• bottle@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Ah, the wonderful prevailing argument sweeping the internet the last few years: “that looks like something else, so it must be that. Let’s disregard sources and science. Everything must be what it looks like.”

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      1 year ago

      People lie about their age all the time. There’s been many elderly people with badly documented births who fudged the numbers and added a decade or five to their age.

      Unless there’s good documentation, be skeptical of extreme longevity claims.