Spinach needs love too! 🤔 Absolutely. It’s shocking how much clarity you get on human behaviour when you assume much of it is based on unconscious/animalistic tendencies haha. And yes, #2 is a good shorthand for this - I take a lot of heart from knowing we’re like other advanced life, makes complex existence a little less… existentially isolating, I think?
Not even a single letter?
Fear may be better said as “the unfamiliar”, but unfortunately I’m confident in this point haha. Did a psych degree, and basically our reptilian brain (fight/flight/flee centre) makes those snap decisions based on previous experience (familiar: friend or unfamiliar: foe/unknown). We can relatively easily override it (e.g. curiosity about the newest swiffer), but if we don’t know to do that, our brains default to “oh I’ve heard of that one before, is friend”
Also stressed ppl are better consumers. Less critical thought, more impulsive behaviour to alleviate anxiety
Psychological safety in play ^^ humans are animals, we trust what we know, fear what we don’t. All of marketing is geared to that simple fact
Maybe you could help a new generation learn the value of intentional steampunk :) bring some of the passion back to the hobby, as it sounds like many just accept it as presented. Share it as a “when I got into this, we made this shit” and how you did it. I might be wrong, but I’m weirdly confident you’ll eventually find a cross section of steampunks that would be interested in the creative element
Literally mind boggling. I made a correction and was wrong by a factor of 10 because I couldn’t accept it was that high. But she showed me a screenshot of the report…
That’s actually really cool to know. She was fairly confident they use the SNP method (it’s a third party provider), and described it the way you did. Sounds like full genome is possible but she didn’t think it likely, your explanation would support that.
Also, I made a correction to the numbers…I was very wrong lol
My gf works in human remains identification. On the bottom of the DNA identification reports, they have a certainty estimate:
1 in 19,000,000,000,000 (trillion) chance of being incorrect.
So if that’s any estimate of how many variations there can be, I’d say chances of repeats are pretty low lol
Note: I didn’t believe her when she quoted 1 in 13 trillion, so she double checked the next day. They seem… confident
Correction: I talked to her again, and was completely wrong, because my memory refused to accept the real number:
1 in 200,000,000,000,000 (trillion) chance of being wrong.
And to the commenter that commented about common identifiers, you are correct. She’s fairly confident they use the SNP method.
“Cutting enthusiast”
Pea-sized brain is blocked :)
Legit. Will always be my favorite internet era
That’s… depressing
I’m debating with myself if this counts as mildly interesting, or surprisingly alarming
I just learned a whole terminology and subculture based on this comment alone
There’s a first time and a last time for everything. This time, it might be both at the same time
Mandatory just means deferred meal 🤷♂️
Speaking of, I just finished my coffee and have to go send some xhits
I love that you didn’t give up the complex creations. Unlike the other commenter I have no idea what a hurdy gurdy is, but I can appreciate the value of overmaking stuff. Glad to hear that you didn’t let the capitalisation of steampunk kill your passion 😊