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Woman pregnant in each of her two uteruses gives birth to twins
- rocketbop 3y agoIn Uteri.
- FroshKiller 3y agoIn uterīs, actually.
- valianteffort 3y agoWow, what a beast of a woman. This is not technically a twin birth then is it? The kids would be as related as sibilings.
- jvanderbot 3y agoJust fraternal twins. Still twins.
- dartos 3y agoThe delivering doctor in the article said “I think it’s safe to call them fraternal twins”
- Gare 3y agoFraternal twins are no more related than regular siblings.
- ReactiveJelly 3y agoCool! I kinda want a uterus some day.
- LoganDark 3y agoTransition goals!
- klipt 3y agoWell only if the uterus has to be in your body. Plenty of cis people might be happy with a functioning artificial uterus outside their body. Would make pregnancy a lot less inconvenient for women. And save gay men a lot on surrogacy expenses.
- LoganDark 3y agoI didn't mean to imply they're necessarily transgender, just make a little joke about it. :)
- ShamelessC 3y agoTotally unrelated but are you all really experiencing life as a collective of multiple identities? That’s absolutely fascinating. In particular it seems one/some/all of you are fairly intelligent and self aware about the situation.
- LoganDark 3y agoNot always simultaneously, but yes! (For the other commenters in the thread, my profile says I have DID.) Here's a good website that explains it: https://morethanone.info https://morethanone.info (also on the profile). I've always been self-aware in terms of knowing that I had 'multiple personalities' (at least once there was indeed more than one), but knowledge of "plurality", "systems" and dissociative disorders is far more recent (last couple years at most). AMA
- ShamelessC 3y agoHow clear is the divide between each of you? Similarly, individual identities experience memory loss depending on the level of control of a given person? As in, do any of you have recall from when another of you is at the forefront? I notice you all also appreciate the collective identification. Does that mean there are times when many of you are actively perceiving the world simultaneously? Finally, how hard is it to get by with normal life, job, loved ones, etc? It sounds incredibly challenging, but you also seem to have a very positive outlook.
- drivebyhooting 3y agoNominative determinism at work. Her last name is Hatcher!
- cscurmudgeon 3y agoJust good variable naming by the developers.
- petermcneeley 3y agono https://www.ancestry.ca/name-origin?surname=hatcher https://www.ancestry.ca/name-origin?surname=hatcher
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- ourmandave 3y agoLeft unanswered: Where would this fall on the power scale in the X-Men universe?
- doctorhandshake 3y agoI’m reminded of the Jennifer Daniel quote - “they shouldn’t call it ‘twins.’ It should be called ‘two fucking babies at the same time.’”
- Gibbon1 3y agoMy ex helped a women with a double stroller get it through a door and asked if they were twins and when the women said yes. My ex said woah you have my sympathy and the lady started crying. Also: From the article: gave birth to twins last week a day apart. Brutal.
- dirtyhippiefree 3y agoThe untold story of fertility treatments is the seriously increased incidence of twins…like six of them at once… “I only wanted to have one.”
- Gibbon1 3y agoMy old companies corporate secretary underwent IVF and 6 zygotes implanted. In the end only one was left. She was totally freaked out though.
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- dirtyhippiefree 3y agoFraternal twins is a thing.
- doodlebugging 3y agoI can't help but think about this Robert Frost poem [0] when I consider the perilous journey of the sperm as they swam in search of a viable egg. I hope for both these kids it ends up making all the difference. [0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-ta...
- Sharlin 3y agoSomehow this brought to my mind the tangentially related piece of trivia that kittens in a single litter can have different fathers, and among freely mating strays this isn't even particularly rare. The technical term is "heteropaternal superfecundation": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfecundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfecundation
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- nimbius 3y agoa lot of people dont seem to know this hack, but its a clever use of timing attack chained to a duplication glitch that you can use to max out wealth early in the game. - Duplicate your uterus (jump twice on an alarm clock against a wall while conceiving to push out of bounds), which cant exist twice, so one of the kids gets normal stats and the other gets NaN/NULL. - have kids and then assign one of them 1 cent. write the NaN a cheque for -1 dollar. - just as youre assigning your birth certificates, let the second child cash the first childs cheque. as neither has a name this results in an overflow for the second childs checking account of 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 dollars. - the first child does not have zero dollars, but instead their name becomes 9,223,372,036,854,775,807. - assign the childs name. since the name cant be assigned twice, the childs checking account inherits the integer as input overflow. NaN now has the first childs assigned name.
- laristine 3y agoWhat?
- ShamelessC 3y agoLayman’s understanding of speed running and sense of humor may be required.
- gary_0 3y agoIt should be noted that the two-uterus hack is not acceptable as a "no major glitches" run. This can also soft-lock the universe if your children reach age 18 and have inheritances in trust.
- xyst 3y agoShe should get a lotto ticket with those odds
- ShamelessC 3y agoIs absolutely mind boggling to me that not just one, but multiple people thought this was worth flagging. It’s so innocent of a story and interesting enough, I can only assume it’s been flagged for bigotry or at least ignorance.
- mtmail 3y agoJust because somebody disagrees doesn't automatically make them bigots or ignorant. I think the more likely reason is a "this isn't HN material" assessment by readers. (I didn't flag)
- ShamelessC 3y agoThis is currently on the front page and hasn’t been flagged: https://nautil.us/what-you-dont-know-about-sperm-482001/ https://nautil.us/what-you-dont-know-about-sperm-482001/ Solid counter example in under two weeks. Call me cynical if you want, I don’t appeal to a person’s better nature because they may not have one.