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[RedKing]

The thing I always try to keep in mind with medical professionals is that by the time they finish their residency they are already so jaded that there is nothing you can do, say, or be afflicted with that could possibly faze them or alter their thoughts in any meaningful way.

Meh...I usually get at least a perk of interest when I explain my Marfanoid habitus to a doc. Mostly because it's a rare thing so they're interested in the same way that a bird watcher is interested to see a rare grackle or an amateur astronomer is interested to see a trinary star system.

Although they're often skeptical too because I'm not 7 feet tall and 90 pounds. Then I show them my chest and my hands (and mouth and feet) and they're like "Mmhhmm...yeah, maybe so."
Would help to get my genome sequenced so they could make a definitive determination but that shit is way expensive for now. I figure in 10-20 years, sequencing your genome will be like stepping in a photo booth. Or at least part of the annual check-up. "Hmm...yup, you've got some allele damage on chromosome 18. We'll just do up a batch of retrovirals from your last template and fix that."

[FearfulJesuit]

Apparently /r/weeabootales is a Thing. My god, so much cringe.

[MaximumZero]

I really, really want a desk job, but I have no idea how to get one. I'm going to be stuck in retail forever, and I hate dealing with people. FML.

Also: My daughter was sent home from school sick, and I'm getting chewed out by everyone because I don't like to rely on other people. Yeah, I know we need the money, but this is my kid, not theirs.

[i2amroy]

Would help to get my genome sequenced so they could make a definitive determination but that shit is way expensive for now. I figure in 10-20 years, sequencing your genome will be like stepping in a photo booth. Or at least part of the annual check-up. "Hmm...yup, you've got some allele damage on chromosome 18. We'll just do up a batch of retrovirals from your last template and fix that."

I know you can get a few different genome partial/full sequence spreads here for $199, $895, and $6,995 (or your mitochondrial for $495), still really expensive though.

Interesting thing about the field of genome sequencing is that the majority of the cost isn't in the sequencing itself, it's in the analysis. We've currently got machines out there that can sequence an entire genome for a pittance cost of electricity in about 10 hours. The big thing is that this then generates a 4-5 gigabyte file, and most biologists don't like it when you just dump a 4 gigabyte file on their desk and say "here, analyze!". As such there's this big new field now for computer programmers to work with biologists to analyze this stuff (my university is actually one of the few out there offering classes on it, though that's not something I'm taking ).

[Owlbread]

There's only 35 purebred Scottish wildcats left in the wild at best. All the rest, a few hundred or so, are hybrids. The species is pretty much guaranteed to go extinct within about a year unless we capture them all and put them somewhere safe where they can breed.

[Bouchart]

Cats don't go extinct.  They just are wandering off somewhere and aren't interacting with anyone because they aren't hungry yet.

[i2amroy]

There's only 35 purebred Scottish wildcats left in the wild at best. All the rest, a few hundred or so, are hybrids. The species is pretty much guaranteed to go extinct within about a year unless we capture them all and put them somewhere safe where they can breed.

IIRC there was a genetic test they did back in 2007 that ended up proving that the populations in Sicily, Anatolia and the Caucasus Mountains are actually the same species as the "scottish wildcat". Needless to say the scottish wildcat association (and a nice chunk of biologists who insisted on the "old" classifications) didn't much agree with this, and insist that they are separate species.

Not saying that it isn't sad that there are so few left, but there is still hope.

[Shakerag]

I'm not gross or anything but I really don't want a dude I've just met's hands/metal instruments all up in my bits =/

I keep thinking that if I were female, I most certainly wouldn't be comfortable seeing a male gynecologist.  My significant other always goes to a female one. 

[Owlbread]

IIRC there was a genetic test they did back in 2007 that ended up proving that the populations in Sicily, Anatolia and the Caucasus Mountains are actually the same species as the "scottish wildcat". Needless to say the scottish wildcat association (and a nice chunk of biologists who insisted on the "old" classifications) didn't much agree with this, and insist that they are separate species.

Not saying that it isn't sad that there are so few left, but there is still hope.

It's amusing really that even our wildcats have an independence debate. But yes I know the wildcats are the same as European wildcats elsewhere, I was just referring to the wildcats in Scotland, the number of which has dwindled to 35 purebred animals. We reintroduced ospreys from Norway I think, we could do it again, but there's a sense of continuity that's nice to keep.

I keep thinking that if I were female, I most certainly wouldn't be comfortable seeing a male gynecologist.  My significant other always goes to a female one.

Well we do have prostate examinations.

[Frumple]

Eh. Mutts are better, anyway. Hybrid vigor goo!

Don't think of it as extinction. Think of it as improvement.

[Owlbread]

That's the Scottish government's attitude. They say we should try to protect what we have and not get caught up in stuff like purity, provided the cat's not black and white or something. At some point they'll all be moggies anyway but I think they should keep a purebred colony somewhere.

[Descan]

As a bit of entertainment, I'm going to imagine this conversation as if you're all talking about people.

Teehee, eugenics!

[TwilightWalker]

I'm getting evicted today, with no money, no support, no friends able to take me in....and the shelters are full and have a waiting list. 

Fuck Baltimore.

[hops]

I'm back to crushing on a guy that I thought I got over.
Yay hormones.

[Tiruin]

I have disappointed many people.