3 generations for rednecks… Cousin marriage is often legal and not unheard of, though most people try to avoid such close relatives. By 3rd cousins - 5 generations - you often don’t even know everyone and so it wouldn’t be a surprise if you don’t even know you are so closely related until long after you have kids. Generally there is enough separation that this isn’t a genetic issue. Even first cousins don’t typically share enough genes for issues to be much more common than otherwise. (kids of brothers-sister pairs often have genetic issues).

That assumes you can get a different type of crude. If a different refinery is setup for texas light sweet crude, they are likely able to take all the oil Texas can pump, and they have pipelines in place from Texas to them. Even if you convert your refinery you can’t get any of that crude because it is under contract to the other refinery and they can afford to outbid you because their shipping costs (via the pipeline) are lower.

10 years ago (approximately) there was a North Dakota oil boom - the crude from those wells was shipped via a railroad that goes very close to a Minnesota refinery, but that refinery is setup for Canada crude (including a pipeline) and so the trains went right on by without stopping. The oil ended up in East Cost refineries that had been mothballed (that is shutdown) for years, but they were able to take the North Dakota crude and so reopened. I don’t know the current situation - other than a suggestion that the owners of those refineries were not planning to do more than minimal maintenance - that is if something major breaks they would tear down the refinery instead of repairing it (this of course has likely changed several times as the market changes).

Diesel seems to have gone up slightly more. Diesel tends to be somewhat less elastic - people are using this for work they consider important. You might not make a long distance trip (stay home, or travel to something closer to home), but you won’t stop buying things shipped with diesel. In some cases you are substituting a trip to the store (gas) for deliver (diesel, but because it is a combined trip overall less fuel used)

As you get back more than 12 generations it is highly likely the same person appears more than once in your family tree.

When IPv6 was first created, the dream was that your machine would get a new IP address any time the whole network felt some need for that. The idea was, as someone added a network, we may need to change the way your systems are numbered in order to make the backbone routing a lot easier to fit in memory. This hasn’t seemed to work out, but that was the dream.

I assume your ZFS system has plenty of redundancy. Thus, I would enable snapshots and do a regular rotation because ZFS snapshots are so easy to recover from for most disasters. What that leaves is the catastrophic losses from, say, your house burning down. So you still need something off-site, but the ZFS will cover most of your backup needs.

I did the monthly arch upgrade and had to reboot to get some service to come up. Took an extra 5 minutes this month.

It might be but it is risky - if anything goes wrong there goes that data.

The problem is people don’t want a focused community. They want a broad community so when they have a question they can ask and find an expert - but not so broad that the noise means they can’t follow anything. We do focused communities because the world (or even internet) has too many people and so the noise of all the discussions is too much. However that isn’t what we want.

1% of females as well, but few know that even though there must be a lot out there.

I was in college when my mom brought the books home one weekend. As she suspected my sister was also colorblind. Mom gets three wrong and you need more than three to be colorblind - but latter she was working in a clothing store and a customer ask for a discount for some stain she couldn’t see but the manager saw it from 10 feet away and gave the discount.

I can tell the difference between the red and green light - but if a left turn turn light comes on while the red remains (that is only left turns no going straight) I’ll probably miss it because the green is so faint and red obvious

Retail will take anyone and train them which is why it is so easy.

Every other job needs someone with special skills and so they are selective and hard to get in. Even though most people don’t work retails, there is much more competition for these jobs, and a lot less job in any given specialty. The better the job the less competition there is - but there still is plenty of competition.

Which means you need to not ask for “a job”, but select the specific job and then set yourself up to be good at that on your own time. The more specialized you get, the better a chance you have a job in that specialty - but the worse chance you get at any other job! Which means choosing the right specialty is critically important. Good luck (usually it too bad though as most things have enough demand).

The worst part: once you get a job they start teaching you the skill for that. It is really hard to change latter because you go from an expert to beginner.

Remember what others have said though: who you know is more important that what you know! So figure out who you know! Figure out what they can maybe get you into, and apply the above in consideration of that. Sometimes people will tell you what they can help you with, sometimes they won’t know but you can guess.

don’t blame capitalism. People are that shortsighted about everything. In your own niche you are not but I don’t have to know anything about you to state with 100% confidence that you have already been shortsited about something in your life.

On the other hand you can’t do everything correctly - you don’t have enough time. You have to make hard choices about where you place the redundancey. Aften people focus an the last crisis and so they over invest in fire protection in the next house after a house burns - but the odds of a house fire are still low and they are likely putting less into the real next problem - whatever it will be.

don’t label with panel slot - too often you need to move things and so those are incorrect anyway

the box needs to be accessable. The drop ceilling counts but something perminant ceiling would not.

The printing press is a very new invention in our universe. Before then books were for the rich. Often too history is written by the victors and so it missing a lot of important details that might or might not matter.

Come to think of it intelligent life such as could write books seems to be new. (but we have no ability to detect life elsewhere if it exists so who knows)

In the 1970s some car makers advertised that there would be no damage to the bumper/car at all at 5mph.

At what speed? At 5mph - walking speeds - I’ll take the 1970s car with the 5mph bumper any day. However at more realistic speeds the 1970s car will still need expensive repairs - it will be a lot cheaper repairs than a modern car, but it still will need significant work. Meanwhile the modern car means I’m much less likely to need major repairs which often cannot be done at any price.

it uses the Hebrew calendar which is completely different from modern systems. It is always exactly the same day every year. That Catholics and orthodox sometimes use different days is historically correct usage of the Hebrew calendar. First full moon after the spring equinox is an easy simplification (and likely what the ancients were trying for desbite not having modern astronomy) - but it isn’t correct.