edge [he/him]

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  • The keyword is each. You still have DNA from many of them. Plus DNA based ancestry works with key genes. A male has his father’s Y chromosome, who has his father’s Y chromosome, who has his father’s Y chromosome and so on. The same goes for mitochondrial DNA through the maternal line. There are mutations of course, but those actually allow you to paint an (imperfect) timeline and create groupings (haplogroups). Men from Europe have more similar Y chromosomes to each other than to men from elsewhere.

    Obviously none of that justifies racial or ethnic oppression nor indicates any significant differences between peoples, but it does allow for those trivial (as in, interesting bits of information that aren’t all too useful otherwise) but imperfect groupings.

    I don’t know how the exact percentages are determined and I’m sure there is something closer to race science bullshit in there, but it’s mixed with actual science. It’s pretty simple to see for example that my mitochondrial DNA aligns more with people from Iberia while my Y chromosome is much more like men from England. Thus I am half Portuguese half English(-descended American). But it means absolutely nothing other indicating who my parents are. That of course tells you nothing about my intellectual or physical abilities or any predispositions despite what fascists claim.




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    1 year ago

    As stupid as it is to do that, their reasoning of privacy and children’s protection(?) are dumb.

    Clearly the parents don’t care about their own privacy in this matter, and there’s nothing to “protect” the literal newborn from.

    Disabling voice chat after the fact is also dumb. What do they expect someone else to try to give birth in voice soon?

















  • Damn, too bad the Democratic Party hitched themselves to an unpopular genocide.

    I voted for one or two of the most “progressive” seeming Democrats in the past while voting for Hawkins or just not voting for Congress in a midterm, but this year I just skipped the genocide party entirely. 2020: BLM protestor turned city council candidate? Sure I’ll vote for him. 2024: he’s running for a state cabinet position? Nah, fuck Democrats.

    Most Some More News videos are decent, but sometimes they reveal what libs they really are.

    Edit: I literally didn’t even look at my Congress race before voting, but apparently the Dem candidate was part of the (first) invasion of Iraq. lol nope no thanks murderer.