Just curious: where was that? Since I was a child, “Bimbo” meant a dumb, attractive, woman, and implied promiscuity. I heard it most in (Italian) gangster movies, mostly. From what I can tell, the racial slur meaning is used in Germany.

Funny; I lived in Germany for a couple of years and never heard that version, but then, I didn’t hang out with the types that would be inclined to teach it to me. I got standard cuss words and some colloquial Bavarian curses.

Oh, I loved that documentary! Amazing at how many of those people went on to become movie stars.

Sold at auction for £2.9M. V8.

Counter steering is taught in motorcycle defensive driving courses. It’s faster and safer to give the bars a counter-push and release, and let physics do its thing, than to try to fight momentum.

Ol’ Binkley had a secret strength. Peer Gynt is hardcore!

sigh I can agree with this sentiment.

Ok, you convinced me. I’m in.

Both are true.

Many immigrants are highly educated and hold well-paying jobs, but the vast majority of immigrants, legal or otherwise, are a source of cheap(er) labor. They make about 86¢ per dollar their native-born peers make, and they’re less likely to hold management and higher positions.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/forbrn.pdf

Mmmm. Bacon.

This morning, I baked a tin of pre-made vegan (dairy & egg allergy in the family) cinnamon rolls. Bacon would have been nice on the side. Maybe I’ll do that tomorrow morning.

And you might not believe in it, but the French of utilized this method to much success. Honestly, we did to way back when if you want to throw in the revolutionary war.

There are many more examples of revolutions that did more harm that good, than vice versa. It may be there only viable avenue left, but I think it’s grossly ignorant to think it won’t sweep up a whole lot of innocents, with a good chance of ending up in a defacto brutal dictatorship for a few decades.

Those are heavy dice to throw. If they’re the only dice, then so be it, but I really hope not.

Well, insofar as violent revolution increasingly appears to be there only tool remaining, but I have more faith that The Rich will be able to successfully manipulate the masses into slaughtering each other, a-la another civil war, than that the masses will be able to accomplish anything lasting. But, then, The Rich are few and control all of the media, and masses are by nature not intelligent constructs. If we’re really lucky, we’ll just have a limited civil war; if we’re not, we may end up with a Khmer Rouge, which won’t be fun for anybody.

AI scams

Ukrainians are some ingenious mofos.

Iowa broke my brain.

I agree with you; I think you have the meat of it.

There are two problem here: first is that “rich” isn’t clearly defined. When the billionaires are all dead, are the millionaires next? Where doors it stop? Maybe that fucker in the house that’s bigger than your’s deserves to get her bullet too? How about anyone who’s rich enough to own a house?

Second, kill the rich and we still have a system that enables consolidation of wealth. We’ll just get a new group of 1%ers, only they’ll probably be more dedicated to repressing the public to ensure that what happened to their predecessors doesn’t happen to them.

Maybe the biggest problem, for me, is that I don’t know what’s better than what we have. Probably a limited capitalism, maybe modeled after one of the Nordic countries? Semi-socialist? I don’t know. I’m pretty sure a huge part of the problem is the stock market (if not specifically, then the economic model that enables it), and laissez-faire economics is a shit-show fantasy that doesn’t exist, but which the striving for causes all sorts of issues. But beyond that, I don’t know how to limit consolidation of wealth, and outcomes like Citizens United.

So, people can kill all the CEOs they want; I don’t expect it to improve anything.

Many products, sure. And with many caveats; Earl Grey is clearly distinct from Darjeeling, although both are black teas, simply because of the added bergamot. I can tell many apples apart - I couldn’t name them in a blind test, but in most cases I can tell you which aren’t Honey Crisp - the textures and tastes are very different for many varietals of apples. However, I don’t think I could identify what kinds of apples are in an apple cider.

I’m sure you have your own examples. I’m not disagreeing with you, in general.

It’s like those Appalachian families that were so isolated they basically developed their own culture, language and all.

Very apt description. You forgot the inbreeding part; very much relevant for Hexbear.

Ah, I love to see the “No True Scotsman” fallacy in the wild.

“Rictal bristles” is new to me! I wonder if this qualifies as parallel evolution.

Uh oh. I hope I don’t have to eventual choose between the Spectacled and the Scopes! The Spectacled has my favorite characteristic of the Scopes: prominent whiskers!

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?