I sometimes struggle to understand that people willingly partook in that trend with zero skepticism.
It is the same mindless behavior when people blindly go down the AI route and use it to think for them while burning the planet to a crisp.
I generally consider myself to be dumb as a brick most of the time, but fuck me if I’m not surprised when I see people I believe to be smarter than me skip down these lanes of absolute reckless behavior for no other reason than “teehee, it’s funny” or “teehee, it’s so convenient”.
Anyone who pay to give companies their DNA is either not thinking through their actions or maybe they are somehow dumber than me.
Bro just ask your family! Its way more legit and no leaks or selling your data! Looool
FYI, anyone in your family who has done this “for a bit of fun”, has just given their whole genome sequence away for however this company sees fit to use or sell (which can include other companies they sell this info to in the future, or any government or law enforcement agency that gets access to this in the future).
Anyone in your family who has given away their genetic info like this, has indirectly given away parts of your genetic information too without your consent.
yeah. I explained this to my mother and sister after they gifted me a 23 and me test.
they didn’t care, they still did the test.
like frogs in a pot of water.
Yeah well pro choice and all that, it’s their body to do as they please.
Good luck to them and their relatives when they need to find a health insurer who doesn’t use their DNA to determine the insurance rate.
Problem is that it effects close relatives as well since their dna is almost identical
So does smoking.
Whataboutism
No. It’s a comparison to show appropriate level of reaction to a similar threat.
Who in their right mind gives “23 and me” still more data to sell? Or rather leak…
Thankfully, nobody needed to for me to make this meme. It’s all in my head
Pfft, organic.
Ugh. This is what sucks about this— it’s not hard to imagine a (closer) future where relatives fall for the marketing and do genetic testing, while one day you have a medical emergency or situation happen and insurers now have your family genome where they can deny coverage for predisposition of this thing you now have to deal with which also ruins you economically, more than it would have in the past.
didn’t 23 and me already sell out because bankruptcy? or was that a different genetic testing service?
It was them
It’s been a long time since I read the Magician’s Nephew tbf, but I’m pretty sure she was there too?? This was not the flex he thought it was
Spoilers below, it is a pretty good series, read it. But also, do not start with the Magician’s Nephew. It is chronologically first, so some publisher changed it after the author died, use the original order.
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Spoliers
She was a queen of a long dead world with a dying sun, and had gone into a magical stasis. The children inadvertently woke her and brought her to Narnia as it was being created. But Aslan is much older than her. It isn’t stated outright, but he may well have created the world she was born on too, if there are other world makers they aren’t mentioned
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What order should they be read then? I started with “The magician’s nephew” and though that made sense back then (probably when I was like 13).
If your set starts with the Magician’s Nephew, move it to second from last. Read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe first. The Magician’s Nephew is chronologically first, but the wrong order to tell the story. Which is why the author didn’t put it first.
It all makes sense if you read Magician’s Nephew first, but it removes mystery from the others. And the reveal of the events in Magician’s Nephew was more exciting after reading most of the rest of the series, instead of being the intro to that universe. It takes some of the magic out of the series. As someone who has read most of C.S. Lewis’s books more than once, I’m pretty confident he’d be pissed about it.
Huh?
