Ever done a DNA test, Ancestry sort of thing?

[Flopsweat]

My body is chrome! My blood is gasoline!

...The insanity of millions of Americans just giving their DNA away for harvest and industrial storage. All for 20 minutes of amusements to a third party's artistic interpretation of their ancestral linage. I can not even articulate the level of stupidity of doing this, because the last frontier on earth is 'your' DNA.

In my youth, I frequently gave away my DNA for a few minutes of amusements, sometimes 20 minutes and sometimes not.


On a more serious note, Blackstone, of all companies, has bought ancestry.com and China is trying to acquire the DNA of as many people as possible - all across the world. So color me hesitant.

 

[Wombat of Doom]

Lets just say my family has enough "Not Pollyanna"in it that I know about. also I likely present some difficulties. I have a different blood type than my parents that seemingly should not be possible but share some paternal family traits that are unique. Not unusual, but unique. But My dad's mom had the same blood type as I do. It seemingly was not passed down to any of his siblings... But shows up amongst several of the grand kids from different dads.

I do not trust big corporations not to use familial defects in DNA against my descendants not now, but in the future.

 

[titsonritz]

I prefer women.

You need to be more specific these days.

 

[titsonritz]

You have no idea how this information may be used some day.

For what? I kind of look at it like when I have to show a police officer something on my phone and people start barking at me about never hand your unlocked phone to the police because they can do what? Look at my lousy eastern European porn ? Who cares? Theres nothing there. Mmmmm, Slavic chicks. Oh yeah, insurance companies can turn me down for whatever. Does that even happen? Ive never heard of it actually happening. I sign up at work and I get whatever crappy insurance they have . Once one member of your family gets tested thats it. Your'e in the database whether you know it or not. Wer'e not that different.

I do not trust big corporations not to use familial defects in DNA against my descendants not now, but in the future.

Gattaca

 

[sobo]

No one in my immediate family (parents, brother, sisters) ever did it, and I'm never going to, for the same reason as so many others.
Not gonna assist Big Guv and the CCP to harvest data from me in any small way I can prevent it.
But both of my kids did the 23andMe thing, but I'm not worried at all...


They're both adopted... from Vietnam... and from China...About as far away from an old Polak as you can get...

 

[wired]

if your kids did it, you did it.

 

[sobo]

if your kids did it, you did it.

Read the part (again) about them being adopted...

Yeah, I'm Polish. They're both Asian. I suppose, uncounted generations ago, we may have a common ancestor. Like, maybe, Australopithecus...

 

[Cavedweller]

Yeah, I'm Polish. They're both Asian. I suppose, uncounted generations ago, we may have a common ancestor. Like, maybe, Australopithecus...

That would explain your appearance.



"Like, maybe, the Neanderthals..."

I see you fixed it. I was going to give you a paleontology lesson. Spoil my fun...

 

[sobo]

That would explain your appearance.



"Like, maybe, the Neanderthals..."

I see you fixed it. I was going to give you a paleontology lesson. Spoil my fun...

Yeah, the Neanderthals inhabited Eurasia (what is today Europe and Asia) until about 40,000 years ago and they're extinct. So, going back several million more years to the cradle of humankind, from which the branch of modern humans can still trace its origin, seemed like the better joke...

 

[wired]

Read the part (again) about them being adopted...

Yeah, I'm Polish. They're both Asian. I suppose, uncounted generations ago, we may have a common ancestor. Like, maybe, Australopithecus...

Hey you added that later

 

[Cavedweller]

Yeah, the Neanderthals inhabited Eurasia (what is today Europe and Asia) to about 40,000 years ago,

That and the fact that H. neanderthalensis is a separate branch of the genus Homo rather than an ancestor species of H. sapiens.

There. I feel better now...

 

[sobo]

Hey you added that later

Not quite. The original closer of "They're both adopted" was always part of my original post.
The follow-on edit stating of their countries of origin is the part that was added later in edit.
The fact that they're both adopted doesn't change the fact that I have nothing to worry about regarding their DNA tying back to me.

 

[sobo]

That and the fact that H. neanderthalensis is a separate branch of the genus Homo rather than an ancestor species of H. sapiens.

Which I added in the edit as further explanation about tying back to the cradle of humankind and tracing a direct lineage to us today.

There. I feel better now...

 

[wired]

Not quite. The original closer of "They're both adopted" was always part of my original post.
The follow-on edit of their country of origin is the part that was added later in edit.
The fact that they're both adopted doesn't change the fact that I have nothing to worry about their DNA tying back to me.

OK . Didnt see that. 2 sons of mine gave it up to .gov. Then my brothers, nephew and apparently my mothers entire extended family ( that she doesn't know about ssshhhh) did it too. Hell, they could have just sold me my DNA results without me ever taking a test.

 

[Cavedweller]

Which I added as further explanation about tying back to the cradle of humankind and tracing a direct lineage in the edit.

"Which I added as further explanation in the edit."

STOP DOING THAT! Now you're correcting your corrections.

From now on I'll give you about 30 minutes to get your sh1t straight before replying.

 

[sobo]

My father, the Grand Sobo, made a family tree sketch a few years ago tracing his side of my family. It goes back to my great grandfather on his dad's side, and my great-great grandparents on his mother's side. We have no such instrument from my mother's side, just going back as far as my grandparents (her parents).

On December 29, 2022, my last surviving uncle died at 96 years old rather peacefully at his 330-acre spread in northern Minnesota, the area from which my father's brothers and sisters derived. Of a total of 14 Young Sobos, some of which died in infancy and rather young, the Grand Sobo is the "winner" of Survivor Sobo. He turns 93 years old next Friday, and according to his own statement, he's in pretty good shape for the shape he's in...

 

[sobo]

Now you're correcting your corrections.

Ain't that the definition of what edit is is? < Bill Clinton accent >

 

[wired]

My father, the Grand Sobo, made a family tree sketch a few years ago tracing his side of my family. It goes back to my great grandfather on his dad's side, and my great-great grandparents on his mother's side. We have no such instrument from my mother's side, just going back as far as my grandparents (her parents).

On December 29, 2022, my last surviving uncle died at 96 years old rather peacefully at his 330-acre spread in northern Minnesota, the area from which my father's brothers and sisters derived. Of a total of 14 Young Sobos, some of which died in infancy and rather young, the Grand Sobo is the "winner" of Survivor Sobo. He turns 93 years old next Friday, and according to his own statement, he's in pretty good shape for the shape he's in...

One thing I learned is sometimes the people you thought you are related to by blood sometimes aren't.

 

[sobo]

One thing I learned is sometimes the people you thought you are related to by blood sometimes aren't.

I thought the milkman looked familiar...

 

[pharmseller]

In my youth, I frequently gave away my DNA for a few minutes of amusements, sometimes 20 minutes

…if you count by fives…