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Post by Tweet on Apr 30, 2024 19:37:52 GMT -6
wkcr.org if you want to hear coverage of police invading a university in real time (tho their stream is spotty with so many people tuning in) Nothing like issuing a shelter-in-place because you're about to flood the university that you steward with an army of cops!! Yeah things looking extremely bad and not good out there Anyone calling the cops onto their university should be fired
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Post by kb on May 1, 2024 10:06:12 GMT -6
finally did 23andme for the first time and fell into the old 'secret cousin' trope. this will be fun to investigate!
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Post by alady on May 1, 2024 10:36:09 GMT -6
*clutches pearls in Irish Catholic*
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Post by kb on May 1, 2024 10:43:01 GMT -6
ummmm yeah girl. i messaged this person, who only uses initials, immediately. anxiously awaiting.
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Post by Tweet on May 1, 2024 11:09:16 GMT -6
ummmm yeah girl. i messaged this person, who only uses initials, immediately. anxiously awaiting. I can't imagine doing this to another person tbh
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Post by kb on May 1, 2024 11:14:08 GMT -6
ummmm yeah girl. i messaged this person, who only uses initials, immediately. anxiously awaiting. I can't imagine doing this to another person tbh being in a family tree with them?
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Post by chvrchbarrel on May 1, 2024 11:21:25 GMT -6
see if you can convince them to join the board
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Post by kb on May 1, 2024 11:22:20 GMT -6
i couldn't do that to family.
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Post by greatscott on May 1, 2024 13:10:15 GMT -6
ummmm yeah girl. i messaged this person, who only uses initials, immediately. anxiously awaiting.
two weeks before mother's day...incredible timing
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Post by doso on May 1, 2024 14:27:52 GMT -6
Oh shit what if it’s kb ‘s truant child?
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Post by Tweet on May 1, 2024 17:21:18 GMT -6
I can't imagine doing this to another person tbh being in a family tree with them? I dunno the idea of some person randomly messaging me outta the blue saying "hey were related" would freak me the fuck out. My family dynamic is more or less dysfunctional so what do I know tho
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Post by kb on May 1, 2024 19:28:08 GMT -6
being in a family tree with them? I dunno the idea of some person randomly messaging me outta the blue saying "hey were related" would freak me the fuck out. My family dynamic is more or less dysfunctional so what do I know tho And why do you presume this person is using 23andme to begin with? Also it's not out of the blue since they'd get a notification they have a new family member? ?
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Post by chvrchbarrel on May 1, 2024 20:33:11 GMT -6
can you elaborate on "secret cousin"
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Post by kb on May 1, 2024 20:54:03 GMT -6
the person who showed up in my family tree is supposedly the child of my first cousin. but all my known first cousins on that side are considerably younger than me and only one has children, who are 5 and 2. not of age to be doing their own genealogy quests.
so it seems likely I have an older cousin out there, identity and parents unknown.
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Post by ten15 on May 1, 2024 21:13:16 GMT -6
My dad has a half sister a year older than me, because his dad remarried after his mom died. Ancestry.com is how we found out that 2 of his brothers are only half brothers, because his half sister is not related to my one uncle, nor is he related to my other uncle’s kids. The family gossip mill was cranking after that discovery.
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Post by mookie on May 1, 2024 21:58:21 GMT -6
My wife got really into the ancestry stuff for a while. She found a whole family branch on her side that lives in the Pacific Northwest. We got to meet them on the first trip we took to Seattle in 2021 and they were incredibly nice, so it was worth it
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Post by kb on May 2, 2024 7:50:11 GMT -6
were they able to forgive your wife for doing that to them?
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Post by borracho on May 2, 2024 8:48:35 GMT -6
i think at this stage of the ancestry / 23&me thing that you probably know going in that there may be something wonky or that you don't expect going on with your family tree, and to expect a random message at some point.
my wife is adopted and her adopted parents have told her nothing, even when asked. so a few years back she did both tests and found out where her ancestors were from so she was excited to know that. she did not find anything out about her birth parents, but there are a few relatives out there that *may* know an uncle or aunt, but she hasn't gotten to the point of going down that rabbit hole yet.
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Post by kb on May 2, 2024 9:15:30 GMT -6
my mom's mom found out her long-dead dad was not her bio dad. she begged her 105-year-old mom for details, to no avail, she took them to her grave a year later.
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Post by borracho on May 2, 2024 9:38:04 GMT -6
wild how many families hold secrets close, and never tell the people that really want to know or may benefit from knowing.
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Post by mookie on May 2, 2024 9:51:18 GMT -6
were they able to forgive your wife for doing that to them? Ha, yeah they were good with that
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Post by scoots on May 2, 2024 9:54:44 GMT -6
I haven't done the 23&Me thing - my brother did it and that's how we found out we're mostly Irish instead of mostly German. German actually wasn't even in the top 3, apparently. There's a ton of adoptions in our family that we only learned about super late. I did try to Ancestry thing a few years ago and while I was able to learn more about my mom's side (her relatives apparently owned most of Naperville at one point and don't really have much to show for it), my dad's side is tough to track beyond my grandpa.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on May 2, 2024 10:05:38 GMT -6
I have a friend whose parents died when he was very young and he never knew anything about them. This was way before 23 and me but he basically lived with his aunt and uncle his whole life and only found out about his real parents when he was accepted to a school for wizards and the big wizard started telling him about where he came from
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Post by scoots on May 2, 2024 10:09:50 GMT -6
So, you're saying I'm a wizard?
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Post by clouddead on May 2, 2024 10:22:51 GMT -6
yeah my mom died when I was 1 and now I’m a wizard too
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Post by kb on May 2, 2024 10:37:43 GMT -6
my mom called me a wizard once when i was 6 and i thought she said lizard, does that count?
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Post by doso on May 2, 2024 10:53:49 GMT -6
I did an ancestry thing probably close to ten years ago hoping to maybe find some undisclosed Jewish lineage, but it ended up being the most underwhelming result ever which was basically, “Yep, dumb polak with a dash of wop.” I didn’t need to pay $80 for that.
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Post by clouddead on May 2, 2024 11:22:00 GMT -6
So dumb you can’t even spell Polack
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Post by claypoolfan on May 2, 2024 16:51:44 GMT -6
Did Boeing really just ice another whistleblower? This is kinda sketch.
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Post by Tweet on May 2, 2024 16:55:48 GMT -6
I feel like a lot of people working for that company should end up in jail, but, lol
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