Chuck Brotton
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Chuck Brotton
@CMB1969
early middle aged professional & cranky confirmed bachelor, recovering alcoholic, retired immigration officer, science fiction/fantasy fan, centrist
Fort Smith, AR Katılım Mayıs 2009
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When is it okay to cry? There are three occasions.
1) your father dies
2) Boromir
3) Old Yeller
That's the rules.
Visegrád 24@visegrad24
Only 22% of Poles think it’s socially acceptable for men to cry. The highest figure in the EU is found in Sweden where 95% think it’s socially acceptable 🇵🇱🇸🇪
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@Technonautilus @shortmagsmle @CovfefeAnon Well, for heaven's sake, don't out the judge on a contentious case like this! 😯 If all the folks raging about this online thought that he was of a different race & gender, that was valuable camouflage
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“Oh, I didn’t say he couldn’t vote or get unlimited free money or that he couldn’t ride the subway with a knife. I said he’s incompetent to stand trial.”
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@DominicJPino Perhaps that contributed, but Carlyle was also obsessed with the concept of "The Hero." The great national leader who would lead his country to greatness by force of will. Naturally, anyone who saw prosperity as something that could be reduced to a science would be anathema
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Thomas Carlyle hated economics because economists explained why slavery is bad for the economy and Thomas Carlyle liked slavery.
Relearning Economics@RelearningEcon
"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist." -Thomas Carlyle
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@ratapsst @SysLambdaOmega @ashtree128 @RadishHarmers As I recall that where I went to college, in the late 1980s, the common kitchens in the dorms were securely (and blessedly) locked shut because, a couple of years before, some drunk dude thought it would be "funny" place a fire extinguisher on a hot stove burner. That's college
Moffett, OK 🇺🇸 English
@CMB1969 @SysLambdaOmega @ashtree128 @RadishHarmers install induction stoves at a common kitchen in the dorms, duh
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Why is everyone reacting to this like the students are crazy scammers? Isn't disallowing students from opting out of the meal plan the actual scam? What justifies that policy?
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79
Stanford has introduced Jain-friendly dining options, which means students can no longer pretend to be Jain to get out of the meal plan.
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@jncatron @RadishHarmers @ashtree128 My freshman & sophomore dorms back in college, circa 1987-89, had a kitchen in each wing, but they were kept locked because, a couple of years previous, some drunk dude thought that it would be "funny" to put a fire extinguisher on a stove burner & turn it on. Typical college
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@RadishHarmers @ashtree128 Do Stanford dorms not have kitchens? Mine, at an exponentially less rich school, did.
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@SysLambdaOmega @ashtree128 @RadishHarmers I seriously doubt that these students are going to be bringing a proper induction stove into the dorm room. Doubt the dorm has the 240V circuit for one. Anyway, the cooking equipment is likely to be cheap hot plates and/or hot pots bought off Temu
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@Puf42069 @Grey_Athena A chill, democratic world communist revolution? 😂 The evangelicals who seriously think that the Rapture and the Lord Jesus coming again are imminent have a better grasp of political reality. At least they acknowledge that their Utopia requires divine intervention
Fort Smith, AR 🇺🇸 English
@Grey_Athena I personally think we should just do the easy solution (world communist revolution, but the chill democratic kind)
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Europe should probably get over its battered-wife thing towards America but then again whenever Europe isn't being ruled by America they tend to make their 17 year olds bludgeon each other to death in the mud over who gets to own 25 sq miles of Flanders. So it's hard to say
Kraut@The_Davos_Man
I know a lot of my fellow Europeans are disillusioned with the Americans. But I will die on the hill that preserving the transatlantic alliance is worth fighting for. We ought to help our friends in America retake congress. Especially after what Vance did today.
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@leechcheng @VerminusM The more time that I have spent on this app after 10/7/23, the more greatful I am that the Irish Catholic part of my ancestry not only emigrated to America, but also left the eastern cities and went West building the railroads, ending up in Oklahoma and intermarrying with others
Fort Smith, AR 🇺🇸 English
@VerminusM The answer is much easier: the smartest and hardest working Irish all emigrated to America and Australia. They tend to be quite philosemitic.
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Do you think the reason the Irish are so salty about Israel is because unlike the Irish, the Israelis actually managed to get all their land from the British?
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@NickAPappas Hard for me to comprehend, as a front end Gen X (born 1969) who's first real political memories were of the Hostage Crisis. I'm broadly pro-Israel (or, at least, anti-Palestine), but, to me, "Israel wants it" is priority diddly squat. To me it's payback for 1979-81
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The healthy way to respond to this is not “it’s all propaganda and antisemitism.”
There’s a genuine shift occurring. Americans don’t feel this war was launched in our interest. If they’re right, a continuation of a trend of Israel’s growing unpopularity is an understandable and rational response.
If they’re wrong, folks need to make that case. But it’s a very hard case to make if the result of this was the regime stays in place and controls the strait + gets a new revenue source to rebuild. All at the expense of America’s relationship with nearly every other country on Earth besides Israel.
Frank Luntz@FrankLuntz
• 60% of American adults now have an unfavorable view of Israel 🇮🇱. • That’s up from 53% last year and 42% in 2022. • In both political parties, a majority of adults under age 50 view Israel negatively. (84% of Democrats, 57% of Republicans) 👉🏻 pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…
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@anactualwalnut You can get protein at any time of the day. The important thing early in the morning is energy, which means fats & sugars
Fort Smith, AR 🇺🇸 English
Sorry to be a food shamer but something that is actually really insane to me as someone who doesn’t even diet are the people who believe a pastry is breakfast. You fr just had a scone or a cinnamon roll or a coffee cake to start your day. Zero protein whatsoever. Nothing. Just a pastry.
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@Crplwalrus @SandyofCthulhu The Canadian dollar is at $0.72 to the USD. Of course nominal prices will be higher 🙄 Y'all have a higher nominal income to compensate. That's like if I were compare the nominal of something in USD vs British pounds
Van Buren, AR 🇺🇸 English
@SandyofCthulhu Now do it in canada. Lettuce is $5 a head, and chicken is 2x the US price.
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You can do it. Get dried beans & rice with cheap staples like cabbage, onions, and potatoes. Add peanut butter and canned tuna.
You’ll eat like prisoners but you’ll survive. I doubt that’s what OPs dad envisions. He may think prices are the same as the 80s.
Uzi@UziCryptoo
my boomer dad just tried to convince me that he could buy groceries for 4 for an entire month with $150 and i’d really like to see him try
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@SandyofCthulhu I don't know about average Boomer parents, that is what my (now deceased) Silent Gen parents, who were born in Great Depression (respectively in Oklahoma & a depressed New England mill town) and were kids during WW2 rationing, would've meant.
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@Noahpinion The challenge is finding a way to end our alliance with Israel that doesn't, in any fashion, benefit Palestine, Hesbollah, et al. Netanyahu & the Kahanists in his coalition annoy me, but do detest Palestine more. As for Iran, the mullahs have been our enemies since 1979-81
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For what it's worth, I think America should cancel its alliance with Israel, which is obviously a bad and unhelpful ally. But unlike leftists and rightists, I don't actually think canceling it will fix any of our fundamental problems, or help people in Gaza.
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@RealDianeYap The culture tells us that a man ordering for his wife or girlfriend is a sign of man who is controlling, at best, and possibly an abuser. Ergo, most men who don't fit that profile will profess to having no clue what a woman might want to order. He will repress any stray insight
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On the bagel order, I have a good friend who I only see a couple of times a year. We've never dated.
Whenever we go to a restaurant, even a new one, I can pick out the 3-5 menu items that appeal to him the most. It's basic pattern recognition.
Men who can't even do this for their wives? Sorry, but you're nothing to him. You're interchangeable with anyone who would do what you do for him (sex, housework, childcare, paying half the bills, etc).
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@PstafarianPrice Always remember, opossums may look ugly, but they're the best friends a homeowner with a decent size yard can have
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I like the idea of a meadow lawn but I fear it would give me every single tick disease
seraphina@hearthkeeping
i am becoming an anarchist because my city ordinances won’t let me have a meadow lawn.
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@SandyofCthulhu That's definitely the main thing. The other issue is in the comment ("...tofu I'd drained...") a lot of westerners don't know that tofu really isn't ready for most uses right out of the package and should be pressed & drained. A basic plastic tofu press is about $15-20 on Amazon
Moffett, OK 🇺🇸 English
The American problem with tofu is that over here, it’s mostly served as a meat-substitute, at which it fails dismally.
But asian-style tofu dishes, where it’s treated as an ingredient in its own right, are great. Ma Po tofu, Thai golden fried tofu, Soondobu. Those are delicious
くまねこ@kuma_neko_
これ、我が家に遊びにきたアメリカ人ご夫妻の子どもが「豆腐きらい」とか言い出したので、揚げ出し豆腐用に水切りしておいた豆腐を揚げてチェダーチーズを乗せてバーナーで炙ったのを出したら、ご夫妻が全部平らげてお代わりまて要求してきた。子ども用に作ったンだが？
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@Selatrop @Empty_America The Indians move into better neighborhoods. As someone who's visited there a few times (Major League Soccer, my alma mater in the NCAA-FCS, nearest IKEA), Frisco, TX is a nice town
Moffett, OK 🇺🇸 English
@Empty_America Plus it's insane that they're calling it an Indian invasion, there's relatively few of them. There's like 450k Indians in a state of nearly 32 million.
Salvadoreans alone are nearly 400k but you don't see claims of an invasion there.
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Many of you are so naive.
The Texas business community 100% wanted the flood of undocumented labor that allowed them to build the great Metroplexes.
They also want to have maximum cultural and business links with the elite of a rising market of 1.5 billion people.
Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives@dom_lucre
🔥🚨BREAKING: Governor Greg Abott announced that Texas will be a land for the Indian community for as long as he is Governor. This comes after many locals were furious over Indians celebrating Chhat Puja in Denton,Texas rivers.
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@pratiktwts @razibkhan It's definitely cynical, but it seems like a Democratic-controlled city government having to cooperate with a Republican- controlled state government seems to be producing the least disastrous outcomes. One and a half cheers for divided rule and gridlock
Moffett, OK 🇺🇸 English
cities in red states are the only self-harbor from urban seppuku
Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Mamdani announces that a "racial equity plan” will be used in a "whole of government" approach to tackling affordability in NYC. “It places the work of 45 city agencies within a singular framework."
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@CalebChanc925 @Shallrend @Fenrirtheicewo1 3/ the Klan of the 1910/20s and since formed as the result of that movie (no real organizational continuity w/ the 19th century organization) & they copied the movie's imagery
Fort Smith, AR 🇺🇸 English
@CalebChanc925 @Shallrend @Fenrirtheicewo1 I think it's a bit more complicated. The penitente hood made it's way to Louisiana in Spanish colonial times (1763-1800) & ended up getting adopted by the Cajuns in their 'Courirs de Mardi Gras'. Some chapters of the original 19th century Klan copied the look 1/
Fort Smith, AR 🇺🇸 English
I swear to God ignorant Americans will never stop amazing me on their ability to try and capitalize on their ignorance.
I once participated in this event... there have been black European people who participated in this event since the 80s. It's not all about you, Americans.
TaraBull@TaraBull
He's questioning his decision to visit Spain
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@CalebChanc925 @Shallrend @Fenrirtheicewo1 2/ original 1860/70s Klan didn't really have a single, uniform look, beyond masks & robes. In 1915, film maker DW Griffith settled on that type of hood & white robe as his version of a Klan costume in his historical epic 'Birth of a Nation' because for visual reasons 2/
Fort Smith, AR 🇺🇸 English