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So, I did this for my dog because I don't think he's going to lose any sleep over this like I would.

And I should note that the scores I got back were comically off the mark. Like, its very obvious that this dog is some mix of spaniel and beagle had a list of breeds ranging from Rottweiler to poodle come back. Most insulting of all, they claimed our dog was from Maryland and then showed us a bunch of dogs that look nothing like our dog, asserting them to be possible relations.

So not only is your genetic data being signed away. But its almost certainly being signed away to a company that will mangle your results and just kinda slot you in as some random assortment of traits. Real shit news if you get put in the Bad Genes bucket rather than the Good Genes bucket, when your insurance company comes calling.

they're just 100% cracker

When you find out "cracker" isn't even a real ethnicity but its still somehow your ethnicity regardless.

Navalny was an anti-immigrant POS. Shameful how western liberals were supporting him.

In all the efforts to white wash Navalny as "one of the good ones", Western hagiographers at the WaPo and NYT love to glaze over why he was such a tantalizing pick for Opposition Puppet.

He held many of the views already popular within the United Russia party, sympathized with a host of European nationalist groups, and generally endorsed the Yeltsin Era turn of the USSR into an Oversized Gas Station run by a handful of plutocrats friendly with Western business interests.

His entire pitch boiled down to "Putin is doing ethnic nationalism to the wrong people and it's hurting the economy!" And when the economy is growing, that's a hard sell.

Man who bet on black sixteen times in a row and was right every time has a theory about how to fix a three generation long blood feud between colonists and native peoples.

The solution to the genocide in Gaza is to build a series of resorts and high end restaurants with premier designer shopping malls in a big line.

I think there's something to be said of the flattening of culture that has come out of this.

You have a region that's got a broccoli glut and a region that's got a quinoa glut. Historically, these local maxima of produce would inform a bunch of the habits and inclinations of the society, as they leaned into what they had in abundance. You'd have a city with a giant broccoli on their crest. You'd have "Broccoli Cookoff Season". You'd have all sorts of broccoli derivatives like seasonings and dyes/textiles and plants that produce calcium supplements from the excess, etc, etc.

Now all that excess broccoli is owned by a Mega-Corp. Nobody in town really gets to see the benefits of surplus or access a virtually free super-abundance. It either gets shipped out or destroyed and the town probably benefits more financially from a bad crop than a good one. There's relatively little pride in what the city produces, because they're all day laborers working precariously for a company that cycles them through multiple farm yards miles apart. There's very little free time to exploit the excess or to develop these cultural artifacts iconic to towns.

And, in the end, you may stop producing broccoli locally in its entirety, because real estate is owned by one family three states away and they've decided to shift marketing to a less labor/resources intensive product.

Let the bears pay the bear tax.

I pay the Homer tax

Literally incapable of detecting a single iota of irony while playing the actual game.

And then one of the developers says "From the River to the Sea", a switch clicks in their brains, and they start reflexively spewing N-bombs until they go deaf from their own screaming.

I'm sorry, this is neat and all but I'm going to need more context.