It may be easier to find living people off of living people. If you take an Ancestry DNA test, you will be able to view the accounts of all other people who took the test and are related to you, even if they are distant cousins. Many of these people will have their own publicly-viewable family trees which you can often use to figure out exactly how they're related to you.

If your grandfather (or parent) is willing to take (or already has taken) a test, he can give you access to his results, which will make it easier to find relevant relatives. Your goal will be to find any DNA matches who either already have Raymond Edward Stocker in their trees or who can be connected to him through other relatives. You can then message these people and find out what they know.

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Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 6, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 1yr ago

If a being is all-knowing, said being must know the most moral thing to do in all possible situations. If a being is all-benevolent, everything said being tells you must be the thing that is best for you to know, and all advice the best advice for you to follow.

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Wellness Wednesday for July 5, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 1yr ago

The only problem I have is she doesn’t cook meat dinners. She’s down to make me a Turkey sandwich

Is this because she doesn't consider turkey to be meat, or she doesn't consider making a sandwich to be cooking?

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Culture War Roundup for the week of June 5, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

That brings to mind the Transcontinental Railroad, which crossed the North American continent but didn't leave the US.

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Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 4, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

For not so controversial examples, anyone under 60 pronouncing the wh is almost assuredly a very partisan Republican.

What do you mean by this?

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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is one of my favorites. Unfortunately I'll probably never be able to see it in person.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 24, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

Even Minecraft somehow has 30,000 M/M stories and 7,000 F/M stories. I shudder to think of what's going on in there.

I think a lot of those are also real person fiction, focusing on popular Minecraft streamers (such as Dream and the people he played with).

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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 17, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

There's also the TSA from a year before.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 10, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

"The slippery slope is a fallacy!" they say, as they strap on their skis.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 30, 2024

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 5mo ago

How did the water rise to begin with? Where did those larger atoms come from? Burning.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of November 11, 2024

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 7mo ago

There are scammers who are aware of Kitboga, so it's certainly a possibility.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 13, 2024

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 1yr ago

If that is your one and only goal, then why haven't you killed yourself already and prevented decades of potential suffering?

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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 22, 2024

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 1yr ago

And I suppose that this is further exacerbated by the decline in birth rates: if military families aren't having as many sons (or, in this brave new world, daughters) as they used to, even among the ones that do encourage their kids to join there aren't as many potential recruits.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 22, 2024

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 1yr ago

Maybe he was including future Arabs too?

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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 18, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 1yr ago

I'd say that debt was paid off after the US bailed them out of back-to-back world wars.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 4, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 1yr ago

Indeed, it just occurred to me that that would be the logical thing to do for a military that has just acquired a state.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of June 12, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

Orthodox Jew or Orthodox Christian?

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Culture War Roundup for the week of June 5, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

All of which is still owned by Lucasfilm, and some of it is still getting published.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 17, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

Perhaps this is a potential market for Boston Dynamics. An airgapped robot with janitorial tools instead of hands seems fairly hack-proof, or at least less likely to access secret information than a human.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 21, 2025

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2mo ago

That's more or less what we have with Taiwan, and that's managed to keep the peace for over 50 years so far.

It seems to me that this is effective because "Will American forces open fire on Chinese troops if they try to invade Taiwan?" is still an open question, and the possibility that the answer is "yes" has thus far been enough to deter invasion. However, "Will American forces open fire on Russian troops if they try to invade Ukraine?" has already been answered in the negative.