If a cat wore pants...
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2 in 1 pants and face mask
This cat wears the soul of its devoured twin.
Wasn’t there just a meme on Lemmy about if humans wore pants? And it was like this cat.
really old Norton tools had a defrag that would show your partition and all the files and watching it arrange them was so mesmerizing
we keep losing the good ones
TBF you really shouldn't be defragging most devices anyways these days. It actively hurts SSDs
Most of my devices have HDDs 🙂
just dont tell the SSDs you're defragging
So I learned recently from another post that these (bottom one) are usually chimeras.
It’s basically two different cats that combined in the womb.
Thank you.
I was gonna ask... wait how the fuck is this possible?
Yeah, chimeras are fascinating.
Also, if you're a human chimera, well, you're probably fucked if you ever need to do DNA testing to verify anything for legal purposes.
There have been cases where like a chimera mom who gave birth to a child failed a dna test and then legally lost child support rights, because they tested a part of her body with the 'wrong' DNA.
Lydia Fairchild, that's who I'm thinking of.
Are we sure it wasn't the father's DNA that didn't match?
It's so very rare for them to ever test the mother as that is usually never questioned because well if the birth certificate says she had the kid it's likely.
Rare circumstances apply of course
While it seems unbelievable:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild
Lydia Fairchild (born 1976) is an American woman who exhibits chimerism, having two distinct populations of DNA among the cells of her body. She was pregnant with her third child when she and the father of her children, Jamie Townsend, separated. When Fairchild applied for enforcement of child support in 2002, providing DNA evidence of Townsend's paternity was a routine requirement. While the results showed Townsend to certainly be their father, they seemed to rule out her being their mother.
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.
tl:dr -
1] Father's DNA compared to children's DNA indicates paternity of the father, seems to disclude maternity of the mother.
2] Blood tests from mother and children 'confirm' no DNA relation... including another child that was born to the same mother, and blood tested upon birth, in the midst of legal proceedings, with a court appointed observer present.
3] Maternal grandmother's DNA matches with children.
Skin and hair DNA from mother do not match children.
Pap smear DNA from mother does match children.
... So basically, only her womb, not her blood, not her skin, nor hair... actually have the same DNA as her kids.
So free multicat
Defraggler my beloved.
Then I discovered ext4 and realized NTFS was just just shit lol
welcome to linux (or bsd i cant know)
Bro your cat is loading
stuck at 50%
Hahahaha this cracks me up xD
Yeah but, I'll bet the bottom cat is SUPER fast now ... Like so fast you can't even notice a difference.