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I still find it astonishing anyone would be so careless of their own and close blood relatives' privacy to hand over their genetic material to a private company. What were you thinking. You can't undo that and you can't change your DNA ever. You have no idea where it ends up any time -- and that "any time" covers your life time and your close blood relatives entire lifetime too. These companies should have never been able to get a single customer but I guess.

And here we are 18 years later and some people still think they can delete this. What else do you believe in? The tooth fairy? Santa Claus? Come on.

Also what have you thought they can tell you? An archaeogenetics teacher described this belief as "they think we throw a bone in the machine which tells us it was half hun, half avar, half bear and spoke slavic".

Y'all surrendered an intrinsic part of the privacy of your, your sister, your brother, even your unborn children for snake oil -- and paid for the privilege. I can't even.

commence the downvotes but you can't put the toothpaste back once it's been squeezed out.



As a twin I've always been extra cautious about this kind of stuff. I don't think I have a right to give people my twin's biometric data. I even refrain from posting images of myself publicly---there are at most two pictures of me from the past five years floating around the internet. It astounds me how reckless others are with their relatives' private information.


I agree completely about it being careless etc but I am not astonished at all that so many people have done it.

Have you seen how simple minded the masses are? They find it hard to think! They are barely sentient!



They're probably applying more of an Übermensch mentality than a self-centered one.


It's basically the same belief system.




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