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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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Chuck Brotton
Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@CovfefeAnon For whatever reason, a lot of woke vegans dislike soy products. Doesn't really make sense to me, as skipping something that is the the most complete source of plant-based protein & can be farmed on industrial scale just seems to be needlessly ramping up the difficulty setting
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Covfefe Anon
Covfefe Anon@CovfefeAnon·
"Please nothing hyper processed like Tofutti - just the very simple, unprocessed natural goodness of the naturally occurring cream cheese form of the cashew"
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Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz

NYC bagel shops need to get with the times. The bagels in LA suck, but all the LA bagel shops at least use cashew-based vegan cream cheese. NYC bagel shops almost never have vegan cc or they’re using hyper processed Tofutti 🤢. I hope Zohran can remedy this

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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@The_Marathag @SamaHoole It was true in the Roman era because the old Mediterranean-style Ard Ploughs were ineffective in northern European conditions. It took the introduction of the Carruca Plough (an early Mouldboard-type plough) in the 7-10th centuries to revolutionize agriculture in northern Europe
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mike b@The_Marathag·
@SamaHoole Medieval England did well with barley, oats, rye, and wheat, the last being produced the most. In 1090AD, 35% of England was considered arable, and 25% for pasture. The remainder was Forests, Fens and Moors. It wasn't cattle country.
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Sama Hoole
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
When the Romans came to Britain in 43 AD, they brought their farming with them. Mostly grain. Wheat, barley, the kind of arable agriculture that worked in Italy and southern Gaul and required a lot of organised labour and the kind of climate where summer is reliable. They discovered, fairly quickly, that Britain did not have that climate. The summer was a rumour. The winter was a threat. The rain was constant. The soil in most of the country was either acidic, waterlogged, or sitting on top of clay that turned to concrete in July and slop in January. The native Britons, watching the Romans struggle, were running a different system. They had cattle. They had sheep. They had pigs that lived in the woodland and ate the acorns. They moved animals seasonally, between summer uplands and winter shelter. They built their food production around the things that Britain actually grew, which was grass and acorns and not very much else without an enormous amount of effort. The Romans, eventually, adapted. The villas they built had grazing land attached. The estates were structured around livestock as well as grain. They learned, with some reluctance, that you cannot impose Mediterranean agriculture on a country that has decided to be Britain. In 2026, a government policy unit in Westminster is suggesting that we should replace livestock with plant proteins. The Romans got the message in two centuries. We appear to have forgotten it in less than one.
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@nick_matau @MaxNordau Sounds like he just wants to mind his own business & leave the problems of Palestine/Israel/Palesrael/Whatever/(who cares?) for the Palesraelis (Arab, Jewish, Samaritan, Druze, Baha'i, ect) to work out as *they* see fit. Reasonable. Many of us have real concerns in our real life
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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@GWHayduke97 Same situation as Istanbul, with the old city being mostly handled by trams. They took a cue from Athens, Greece, where they ran into big delays & cost overruns putting metro through the historic center, due to significant archeological finds every 50 feet or so
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Hayduke ⏹️@GWHayduke97·
When I was in Rome back in fall 2019 I mostly just walked everywhere, with the occasional tram or taxi. Trams were barely faster than walking, metro was so limited as to be near useless, and the bus system is a joke for anything other than if you happen to see one going where you're going as you walk.
Max@maxtmcc

Glad someone is finally acknowledging how wack Rome Metro is. It almost goes out of its way to not serve the city center or major landmarks. Brutally transitmogged by Milan I fear

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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@RealDianeYap An almost certainly autistic man who was a happily unattached lifelong bachelor. Probably an asexual workaholic ("married to his work") with a mild cocaine addiction (cut to a 7% solution for regular use & still legal in the Victorian era). Not typical
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Diane Yap@RealDianeYap·
Sherlock Holmes is obviously a work of fiction because what do you mean a man sees things and actually notices details?
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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@lymanstoneky It takes about two months of drinking diet sodas steadily before you no longer notice the odd, cloyingly sweet aftertaste. I crossed that line circa 1988-9, so it takes some remembering to recall the before-time, taste wise
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Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬@lymanstoneky·
there are times when other peoples' inability to grasp a point makes me so angry; i don't want to believe people are just that dumb and self-deceived then i remember some people actually believe diet sodas taste good pessimism re: human mind's truth-orientation is JUSTIFIED
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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@NinjaWithBoobs1 @CBlack6664 @AdinHaykin1 He's talking about music, as *rapping* is a musical genre. Well, I guess hip-hop is the genre and rapping a technique within it. Admit it, you got trolled
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Adin - عدین - עדין
Adin - عدین - עדין@AdinHaykin1·
When I was in the IDF we rapped. So of course I did it too. It is just the normal thing, I don't think I did anything wrong. The freestyles I enjoyed, I think it was maybe 14.
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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@arissyme @MartinShkreli 🤡🤡🤡 the frescos in the Bank of America HQ lobby were painted in the mid 90s by North Carolina artist Ben Long, a devout Christian. He had previously painted frescos in churches throughout North Carolina, including St Peter's in Uptown Charlotte, right down the street
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aris@arissyme·
@MartinShkreli Bank of America HQ lobby in Charlotte has a multistory sized FREEMASON MURAL and he’s telling us it’s not Jewish
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Martin Shkreli@MartinShkreli·
you are objectively retarded.
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mr person@chickeneater177

@MartinShkreli half of the top 10 Forbes list are jews. Did you forget AIPAC exists nigga? Who controls Blackrock and all the ESG initiatives stupid nigga? 0.2% percent of global population btw

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Julie Borowski
Julie Borowski@JulieBorowski·
“Libertarian fascism” is absolutely a real thing. It's one of the most common political mindsets today, even if nobody uses that label. It’s basically: “I should be free to do whatever I want, but people I dislike shouldn’t.” I get the appeal, honestly.
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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@Gryffix The problem is that it is so rare that, depending on the social setting, many dudes would be wondering, if a reasonably attractive woman did it, if it was a setup for some sort of scam or proselytizing for a cult. FWIW I ran into the second scenario once in 1990s NYC
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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@LewisJonathanE "Israeli trained"? The idea that anyone is shelling out the €€ to send store security guards (AKA "rent a cops") off to other countries, Israeli or wherever, for advanced training is absurd 😂
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Jonathan Eric Lewis@LewisJonathanE·
Security guards at a store in Ireland aggressively apprehended a Congolese man who was allegedly shoplifting, resulting in his death This has prompted an ongoing police investigation, one with which the store is apparently cooperating But who is really to blame? You guessed it. "The Israelis"
Ty Rose 🌹@rosesfortywild

@IsabellaScar2 Those guards were Israeli trained. IDF written all over that horrific scene. I lm sick because why is Ireland looking like fucking America ?

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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@k22418588 @TimelessTrvlr Coincidentally, 1,000 AD (that exact year) was when the pagan Magyars, who were also in that mix of trade, war & plunder, embraced Catholicism, with the conversion of Stephen I, and became the Kingdom of Hungary
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@TimelessTrvlr In AD 1000 pagan Viking warriors, Western Catholic empires, Islamic empires, and the Christian Byzantine Empire were all interacting with each through trade, war, and plunder.
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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@mcrs1888 ?😂 "if every Catholic Church became a KKK chapter.." You clearly know nothing about either US history or the KKK. The Klan was/is a very deeply Protestant/anti-Catholic entity. My father's family in 1920s Oklahoma was deeply anti-Klan precisely because of Irish Catholic roots 🤡
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vassvassvass@mcrs1888·
Stop it with this fucking differentiation. I'm sick of hearing this. Almost every Jewish institution worldwide supports Zionism. Judaism has a supremacy problem that needs to be addressed. What would you say if every Catholic church became a KKK chapter? "Not all Catholics are racist"? Enough of this shit. Jewish institutions promote violent, supremacist genocidal ideology. It's a fact.
Martha Bueno@BuenoForMiami

For the hundredth time: Not all Jews are Israelis, and not all Israelis are Jews. Furthermore, the Israeli government is not the head of Judaism, just like the U.S. government is not a representative of the church. You can oppose a government without being “antisemitic”

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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@WMATASoldier @lacherbauer @roaddiets A map of the Seoul Metro system, one of the most extensive and advanced in the world. Unlike here in the US, where we're talking about keeping the same level of traffic & car dependency and just dumping it onto surface stroads
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Alexander Lacherbauer@lacherbauer·
Removing highways is akin to tearing down aqueducts and telling people to drink from the Tiber instead. Removing highways under the false pretense of “reclaiming land for development” in cities with tons of vacant land is simply dogmatic destruction of basic infrastructure that we’re incapable of rebuilding. Just be honest: you’re a religious zealot. Your faith is anti-car, and this is your inquisition.
Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU@CompletedStreet

The Rochester, NY highway removal was able to reclaim 6.5 acres of land, leading to $229 million in development and millions in new tax revenue for the city. We need more urban highway removals.

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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@JacobAShell And this is a city that had a subway line, built in the bed of the old Erie Canal, from the 1920-50s
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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@IamSoFarAhead @JohnCleese Grow a beard or not, but only the "-phobia" that is on display in this thread is the very clear internalized homophobia of any man, whatever religious background, who imagines that a beardless man promotes any "indecent thoughts" for any dude who doesn't already swing that way
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ACME Aerospace@IamSoFarAhead·
@JohnCleese Another day another Phobia for Mr Cleese. Today he is Beardophobic
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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@tickerBITCOINbb @Howlingmutant0 As someone who was living in western Queens when Seinfeld was still on the air, I would say that "New York City context" is overly broad. I would say it's outside an Upper West Side context
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HowlingMutant@Howlingmutant0·
I hate to say this unironically but if you watched Seinfeld and thought Jerry and his friends were supposed to be the good guys you missed the point
Jerr@jerr_rrej

Seinfeld was peak jewish subversion to 90s kids. Normalized a childless and promiscuous lifestyle to the goyim. Jerry was friends with his ex girlfriend Elaine who is a strong whore girlboss. Kramer is a leach. George’s cheapness killed his goy fiancé. All of them neurotic. The show about nothing brainwashed a generation into nothingness or nihilism.

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@BunkerPm @VerminusM I assume that he's talking about the governments of Arab nations that did significant expelling of Jews and confiscation of their property 🤷 I don't assume that he's referring, say, to countries like UAE or Oman that didn't have significant Jewish communities & weren't involved
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Bunker@BunkerPm·
@VerminusM Oh, interesting thus there is a collective ''arab guilt'' for the actions of some states (because ONLY some arab states expelled jews), would you apply the same collective guilt concept to Jews all over the word for Israeli actions?
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Uri Kurlianchik
Uri Kurlianchik@VerminusM·
When will Arabs pay reparations to one million Jews and their descendants, who were violently expelled from Arab states and their property was stolen in the 20th century?
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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@souljagoyteller Because of the Doctrine of the Substitutionary Atonement. Jesus is a propitiatory offering in lieu of all of fallen, sinful humanity. As such, it's a story w/ no particular "villains". A bureaucrat carrying out policy is a good representation of *all* of us. Christianity 101
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Sami Gold@souljagoyteller·
Why is it that Pontius Pilate is not more of a villain in Christian history? When reading the New Testament for the first time, I was shocked to see that Pilate is depicted more as doing his Roman duty and not as a satanic force
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Chuck Brotton@CMB1969·
@VanyaWright @mnolangray When I lived in Charlotte circa 1992-5 there were already four smaller, older (late 1960/early 1970s) malls that were already halfway on the path to dead mall status. Three of them don't stand anymore. The other one got discovered by Asian immigrants & is full of ethnic stores
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Vanyali@VanyaWright·
@mnolangray Yeah malls died long before the current private equity craze.
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