Solid write up! You’ve changed my opinion. I had thought terms like “octoroon” were merely archaic descriptors, had never thought of the “one drop” angle and what that implied.

Holy shit! There’s even a word for all this!

such terminology is a characteristic of hypodescent, which is the practice within a society of assigning children of mixed unions to the ethnic group which the dominant group perceives as being subordinate

1/64th: Sang-mêlé. My god, that’s a laugh-out-loud racist word if I ever heard one. How far back did they want to go?!

For anyone else finding this interesting, this might be the opening of a rabbit hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadroon

pay for google one

LOL, that’s the idea all right! I pay $99 year for 2TB of storage, so I’m a happy camper. My Windows libraries, movie storage and such is backed up offsite in addition to local backups.

Ours merely hums, wouldn’t think the noise would make it through a window unless you were within 10’, and even then, that might not wake a sleeping neighbor.

The electric weed eater OTOH. Yeah. No.

(DeWalt BTW. 40V I think? 2 small batteries.)

Meanwhile, my wife keeps asking if it would be rude to mow the lawn at 7AM on a Saturday. With the electric mower.

Discworld wizards represent!

Ever notice how people open their mouth when listening intently? You will now.

Reminds me of when Malwarebytes changed the interface to look like a straight up virus. LOL, we were all shitting bricks.

For Android, don’t accept the prompt to let the speaker read your contacts and call history. Seems to stop this nonsense on my speakers.

Funny story: My sister was bitching about the shit TP at college and that they had just bought a 20-year supply. Guess what I was wiping my ass with 13-years later.

I second this, but OP says they have special lens needs. That’s what stacks the price.

I seriously thought about selling that shit and scamming the idiots. Why not? It’s like Christian books or music, a license to print money.

I could blow 100M monthly on AWS. Probably take me the first month to spin it all up, easy from there.

Worked tech support for an ISP. The tech side was well managed and smart. (Left when that changed.)

The customer service side fielded TV and account related calls. They were driven by average calls times. What a cluster. Guess who straight hung up on customers when the call went too long? Some people would call be 4-5 times.

Meanwhile, we could take all the time it took to resolve. A 1-hour call is way cheaper than rolling a truck. Yet some assholes would roll trucks for nothing, then bitch there were no trucks left.

Western Left: Terrified of guns, won’t touch one, thinks we can vote our way out.

Me: Ready for when Red Shirts come.

“NO! It won’t work like that!!”

Women, LGBT and minorities are the largest gun buying demographic:

“NO! Not like that!!”

The Ukrainians got a clue. Do you?

We are solidly on the same page.

She’s the most beautiful woman in the world is who she is. Alien? Fine by me!

How odd that it’s only old men! Being that minorities, women and LGBT people are the largest gun buying demographic, you would think they’d be carrying as well.

I learned it working telecom. For example, if you wish to offer 911 service, your service has to be operational 99.999% of the time.

It’s more casually used to mean a service or operation is insanely reliable.

Could a reply be any more perfect?!

Louis: Hot as balls, forever young, immortal, never grow sick, never die, best friend is a literal rock star, has to eat a poodle now and again.

“Woe is me!”

I’m in the woods and swamps a lot. Always think of this line:

“Then on a diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid life of the Mississippi…”

“1791 was the year it happened. I was 24, younger than you are now, but times were different then. I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans.”