Message from @The Eternal Anglo
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Its downright grim
It would be boring if every part of a nation was the same
It’s really not difficult to maintain genetic diversity
Just avoid the same last name and you’re good
I forget the paper- but the number of reproducing pairs you’d need to avoid genetic problems is much lower than you’d think
Right but that requires a open system at some point. I mean the mentality can get clannish at town level if permitted
Also “wypipo be inbred” isn’t even remotely true
@ophiuchus The Catholic Church even allowed you to marry like 3rd cousins before it became incest I believe
Iceland is only like 300,000 people and from what I've read, the inbreeding problem is overblown and doesn't really exist
Hmmmmm
Jinx
Lmao
Like 3 people in IE owe me sodas at this point
@DixieBoy76 - KY 3rd cousin is genetically diverse enough that zero issues would come from that coupling.
check out this cool map I just found
So much jinxing
It’s probably impossible for any European to be more distant than 20th cousins or so
When I go to LOPF next year I’m gonna get so much free soda
This graph got me a twitter ban.
If you think about it, historically, people would find a spouse from the same village and they were fine
@The Eternal Anglo cool find!
No matter who you are, you have some ancestor that was attached to the European nobility who basically exclusively married each other
@ophiuchus pretty sure I’m just farmers
These maps prove overdoing inbreeding is possible
Charlemagne is probably “the father of Europe” in several regards
@DixieBoy76 - KY if you have any colonial ancestry it’s almost impossible for you to not be descended from some of the English nobility
@Perihelion - CA Right, but look at the places overdoing it. Iceland is tiny and it's fine.
But yeah country level parochialism is fine
@ophiuchus Check the Protestant server
“Oh no I am the 4th son of a nobleman and I will not inherit, what do I do?”
“Go to America and buy land”
@Jacob Iceland has an app to help improve genetic diversity
You can see how close someone is to you.
is that actually necessary though, or was it started as a meme?
Tfw it probably suggests they date afghanis
Ouch
Somehow Iceland was fine for centuries without it
@Jacob it’s hard to tell what’s serious when you live in clown world.
I mean. It’s probably better to check.