Gave him Buchanan's Decline of the West for Christmas.

He was excited for it and has read other Buchanan.

I've had a quite the huwite Christmas. not literally. all we've got is clouds and some rain.

My family spent a good amount of time looking over an extended family tree my sister has worked on for years

Talking about your ancestors is *implicit*

My parents have got ancestry tests that they'll be filling out and sending in

Ironic given how much of the general ancestry is known because of genetic testing

speaking of genetic testing, 23andme has a beta feature now that breaks down to which region in a country your ancestors most likely lived

Lovely. I bet you my entire family will be wanting to visit such and such village in such and such eurostani country in search of "the ancestral home"

It's like the plot to a bad horror movie. Sans the Elvira-esque introduction (the only reason I'd want to be near it)

I want to do a DNA test to see what heritable diseases I have

We have the disease of pathological altruism I just saved you a hundred dollars

you didn't actually

I just diagnosed I didn’t cure it <:sad:366743316475281408>

you can analyze your genome for free using third party tools

you just have to pay for the test

multiple of which are under $100

one of which is free, but takes forever

Ok I estimated the cost gosh

lol

I've been tested for genetic disorders before. It's unpleasant and I don't recommend it.

Also because you're told that you have a genetic disorder. I'll prefer being ignorant k thx

idk to me it sounds exciting

well think of it this way

right now I just assume the worst

so if I test myself, I'll either not find out anything new, or I'll be like "huh that's actually not that bad"

You must _really_ hate the ocean from the way you're talking

wait what does that mean?

I have skin diseases specific to Scandinavians but no one believes I’m Scandinavian

It means that if you're concerned with not knowing, I'd assume you'd hate being around something that is really deep and impossible to see into

such would be my guess

What?

Not sure what that means but I’ve never been afraid of knowing anything. That’s probably one thing we all have in common here.

@Salo Saloson oh lol

idk I just assume most of the ocean is uninteresting stuff

On the surface the ocean is uninteresting unless the weather might kill you. If you have ever seen a relief map of the surface (such as are used by the Navy and mining companies) it's a whole new world.

Has anyone else had trouble making YouTube comments or is my phone just glitching our?

What is with Japan and whaling?

Anime, that is my answer.

Giant whale sushi, that is why

Do we have any erudite economists?