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Just met an airbnb host with the exact same story. Tried for years then broke up - both had kids right away with their new partners
And a miscarriage is the egg doing a "Oops. Got that one wrong"?
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And a miscarriage is the egg doing a "Oops. Got that one wrong"?
You cannot throw this kind of jokes around given how this subject can be hard to read for people to which it happened. HN is a community with people of lot of different backgrounds so it's important to be careful.
Edit: miscarriages are incredibly common. This will/has affected people of almost all backgrounds. The culture of silence on the topic leaves you totally unprepared for it as a reality.
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Just met an airbnb host with the exact same story. Tried for years then broke up - both had kids right away with their new partners
And a miscarriage is the egg doing a "Oops. Got that one wrong"?
Does this (read: could this) help explain why some couples have problems conceiving? Perhaps, at least in some cases, the egg is saying, "no way buddy."
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> Perhaps, at least in some cases, the egg is saying, "no way buddy." Assuming this is true, it would be happening in less than 1% of cases (given the prevalence of male-factor infertility and the prevalence of its known causes). So if such an ability exists, it doesn't seem to be getting used very often. Which, given the evolutionary complexity that would be required to evolve such a system, seems surprising. So my…
I thought that partner incompatibility was extremely common?
Cool to seen this on HN; my wife did the illustration for this article!
This probably answers a question I have about genetics - that there just isn't enough variety if reproduction was random. Genetic differences that have no bearing on survivability, like skin patterns or colors or whatever, should be widespread through every species, but they're not.
He said, "We're tuned to notice differences between people, not pigeons. Perhaps we all look the same to them!"
Perhaps there is precisely this sort of random variation in the differences we don't notice, because by being oblivious to them they are not sexually selected for or against?
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And a miscarriage is the egg doing a "Oops. Got that one wrong"?
You cannot throw this kind of jokes around given how this subject can be hard to read for people to which it happened. HN is a community with people of lot of different backgrounds so it's important to be careful.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You cannot throw this kind of jokes around given how this subject can be hard to read for people to which it happened. HN is a community with people of lot of different backgrounds so it's important to be careful.
Please don't speak for other people we don't need your protection. Edit: miscarriages are incredibly common. This will/has affected people of almost all backgrounds. The culture of silence on the topic leaves you totally unprepared for it as a reality.
I agree that silence doesn't help and on HN is most likely unnecessary. But in general conversation it is reasonable to be a bit more circumspect.