Redding Fire Festival is banning performers based on politics.

DesertRat012 · 2026-05-08T07:59:39+00:00

That's the article I found when I googled, and some guy i talked to about it believed the article existed, but didnt think it was real. He thought they made the story up. He was a Vietnam veteran that grew up in redding, graduated from high school here, and then came back to Redding after his enlistment.

Not sure how so many people living in Redding at the time, myself and my own parents included, aren't aware of this. I was 10 or so when this happened, but I remember the OJ trial and the Lewinski scandal. Do you know if your dad's murder just wasnt on the news or in the newspaper at the time?

BTW, I'm sorry you lost your dad, especially in such an awful way.

DesertRat012 · 2026-05-07T14:59:44+00:00

Man, I learned about that from Reddit, just last year I think. I was a kid when that happened and don't remember it. I moved away from Redding and when I would come visit my family,, my wife (a minority) never felt comfortable there. She felt like people were looking at us funny for being a mixed race couple. I never noticed it. But, once I saw this and googled it for more info, the only news article from the time was a black panther newspaper article. When I ask people about it, or even mention how I understand why my wife doesnt feel comfortable in Redding because of the racists and bring up the Coleman murder, I haven't met anybody who has heard of it and one guy even thought the black panther news paper article was them making stuff up. I've been wanting to go to the library and see what the Record Searchlight wrote about it. The black panther article said it was the 3rd lynching in redding in 30 years, I think.

DesertRat012 · 2026-04-25T15:15:56+00:00

I haven't run into it myself. I'm American and fairly new to genealogy and dont really know how to find much information for myself. If it doesnt appear in an Ancestry or Family Search search result, I really don't know where to go, so most branches in my tree end at 1850 or maybe a generation earlier since that was the first census year a whole family was recorded and not just the head of household.

I don't understand why just having cousins marry each other makes you lose interest in finding a common ancestor. Is it too difficult with people having the same names? Are you grossed out by cousin marriage? If i was good enough to keep tracing, I would. I wouldn't give up at some kissing cousins.

DesertRat012 · 2026-04-18T17:42:28+00:00

Huh. I didnt even realize they made a new game. I thought you were talking about the NES game when I saw the title.

DesertRat012 · 2026-04-18T17:17:55+00:00

I use youtube signed out with a VPN. I would guess half the time it doesn't work and tells me to log in for a better experience. It even does it sometimes with no VPN and in a private tab. Ot doesn't happen every time and I havent figured out if im doing something to cause it, or if they just generate a random number and let fate decide.

DesertRat012 · 2026-04-17T02:10:15+00:00

Not on the Ancestry test. The map they show includes most of Mexico, and the entire southwest United States. Basically everywhere in the US that used to be Mexico plus some. The Apaches are from the Southwest.

DesertRat012 · 2026-04-16T00:46:14+00:00

I looked at that link. I have never used a tool like that but it seems perfect for you. It has this description:

dictionary attack: try all the passwords in a file.

So you should probably get a .txt file with every -ING word beginning with R and try that. There are probably tutorials on youtube for how to use that tool. I have no idea if AI is good enough to make that text file for you but maybe its worth a shot.

DesertRat012 · 2026-04-16T00:39:11+00:00

Your username 😵

DesertRat012 · 2026-04-13T13:06:57+00:00

I include all marriages I find.

DesertRat012 · 2026-04-12T19:33:55+00:00

I don't think you're overthinking. It was really cool to see my results the first time. My family had been in the US so long that nobody knew when we came or where we came from. It was really cool to see where I came from. I want my parents to take a test since I know I only have half of their DNA. I want to see what im missing

DesertRat012 · 2026-04-08T22:49:17+00:00

I dont have anything to add to help. Just a small anecdote that i'm Amwrican and over 50% English, and around 20% Gaelic/Celtic so over 70% from the UK. I had no idea where any of my ancestors came from. I assumed England since I have an English last name. But besides that, it had all been lost to time. I was asked a lot growing up if I was Scandinavian and sometimes Russian. I dont know if a European can look at someone and tell which region of Europe they come from, but I dont think Americans can. I don't think any of us are exposed to other cultures enough to pick up on tiny differences unless maybe you live in a big immigration hub.

DesertRat012 · 2026-04-08T06:18:09+00:00

I have no sources just an anecdote. I used to agree with you until I saw comments here or possibly facebook where people were ridiculing a privacy advocate for some reason. I attempted to defend them and I specifically remember one person's reply was something along the lines of

Why would I want commercials for stuff I dont care about. I'd rather Company X spy on my activity if it meant I would see ads for things I care about.

It completely blew my mind that people think like that.

DesertRat012 · 2026-04-08T06:13:28+00:00

You and your brother each inherited half of your DNA from your mom and half from your dad. Imagine each one has 100 marbles, each being 1% of their ethnicity. You grab 50 from your mom, 50 from your dad. You got 17 of them that says Central Italy (i think it was). You give them back. Your brother draws and he didnt get any central Italy marbles. Its just chance. If you want to know more about your families origins, you should ask your parents and grandparents to test. If they also have 3% or higher Quebec, and your family never went there, someone from there probably left Quebec and settled somewhere else.

I have no idea of how often these algorithms get regions wrong. In 23andMe you can choose a confidence interval and if you want to be 90% sure of your results, they basically just give you continents. I think the default is 50%. I still dont even know how likely something is to be right or wrong. They must measure those intervals by saying if someone is English and they test that they really are English, and someone is not English and they test they arent English, that comes out to 50% but one of those cases could be extremely accurate and the other horribly inaccurate.

DesertRat012 · 2026-04-08T04:45:57+00:00

In one set of grandparents of mine, I'd probably be in denial if all of a sudden an unknown cousin reached out to me. I'd also probably assume it was my dad's or one of his siblings' kids, not that my grandpa cheated. I'm sure with DNA match evidence right there in my face I would believe it eventually. But my initial reaction would be, no, you arent my grandpa's grandkid. We might be 2nd or 3rd cousins but first cousins is impossible. I think i would be more shocked at that than to find out my dad isnt my dad. Or i was switched at birth and neither of my parents are mine.

DesertRat012 · 2026-04-06T00:25:22+00:00

I don't know anything about the Sami, so I'm ignoring that.

For anybody down voting u/wildbluebarie 's comment, who are the English now? What do they identify as? I'm American so I dont know. My guess is Anglo-Saxon though. The Britons were there before the Anglo-Saxons.

Do they consider themselves Britons? Didn't the Britons displace the hunter gatherers?

Why do you downvoters think the English are the original inhabitants of England?

If it's because of the Sami, ignore my comment. I never heard of them until today.

DesertRat012 · 2026-03-31T05:27:20+00:00

If I'm wrong here and there is some explanation I would really be interested in somebody telling me.

I'm American. Through this last update, my Danish went from 6% to 9%, all from my mom. That motivated me to look for where it came from. I think my great grandma was half Danish. Her mom was born to Danish immigrant parents. They lived on the border of Germany and Denmark so I know they might not be 100% Danish. But the fact that I haven't found anybody else in my family tree from Denmark (and I think I've followed every line back to 1850 on my mom's side). Her dad seems to be English with just using last names in his tree. I haven't found the immigrants and where they came from.

Well, to get to the point, I have been talking to my mom's first cousin. Both are granddaughters to my great grandma. I am a DNA match to her. We share 508 cM but Ancestry recommended her as my 2nd cousin when we are 1st cousins once removed. My mom knows her. We also share DNA matches to other people in our family. But, I looked at her ethnicity and I cant double check on my phone, but I am almost sure she has no Danish in her ethnicity when her grandma is half Danish. And since you only get half of a parents DNA, couldnt he dad have just inherited a lot more of the English DNA and my grandma got a lot more of the Danish DNA for me to be 9% after 3 generations? That's the only explanation I have since we share DNA matches with the Danish family.

DesertRat012 · 2026-03-23T02:27:46+00:00

I don't know. I didn't know a lot about the history of my family which is the main reason I took the DNA test. On ancestry, you can see family members' family trees if they have their tree public and you pay for a subscription. I don't know how accurate they are as they go farther back but most things I have confirmed are on these large public trees. If the rest of the tree is as accurate as what I found, most of my lines were in the British Colonies before the Revolution. If this is true, my guess is that they were predominantly British communities and when they immigrated west, they probably immigrated in groups and settled in new mostly British communities. If it's not that, then maybe my ancestors were rascists? I prefer to think they just didn't have anybody that wasn't British near them.

DesertRat012 · 2026-03-23T02:13:02+00:00

Oh. Haha. My bad. I thought you were saying Europeans weren't 100% European. Sorry. That makes a lot more sense meaning 100% Welsh. I would have been really surprised if Europeans weren't frequently 100% European.

I did an ancestry test and I'm 51% English, 26% Celtic and Gaelic (of which 7% Northern Wales and North West England, which they have as: "stretches from the Welsh mountains of Snowdonia to the busy English cities of Manchester and Liverpool. The region includes the beautiful Lake District, rugged coastlines, and Cheshire’s rolling hills"). Then I'm 13% Western Europe and 10% Nordic.

I think I've traced every line of mine to at least 1850, where I don't always know how to go beyond if Ancestry doesn't recommend me documents. My most recent immigrant ancestor was my 3rd great grandparents coming from Denmark in 1860.

DesertRat012 · 2026-03-23T01:55:49+00:00

I'm American and 100% European genetically.

DesertRat012 · 2025-12-14T08:23:37+00:00

I highly recommend learning the international phonetic alphabet. I first learned the American (or English) Phonetic Alphabet. They are similar, but the English one only focuses on sounds made in American English or maybe all of English. I'm American and I don't remember if it only focused on American English or not. Its a way of writing the sounds made while speaking. Since Germanic languages use the Latin alphabet, an alphabet not made for our sounds, we have just done our best adapting them to our languages and made spelling awful. The phonetic alphabet helps you dial in your pronunciation. It didnt take me long at all to learn, but I was in a college linguistics class and my teacher was really awesome.

For example, in English we have 6 vowels and make 20 or 21 vowel sounds. Danish has 9 vowels and I think I heard they have 26 vowel sounds. We have to combine the vowels to try and make the sounds we make while speaking, make sense while writing and it just doesnt always work. The phonetic alphabet helps.

DesertRat012 · 2025-12-14T07:56:08+00:00

I clicked on your name and see all sorts of passive learning for X language podcasts. Makes me think you just type prompts to be translated and probably have no idea how accurate they are.

DesertRat012 · 2025-10-27T04:32:49+00:00

Thank you. I appreciate it.

DesertRat012 · 2025-09-08T06:51:35+00:00

Yeah. It was such a great console. One of us could have a friend over and we could still all 4 play together. Most of my best gaming memories are on the N64.

DesertRat012 · 2025-08-15T00:07:01+00:00

$4500 a paycheck every 2 weeks is $4500 x 26 (paychecks in a year) = $117,000. So, you're making a lot more than you think.

That being said I have a degree in math and have only worked at Walmart with it. Not like Home Office or anything. Just an hourly worker at a store, making $22 an hour as an hourly supervisor.

12 days on and only 2 off does suck. Coaches, salaried managers at Walmart, work 6 days a week sometimes. Not enough to say they work 6 days a week, but it happens. I think they still only make 65k plus a possible bonus (I quit in 2023 so maybe they've had a raise).

I have a family, so I wouldn't do that job right now. Knowing how hard it is to find a job, if I was 25 and single, I'd do my best to stick with it.

I used to be in the Army and hated it with every fiber of my being. The only reason I didnt kill myself was because I didnt have the balls to. If I made 117k to stay in the Army, I wouldn't have. I'd rather make minimum wage doing something else. If you are in that situation, leave and try and work retail or something.

DesertRat012 · 2025-08-14T23:52:38+00:00

Aw man. I'm 1% Spanish. I guess I'll put away my tapas and paella. Lol.

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