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I am a New York born Chicago boy Texan. I love street food of all types, old school Italian bakeries, backyard apizza, pop culture, humor, writing, endurance sports, Motorhead, ebikes, ukulele, huge dogs that drool, martial arts, and my wife--although not necessarily in that order. I've been on Mastodon for quite a while, and so should you.
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This GenX'r was brainwashed to view Arabica coffee as good and Robusta bad.
I've since fallen in love with Vietnamese iced coffee, which is made with (or primarily with) Robusta beans.
Turns out that Robusta makes a stronger, more chocolatey coffee and the beans are cheaper, higher yielding, and require fewer pesticides and water.
I now find myself looking down my nose at Arabica.
Robusta for the win! Yay underdog!
https://www.seriouseats.com/vietnamese-coffee-recipe-11775391
To be clear, I have no problem with furries in general. Not my thing, but you do you. Everybody has the right to live the life they want so long as they don't hurt others. But decorum is important in certain contexts, and (IMOHO) a martial arts class is one of them. Unless, of course, the class topic is "Defense Against the Furries."
I study Muay Thai & boxing 3 nights/week. A dude dressed as a furry walked into last Wednesday's class. He participated in the entire class dressed as a furry.
The others laughed. Me, not so much.
Why?
I studied Shotokan karate in the early 1980s. All of the instructors & most of the students were cops, steel workers, and/or Vietnam vets. If a dude in full-on furry regalia walked into that dojo? Man-oh-man. Nobody would've laughed.
Thank you for the "favorite", Reay. You've just joined a very exclusive club.
Yay, Artemis II! Trust science, people. Trust science.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/01/nasa-rocket-moon-launch-artemis-ii?CMP=share_btn_url
The acrid stench of rotting roast beef sandwiches will take weeks to dissipate from those robes.