• enkers
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    5212 days ago

    The most common birth month is August. The ratio to the least common is 1.14:1. Make of that what you will.

    • @tourist@lemmy.world
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      9012 days ago

      Okay so let me think out loud

      August is month 8

      It takes 9 months for babby to formed

      Okay so 9 months prior to August is…

      Wait fuck does that include the first month

      No wait yeah

      So human mating season peaks in December

      Makes sense.

      In the north, it’s too cold to go outside and play ball sport, might as well impregnate partner.

      In the south, it’s too hot to go outside and play ball sport, might as well impregnate partner.

      So the solution to the declining birth rate is to criminalize ball sport

      I will take my findings to the UN

      • enkers
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        3612 days ago

        TL;DR: it’s actually November.

        Okay so 9 months prior to August is…

        You can simply subtract 9 or add 3 to the month number. If you want to verify, break out your hands and get counting months. Start with no fingers raised for November, then raise a finger every month you count, and see where you get to when you have 9.

        Wait fuck does that include the first month

        A duration is going to include the starting and ending months. Do a very simple example: January (1) to February (2) is one month (2 - 1 = 1).

        If you feel silly for messing this up, don’t. Off by one errors are incredibly common. I always count them out just to double check em myself.

            • @medem@lemmy.wtf
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              110 days ago

              Try Guix instead :)

              Big, welcoming community; Fully libre distribution; Time-tested Scheme (Guile) instead of that stupid nix stuff.

        • @jballs@sh.itjust.works
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          312 days ago

          But doesn’t the 9 months of pregnancy technically start on the first day since a woman’s last period? That’s what makes anti-abortion laws even more absurd, because you can be 8 weeks pregnant if you only had sex 5 weeks ago.

          • enkers
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            312 days ago

            Damnit Jim, I’m a computer scientist, not a biologist!

            • @jballs@sh.itjust.works
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              812 days ago

              Lol had to look this up because it’s complicated.

              https://flo.health/pregnancy/pregnancy-health/fetal-development/how-long-is-pregnancy

              “Ovulation [when an egg is released from your ovaries ready for fertilization] typically takes place around two weeks after the first day of your last period, and this is when a baby would be conceived. But because you won’t know that you’re pregnant until you’ve missed your next period, approximately two weeks later, you’ll already be four weeks pregnant when you get your positive test result. At that point, you’ll have approximately 36 more weeks to go,” Dr. Celestine says.

              So pregnancies typically last 10 months, but we say 9 months since you don’t even know you’re pregnant until you’re 4 weeks pregnant. But anti-abortion laws still count that 4 weeks.

              • @monotremata@lemmy.ca
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                111 days ago

                By that logic conception only occurs when you’re two weeks pregnant. That’s an extremely silly way to count it. (Not saying you’re wrong, just that it’s frustrating.)

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            612 days ago

            UK plays and watches a lot of ball sport in December.

            I’m sure 9 months also includes November. November is when cold and dark starts. Cold and dark means people seek to get warm. Impregnate partner is warming.

            Also, I imagine there’s another birth peak in November due to Valentines babies.

            • @squaresinger@lemmy.world
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              There’s a big peak around Christmas due to Easter, which sucks, because while there’s a peak, fewer midwives are available because they too have more time off around christmas.

              Don’t get pregnant during easter!

      • @Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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        112 days ago

        Yes, some girls don’t want to not have a boyfriend over the holidays due to social pressure. Not sure if that is still a thing, but it definitely was when I was young.

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    Heatmap of birthdays

    Pretty much every country has a mating season. It’s late autumn / early winter here in the UK. Birthdays all year round, but definitely peaking nine months after those long nights.

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      Christmas and Chinese New Year + 9 months. Certainly seems like a “season.” I’m curious if the equatorial countries births are monsoon season + 9 months.

    • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      Ding Ding Ding

      Human Females are almost always carrying fertile eggs and producing pheremones and hormones related to the act of reproduction.

      The monthly cycle is as such:

      1. Primordial Follices form in the walls of the Ovaries

      2. Primary Follicles and Secondary Follicles continue to grow and expand until the egg cells are surrounded in cyst-like antrums, known as an Graafian Follicle

      3. The first Follicles to rupture release the eggs, AKA Ovulation, and the rest of them still developing in the walls die off

      4. Large amounts of Uterin Flesh is shed to allow for regrowth (painful and bloody)

      5. Repeat

      If you include every individual stage of the egg production and the healing there are about 8 or nine steps/phases.

      Also Human Males, a lot of Males in general actually, would fuck a mailbox any day of the week if it had some pheromones coming out of it.

      So yes, Humans are always in heat.

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        also hidden estrus evolved at a means to prevent fighting among women, so we as a species have stronger social ties, it also menas men have no fucking clue when any woman is available or fertile for mating, so were just ready ALL THE FUCKING TIME. which is really exhausting…