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@JakeRammos Dwayne Johnson

Gun to your head, name a rock.

@ai6823768 @glacilan Agree to disagree I guess. Probably a cultural difference because in both instances I would say either would be acceptable. The reverse would not be true, I would not sell bread and label it as toast. All toast is bread but not all bread is toast if you understand.

@wsj0004 @glacilan Nah people would be like "you said this is bread but it's all toasted? it's not bread, why didn't you say it was toast?" If you mince a steak it's not steak anymore, can't label it as such can you.

This European vs. American bread thing is getting dumb as hell cause why did I just see a European unironically say that toast is not bread

@ai6823768 @glacilan I find your argument shallow and pedantic. I could absolutely sell toast labeled as bread. Is a steak no longer beef simply because you cook it?

@wsj0004 @glacilan Yeah it's a different chemical change that moves away from the bread state again. You couldn't sell toast and label it "bread".

@ResidentOfSound @potatoslav Literally no American has made the claim that American bread is superior. Europeans made the claim that we did not have bread at all and we are fascinated by your complete acceptance of anti American propaganda that you would believe it.

And it's crap, bakeries are to be found every 100 meters (hyperbole). But that is besides the point. The funny part about the whole thing is that a lot of people descend into stage 5 meltdowns for the simple statement of fact that other countries could do things better. Yes e.g. German bread is superior. By a lot. But as a German I have NO issue whatsoever to recognise that random train station sushi in Japan shits over 99.99% of all sushi here, some random shitty taqueria in Mexico utterly destroys every single Mexican restaurant in this country, most random French patisseries in bum fucked Ruritania wreck pretty much every bakery in Germany when it comes to sweet stuff, pasta in Italy is a whole different ballgame than it is here. What cracks me up is that it seems to be perceived as an outright attack on the country to simply state that yes, not everything is the best in the US either lol.

this discourse is so stupid, Americans have bakery bread and Europeans have processed prepackaged loaves of bread with added sugar. these were the shelves in my local grocery store in Germany today.

@ai6823768 @glacilan I have no clue what the debate was about, I was simply making a joke about how stupid our government is. And while you are correct that toasting is an irreversible chemical change as well, it’s not the same as the chemical change dough undergoes when baked into bread

@wsj0004 @glacilan But isn't the debate around a specific product in Europe? "Toasting" bread creates an irreversible chemical change in the bread too btw, lol.

@ai6823768 @glacilan I’m referring to toast. As in toasted bread. When you bake bread, the dough goes through an irreversible chemical change that transforms the dough into something else entirely. When you toast the bread, it’s just heating the bread. It doesn’t undergo chemical changes

@wsj0004 @glacilan Yeah and bread is dough that has been baked but you wouldn't call that dough "bread" would you? 🤷 Again though you haven't said which product exactly you are referring to, they definitely have products that are like hard toasted bread you wouldn't call bread anymore.

@ai6823768 @glacilan Buddy, I don’t know why our government does anything it does. As for why I’m so retarded, it’s probably a combination of alcohol killing my brain cells over time and bumps on the head ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And toast is just bread that has been toasted. Are you retarded too?

@wsj0004 @glacilan Why not just have pizza on the menu a few times a month or whatever, not listed as a vegetable? Why are you so retarded? I don't know what exact product you are referring to, but probably the same sort of reason why bread-dough is not bread.

@ai6823768 @glacilan Ok here’s the reason why: Michelle Obama was trying to make healthy school lunches more appealing to kids, so the lawmakers decided to consider the tomatoes on the pizza as a vegetable so the children would not lose pizza because they enjoyed it. Now, why is toast not bread.

@glacilan We can answer that once you explain why USA tried to classify pizza as a vegetable?

@VolvicCh @notasnervous This is why I say I’m disappointed Europeans are not as smart as I thought. Europeans once did amazing things. We learned of all the great conquistadors in school. We have cities and parks named after them. They were great men. Where did all the great Europeans go?

@wsj0004 @notasnervous My point is that there is a multitude of Spanish speakers on the American continent because of the Treaty of Tordesillas and this guy, whose expedition was funded by Spanish Royalty and who maintained almost sole control for 3 centuries:

Every day I open this app and see a European speaking so frankly about something they're entirely wrong about that you'd think it was a mandatory punishment.

@VolvicCh @notasnervous I guess because the plurality of immigrants worldwide have decided the bread is good enough to live here and they brought their language with them. What’s your point?

@wsj0004 @notasnervous "There’s more Spanish speakers in the US than all of Spain." What an astute observation. And why, pray tell, is that?

@q_slavic Are you using a different executioner for each execution? Seems wildly inefficient. Just use the same one every time.

If you kill a killer, the number of killers in the world remains the same.

@VolvicCh @notasnervous lol I speak Spanish just fine, amigo. There’s more Spanish speakers in the US than all of Spain. It appears your programming needs an update.

@wsj0004 @notasnervous You speak English because it's the only language you know. Europeans speak English because it's the only language you know. We are not the same.

@VolvicCh @notasnervous You may be literate, but your reading comprehension is lacking. I didn’t say anything about the US. Yes, we have a lot of idiots that can’t read. My assertion was that Europeans are not as smart as I thought they were. I’m not happy about that. It’s very disappointing

@wsj0004 @notasnervous Indeed.....

@politicalmath “Don’t look up” the headlines from 5 years ago

It's extremely funny that the movie "Don't Look Up" came out during the Covid pandemic. A movie about how a cynical political class will deny a deadly reality that is staring them in the face. It naturally implies that this political class would be Republican because obviously liberals are enlightened science lovers. Here we are, 6 years later, and the vast majority of our liberal intellectual class is telling you that the plain truth of what happened simply didn't happen.

@RichardSouthco2 @facetedcarapace You just did it too!

@facetedcarapace That's a theatre kid. They got beat up alot. I'm Gen X and don't talk like a thespian unless I'm insulting you in my Shakespeare costume on Halloween.

Is there a definitive sociological answer for why they talk like this

@affairemayaling Europeans really are not that smart, huh? You can just google things like this before you post your thoughts on the internet. You clearly get a lot of anti-American propaganda and you’re so giddy to laugh at Americans you don’t realize how silly you sound to us.

these are in almost every supermarket chain here. this is what we mean when we say you don’t have bread in your grocery stores.

@travis4nh Even my liberal family members have admitted that Nixon was a good president and that watergate would not even register in today’s news cycle

1972 POTUS election "Watergate" was a deep state coup.

@TheDemocrats Oh and I see Stacy Abrams is there too