There are wealthy Black, Hispanic, Asian, etc. families that have been multimillionaires for a few generations (maybe even billionaires), but my question is: how did these Black and other families of color maintain their wealth through racist times?

Wouldn't travelling forward in time put you in risk of dying and travelling backwards put everyone else in risk?

So I'm a self-employed general contractor. I got a job to redo the plumbing system in a customer's house and asked my dad to help me with it since it was a two-man job and he's been a plumber for 40+ years.

This morning the customer called to say that last night a loose fitting came off and completely flooded their utility room. They were able to shut off the water immediately and sweep/wet-vac the floors, and it looks like there was no permanent damage other than to my pride.

The thing is, the joint that failed was done by my dad. My customer doesn't know - I took full blame - but I feel like I don't want to tell my dad either, and here's the problem. I'm very big on honesty and I feel like I should tell him, or at the very least that I'd want to know if I was in his shoes. I just don't know what it achieves other than making him feel bad about it too. I don't want this to be the first thing that pops into his head the next time I ask for his help. I'd wish to keep this a good memory.

I'm torn here. I know my intentions are good, but I'm not sure whether I'm actually protecting his feelings or my own.

I spent time having video calls with LEOs, intelligence agents and military folks over the course of the past 6-9 months. I saw how broken and disjointed and tribal power has become within the world of American authority.

I now know things about how the US government and military work that I feel the public should know.

I could write a book or make a YouTube video. But both of those are to inflexible and risky. I want to spill the beans in a much more permanent and effective way. I would like to help the public understand what is really going on behind the scenes, as best as I have seen.

Im realizing that I've actually been chronically dehydrated for a good portion of my adult life and I'm looking to change that. I just don't enjoy drinking water (as silly as that may sound).

Any advice is appreciated.

I'm currently unable to hear in one ear, but while eating, I can "hear" my chewing in both ears. Is this just a me thing or does this happen to other people?

Not a technical person, as I understand it, Google and Bing are full search engines while options like Seaexng, Ecosia, Duckduckgo are meta search engine that depend on Google or Bing. Are there other search engines that are fully independent, and if there aren't, what are the barriers that stop other search engines from emerging

I don't want to start a business as such yet, just as a hobby for now. This kind of thing really interests me

What is the reason for all the movement when we really need to go pee? Is it a subconscious reaction to distract the mind from a full bladder, or does sloshing the pee around in your bladder make it somehow better? I would assume not, since that probably increases the physical urge that you need to go pee, but why then do we dance and hop...

All the James Bond movies were on MGM+, but they left MGM+ to go to Netflix in January. However, all the movies are leaving Netflix on April 20th (today). My question is: do I now have to pay for MGM+ so I can watch all the movies? Because I didn’t get to watch them all while they were on Netflix.

Looking for games for my friend. She's mostly looking for a casual timewaster for a bit of enjoyable escapism. She historically liked some of the "merge games" where it's about merging icons on a grid, and a couple of the more traditional idle games but its so hard to find any without summy practices like dark patterns and abusive monitization.

So, what are some good casual mobile games? Ideally, the sort of thing your grandma could enjoy, but without the scummy practices that are widespread.

Edit: I'm looking for more "pure" casual games, rather than ones that are primarily puzzle or arcade games. Something more akin to Cookie Clicker, those old shovelware hidden object games, or Bejeweled's zen mode rather than Tetris or Brickbreaker.

I know nothing about boats but I learn fast and never forget.

I’m willing to do the jobs no one else wants.

My kids are grown, I’m divorced, retired at 35. I’m not quite forty yet.

I need to get away and I need to work impossibly hard like I’m used. I need to get away from the gun in my safe calling me.

I’ll work myself to death at any shipping job.

There’s got to be a captain looking for a newbie like that.

@nostupidquestions @ij could l possibly carry out all my command line functions on my windows desktop after installing the vs code ??

I also wish to install fish and zsh on my windows desktop, and make it work more like a debian computer ??😄😄😄

I bought an Ergodox EZ a few years ago. While I enjoyed it at first, I realized that I was avoiding certain workflows because it lacked arrow and function keys, forcing you to rely on different layers.

I like split keyboards, and I also like thumb clusters, but I'd really prefer something with dedicated arrow and function keys.

I've heard of a case where an American man was ranting about "why can't they speak English" despite him being in a country where it's not even spoken (in this case: Japan), like WTF? He's literally in another country where a different language is spoken, isn't that already common sense? Yes, there are (some) Americans who are like this: assuming that everyone all over the world just knows English from the get go, but that's not always the case.

Another was when an American woman wanted to pay for the bread at a French bakery using a crisp US$20 bill, but that was not accepted since France uses Euros as their main currency. I guess it stems from the fact Mexico accept that assuming that's universal in countries where their own currency (like the Korea uses Won, UK uses the Pound, Oman uses Rials & etc). I mean, why do (some) Americans think that every country uses US Dollars?

Just watched the P&F episode where Django makes a picture to show his dad. What the fuck? THIS is the "painting a continent" from the opening?

First off, Django is way too normal. Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, Bufort, and Baljeet all look like cartoon characters. Django looks and sounds like a normal kid. He's got that Phineas-in-the-pilot not-larger-than-life voice acting. He sounds like a real boy, not a cartoon person.

Second, his problem isn't high concept enough. Lots of other characters get episodes where Phineas and Ferb help them. Isabella gets the hiccups. Dad forgets his anniversary. Bufort loses his fish. Candace can't parallel park. All super high concept normal problems that get solved with insane shenanigans. Django's art isn't big enough to impress his dad, the famous artist who makes giant objects. That's an insane problem that Phineas and Ferb solve with a normal idea!

Third, Django is too much of a straight man! We have lots of straight men in P&F. Candace is a straight man to the boys, and Mum is a straight man to her. Perry is a straight man to Doof. But in P&F, we always experience the story from the point of view of the insane person. With Django, his dad is insane and Django is a normal kid, but we get Django's perspective. It feels boring because Django is boring compared to his dad.

I dunno, am I missing something? Does anyone else get serious Wesley Crusher vibes from Django? I just can't wrap My head around why this episode is so different.

Вирішив через пару років повернутись на реддіт, зайшов на групу на яку ще тоді давно підписався, залишав трішки постів, відповідаючи просто на запитання, *автомодерація *мені писала, що контент має бути перевіреним модерацією, ну думаю ок, потім після якогось посту в мене видає помилку сайт, і аватарка зникає, погуглив і дізнався, що це таке як тіньовий бан, в підтримку писав, але відповіді поки нема, і я не розумію в честь чого таке могло статись, тому вирішив дізнатись вашої поради що робити. Тут питання просто стоїть в тому, за що дали і чому, бо тут стоїть зараз таке як не визначеність, що і починає трішки дратувати це, тому мене це питання і хвилює

Hypothetically speaking

(anyone can answer, but I'm more interested in those with skepticism towards authorities)

So to preface, I only really use doordash when I'm sick and I want to get food without spreading whatever I have. So I don't open the app much. I just noticed that dominos is on the doordash app in my area. Why in the world would anyone ever doordash a dominos pizza when they already do delivery anyways? That just seems like a great way to burn a bunch of extra money for a worse service.