the universe is only locally real

its the same as the "we are in a simulation" shit

bored people tripping on stuff for fun

a needed correction, people will start and continue using it this way if nobody ever points this out

and that would annoy the likes of me

I was mislead by the title. I thought the mitochondria is now working its way in to nuclear DNA and it didn't do that before, so thats why I was asking about how this will affect us

Now I had time to read the full article and I get it.
Thanks for trying to answer though.

so what does this change mean for us? do we have an idea?

by we I mean any human anywhere who is qualified to have an educated guess