If you’re just talking about a strand of DNA with no epigenetic info I think 90% is being very optimistic.

Hadn’t heard of this before but I’m more than a little skeptical, especially if its being used for policing

"More recently, companies such as Parabon NanoLabs and Identitas have begun offering forensic DNA phenotyping services for U.S. and international law enforcement. However, the science behind the commercial services offered by Parabon NanoLabs has been criticized as it has not been subjected to scrutiny in peer-reviewed scientific publications. It has been suggested that it is not known "whether their ability to estimate a face’s appearance is better than chance, or if it’s an approximation based on what we know about ancestry” -DNA phenotyping wiki

You’re joking, right? There’s a reason genotype and phenotype aren’t synonyms.

Totally agree that the current US government is shit and getting worse and ultimately it is due to weaknesses in the way the procedural democracy was setup.

To me that fact can be viewed as a fixable design flaw. A Marxist-Leninist system (as far as I understand it) at its root doesn’t seem like a better way to prevent corruption or power grabbing since there’s no built in checks at all. You’re simply relying on the good intentions of the ruling party which, as we’ve seen from all governments, change over time and can be influenced in many ways.

Is there much scholarly debate on the validity of these opposing definitions? It seems like it’d be difficult to support an argument that the Marxist-Leninist style governments support the working class more than a procedural democracy.