arschfidel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNAddy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it was the case of Lydia Fairchild From Wikipedia

  Fairchild stood accused of fraud by either claiming benefits for other people’s children, or taking part in a surrogacy scam, and records of her prior births were put similarly in doubt. Prosecutors called for her two children to be taken away from her, believing them not to be hers. As time came for her to give birth to her third child, the judge ordered that an observer be present at the birth, ensure that blood samples were immediately taken from both the child and Fairchild, and be available to testify. Two weeks later, DNA tests seemed to indicate that she was also not the mother of that child.

  A breakthrough came when her defense attorney,[1] Alan Tindell, learned of Karen Keegan, a chimeric woman in Boston, and suggested a similar possibility for Fairchild and then introduced an article in the New England Journal of Medicine about Keegan.[2][3] He realized that Fairchild’s case might also be caused by chimerism. As in Keegan’s case, DNA samples were taken from members of the extended family. The DNA of Fairchild’s children matched that of Fairchild’s mother to the extent expected of a grandmother. They also found that, although the DNA in Fairchild’s skin and hair did not match her children’s, the DNA from a cervical smear test did match. Fairchild was carrying two different sets of DNA, the defining characteristic of chimerism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU vs USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a German, I often find the French protests inspiring. They seem enthusiastic and convinced that they can make a difference, whereas in Germany many people use their perceived insignificance as an excuse for why it’s pointless to even try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon owns nothing and is unhappy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not happy. Are you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how I feel about most Microsoft products actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Updates that don't tell me what is being updated⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OMG, thank you! Until now I thought I was the only person to be fucking annoyed by this shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holee shiet⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of when Beatrix von Storch, politician from the far-right German party AfD, once suggested suing the sun for damages done by climate change in an interview.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know where I'm going to keep them all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same with video games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On extinction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s from one of the shows listed under this paragraph: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Morgan#Philomena_Cunk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Euro bottles are so much better now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard (so no certainty), that they analyzed plastic trash collected from beaches and found plastic bottle caps to be a significant part of it. So they thought it would be worth trying to solve that problem.