• HurlingDurling@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    30
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    4 days ago

    DNA companies: “Give us your DNA, and we’ll tell you where you come from!”

    Me looking at the family tree books on my shelf from both sides of my family.

    “NAH! I’m good”

    Fuck these DNA harvesting companies

    • easily3667@lemmus.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      25
      ·
      edit-2
      4 days ago

      I mean that’s pretty weird in and of itself. If you showed me those I would think “this guy is in a cult” and try to escape asap.

      But agreed on fuck 23 and me.

      • HurlingDurling@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        22
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        4 days ago

        Why is knowing where I come from and having an educated family that wants to keep a record considered a cult?

        • easily3667@lemmus.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          arrow-down
          15
          ·
          edit-2
          4 days ago

          I don’t know why you are inserting a new phrase “having an educated family” into the conversation but I decline to engage in whatever you’re attempting to do there.

          On the actual topic, I associate excessive caring about bloodline with negative things, historically speaking. It has suddenly become important again but in a bad way. The groups that seem to care the most are cults.

          • cheeseharlot@kbin.earth
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            3 days ago

            It’s weird to be obsessed with your family’s racial origins. It’s not weird to want to know and pass down the stories of your specific family.