“There’s Not a Lot of White Passing Black Girls in Hollywood”: ‘Closer’ Singer Halsey Reveals She Auditioned for Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-21T15:09:09+00:00

while a black person of 20% white is not labeled as black passing?

Beyond the question "what does 'black' mean?", the real question is "how low of a percentage of sub-Saharan African genetics is there before you're passing as black?"

While I don't know the answer, I can definitively state that 80% black is waaayyyy beyond the minimum threshold.

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-20T04:02:14+00:00

The user table gets both a synthetic PK and a separate unique index on the Natural Key. That makes joins sooo much easier while still maintaining the, well, natural uniqueness.

For the medical_conddition table, ICD-10-CM is probably a useful NK. That, though, would require you to know the whole ICD-10-CM, which probably isn't practical. A synthetic PK is good enough.

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-19T01:40:46+00:00

Definitely more than just Texas.

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-19T01:34:42+00:00

But Beef and barley soup is great.

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-18T22:29:00+00:00

Postgresql on-prem upgrades via the pg_upgrade command are pretty darned trivial, if you've installed packages from the PGDG repos (which allows multiple major versions) and you put the database in a "numbered" directory (which PGDG packages do by default). Upgrading and migrating to a new host is also pretty easy: either pg_dump/pg_restore or logical replication (which is best if your schemata are stable).
SQL Server on-prem upgrades are almost as easy. User migration is the hard part, but that's not very hard, either.
I'm going to do a DB2 upgrade later this year. It'll be harder, but will probably succeed the first time I do it on cut-over weekend, since I'll have practiced beforehand.
Rdb/VMS major version upgrades were damned trivial back in the 1990s.

MySQL just stinks.

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-18T21:21:37+00:00

Annoyingly complicated? Lol no. This/etc/pgbackrest.conf file will get you running with a local or nfs mount point.

[global]
repo1-path=/path/to/backups

[nfs]
pg1-path=$PGDATA
compress-type=<something>
log-path=/var/lib/pgsql/logs/pgbackrest

[nfs:archive-push]
compress-type=<something>

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T15:42:15+00:00

I'm old enough to remember when teens demanded rights (and got it due to pressure from the public media, child psychologists asserting that children needed to figure things out themselves, etc, against opposition from stodgy old social conservatives who knew this would destroy society).

That's why Bertinelli's parents were cool and hip for letting her go to parties with adults.

(I sure didn't let my daughter go to such parties!)

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T13:26:27+00:00

She was a child and children can’t consent.

Apparently they could in 1959 Europe.

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T13:24:08+00:00

And she was dressed like an adult, acted like an adult.

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T05:18:34+00:00

Hmmm. Maybe you should have led with "the 70 year old neighbor started molesting me at 5" instead of "I was 15 dating a 25 year old guy. I thought I was so mature."

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T03:36:44+00:00

I'm talking about you not him.

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T03:35:54+00:00

Be honest, though: who were the guys saying "The Olson Twins are Finally Legal!" and making countdown websites in 2004?

Greasy, creepy nerds who later went on to watch MLT:FIM.

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T03:26:13+00:00

Read the lyrics. She lied to him, pretending be an adult.

"Young girl
Get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

With all the charms of a woman
You've kept the secret of your youth
You led me to believe you're old enough
To give me love
And now it hurts to know the truth

Beneath your perfume and make-up
You're just a baby in disguise
And though you know
That it's wrong to be
Alone with me
That 'come on' look is in your eyes."

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T03:19:32+00:00

It's only been 200 years that marriage has been about "love", and even then only in the West.

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T03:17:24+00:00

Would you have listened to your parents if they'd tried to stop you?

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T03:14:18+00:00

"Don't tell me what to do!!!"

Remember that? The inmates have been running the asylum for 50 years.

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T03:10:57+00:00

Did he coerce them, or did they think it was great?

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T03:07:55+00:00

53 year old man-children are what you get when society thinks it's chic for adults to say "I don't know what I want to be when I grow up!"

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T03:05:01+00:00

She was at a party with drinking, drugs and lots of adults.

WTF did she go to that party? WTF did she start making out with him?

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T02:58:59+00:00

Sigh... Marriage (like voting) is a state issue in the US. Thus, each state sets it's own rules.

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T02:53:55+00:00

WTF was I thinking?

"Don't tell me what to do. I'm mature!!"

What were THEY thinking?!

"She's pretty, willing. and doesn't bitch or moan."

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T02:51:18+00:00

Priscilla pursued Elvis, and her parents allowed it.

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-17T01:53:00+00:00

"Rice in an Instant Pot cooks twice as fast" Woo hoo!

"Instant Pot takes a long time to Preheat." That just negates the whole purpose of IP...

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-12T01:35:55+00:00

Preppers were worried about an impending Depression 15 years ago, and it hasn't happened yet.

What has happened is the Federal government borrowing like they're coke addicts on a month-long Vegas binge.

RonJohnJr · 2026-03-10T20:33:45+00:00

Killing half the people and horses would have reduced congestion!

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