The mark

The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldmod to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 534 points –
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Me, a mixed race person of color who doesn't sunburn or freckle, reading how all the white folk in the comments have the same mark.


"Hmmm...I'll be damned."

It is now your duty to inspect all white people for this mark & care for the ones unlucky enough not carry it.

This honor is not to be taken lightly, you are now a leader undertaking grave responsibilities.

So how many people knew about this shared freckle badge? I apparently am defective as I didn’t get stamped with it at birth, maybe my mom forgot to check that option at the dealership. Maybe this means I’m a reptilian or am a member of the illuminati. Or who knows maybe I sliced it off in my youthful escapades and shenanigans. Oh well, just another club I’m not a member of.

Well those of us who have the freckle have always known. Given that you do not have the freckle, I’m afraid that is all I can share.

You're cool, you can be in the club. We're prolly all Illuminati minions anyways. ;)

I am not even white and I have it. Although it is a bit closer towards the wrist than this pic.

You went to the toilet just to take this photo. Don't take it as a criticism, I would have, too.

No i was actually at work browsing lemmy on the toilet. Didn't think it would hit this hard lol

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At least in the USA, it's probably due to having been alive long enough for sun damage to cause a freckle on the side of your body nearest the car window while driving.

I'm in the UK. We drive on the opposite side, freckle in the exact spot on my left arm, nothing on my right.

I mean... I've never driven a vehicle that didn't have tinted windows (the heat reduction benefits are huge), but then the sun wants me dead anyway; I spent a week in a southern state and suddenly had freckles in places that never saw the sun.

I’ve had mine since before I started driving ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I noticed in my late teens I had a lot of freckles on the left side of my body and very few on the right, and I didn’t start driving until I was 22. I did spend 2 years in high school with a much darker tan on my right arm from hanging my arm out the window of a boyfriend’s car with no AC, but still have more left-arm freckles.

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Not sure if this counts

Scared gay panicking

Ok serious question: how does your arm look gay? I'm intrigued and confused

ITT: .world’s image hosting costs are doubled

Why ?

Edit: it’s faint, but it’s there

Sir, this is a leg.

Sir this is my arm. I wear a wristwatch, not an anklewatch.

A wristwatch that you can't take off. With GPS and geofencing.

It’s an automatic - purely mechanical

It's how the government stops foreign mind control signals from interfering with domestic signals. Kinda like a SIM card for the governments.

I have it too. That's actually insane. I'm born in Sweden.

Maybe it's the sign of everyone who agreed to be here on this planet and watch spectacular stupidy together.

How to get a bunch of random people to take a picture of their arm and post it online.

Choice A: ask everyone to post take a picture of their arm and post it

Choice B: Make it completely absurd statement as if it were absolute truth thereby challenging everyone to prove you wrong

There was a very fun defcon talk a while back about how easy it is to (among other things) create a convincing set of prosthetic fingerprints from social media posts showing off jewelry or handchecking vapes/guns/knifes/etc.

Probability of a freckle on any limb is going to increase with age. I'm 4/4, maybe 8/8 if you count both sides of each limb. So yeah, pretty good chance that others born before 1990 are going to have a freckle there.

Nah, 1998 is when the aliens began switching to a new implant technology that does not leave a mark.

I have one and was born after 98 though. Why would they use old thech on me? Am I really that unimportant on them?

That is a question for them. I would contact them on the communicator stored in the drain to your kitchen sink.

It was a slower roll out, y'know logistics and all. Can't just snap your fingers and upgrade hardware on saucers in other solar systems, even for them! Had to install them when the saucers went back to the shop for the regular service checks.

I have never seen so many forearm pictures in a single place before.

Also I have it too reee.

My inbox has been almost 100% forearms for 24 hours, and it's still going.

If you are a 90s kid you have this freckle on your arm boobs

I do. I showed it to my husband on our first drunken college night together. Before we were dating...

Wrong arm, but do we count it?

We can also identify you by the unique wood grain pattern on your floor.

I mean, also by the freckles federal database and optical the sensor noise pattern registry

Tbh, you could just google my name and find me in abooouuuut 3 seconds haha. I just thought it was funny.

I'm a pretty heavily freckled person, but damn if I don't have a pronounced, solitary freckle precisely at this location on my left arm.

I bet it's related to driving with my left arm hanging out the window. In the US at least, people who do that have their left arm over-exposed to sun damage.

Whæt the fuck? How common is that?

Freckles are the only way to tell eople and robots apart. Everyone has at least one freckle on their left arm. If they don't, they're a robot.

I’m a robot but have thousands of freckles on my left arm. We overcompensated a little bit.

A.I. attempting to figure out how many fingers are on one hand

Is that what they told you? C'mon, I thought you androids were supposed to be smart. The freckles are obviously marks they put on robots. Humans don't have them.

Well I've learned one thing from this thread: Either Lemmy is mostly white people or almost everyone else isn't silly enough to to take a photo of their arm.

I wasn't going to because of identifying tattoos, but you goaded me successfully. Besides, I'm extremely proud of my tats.

This is awakening a sort of core memory in me. It was some vaccination wasn't it?

No. People who are older than that have a smallpox vaccination scar on the shoulde from the vaccines in 1958-1977.

The arm thing is just an urban myth and plays on confirmation bias. Almost everyone have a freckle there for no good reason.

However.... Mexicans actually have a tuberculosis vaccination mark on the arm, but most other countries didn't need to vaccinate against that.

That's how these myths spread, part truth+loads of bullshit.

Nah, I got the BCG back in the 80s, and I'm in the UK. So definitely not just Mexicans. That is one nasty vaccination, by the way. Do not recommend the experience.

None of us 1971 kids got the smallpox scar. Discontinued in 1972 (US). Whew.

New photo challenge. If you were born after 1990 but are older than 18 {legal rider} and have two x chromosomes, you likely have two large features on your chest.

It's actually weird how I have the left forearm freckle, but nothing on the right arm. Is it from sticking your arm out while driving or something??

I don't even drive though so

Me too! WTF? Why? I mean I can see that statistical it may just be a thing, but mine is exactly in the right spot.

90s rep

The cat in the back is blurry. Do you have a better picture of it?

Of course ask and ye shall receive

Also there's a real cute video of orange boy biting in my post history

Found it. It's from 7 months ago, so I assume that cube is long gone?

I cycle toys in and out so right now it's in storage. Right now they have a massive felt bag with holes cut out of it. It's a crowd favorite, I have 4 total. 🐱

Sorry was born in the 80s so I don’t have this but have a cigarette burn from when my parent thought the window was open and it wasn’t and tried to flick there butt out the window for it to only go back at me. We laughed it off

Remarkably ubiquitous, it would seem, for children of the 80s.

Kids these days will never know the widespread, culturally accepted casual disregard for general safety, as it was. Which is probably for the best.

I got a lot more than just the one. I've got so many freckles I have to undress to see my OG skin tone.

I have a freckle there, but it is not that freckle. Fake news.

I have exactly that, but in my right arm.

Maybe its because I'm left handed...

I was born after the 90s and I have that

They must've still been using the old model where you're from.

i have one but im a freckly boy

Yeah. Looked at my arm and thought "which one is the special freckle?"

I don't have it... And was born in the 2000s. Check's out I guess?

I have it and was born exactly in 2000

And I'm not white (which seems to be a recurrent pattern)

Checks out. Born in the 80s and I've got that freck. It has to be a vaccination mark, right?

Nothing to do with vaccines. We are more likely to have sun exposure there because no AC in cars, though. Plus age generates freckles

Mine is on the opposite arm on the outside. I think I was borne backward

It's actually on my right arm, but I'm a lefty so that makes sense.

I've got 2, the freckle has broken containment and is multiplying

Y'all it's sun exposure from driving. You're just old enough to see the damage.

I live in Australia and have the same one, checkmate amerocentrists

Okay, sure. Maybe it's not from driving specifically, but it is just from sun exposure. Which I hear Aussies get a fair bit of, yeah?

I suppose we do, we get about the same amount of sunshine as others.

Depends what you do for a job. Work in an office in Melbourne you hardly see the sun.

Work in a construction job you see the sun every day which i imagine is the same for everywhere

Why didn't my parents tell me they took us all back to 1977 in a time machine?!

Was born close to the 90's, have a similar freckle much closer to the wrist. Is the late 2010's mark on the hand instead?

More like, if you were born at any time in history, you have this freckle on your left arm.

I'm Brazilian, a zennial, and I have a similar freckle on the other side of my left arm, as well as another freckle on the same spot, on my right arm tho. Is it related to some vaccine shot from childhood, or other factor? (I remember having some shot mark from one of these shots over the upper arm, dunno which shot, if parotitis or rubella)

No frackle here. Does this mean I have been lied to and I am actually much younger?

That's what I'm suspicious of. But I remember my 5th birthday quite well, and it was definitely before 2000

Born earlier than the 90's, but I've got it on the right side.