ellen_musk_0x

I'd just like to thank everyone for doing their part, posting, reposting, and fear mongering it.

Excellent opportunity for sabotage.

I guess both 'identity' and 'heritage' are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

And I know this is mostly pedantry, but there're terms that actually do fit better. Like immigrants, settlers, etc.

My great grandad was from Sicily. I'm from Minnesota. I don't have any heritage or identity that has much to do with Sicily. I do have heritage as the progeny of immigrants from Sicily. But not Sicily.

I call that the Costanza maneuver

(checks username) mmm hmm

But they're not Irish or Cuban or Italian.

They're Americans.

I think there's a big difference between knowing your family's history and drawing an identity from it.

I don't care about small talk, but I engage in it as a social custom.

And I don't try to pretend I'm superior to others for not caring about it.

We're all Ethiopian

As far as white/Caucasian Americans, I'd bet money it's Germanic ancestry.

I recall reading that at one point in the 19th century, 52% of American newspapers were printed in German. And, you still find towns with German names from coast to coast. Anaheim California, Hamburg Minnesota, Berlin New Hampshire.

If you're near Eastern Indiana, check out Oldenburg.

On the Uber budget end it's not an option.

And while I haven't been shopping for one, the few times a glanced inside the home center over the last year, they all were WiFi connected.

Even my living room TV, if I don't hook it up to WiFi, has an annoying blinking light asking you to hook it up.

It's an industry problem, not a consumption problem.