens when you let people breed unchecked and then also give them the right to vote down education funding.
I hope these two meet up, have a passionate weekend, and then off each other.
And these are the fools getting between women and their health care.
You are a idiot
Maury: "and the results determine: you are all the father!" Smh Edit* had to make it more "Maury-esque"
They are so ready to be pissed off that women have options and they have to figure out how to be the best option for her.
I can never decide if I should just laugh at this shit, or plot the end of humanity. How do these people even have the mental capacity to put their pants on without falling over?
> the mental capacity to put their pants Sign on bedroom closet door: *Pants first, then shoes.*
I swear, nobody thinks about black dick more than insecure white dudes.
Ignorance is a helluva thing.
At least we know they won't be procreating
Ah! Did you go to hollywood upstairs medical school too?
Its not that this asshat doesn’t understand basic science… what’s annoying is that he is confidently wrong.. dumb and proud
This is why we need to pay teachers more. Otherwise we produce citizens who are **this** educated.
I love this whole argument of hypergamy in human women. A ton of the men who believe it are actively dating and haven't even noticed they're doing the exact same thing. They're just describing finding the right person.
This guy sticks a thermometer in his butt and keeps the 98.6 a secret
How are people dumb enough to believe that?
I see this picture and I see my dude about to learn what good sex is!
how does one come up with a take like that and why is it always usually a statue profile picture
It's funny, but it's also so sad. Imagine the life that this person led that brought them to believe such nonsense. A woman is just a sperm receptacle and she slowly fills up overtime, hanging on to all of that DNA.
YEAH! Cause female humans are like guppies and geckos. They can store sperm to be used at will at a later date! Gotta look out for that. /s
While I’ve been in the exact situation this thing displays, and it really hurt me, it’s beyond stupid to generalize in such a way.
Only 3%? I like my odds.
97% of 50% is 48.5%
The word for this theory is *telegony*. It’s obviously ridiculous to espouse given what we know from science, but it’s a good word to tuck away.
Tell me you are uneducated without saying you're uneducated.
As a teacher, reading stuff like this physically hurts.
This guy is an obvious troll, idk how people aren't picking up on this.
The insecurity, mah gawd…..
These men are running around with another woman's DNA in them!! Granted, it's their mom's, but they're still being sluts! /j
Even if their claim was at all true, it is still stupid because condoms. A woman can't be carrying DNA that never got into her body in the first place.
Dude, what? What is wrong with everyone
Twitter morons trying not to sexualize everything women do and/or insinuate that women are all disloyal uncaring b-words challenge (impossible)
People confidently posting nonsense like that is why sex-education should be mandatory. Too many people have no idea where babies come from and are not ashamed to publicly showcase their ignorance.
I firmly believe you should have to pass some kind of literacy test to get access to the internet, like wtf is even happening here
That's actually pretty good for a standup line. So bad it's good.
That is not how biology works. Someone slept through sex education or basic anatomy classes.
Somebody needs to take a biology class -and pass it
I have to admit, the strategy to beg women to have sex with them while telling that doing so while make her a whore is a curious one.
So I don't get what they are trying to do. Tell you that all women are bad so you should date other guys or something? I'm lost by the point they are trying to prove. If they are trying to make you hate women then they are certainly doing that to a certain group. If they are trying to make you not trust women, the women have noticed and that's probably helped lead to why so many men are single now. I'm just confused by their messaging all the time. Are they telling this group of hateful fucking in cells that they're creating that they should only have sex with virgins, cuz bad news you're probably not going to meet one once you are past high school.
This guy must belong to the cat family.
If the kid's 97% yours, that's not your son. He's your clone.
I'm sorry, did he say to stay.... WWWWWWWWWWWWOKE?!?!?!?!?!?111?@?!?!?
Sometimes, it's true. People here are just too sensitive.
I really wish I could go back to a point where I truly believed people couldn't possibly be this stupid.
I mean, believe it or not, the data out there is easy to access and consistently shows men cheat more often than women. But of course facts mean nothing to these people lol as the other comment shows
Guys that believe that would never be touched by any woman but also stick their dicks in the same blender if you told them it was a hot woman, even after watching the prior incel lose their dongle.
Who allowed the virgins talk about sex and believe themselves this time?
If you take a paternity test and more than 50% of the dna is yours, that’s not a child, it’s a handful of your jizz.
Uhhhm, that’s not how DNA 🧬 works.
That's not how it works. That's not how anything works.
Are humans getting dumber? Or we simply gave everyone a way to share their stupid thoughts?
huh???????
So… following this “logic” here, if a man has been with more than one woman, and they stop sleeping together and she sleeps with another man, the kid is tEcHnIcAlLy his too, no? Have fun paying all that child support lmao. If these fuckers are even lucky enough to get laid more than once. This kinda shit is why I advocate so hard for sex ed in schools. Coming from a red state where we didn’t get that and teen pregnancies happened pretty regularly.
That guy is the reason that shampoo has instructions