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Arizona's first Chicana representative has been sworn in. She's going to code-switch.

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Languages and accents/vernacular.

I was pointing this out to my father and youngest brother when this Louisiana politicians ad came on and he sounded like he was from the bayou!

I said something to the effect "I bet he doesn't sound like that at his fund-raising dinners".

And of course they lost there shit and of course my racist father almost immediately says "blacks do it"!

Sigh. Somebody tell me when it'll be ok to hurt these kinds of people.

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F/A-XX? More like F-14X

While I agree they look cool, they're an engineering nightmare and absolutely require titanium to build and that shit is too expensive for very little benefit.

The point of a variable wing was to increase the effective flight envelope and there's no point now that the same thing can be done with modern avionics and materials.

Sorry.

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As an older American from the deep south, it's just a holdover from cheap high calorie/high carb foods to start the day back when America was mostly agrarian.

Then when the 50s rolled around it got combined with nutrition concepts of a "balanced breakfast" by cereal marketing firms and romanticized to sell even cheaper products to children/parents; sugared cereal.

For me, breakfast is bacon, eggs and biscuits or toast. And maybe grits if I'm feeling like it. I like hash browns but I don't like making them.

It's just leftover marketing. Eat what makes you happy.