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Give Debian 12 a shot if you like Ubuntu. Debian is good luck...even today. And it's not version 13 yet. :-)Wino wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:26 am Can't be any worse than 12th yesterday - my Ubuntu 24.04 took a dump after an up date and I haven't been able to boot it since other than in safe mode with horrible graphics. Going to be a long weekend.
Just as a side note, do you mean you have a band of the Crow?VodoundaVinci wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 1:38 pm I have an entire clan of crows that are very interesting and intelligent folk. They have told me that the Friday the 13th thing is a myth and that it's Álfablót that one needs to be careful about.
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Not all is lost - got it back up running - I just have to be at computer to choose the third boot option when starting - kinda PITA - until I can get an ISO burn to renew install and dump dual boot with windows.CowboyT wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 2:16 pmGive Debian 12 a shot if you like Ubuntu. Debian is good luck...even today. And it's not version 13 yet. :-)Wino wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:26 am Can't be any worse than 12th yesterday - my Ubuntu 24.04 took a dump after an up date and I haven't been able to boot it since other than in safe mode with horrible graphics. Going to be a long weekend.
I did that just over 20 years ago and went straight GNU/Linux, no dual-boot. Basically, I've had "good luck" on the computer front ever since.Wino wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 8:58 pmNot all is lost - got it back up running - I just have to be at computer to choose the third boot option when starting - kinda PITA - until I can get an ISO burn to renew install and dump dual boot with windows.CowboyT wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 2:16 pmGive Debian 12 a shot if you like Ubuntu. Debian is good luck...even today. And it's not version 13 yet. :-)Wino wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:26 am Can't be any worse than 12th yesterday - my Ubuntu 24.04 took a dump after an up date and I haven't been able to boot it since other than in safe mode with horrible graphics. Going to be a long weekend.
Heh...and how! :-)Ylatkit wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 8:30 pm A group of the Crow who can't fly is usually called either a band or a tribe.
As someone who is supposedly, but with no actual evidence, 1/16th Cherokee, I get this joke.Ylatkit wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 1:01 pm "What do you call 64 Cherokee in a room?"
"A fullblood."
One of two of my favorite indian jokes.
{snort}
Having known very few IPs in my life (though, I guess, my younger son, who is 95% Mayan, qualifies), I don't get this joke. Growing up, however, in a NYC suburb, two of my parents, closest, dearest friends, who sat with Dad in his last days, the wife was Cherokee, 100%. Never thought anything about it--she was just Mrs. S. a lovely, lovely woman, RIP.
There are a large number of White people who claim, and maybe have some small bit of Cherokee ancestry. The joke was saying that the 64 people were like that and each was 1/64th Cherokee, so together 64 of them add up to one full blooded native.YankeeTarheel wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 10:58 pm Having known very few IPs in my life (though, I guess, my younger son, who is 95% Mayan, qualifies), I don't get this joke. Growing up, however, in a NYC suburb, two of my parents, closest, dearest friends, who sat with Dad in his last days, the wife was Cherokee, 100%. Never thought anything about it--she was just Mrs. S. a lovely, lovely woman, RIP.
I know very little beyond the very broad injustices of the reservation system, or about how tribal laws and enforcement works. Of course the "One Drop of Blood" was used to justify Jim Crow, and, of course, miscegenation laws against intermarriage "Touch of the tar brush, you know, old man!" and other such racist crap.Ylatkit wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2024 2:09 pm The joke is also about the fact that the best way the new American government could find to enforce their new laws was a legal theory usually called the "One Drop" theory. It went that one drop of "other" blood made one an Other, whatever an Other was in the new law under discussion. (Inniuns are not the only race the new government targeted.) So one drop of Cherokee blood anywhere in your family tree made you Cherokee, regardless of any other consideration. (Or one drop made you Black, or Mexican, or whatever. When one writes racist laws, one is forced to perform mental gymnastics to attempt enforcing them. Racist law is never simple, because the fear is not simple.)
The reason it's Cherokee, and not some other random tribe, is that in a ghastly response to some of the first One Drop laws, many tribes and reservation systems, including mine, sat down and defined how much blood it took to be a registered tribal member. My res, the Colville, adopted 1/4 as the least fraction of blood necessary to register as a tribal member in any of the bands on the Colville res. So my son is the last generation that registered as San Poil. Idiots.
"My foot is moving!"
"Shoot it, shoot it!"
Most tribes chose either 1/8 or 1/4, but not the Cherokee. They started with something like 1/64, according to rumor, (which is probably urban legend by this time) and then they changed it to include more people. And then they changed it again. For a while, the joke was that we're all Cherokee, because when they were finished, it wasn't just possible for most folks to register as Cherokee, it was becoming difficult to avoid defining oneself as Cherokee! That's when jokes with punchlines like "The Blue Eyed Cherokee", or "The Blond Cherokee" showed up. (You're not missing anything. Most of the jokes weren't worth writing down, because most of the humor surrounding racism in either direction isn't actually funny. I heard a bunch of them as a young child, without understanding them, but I've forgotten all of them.) I do remember that "He's a blue-eyed Cherokee" used to be an insult, meaning he might be a tribal member, but he's not actually Inniun. (Yes, you're right, that would be me.)
They wanted a bigger tribe, and man, they got it. But in Indian Country, the way they did it is a joke.
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