On some level wouldn’t it be better for a lot of breeds to be reduced to a handful of clones proven to have robust long-term health? I mean, does genetic diversity matter if you’re not breeding traditionally anymore at all? Perhaps it would be kinder for people to just pay for a vending machine duplicate of an animal…

Fair enough! Dolly was big news when I was in middle school and I’ve paid very little attention beyond the initial “huh, I guess clones are a thing now.” Thanks for the info!

Yes, in a moment of weakness and in the depths of grief I might have signed up for a bunch of clones of my childhood cat. Bring ‘em. She had so much goodness left to give the world.

There was an episode of This American Life about a family that had their beloved bull cloned, and the guy shortly got gored by said clone.

Have you ever tried? In most cases you literally cannot. I had to root one of my first smartphones to get the Nascar app out of the drawer. There was no way to say ‘no I do not want this’ without voiding the warranty.

Let me take a wild-ass guess here: You’ve never asked a WOMAN what’s going wrong in tech, huh?

I do apologize if I caused you any distress by bringing up your name. The biggest complaint about burners, and the accusation that everyone is a Meteor troll, seems to come from the lack of specific examples - and I don’t know how to articulate my feelings about MD and his most ardent defenders without mentioning that…

For what it’s worth, I am one of those burners (not to protect some secret main account, but because the vagaries of the greys system are absurd and I rarely have anything interesting to say) and this is a HORRIBLE outcome.

Also a burner so no1curr, I very rarely engage on Jez largely because of the attitudes held by MD and those like him.

My mom’s reaction to everything was - and still is - “why would you hurt MY feefees by telling me this?”

Yep, my parents wielded inpatient treatment as a threat and made sure I knew it was a stigma that would follow me for the rest of my life. Result: I got better at lying and our relationship never recovered.

In fact “tough shit” and “suck it up” are explicitly communicating to a child with limited life experience that nothing will ever be better than it is now, so if they can’t cope now, they’d better hurry up and kill themselves before it gets worse.

All Quiet on the Western Front is like, way homoerotic, too. Which Donnie also doesn’t know because he can’t read.