Pretty sure I've ranted more than once about various forms of telemarketing in the USA. Is this a USA-only sort of thing, or do people who live in other countries experience the joy of people trying to wrangle (con) money out of you over the phone on a regular basis?* --- *I'm guessing the answer i...

Where going to the UK for a few weeks in May. In preparation, I've purchased some jeans and a rainproof jacket and some button up shirts. I don't want to be identifiable as a tourist from a mile off. Normally I wear shorts and a colored t-shirt unless the weather gets below freezing. Then I put on a...

Pretty sure I've ranted more than once about various forms of telemarketing in the USA. Is this a USA-only sort of thing, or do people who live in other countries experience the joy of people trying to wrangle (con) money out of you over the phone on a regular basis?* --- *I'm guessing the answer is...

Yup, I was initially excited about having above-average amount of Neanderthal genes, but they revised me down to average. Speaking of which, 23andme should be able to track Denosovian genes as well. Might be good for marketing to the Asian market considering that's where half the world's population ...

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Fri Mar 03, 2023 11:14 pm

I gained a little Italian heritage since my last post.

Wow, that's pretty Italian!

Did a fair amount of poking on Ancestry about five years ago as well as the DNA thing with 23andMe and recently reactivated the account. I got a few big takeaways from doing the research. 1. Families in the US a few generations ago were enormous. Ten kids were the norm in families in the 1800s, at l...

The last time time I checked, there's a lot of good stuff below the waist line.

Political opinions aside, it's the Russians who are invading, bombing and killing (often civilian targets) these days. Not the Ukrainians, so it's blatantly obvious who the bad guys are. You left out conquering, as Russia literally annexed large portions of Ukraine last fall in the middle of the wa...

If you internal dialogue is a monologue, you're an introvert. If it is a dialogue with an imaginary person, you must be an extrovert! /joke

I have complete aphantasia too:... I can't even see any kind of ghost-like shadow.... That's interesting, I'm certainly on the low end of the scale on this test, and I'm not sure if I ever think in images. I can recall ghostly images of things I've seen, but imagining something new? Easier to verba...