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Trump now says he's the "father of IVF" (www.motherjones.com)

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[-] ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Weird. He doesn't even say this about Eric.

[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago

Didn’t the dumbass ask what it meant?

[-] spongebue@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Yup.

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 38 points 1 day ago

The father of the

Intraneck

Vaginal

Fold

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago

The thumbnail above conveniently censors the naughty bits, allowing this article to be SFW.

[-] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

You got a laugh out of me while I'm at the doctors. Take the upvote and get outta here!

[-] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 17 points 22 hours ago

Felon Drink Bleach is the father of paying to solicit sex.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago

If only this would ruin him the way the Internet comment ruined Gore.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 day ago

That's the magic of this dumpster fire .... when you've been burning stinking garbage the whole time ... you could set fire to a rancid dead cat and people no longer care because they've all been conditioned to no longer be shocked by whatever you say or do. They've grown to expect nothing but stupidity from him. Insanity has become the norm.

The problem is not Turnip ... the problem is everyone thinking this is all normal now.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Have you seen the Internet? Al Gore should be ashamed of himself for enabling this shit. If we’d stopped at Minitel, we’d still get important info like weather and then gone back to reading books.

[-] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

He's doesn't even know how to spell IVF.

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, he meant to say IBS.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago

Easy.

Covfefe

[-] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 day ago

Weird, what a maniac.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 20 hours ago

He invented it, duh.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

Ew.

[-] runiq@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago

Are we still doing phrasing? Also, where's Maury when you need him?

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

I am sure he did a lot of sperm donating so in his mind it is true.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 23 hours ago

Which is terrible given all the SA he did.

[+] masterofn001@lemmy.ca -16 points 1 day ago

Remember when Al Gore said something was made of tubes?

This is the same thing. Completely.

Shirley this is a completely same man speaking.

That's why he went around grabbing all those pussies.

Daddy Dementia is a genius!

[-] takeda@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, that's not what he said. He got a lot of flak for supposedly saying he invented the Internet.

In reality he never claimed that, he said that when he was a congressman he took initiative in creating the Internet, meaning sponsoring bills that would fund it etc. not actually inventing it.

Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf actually acknowledged that Gore was first politician that saw Internet's potential and helped it becoming a reality.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 21 hours ago

Remember when Al Gore said something was made of tubes?

No.

[-] citrusface@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

I think it was actually Ted Stevens.

It's not a dump truck, it's a series of tubes.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Also, technically, the actual infrastructure that allows the internet to exist is very much akin to a series of tubes.

Barring satellite internet connections (which are still fairly rare for household usage outside of remote areas), the internet traveled along first phone lines, then coax cables, and now in some places in the US, fiber lines... most of which were and still are underground for all but the proverbial last mile. The internet even crosses seas through giant undersea cables.

If you think of data centers and dns servers as something akin to pumping stations, the analogy of tubes is a fairly decent, simplified metaphor for the actual physical infrastructure of it all. It also allows for a reasonable surface level analogy of water flow through pipes as comparable to bandwidth throughput.

... Though with data cap usage metering, the analogy begins to fall apart at a slightly more technical level, as there is no real... actual 'thing', no resource being 'pumped', beyond encoded electricity itself, which only has a real per unit cost to an ISP in terms of the actual power costs of routing your requests, maybe the maintenance costs of the cable/fiber lines... the former of which is infinitesimally less costly than with water, and said cost is further distributed around the country or world's DNS servers and data server centers.

The only thing that it makes sense to charge for is speeds, and even then, every ISP I've ever used in any location I've ever lived rarely operates at the advertised speed, but technically your contract with the ISP says they don't actually have any real obligation to provide that anyway, and this is apparently legal.

Anyway, only really with the advent of 5g can it really be said that the internet is moving away from being fairly comparable to a vast series of tubes.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Remember when Howard Dean said “byahhh”?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

Gore said something about being around for the project that created the internet and everyone said he claimed to have invented the internet

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Not everyone. Republicans.

And I think Trump may believe he's personally fertilizing all IVF eggs and that's what he means by "father of IVF".

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

I keep forgetting that even though I was too young to vote, I was pretty much a republican back then. Plus, growing up in Texas and having our big boy trying to wear daddy's shoes in the Whitehouse... There was no way I was gonna get actual facts during that election.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

He never wanted the job. He wanted to be funny and travel and cut up. Cheney had more power in his Whitehouse than his dad had in Reagan's and that's a. LOT.

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