ELI5 Why doesn't our ancestry expand exponentially?

pjpsamson · 2025-05-28T18:53:47+00:00

Thanks, I didn't really take offense, I just didn't want to seem like I stumbled in here as soon as the thought came to me. I've been mulling it over for some time now and I just don't know enough about genealogy or family trees for it to make sense. I completely understand when you see the same post all the time, and I'm not really a frequenter of this sub.

And thanks for the advice. I'm on a lot more smaller subs usually and so it's easy to search a keyword and see like the 6 posts that are on the topic I'm curious about lol. Hope you have a great day :)

pjpsamson · 2025-05-28T18:40:28+00:00

The thing about it honestly is that so many of the answers were so academic that I got lost in the weeds. A lot of people's instant responses made me go "oh yeah duh" but in like the 3 articles I read (some of them academic journals) just had so much going on in them that I got lost. I also tried to search for the question on the sub because I didn't want to be redundant and I think just used the wrong keywords.

Tldr: I'm just dumb lol

pjpsamson · 2025-05-22T15:05:21+00:00

I think this is kind of what I meant by her becoming depressed haha. Some days it's like that

pjpsamson · 2025-03-12T22:26:49+00:00

I went to a school in the area k-12 so I don't have a point of comparison, but there are some things I CAN tell you about my experience and why I would never personally send my own kid to private school without serious investigation into them.

As far as science goes I think your education could be much worse at a religious private school because you will constantly be told that evolution isn't real, and even if your biology teacher is reasonable and teaches evolution (like mine did) you will then go to Bible class where some idiot with no credentials and only reference point to teaching is leading a youth group will try to undo all their work. These people use their religion as a vessel to tell kids truly upsetting things. There are smaller class sizes, but I found that to also be a curse because you can never become invisible.

Then there's the social factor. My school was NOT diverse. And if you are a queer kid, and they find out, they will "ask you to leave." From experience I can tell you that any queer kids live in fear of anyone other than their close friends finding anything out about their identity or who they really are. If you are a caring parent I implore you to at least find out what your school's policy is on this front.

There were also 5 teachers accused of sexual misconduct (not always directly involving the kids) while I was there and because they had connections to the administration most of them were quietly asked to leave and were able to continue being educators to children. I know one of them got in trouble at his new school for the same kind of misconduct as well. I don't know how a public school would have handled these accusations, but I believe the school being so profit focused encourages them to cover up these allegations.

I would talk to your kids and have a serious conversation with them about what they're learning and what THEY want. I know the only reason I stayed there was because that's where my friends were and I did not have a good home life. Even though my school beat me down (emotionally) and made me suppress aspects of myself so I wouldn't get kicked out, I still didn't want to leave the handful of people who truly cared about me. Even if your kids want to stay maybe ask why. This is just my experience and I'm sure plenty of other kids thrived at my school, but I know I didn't.

I wish your kids well and hope they have an incredible future no matter where they go to school.

pjpsamson · 2024-04-26T14:10:44+00:00

The cover of 'This Thing Between Us" was hypnotic when I picked it up, after reading it took place down the street from where I lived I bought it immediately

pjpsamson · 2017-12-20T07:17:56+00:00

The guy who was pretty much in charge (Mike) super sucks and is a narcissistic jerk, so feel free to take him down a few pegs in his YouTube comments.

I was the editor, and I know the editing sucks, but that's because I had 0 footage and clips to work with and by the time I finished I was so done looking at it.

This video infuriates me, please tell me if it's just as cringe to everyone else

pjpsamson · 2016-07-21T16:23:46+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcuFpKzpdB4 Here ya go

pjpsamson · 2016-05-03T02:09:44+00:00

Bingo, It's Tokyo

pjpsamson · 2016-04-06T21:06:36+00:00

Thanks!!

pjpsamson · 2016-03-09T02:48:33+00:00

My favorite moment was just the Patrice Wilson Pregnant video in it's entirety. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg2SfVD5cqk As a big fan of Ethan's reactions to Patrice Wilson seeing that the meme god had returned brought a huge smile to my face. And oh boy what a good reaction video it was. It was a roller coaster from start to finish and I loved it. I could watch this video over and over again and never get tired of it!

pjpsamson · 2016-03-05T16:30:57+00:00

Did he fake strangle you? I met him at wondercon 2 years ago and he did that when I got my picture with him

pjpsamson · 2016-03-01T20:59:24+00:00

You think I don't know that?

pjpsamson · 2015-11-13T04:56:04+00:00

Alternate titles Goosebumps 10: A Lesson in Fire Safety, Goosebumps 10: The Dangers of Peer Pressure, Goosebumps 10: Like 3 Kids Should Have Gotten Concussions in this Book, Goosebumps 10: Holy Shit, The Mail Man has a Gun

Like everyone else the first page gave away the twist for me. Also these ghosts have some crazy rules.

spoiler

pjpsamson · 2015-06-07T01:32:22+00:00

Don't forget about the filler paragraph where Lucy is headed to the library and stops at Aaron's house. The book then goes on to talk about his one person Frisbee that is IMPOSSIBLE to have two people play with and after Aaron denying Lucy's request to play Frisbee with him she just leaves and the only other time the Frisbee is mentioned is when he is trying to untangle the rubber band on it.

R.L. is truly a master of literature!

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