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themagicbong t1_jdoyqei wrote

Damn, all these jokes, but that sounds pretty fuckin serious. Pretty wild to have such an enormous body of water that high above sea level. "at an altitude of approximately 3,700 m (12,100 ft)."

"In 2002 the lake was designated as a site for conservation under the Ramsar Convention. By December 2015, the lake had completely dried up, leaving only a few marshy areas. Although the lake has dried up completely twice in the past, it does not appear that it will recover this time."

cool. cool. cool. this is fine. Was only the SECOND largest lake in the country.

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Stevenntrann t1_jdoyb1d wrote

Yeah I guess, but if you practiced safe sex or protection you wouldnt have birth defects to worry about. So it’s a if-that-then-this kinda of statement. Also I don’t know too much about anatomy but in the womb, if theres a physical connection, in this case, cellular connection, the body would treat it as such. This is not your argument if you believe that its a foreign material. Foreign materials for the most part would get rejected from the body, create abscess and pus to isolate the material and slowly eject it by whatever means.

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jimfazio123 t1_jdoxrur wrote

The blastocyst builds both the fetus and the placenta, which acts essentially as a parasite, to the point that it secretes chemical compounds and has its own purpose-specific immune cells that allow it to suppress the mother's immune system to avoid being treated as a foreign body. All the instructions come from within the embryo/fetus, all direction comes from within the embryo/fetus. If at any point the embryo/fetus stops providing directions, development stops. The mother doesn't build the fetus, it's just built within her body.

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88kat t1_jdoxgi5 wrote

Currently pregnant too. I have gestational diabetes, with like no family history of any diabetes, and starting pregnancy at 5’8 and 135 pounds. My doctors assured me the diabetes is because my placenta is causing it. Which makes me wonder because diabetes is rampant in my husbands family.

Since I was diagnosed, I have wondered if his genetics has anything to do with this… 😂

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Leuk_Jin t1_jdowgv8 wrote

I heard old timey castles and mansions having no corridors. Instead, just many rooms connected to eachother. Sounded like concept of privacy was much different since nobles and aristocrats already would have had servants going in and out of their chambers anyway. But it's funny that it reminds me of how I build houses in survival games. Lack of planning, lack of resources, lack of diligence.

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michaelvsaucetookdmt t1_jdowf30 wrote

Well youre putting your own little slant on it by saying shit like “voracious parasite.” Literally every placental mammal works this way. People learn about this in school. I don’t want you telling middle schoolers in sex ed this shit just because you think its freaky any more than i want super christians to control sex ed.

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Emergency_Mine_4455 t1_jdoviqj wrote

In some cultures men are not taught how to cook, and I believe that some subsets of traditional Chinese culture may have been that way. These men wouldn’t have known how to make their traditional dishes, so the restaurants would have given them that taste of home.

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jimfazio123 t1_jdov8v0 wrote

Where does the sperm come from, the mother as well?

The placenta has the same genetic makeup as the fetus. The mother doesn't make it; she supplies the nutrients. It's not a difficult distinction, and yet.. it's still a distinction.

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Mama_Mush t1_jdouica wrote

Lmao. Neither protection or safe sex protect against birth defects or pregnancy issues. The egg may come from the mother but the fetus and its placenta are foreign material to her body.

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potatokid07 t1_jdouf7u wrote

Sorry I should have had put myself clear, I think it could have written in a less "blame culture"-y way, because "thanks to..." phrase gave me such semantics. Not saying the poor internal comms is not true, it's a valid issue indeed!

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OvidPerl OP t1_jdotqtk wrote

You wrote:

> I don't agree how OP or the article writes "thanks to poor internal comms"

The very first sentence of the article:

> NASA admitted today that Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano nearly drowned during his July 16 spacewalk last year because information about a previous water leak didn't make its way up the chain of command.

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jimfazio123 t1_jdot7ff wrote

If you buy a loaf of bread at the store, did the bakery make your sandwich? No, it just supplied the materials needed for you to make it.

With the genetic information from the sperm, the fertilized egg utilizes the nutrients available to divide and construct the placenta from part of itself. Without the sperm, the only thing that (unfertilized) egg is doing is flushing out of the uterus.

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