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[–] aeronmelon 56 points 8 months ago

"T-minus 72 hours until cargo bay jettison.

Go for retro burn. Pod orientation is now inverted.

T-minus 48 hours.

Umbilical is confirmed powered down. Pod is now on internal power."

[–] insaneinthemembrane 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Not quite like wireless though, there has to be a latch on and suction, can't just faceplant a baby on a boob.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

But if you place a baby in the rough area (the boobs) they can manoeuvre themselves to the correct area.

This is long before any motor skills. It's a primal instinct. Like holding their breath when submerged or grasping things placed in their hands.

[–] smud 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So babies are more like the magsafe charger then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Not even that, a newborn is able to crawl to the breast and start latching immediately after birth.

[–] insaneinthemembrane 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah except they generally don't. There's a reason classes to learn how to breastfeed and lactation consultants exist.

[–] cloudless 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Apple and Samsung want to have a word with you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Yes, there are plenty of boobs that use their devices.

[–] NOT_RICK 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And now I’m mentally comparing nipples to induction chargers. Thanks for the image, op!

[–] cloudless 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Someone has to make a wireless charger with a nipple on it.

[–] OneLemmyMan 7 points 8 months ago

do you mean a regular usb cable with a tit shaped connector?

[–] naticus 4 points 8 months ago

My electric toothbrush kinda has a nipple shaped wireless charger.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Well if you do that thing it does get your partner awfully hot

[–] OneLemmyMan 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

its not wireless the tit is the wire. Wireless would be touching the mothers skin and the milk is just transfered to the baby.

[–] OneLemmyMan 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

transfered is also not a good way to say it, it would be like the baby has the ability to produce milk inside its body with the energy that is coming off the mothers skin. Something like that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Honestly it's just a dumb analogy all the way down.

The way an infant acquires nutrition before birth, is entirely different to the way it does so after birth, and neither is remotely similar to "charging".

[–] roofuskit 10 points 8 months ago

Babies are fueled up like an internal combustion engine and produce lots of hazardous waste.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

It's less wireless charging and more switching to the internal gasoline powered APU that you have to refill the gas tank on regularly

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My wife would absolutely disagree with this. She could "feed" the baby anywhere before, but now she has to sit every 2 hours every day. And that's 2 hours from the start of the last feed; more like an hour break in between.

[–] cloudless 14 points 8 months ago

Ok your wife is the docking station then.

[–] rtxn 7 points 8 months ago

Not really wireless, more like charging a handset on its dock.

[–] thechadwick 5 points 8 months ago

It's all solar energy too. Just a matter of how many degrees of separation really.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I find it even better when you think about the oxygen instead of the food, since babies become able to breathe on their own entirely without parental intervention.