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  Damn!! What the fuck
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  My great great grandfather killed his wife with an axe and then hung himself. Didn’t hear about this story until my grandparents were moving out of their house, I found an old ass photograph of them and asked who’s that? >
  
  Holy fuck dude. At least they had kids first 😯 >
  
  As opposed to having kids after? >
  
  Now I'm laughing in the bus, people are looking, I should just show them your comment >
  
  I'm hoping you showed them the comment >
  
  I did my family tree and found a very distant cousin (not a direct ancestor) who was a serial killer. He’s the guy they wrote about in Devil in the White City. (Corrected to say distant cousin, not distinct.) >
  
  Almost enough to dox yourself.  Here's hoping your history is clean. >
  
  He said very distant cousin. So they could be one of hundreds of people. >
  
  Technically we are all distant cousins. The most recent individual common ancestor of almost all humans is probably only from 2000-4000 years ago (of course not in the sense that we branched out in the main since then, but that due to the exponentially increasing number of ancestors as we go back each generation to ~10^24 only 2000 years back, people moving around, and incidental mixing, the most recent person who ‘happens’ to be in the ancestry of almost all of us, including most of Africa, Europe, Asia and the New World today is almost certainly more recent than we’d naively expect). That’d be maybe 100-200 generations, making almost all of us at most 100-200th cousins - for just a particular pair of two random humans, the most recent common ancestor is very probably even more recent.
  The only people likely excluded are in those small long-isolated pockets like North Sentinel Island, and even then they may have been isolated recently enough not to be an exception. >
  
  Dont be fucking your 100th cousin >
  
  I don't, I stay within the first 3 to keep the bloodline pure but not too pure >
  
  Get him milk to drink! >
  
  Come in, Ryan and I just got out of the shower >
  
  Here in Germany, it's mostly even in the last 4 generations due to WW2. Almost everyone has some ancestor that fought back then. >
  
  We ugh, we just going to ignore the elephant in the room? >
  
  Of course they were all nazi bastards. Many Germans want to forget that they have Nazis in their family tree but denying won't change it. They were Nazis and they deserved to die. >
  
  Wasn’t there forced conscription in ww2? Innocent men who were forced to follow orders do not deserve to die >
  
  After World War 2, they made it so "following orders" isn't a valid excuse anymore. They always tell us in the US military to not follow any orders that are illegal, immoral, or unethical, even if a General is giving them to you. You can be tried if you carry out an illegal order >
  
  Iirc they had the choice to go into the fight or getting shot at the spot... Nice and important change of the legal matter but if your general gives you that choice I don't think you would start arguing about the legality of it >
  
  Strangely appropriate timing... my best friend has been researching my family tree and showed me yesterday my extensive tree. Turns out great-granny ended up in prison for neglecting and killing three babies. It explains a lot about granny's toxic nature.