There’s a fine line between selling data and providing an avenue for data to be exposed. Only a very fine one. Too fine.

Worrying is a waste of energy anyway...

“ NASA understandably doesn’t like to part ways with its lunar materials” Except when it came to the reels of magnetic tape that contained the video of the actual moon landing. Then they said “oh, just tape over it” when they ran of out reel-to-reels. 

That’s not how SNP data work (DNA fingerprinting often used in forensics/paternity tests). SNP sequencing vs whole genome sequencing are two verrrrry different approaches (SNP is way cheaper, simpler, and only looks at a subset of loci. Gather enough sets of loci and it becomes easier to distinguish between two people…

But, for a moment, we created a lot of shareholder value.

I do on the other hand know a ton of people who have taken ancestry tests hoping to find out that they have “Native American blood”. (Narrator: They did not.)

No! whimsy as we get older is all but required.

Record-Setting Ice Hole...

Good thing you shelled out for the test with “accurate” on it. I’m the kind of cheapskate who figures that it’s worth saving a few bucks to get the one with “close enough” on it. It’s not like my dog really cared when I found out she was a Yorkshire Terrier-Mastiff mix, with 8% ferret DNA mixed in.

The science on this one gives me paws.

The easiest way is to actually listen to the associate at Best Buy who may not know everything, but at least knows that the N600 router for $50 bucks won’t cut it for your new 4k, Sheryl!

Not an option for everyone, but if you can run another ethernet cable to whatever floor is suffering from weak signal, you can get another router, put it into bridge mode, and, et voila, you have extended coverage without the flakiness of mesh routers, which can still struggle with interference.

How about you discover “how to fix your awful auto-play videos”.
Quit it.

my brother scheduled himself a 12 hour layover in ‘dam at one point and got off the 2 hour bus ride from Boston Logan staggering and smelling like extremely late-era Elvis. Apparently he ate what he had left (probably mushroom truffles etc as well) instead of giving it away and spent the flight in a fetal position by…

Before or after I smoked the free weed I took out of the weed bin?

“Ladies and gents Lot 67B-179 is a dusty plastic bag which appears to have been intended for transportation of pills or small pieces of jewelry, perhaps. It’s labeled “Kush” indicating some Himalayan origin and it’s slightly sticky... damned if it doesn’t smell like a Snickers bar. Inside is some dank ass shit that…

It will be removed and destroyed. The official destruction method is to burn it in small amounts on Friday nights after work.

Too much work. Just stand by the weed bin and ask anyone who looks like they are about to dispose of anything to give it to you. Once you have collected “enough”, you can go home for the day. If you get a job there, you actually have to, you know, work.

Are we talking PB&J or a hot meatball sub?

“Welcome to canada enjoy this free gram” is a great model!