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Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 27, 2023

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.

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Looks good. Thank you. :)

I considered installing that one, and apparently one of their payment options is to mail them an envelope full of cash. Can't beat that, I guess.

I chose to send them cash in an envelope, just because I could lol. Got the correct amount of time added to my account a few days later. :) The price is very reasonable.

Hope you used gloves to handle that cash. They can take DNA from it…

With that they can deduce my biological sex (with a karyotype) and my ethnicity (with finer sequencing), but they still couldn't find my specific identity unless my DNA is already in a database somewhere (which is probably the case for people for whom this kind of security is an issue) that they have access to (less likely). Tbc, this is hypothetical, I haven't purchased their services and I probably wouldn't go to these lengths if I did.

They don’t need your DNA. They need your distant relations’ DNA. See how the police caught the Golden State Killer.