My great grandparents are from Ireland. My understanding is if I can fully document our relationship I could be eligible. I look into it every few years but cannot find anything linking them to Ireland.

Even reached out to my cousin in Ireland that had done her family tree years ago. No help.

Another set of great grandparents are from Italy. Italian law currently blocks my citizen claim because their is a female in the lineage.

I’m an atheist due Roman Catholic grade school. The teachings about religion were crazy.

I also went to Roman Catholic high school and college but religion was very miner. College required four religion type courses but including courses such as ethics and logic.

LOL. Zapatos (shoes), left, right, straight, and chisme (gossip) are a few I remember.

Negative. I was visiting Burbank CA from NYC. About 8 am on a nearly empty street. Going to get coffee I got a jaywalking ticket. I was shocked .

Tagalog. I lived with my ex-wife and her family for years. The more people in the house, the happier Mom was. They all spoke Tagalog. One day I heard my brother-in-law speaking to someone on the phone and it sounded much different. I asked him why and the call and he said he was speaking formally.

Hopefully someone can explain better.

Thought that was used in Australia

Very photogenic. Moar pleeez

CSB: Years ago when my kid was in after school care I fixed a couple of their busted PCs. Nothing major, just made sure the hardware was OK, reinstalled Windoz, and then installed some FOSS games on them. I had enough stuff from the work scrapheap and mine to make a third. Kids loved it. I was a very-local semi-celebrity.

Just because the hardware doesn’t make the cut for heavy work doesn’t mean it cannot handle the needs of others.

That’s a lot of stuff but very to what I end up adding to the generic garlic/basil sauce I usually buy.

Definitely going to try adding Tapatio, cinnamon, and more paprika.

Small trucks cannot be imported into the US due to the Chicken Tax. American companies will not build small trucks because they like the profits from large SUVs and trucks.

I buy the cheap store brand stuff and flavor at home. Spices, fresh garlic, a little sauteed onion.

LOL. I complained so much to support about removing dog shit from a vacuum they sent me another to shut up.

It is a very cheap model that randomly wanders around.

Want to see crazy used car prices? Look at small Toyota trucks in southern California. The prices are insane because many people want a small basic truck for work. The 22R and 22RE engines live long and if they do die it is easy to source a rebuilt engine.

I went this route. I don’t need something powerful to scroll Lemmy and watch downloaded TV/movies.

Made sure it had two display port outputs for dual monitors. Added another 16GB of RAM because why not. It is way more than I need. Probably could have gotten away with used micro PC.

I also have a NAS and micro PC “server.”

This sounds like a problem with you. I’ve done enough coke and genocide never entered my head.

so no more government cheese

LOL. I was talking about govt cheese with a co-worker this week. My grandmother, who lived through both world wars and the great depression, would collect anything the govt was giving away. She and grandpa lived in a large home and had more than enough money to survive. She literally had a room where she stored excess food.

My ex had a very old dog that hated everyone except her and her parents. He was tiny so she brought him lots of places. People would say the puppy was cute and go in for a pet. The dog drew blood on several occasions.

I worked with someone that switched careers because his work did not align with his ethics.

He was an electrical engineer that worked with high-frequency circuits. Niche field back around 2000. He worked for a “defense” company working on missile systems.

He could not accept it morally and changed professions. I met him doing IT desk-side support at a large company.

I know he took a pay cut.

Kia/Hyundai make some good cars and some shit cars. If you get one of the shit cars you are on your own.

The Kia Boys mess was caused by Kia trying to safe a few bucks by not putting immobilizers in some cars to save a few bucks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Challenge

Kia/Hyundai also sold lots of cars the had their engines die due to manufacturing defects. They recalled some cars with the engine and not others. There was at least one class action settlement.

My wife bought 2016 Kia Soul new from the dealer. It was the highest trim level so it had an immobilizer but it had one of their troubled engines. When the engine threw a rod (that is bad) the engine was still under warranty at 60k miles only because she bought the car new. I was at the dealer and overheard another person with the Soul and a bad engine. He was out of luck because the car had over 50k miles and he was not the original owner. The Kia drivetrain warranty was good up to 100k if you were the original owner but only 50k if you were not.

You owe me the time it took to watch that.