With Sloopy on a bender this week and unable to even see the keyboard, much less type, it has fallen to the rest of us to fill in. Since Brett has been doing double duty, I’m stepping into this steaming pile in his stead. Herewith, the scrapings from the bottom of my shoe:
My last conversation with my favorite communist folk singer, he assured me, no question, no doubts whatsoever, that by the summer, we were going to be in a nuclear war with North Korea because of Twitter. “You’ll be sorry that you thought there really wasn’t any difference between Trump and a true statesman like Hillary so threw your vote away on a third party.” How’s that workin’ out?
I shouldn’t be as amused by this as I am. But I am. I’m just not a nice person. Nonetheless, I stand by my prediction that Harris will be the Team Blue presidential nominee in the next cycle. Delightful moment:
On Thursday, Harris was taking audience questions when a man stepped to the mic and zeroed in on her fundraising methods. “If a corporation or a corporate lobbyist wants to give you money for a campaign,” he asked, “will you tell them, ‘Thanks, but no thanks’?”
“Well, it depends,” Harris replied. “It depends.”
The questioner, his arms crossed at the waist, declared this the “wrong answer.”
Riddle: what happens when a Minnesota Woman becomes a Florida Woman? Answer: This. While we’re on the subject, the Matriarchy seems to have its own shitlords. Not Florida, but as close as you can get without actually being in Florida.
How perfect. Your government, the most efficient and competent organization of all time.
I guess this is Starbucks week.
The story is amusing. The comments are even more amusing, all variants of “The First Amendment doesn’t apply to people we don’t like.”
And en fin, Old Guy Music, the one and only tune that would be appropriate here.
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It will be back up September 22 of 2016, or Dec 31 of 9999. Just don’t forget you still have to pay them, even if we’ve been nuked to hell.
I was thinking before that Kamala Harris would be the VP nominee for the Jackasses. Now, I think they may go full retard and nominate her. I hope so. The only way the Dems are turning against their idiot proggie wing is when they are handed a Mondale like loss.
Maybe she’ll pick Chelsea as a running mate.
I think they’re trying for a circumstance where it’s regarded as a sane move for Trump to nominate me for the Supreme Court.
Nah. Their modern day reaction to a Mondale-like loss would be “prog harder”
(Though I doubt that will happen. Reagan was a great candidate. I would never discount the possibility of Team Red repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot enough times for a Kamala Harris victory And then G-d help us all.)
They would really have to unload on their own feet for a hardcore California progressive like Harris to have a real shot. Not impossible, but I think she would get shellacked if they were so stupid to nominate her.
This is the GOP we’re talking about. I’d put my odds of them taking an Uzi to their own feet at 50/50 in the absolute best case scenario.
As bad as the GOP is, the democrats are doing nothing to recover the blue collar workers that gave the whole rust belt to Trump. This isn’t going to change between now and 2020.
“Prog harder” may get them some House seats, the the Oval Office is gone so long as Trump continues to lash out at foreign competition to US blue collar workers.
Riling up your base while doing everything to make normies sick of the whole thing so they’ll stay away election day is a perfectly valid tactic.
Which does run the risk of massive backfire if they decide instead to vote against you…
Riling up your base . . . . . .
Democrats don’t have a base. They have three bases. They been doing everything they can to destroy their relationship with the largest of those three bases to keep the smallest one happy. This cost them Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania in 2016.
That was pretty much the reaction then. Dukakis won the nomination the next time around.
Dukakis in a tank. Great memories.
Someone needs to embed this…or whatever the hell it’s called
I would never discount the possibility of Team Red repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot enough times for a Kamala Harris victory
I think Trump beats her. He ran with against Team Red already, whether they were just passively Not Helping their own candidate, or actively trying to undermine him. If he can beat the Hillary Machine (in every sense), I think he can handle Harris.
As ever, much depends on events. If Trump can restrain himself to taking pot shots at the Middle East, I think he’s in good shape on foreign policy, actually. The whole trade war thing is something nobody wants, so a deal will be cut. The real variable, as in every single Presidential election, is the economy. If its doing OK in 2020, I think Trump wins.
The Dems will be absolutely losing their freakin’ minds in that election, which will hurt them. The howling and gibbering and shit-throwing will be truly Biblical, and off-putting to normies.
Its entirely possible that they will actually impeach Trump in the House; it be unprecedented having an impeached President running for re-election so it is hard to see how that would play. I suspect it would harden Trump’s base, and given the overreach and hysterics that are bound to be involved, it might move a few undecideds his way. I know that if they do impeach him, I will be actively supporting him in the election because if he loses, its a victory for everybody I hate the most.
So Biden-Harris?
If I was betting, that would still be where I put my money.
And Trump-Trump.
“You know Mike Pence is a good man, an honorable man, the best really. But he’s just not tough enough for this job. Timid Mike I call him. You got to have the balls for this business. Which is why I’m choosing Ivanka as my Vice President. She’s got the brains and we can all see she’s got the bossy as well…”
“body as well”.
Sorta worked the first time too.
*Heads to PornHub, searches for “bossy Ivanka”*
Yup, its a thing.
*scribbles down a note for later*
Yup, its a thing.
Rule 34.
Everything is a thing.
I like the “Timid Mike” name. Donald Trump comes up with these very unimaginative nicknames (Lyin’ Ted) and they somehow gain traction.
The key with Trump is twofold. First they are simple, descriptive, easy to remember shorthands that paint the individual in a disfavorable light. Second, if they don’t stick they’re discarded and not referenced again.
The response we all saw coming
This was my thinking as well.
If she’s the nominee, they’re toast.
She was AG for California when state prosecutors were caught keeping exculpatory evidence from an alleged criminal. She fought against and only gave up reluctantly. All Trump (or anybody) has to do is to keep reminding people of that. And keep saying she won’t treat people fairly.
Does this mean we can remove our troops from South Korea?
(stop laughing please)
I heard speculation that the reason for Kim’s change of heart was that the Chinese wanted to get us to scale back our presence in the region, and having to secure the DMZ was a roadblock to that.
that speculation wouldn’t have been by me on another post here would it? 🙂
but yeah I am 90% certain that is exactly what is happening. China has decided the kims are no longer useful and basically told Fat Boy to end the war now so the US can go home and not challenge Chinese hegemony on the Eastern side of the Pacific Rim
Korea.
Wow.
LOL @ Starbucks.
Can’t say they don’t deserve it. They’re the ones that wanted to “bring about dialogues” previously.
Remember this? http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/03/18/starbucks-baristas-encouraged-to-write-race-together-on-cups-to-spark-dialogue-on-race-relations-with-customers/
Pepperidge Farm Remembers.
That was three years ago already?
Starbucks closing US stores on May 29 for racial bias training.
Starbucks will close 8,000 of the company’s U.S.-based locations to train 175,000 employees and address implicit bias, promote inclusion and help prevent discrimination.
Once the company has completed this training at its company-owned locations it will make the it available to its licensed partners.
The company is working with the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Equal Justice Initiative, among others to create the program.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/17/starbucks-to-close-all-stores-on-may-29-for-racial-bias-education-day.html
Never apologize.
That’s the best advice you could give them.
Just do your fucking jobs.
This.
Wow…just wow.
That made me laugh out loud. I picture the whole thing being like a ‘Python skit. Stop it! That’s just silly!
Why not just send the employees at that one store, that makes sense doesn’t it? This is just silly.
I wonder what’s the share of true believers among Starbucks execs who seriously think their employees need racial bias training. We always assume that it’s a purely PR move to appease the SJW mob. But it’s worse if the white guilt is so strong that the people in charge actually believe this.
I think they believe it.
“Gentlepersons, it appears that we somehow staffed thousands of locations with racists. Thousands . . . of locations. With . . . racists. Now, we could do the honorable and thing and all resign because of this terrible thing we have done. Or, we could make all of those racists who we pay every day and whose racist families we support go to anti-racism training. Do I hear a motion?”
Yeah, this isn’t just PR, I think someone figures there’s no harm if they do it, and some people might realize they were subconsciously racist or something.
Now, if they took it real serious like they might devote it more than one afternoon…
You’ve ever been to Seattle, griz?
I’ve been to Seattle. Also, one of my co-workers is from Seattle, but he didn’t come to office today so I couldn’t discuss it with him.
My best friend used to work at Starbucks corporate. They are true believers. Insufferably so.
Idiots.
They just left themselves open to be cannibalized.
NEVER APOLOGIZE.
They never learn. Starbucks went through this with enviros a while back.
We had a real problem.
Responding to the ravings of lunatics is a problem.
What is the cost to ignoring them? I’m asking. Probably in the short term but in the long run? I’m guessing not very much.
If that story about what happened in Philly triggered this….
Do we even know what happened?
Imma guess the dudes were being stupid. You can’t LOITER in places of business.
Why is Starbucks not standing behind their employees pending an investigation?
Are they that desperate to be seen as ‘woke’?
Yes they are.
I thought that was obvious?
But they WEREN’T customers, that’s the whole point. They refused to buy anything and were thus asked to leave.
That’s the point I don’t get. The workers did nothing wrong if this was the case.
This gets better – the WSJ just reported that former Atty General Eric Holder is among those developing the curriculum:
The company said it was developing the employee curriculum with prominent civil-rights leaders and activists including with Bryan Stevenson, the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Demos President Heather McGhee ; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Anti-Defamation League Chief Executive Jonathan Greenblatt.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Oh my god! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Hasn’t Holder been quietly slipping into being considered an embarrassment on the Left–without impugning the holiness of The Holy One, of course–as well, for some time now?
Not at all – see Uber.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Maybe she’ll pick Chelsea as a running mate.
Only because David Hogg is ineligible.
Only because David Hogg is ineligible.
Future Secretary of Education
Hogg identifies as a 37-year-old.
This is what I think of when I see David Hogg’s name mentioned
Perfect.
He’s got that smarmy overt hostility that many people mistake for “passion”. Those same people are easily sucked into the “passionate” individual’s personality vortex and are susceptible to fascist idolatry.
These ladies’ chests are graced with uncanny valleys.
http://archive.is/ETrNh
2, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 23, 28, 43.
I think 36 might be an actual doll.
#2 belongs on Elaine’s next Christmas card.
#6: “We all float down here.”
Does this Korea stuff means Dennis Rodman gets a Nobel Peace Prize?
better that Barak
He deserves it way more than King Zero.
Barak deserves a Nobel Prize in drag for convincing the Lebanese he was a woman when he killed those PLOs after the Munich Massacre.
“Well, it depends,” Harris replied. “It depends.”
“How big is the check?”
Seeking an endorsement from Big Diaper?
I thought Switzy has been doing all the heavy lifting lately?
*nods very slowly*
In the wee hours this morning, I dreamed that I was lying on the floor and my German Shepherd Dog (she’s such a sweetheart) was lying on the floor too, her face just about an inch from mine. And she was excreting medium-curd cottage cheese out of her mouth and I was lapping it up. WTF?????
Glossed right over that until I got to the end of your comment.
I’m with you. That was certainly a twist I wasn’t ready for.
That’s why you never SugarFree before bedtime.
Or meals.
Or driving.
Hey! Don’t blame that on me. I haven’t hexed anyone’s dreams in years.
You been taking bath salts?
“…I dreamed…”
Sure about that?
Dreaming about eating cottage cheese isn’t a dream. It’s a nightmare.
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The Liberal Attacks on Jim Comey Are Surprisingly Similar to the Gross Conservative Ones
I am a lifelong non-drinker of coffee. It was always something that was unappealing. I own a coffee maker because some of my recipes call for coffee in the mix. Sometimes, when in need of a megadose of caffiene, I’d brew up some and drown the cup in sweetener to get rid of the worst of the flavor. So naturally my mind starts to wonder – is my dislike of coffee inherent to the beverage, or what I’d been using? On a lark I ordered two varieties from the Black Rifle Coffee Company – “Silencer Smooth” and “Just Black”. So far I’ve only opened “Silencer Smooth”, and the results were unexpected. I didn’t have to drown out any bitter, burnt flavor with sweetener, and ended up using less than I would apply to even tea. Made me wonder about the opinions of habitual coffee drinkers to expand my data set.
I thought the sweetener was the bad flavor.
This – I’ve found that any kind of fake sweetener makes coffee taste like piss. A small amount of honey or real sugar only.
I’ve found that I don’t taste the difference.
If you’re drinking bitter, burnt coffee, stop going to Starbucks. Seriously though, I drink my coffee black and roast my own because most commercial coffee is over roasted to get a consistent flavor.
I have never had Starbucks. I don’t like the company and don’t like their prices, and I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t like their products, so why would I buy any?
Their espresso is utter garbage.
I gotta ask, what were you drinking before? BRCC isn’t even on the cusp of quality coffee.
I bought it for baking, so it was Folgers.
“Mountain grown, the richest kind.”
There’s your problem.
I don’t know, I think they’re pretty decent. Comparable to the mass-market premium brands, I’d say. Inconsistent, though. And I’ll admit that part of the appeal for me is the company’s schtick.
My biggest “jump” in coffee quality was switching from a standard drip to a French press. Either is still better than keurig swill, but that’s what has made the biggest difference to me in flavor.
Another possibility could be how long ago the coffee was ground. If what you had been using before was Folgers (which is ground at the factory and then shipped in a vacuum sealed container), the BRCC is definitely going to be better because they likely grind it right before they ship it. Fresher is better and all that.
This gal gets it.^^ I have considered getting a pour over, but I don’t want to buy filters.
If you do get a pour-over, I highly recommend a Chemex. The filters are lab-quality and the glass is tempered enough you can put it on the stove to keep it warm if you need service for a number of people.
I like the look of that setup.
The filters can run slow on a super-fine grind. But I prefer a French press grind over-all anyway.
I also used the set-up for filtering cold brew coffee and loose-leaf tea for iced tea.
And milk punch. Strange, delicious milk punch.
If you do get a pour-over, I highly recommend a Chemex.
Technivorm FTW.
The water hits the grounds at the right temperature. I’ve had mine for probably 12(?) years and absolutely no problems. This model has an insulated carafe. And you don’t have to fiddle with pouring water (which is going to be the wrong temp) over the grounds by hand.
Yep.
I’m just so very particular about my consumption. I don’t like to waste calories on things that aren’t “worth it.” (Yes, seriously, even the 2 calories in a standard 8-ounce cup of coffee.)
Life is too short to 1) drink bad coffee, 2) drink bad scotch and/or whiskey, and 3) list out the rest of the things life is too short for.
Hey!
I like my k-cups, because I’m still drinking coffee right now (probably my 5th cup, because it was a busy day and I missed my lunch cups) and with k-cup convenience, I’m getting consistent fresh coffee.
I am careful about what brands/blends I use, but cheap is still an important factor.
I have the Aeropress.
I’ve had an amazing number of coffee makers and this one is by far my favorite. Highly recommended.
I love my Jura machine: great cappuccinos and lattes.
Oh dang. That’s fancy! Tell me you didn’t actually drop $1400 on it, though.
It was on sale for $1050 last December: it was time to replace the old Breville.
My favorite Jura.
Amen.
If you’ve got a drip brewer with a warmer for the pot, that’s what’s doing it. The oils in coffee burn easily and those burners will ruin a pot of coffee in minutes. We alternate between Starbucks and BRCC in my house, and the two big differences I notice are that Starbucks roasts larger batches for longer periods, and their default grind is finer than BRCC’s. The first will result in muted flavors and more bitterness, and the latter will affect the drip rate, which in turn affects strength.
As far as roast goes, “Just Black” is on the darker side of their offerings (as BRCC classes it) and it’s probably a medium roast by Starbucks standards. “Murdered Out” is the darkest BRCC does and it’s not as dark as Starbucks’ French Roast.
I do, but it’s not the cause, because the BRCC sat longer and never developed the poor flavor at issue.
Stick to your guns. Coffee is for the weak.
By a local brand: Death Wish
It’s legitimately good, not a gimmick.
I like my coffee like I like my women; hot, black and full of booze.
When the going gets tough, the tough go viral
“Everybody was going crazy, and yelling and screaming,” passenger Marty Martinez said of the flight, which left New York and was forced to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia.
“As the plane is going down, I am literally purchasing internet just so I can get some kind of communication to the outside world,” he said.
There’s a man who’s got his priorities straight.
“As the plane is going down, I am literally purchasing internet just so I can watch some pr0n”
FIFH.
Tuck your head between your legs and tweet your ass goodbye?
If I could tuck that far, I’d never have reason to leave the house.
Charles CW Cooke on twitter: “This only slightly diminishes the typical Southwest Experience.”
“forced to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia.”
Having to land in Philadelphia’s airport is the most terrifying part of this story. Good luck with finding your luggage, and with the Phillies, 76ers and Flyers all having lost their latest games, the denizens are in a surly mood.
What a combination!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc0MJjcZm40
ASMR stuff, Ridiculous pseudo-science woo and Tig Ole’ Bitties all in one video!
I’m already subscribed to her channel. She’s good.
What a freaky world!
I’m sorry, but for hot pseudoscience there is only one Queen, the “Food Babe” Vani Hari. She’s even had a large measure of success, getting many large companies to change their ingredients after mobilizing her army of sad sacks who think that a bit of well-placed organic-compound paranoia is the only thing between them and looking like a sexy bubblebrained Indian MILF.
Indian chicks’ hotness is strongly bimodal; they’re either mind-boggling, soul crushingly beautiful or 150 pounds overweight with lousy skin and straw-like hair. There is no middle-class for attractiveness.
Not true. There are lots of average looking female Indian engineers where I work.
Of course, “engineer” is the key word.
They just identify as engineers. And females. And Indians.
What’s all this about Ringworld?
The questioner, his arms crossed at the waist, declared this the “wrong answer.”
Fuck, couldn’t find video of this – how do you “cross arms at the waist”? Is it like footy players forming a wall and protecting their dicks?
Actually if I were to go against redoubtable Ms Harris, I’d be protecting the Little Pan, too, so maybe it makes sense.
I found the video earlier. He just has normally crossed arms. I assume the Bangladeshi teenager typing up the story got the idiom wrong.
Cross your arms loosely but normally, fingertip to elbow, and let them hang down relaxed. I just did, and was surprised–your forearm brushes your navel. That’s your waist–not your hips, where all the young whippersnappers wear their pants nowadays like a bunch of Negro hoodlums. So unless your dick is growing out of your bellybutton, it’s probably closer to a normal arms-crossed deal than to the soccer free kick posture.
He very clearly has his arms folded over his xiphoid process.
He was an alien?
There’s no process like a Xiphoid process!
Cross your arms loosely but normally, fingertip to elbow, and let them hang down relaxed. I just did, and was surprised–your forearm brushes your navel.
Nope. Just south of the sternum, well north of the navel.
Well, I do have lovely long arms, elegant but masculine; but I already adjusted my description to estimate a more common physiology. You a T rex son. You would probably clean up in bench pressing competitions, if you’re not already.
Naw, man. It ain’t Starbucks week. But at Starbucks, it is always white-boy day.
What kind of self-respecting Communist folk singer calls Hillary “a true statesman”? That crowd normally takes pride in its hatred of her, and only reluctantly supported her. Some have even supported Trump, if only as a kind of performance art.
He was a Bernie bro, still has the bumper sticker on his Prius (not joking). But when it came down to it, he was going all-in on Team Blue.
Did anyone figure out how many Sanders voters stayed home in 2016?
None.
As he said none, 14-year-olds on Reddit don’t get to vote.
Would it be better trolling for Donald to get a German Sheppard because “you know who else?” or a Russian Blue because “muh-Russia”?
Just get a cat with a combover.
Ferret.
Fungo Squiggly
Caucasian Mountain Dog.
Female Pitbull and then host a dog fight in the Rose Garden. I want to read a tweet “My bitch is the best bitch, I dare that little bitch (fill in name that annoys him that day) to bring his bitch to the Rose Garden tonight!
I have a Russian Blue. He is objectively better than 99% of the human population. Trump doesn’t deserve one.
Way higher quality pussy than Stormy Daniels.
https://imgur.com/a/ceocM
I’ll say. I don’t currently have the money for a designer cat and I already have two domestic short-hairs (which is enough, I’m not an old cat lady…yet…) so I gotta put off getting one for some time, but I’m leaning towards getting a Russian Blue when I can.
“The story is amusing. The comments are even more amusing, all variants of “The First Amendment doesn’t apply to people we don’t like.”
I think the authorities brought much of the conspiracy crap on themselves by being so super secretive. Why would the people who tore down the building have to sign NDA’s? The investigation was over, and it was just an empty building at that point.
“HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — State lawmakers passed an 11th-hour compromise bill early Wednesday, the final day of the legislative session, preventing the release of crime-scene photos and video evidence from the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and other Connecticut homicides, concerned such records would be spread on the Internet.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/conn-lawmakers-ok-compromise-newtown-privacy-bill-125054707.html
Interesting. And they used Vince Foster as case law.
THAT’S BECAUSE THERE WAS NO MASSACRE! THE “VICTIMS” ARE BEING HELD UNDERNEATH DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT!!”
/infowars
Made me wonder about the opinions of habitual coffee drinkers to expand my data set.
I drink Costco’s (Kirkland) ground Colombian in the three pound can. Not especially hoity-toity, but I get none of that burnt, bitter taste. Every time I try something else I wish I hadn’t.
Same here
Just finished my first can of the Costco Colombian. Better than the Ruta Maya I’ve been drinking and about 1/2 price. OTOH I’m old and cheap. I’ll be going back for more Costco.
I buy the Kirkland ones all the time. My favorites are Costa Rican and Rwandan.
Try the Nicaraguan, Tundra, it ain’t bad. I’ll give the Costa Rican a try on your recommendation.
I’ll keep a look out. Thanks!
To repost my views:
Home roasting gets you much fresher coffee, and it really shows when you grind shortly before your brew.
Home roasting also gets you access to the 1% best beans on the planet, generally for no more than $7/pound, and you can roast them exactly the way you want.
If you are at all particular about your coffee, once you go home roast you’ll never go back. A good roaster isn’t cheap, but it will pay for itself eventually, as well as delivering better coffee.
This is the little girl I was mentioning about last week:
http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2015/12/27/nee-avec-un-trou-dans-le-crane
When it comes to child care, you have to go to the English side. The Montreal Children’s.
what happens when a Minnesota Woman becomes a Florida Woman?
She’s a smoker in her 60s but thinks she looks the same age as her 20 yo granddaughter?
I guess this is Starbucks week.
Their coffee is not the only thing you can get that is tall and black.
My understanding from what I saw on the news was that they weren’t paying customers, just two guys who wanted to use the can. Refusing to let them do so is pretty standard business. Race had nothing to do with it. And of course they just “happened” to be recording it all.
That’s what I got from it. But race-baiters gotta race-bait.
Don’t you go around recording every single moment of your life looking for microagressions?
they weren’t paying customers, just two guys who
wanted to use the canrefused to leave when asked, even after being threatened with arrest by the officers who were called to compel them to leave.“Trespassers arrested” hasn’t got the same punch, I guess.
Throbbing also?
https://twitter.com/pewdiepie/status/986246948981170179
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
For Weird Reddit, you can make anything about (((them))). This is from a sub dedicated to an ordinary Adult Swim comedy show that for some reason posts nothing but racist stuff now.
I have to say I cannot understand white-nationalist culture currently, in the golden age of autist shitposting. I used to consider myself a bit of a scholar of the landscape about ten years ago, but that seems like ancient history.
Sorry. Reply button error!
Now this is funny.
http://monsterhunternation.com/2018/04/16/fisking-the-new-yorker-in-defense-of-delicious-chicken/
tl;dr
The air smelled fried.
I’m betting that line sounded way cooler in your head, but they don’t FRY AIR, Dan.
Food question, if you don’t mind?
Sure. And, BTW you are always free to email me.
I’ll email you the boring ones. This one might interest everyone (except for the usual suspects):
So I’ve discovered what I believe to be the best commercially available seasoning/flavoring. EVER. 10x better than MSG:
https://www.amazon.com/Savory-Premium-Yeast-Extract-culinary/dp/B00UUBFCBQ/ref=sr_1_5_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1523998587&sr=8-5&keywords=yeast+extract
The problem is, it goes bad very quickly after opening, before I’ve even used 10% of it. I assume it’s because of moisture, or, if not that, oxidation.
Is there a practical way to prolong the shelf life of it (i.e. moisture absorbers or filling the container with N2 each time I open it)?
Purging with N2 or CO2 would help. Can it be frozen?
Yes.
Problem is, it’s very light and powdery, almost like maltodextrin. I need to come up with a solution where it doesn’t fly everywhere.
Yeast extracts typically don’t oxidize rapidly. We typically freeze aliquots our YEs/other dry flavors in either glass jars or high-barrier, metallized food pouches.
Metal pouches?
Is light a factor?
Metal is nearly a perfect O2 barrier.
That was pretty damn fine, indeed.
Strong finish
I went to the Apple Store today to get my son’s iPhone fixed. Nice enough fellows they have working there, but literally the least manly men I’ve ever met. I don’t think one of them has ever lifted a heavy object, walked a mile, or spent an hour doing what we used to call “physical labor”. Literally zero muscle tone on any of them.
It really felt weird. I’m 51, only 5’9″ but still work out regularly. I felt like the only grown man in the place.
Are we devolving?
It’s the soy!
It’s the soy
Yes – they looked a lot like several of those guys.
Paul Joseph Watson is so full of shit.
Wait, isn’t he part of the InfoWars team? Isn’t he supposed to be full of shit? It’s entertainment, almost certainly consciously so to most of the people who work there and probably to a good minority of their audience.
You would say that, wouldn’t you? Next you’ll be telling me your show isn’t all about acculturating our youth to accept Agenda 21.
It’s also the apple store. Go somewhere where being effete isn’t a job requirement.
So Cook likes ’em good and twinky then?
They weren’t twinks. Just looked liked they had somehow grown up without ever hitting puberty. Really soft and kind of flabby.
I see. Then maybe he is trying to bring back old-school decadence, surrounding himself with royal eunuchs like the emperors of old.
THAT could be it. They looked like eunuchs with hipster beards.
My older brother works at the Apple store, and if you saw him, you’d assume the same thing. Truth is, he’s just a skinny guy with a crazy fast metabolism, an extremely talented artist and an excellent teacher (he teaches the old people how to use iPhones and certain apps).
He’s all about personal responsibility, paying his own way and wants the government out of his business. When we were teens, he beat the shit out of a bully that would harass me on my way to school every morning (the kid was 4 years older than me, I didn’t stand a chance).
Looks are not always as they seem. That being said, yeah most of them are soy-ish.
An artist and a teacher? Sounds like some cuck faggot. This is the ideal male body:
#SoybeanTariff #MAGA
I’ve been thinking we need to revive “faggot” as a generalized insult again. It just works so well for so many situations.
Simple “faggot” is not up to the standards of today’s sophisticated insult culture. I do like “cuck faggot.” Something about it just gives me the warm feelies. It’s so much more than the sum of its parts.
Does a cuck faggot have to service his lover’s sexy female cheat partner after he watches them have sex?
Nothing a woman likes more than being drenched in sweat and ground by a hairy FUPA while such a man grunts out her name one syllable at a time.
When did you see my honeymoon sex tapes, Q?
I did not picture you like that! I always imagine you looking like Logic or some shit.
I’ve actually improved with age. Like a fine wine.
Still hairy as a lycanthrope, however.
Oooh, sounds salty! (The remark, not the FUPA sweat.) Are you bringing the twink militance, Q?
Look at pictures of WW2 soldiers. Most of them were rail thin.
Audie Murphy did not look like He-Man.
He still killed a lot of Nazis.
Rail thin and rock-hard. They grew up doing physical labor with barely enough caloric intake. The soy guys are the exact opposite.
Audie Murphy looks like he could be David Hogg’s great-great-grandfather, if every intervening generation mated into some sort of chromosomal disorder.
I bought a new Samsung phone a few weeks ago and the Mic is crapping out, So I chatted with Net10 for about 5 minutes online, and the are sending me a new one, OVERNIGHT, free,
I like good Customer Service, and I don’t have to be the only Man in the room,
54, 5’11”
It’s very easy to spot the undercover security there.
And yes, every store has at least 2 at all times.
How many of them died from the testosterone fumes you emitted?
Thursday is chili day.
From the Alex Jones suit article
If true, he’s really coming close to Gawker-in-the-court line.
And if the rest of the article is correct, slander doesn’t sound like a crazy, out-there charge.
neither here nor there
I heard Comey whine about the collapse of “norms” on NPRavda this morning.
So Trump is a sleaze who has been involved in various shady business deals. Well, that’s totally different from such paragons of virtue like Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, LBJ, and FDR.
FDR ordered the confiscation of private gold and put 100,000 people in internment camps, but Trump is worse…somehow.
I get why people don’t like Trump. I voted for Johnson.
Leftists are currently the biggest threat to liberty and I’m happy to have anyone willing to resist them. Perhaps there will come a time when socons are a greater threat, but for now, whatever hinders leftists is fine by me.
The bit I heard from Comey was him talking about how Trump might be compromised by the Russians. Of course, he overlooked the definite compromise of Hillary through the obtaining of those emails.
Comey is a whiny 13 year old junior highschool girl in the body of a pro basketball player-he’s insufferable.
great minds think alike
If the collapsing norms include institutional corruption and the existence of the nomenklatura, I’m all for it
“”I heard Comey whine about the collapse of “norms”
this is my new pet peeve.
no one ever says WTF the “Norms” are, or why they’re so important, but they’re utterly convinced that Trump is shattering them.
Was fingerbanging interns in the oval office a ‘norm’? Was taking selfies a ‘norm’? Please spare me this “dignity of the office” bullshit, and be specific about what you think is so fucking sacrosanct.
has this made the rounds yet?
Dick’s Sporting Goods to destroy all unsold firearms pulled from shelves after Parkland shooting
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/17/dicks-sporting-goods-to-destroy-all-unsold-firearms-pulled-from-shelves-after-parkland-shooting.html
///BlackRiflesMatter
Dicks out for Dicks?
He’s a Fucking Dick! so, NO…..
I fingerfucked a beautiful SCAR-17 at a Field and Stream a while back. I hope it sold. Fucking monsters.
Christ, what a dick.
bets on how many accidentally disappear before destruction?
A good article by Lionel Shriver
(*woman who pissed off SJWs when she purposely wore the forbidden-sombrero of appropriation)
This article is about “why catastrophising* is popular”
*basically, why people constantly see things getting worse, and see everything as a “Crisis” or “epidemic”, when if you actually pay attention to facts, generally things are improving
(of course from the libertarian pov, this may be less true)
its interesting and worth a read.
What did Hoffer say? Something about how anger can give meaning to an empty life?
Yeah. If someone has nothing real to be proud of, they can always claim to be one of the chosen few, and that everyone else is a monster to be slain.
“What did Hoffer say? Something about how anger can give meaning to an empty life?”
Exactly. It’s about mistaking any strong emotion for passion and using that as compensation for personal failure. Miserable people are most likely to be seduced into cults and mass movements.
Yes. I think Shriver makes a broader point.
Hoffer’s main argument was that the ‘frustrated’ seek to identify with idealist movements; they have little faith in their own ability for individual accomplishments, so instead attach themselves to some ‘world-saving’ cause which becomes their new sourse of self-aggrandizement
(“Faith in a holy cause, to a large part, is to replace lost faith in ourselves” – or something like that)
Shriver is just more talking about how most people are always narrowly focused on immediate ‘potential disasters’, rather than seeing the longer-term, ‘realized improvements’. because it gives people something to bitch about, and because its motivating.
“The #NationalWalkOut is happening on 4/20 (Friday) in 1100+ schools across the country — Walkout as a community to stand up against gun violence. The people of Columbine would like you to follow your demonstration with community service. #DemandChange #NationalSchoolWalkout”
https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/985926402351484928
High Hitler.
today in revealing quotes
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Since I oppose dictatorships universally, pointing out that there have been “leftist” dictatorships poses no actual challenge to my politics. Instinctively, though, I confess that I’d feel relieved if Kim Jong Un was lumped in with the right rather than the left.
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Oh, NJR. You learn nothing.
Shorter: “What I believe can never be wrong, therefore something that’s wrong is not what I believe.”
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus hardest hit.
Hops — smells wonderful; tastes terrible
Coffee — smell wonderful; tastes terrible
Just no.
tobacco, patchouli,…
You haven’t had good coffee
Sorry to hear your tongue is broken, but they have tongue doctors, you know.
Cunning linguists?
^^Winner.
Yes. Bitter is broken.
Sweet, sour, spicy . . . all good.
Unfortunately, I am limited to mead, wine, cider, and sour ale. I feel so diminished by the loss of the ability to drink hop juice.
Sour Ale, We be Friends !
Brother !
Then you’re doing it all wrong, there is a difference between Bold and Bitter, and it isn’t Sugar…
Vanilla…
Coffee’s an acquired taste. I just happened to acquire it at 8. Like beer.
Liking sweets and hating bitters is supposedly a native universal, exhibited in every baby across cultures. But not me. I instinctively loved bitterness from square one–ate bitter chocolate, begged for unsweetened espresso, snuck sips of beer when the grownups weren’t looking–and actually had to learn to like sweets as I grew up like most people have to force themselves to acclimate to liking bitter stuff. I have never met anyone else like that.
Have you tried Hater?
Meet my wife. Actually her entire extended family. The hallmark of Lao cuisine is bitter. Bile squeezed from a cow’s gallbladder is a condiment, for crying out loud!
My new neighbors are Hmong. Helped them with snow removal the other day and they showed up with some egg rolls as a thank you.
They were excellent.
(stares as tho person just started screaming in swahili)
ETI MJINGA WEWE MSHAMBA! TUKO UFARANSA, EH!? AH JAMAA AISEE!
[Angry driver screaming at man walking obliviously in the middle of the road]
*screams as though Gilmore is staring in Swahili*
Now do vagina.
Glad to see academia is researching and solving the more important problems facing the world.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/17/stanford-professor-dungeons-and-dragons-perpetuates-systems-of-white-male-privilege/
Ah yes, professor of education
Oh my fucking God!
Look on the bright side: only a stable, prosperous society could allow imbeciles like this to survive.
What is it? Half elf?
+3 cloak of androgyny.
Full Breton.
+50 Resistance to Magic
Is there such a thing as ‘retard privilege”?
Alex Jones step aside….
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/white-supremacy-is-still-americas-biggest-security-threat/557591/
Ooh, such an interesting theory. Just one little problem: Trump got a higher percentage of the black vote than Mitt Romney.
You see, the white devil’s tricknology has advanced to stage where it can convince black people to vote against their own interests.
It’s the only sane explanation. What? You’re going to tell me that Team Blue lost the election because they nominated a shitty candidate who ran a shitty campaign?
Unpossible!
I finally got my Heart Ultra sound today, Pretty amazing. I watched my heart valves opening and closing, as I felt it, I heard all me Arteries plowing along, all in Hi Resolution.
The Technician said my heart appears fine, but my lungs were Heavy and pushing my heart downward, creating pressure, hence the pain. Of Course my Cardio Dr. will tell me more, but so far so good, and I blame it on Coffee and Cigs!
Good to hear, Yusef!
Now stay off the fucking cigs!
I’m at one with Coffee and one after Dinner, I’m Close, Thanks Tundra!
one more brain fart from NJR
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…in a meritocracy, status, wealth, and privilege are given to those who have “earned” their position through merit, meaning that everyone had an “equal opportunity” even if they did not reach an equal outcome. But if status, wealth, and privilege are unequally distributed, people can never have equal opportunities, meaning that rewards will never be assigned on the basis of merit. There can be no such thing as a “meritocracy” in which there are inequalities in power, wealth, and status across classes, because people’s environments will be unequal, therefore they will not start with equal resources and the resulting unequal outcomes will not reflect differences in individual merit. This argument is so simple and obvious that it feels pedantic to explain it.
***
[head desk]
We will never be truly equal as long as some people are born taller or smarter or more beautiful than others! We must equalize people’s genetics and then Utopia can begin!
It’s insane. Our society is every day more reminding me of that ’60’s Vonnegut short story.
Spoken like a loser
I can’t get enough of NJR. He’s an ardent follower of the “an island completely surrounded by water” school of writing.
There’s something oddly entertaining about it.
Ah, equivocation, the favorite fallacy of the lazy leftist.
THEY CAN TAKE OUR LIVES, BUT THEY’LL NEVER TAKE OUR BINGO!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/evangeline-shelland_n_6277008.html
Oldie, but goodie.
Hogg’s latest boycott demand has dropped. Oh happy day…
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/17/david-hogg-calls-blackrock-vanguard-group-boycotts/
“Boycott Blackrock, Vanguard”
the two companies manage over $10trillion in assets.
I sincerely doubt anyone’s going to switch who manages their state-pension-plan over the cries of this one, shrill, self-righteous twatwaffle
Common sense would suggest that he has overreached. Boycotting a multitrillion-dollar global investment firm is not like boycotting a shock jock. But common sense has not gotten me very far with predictive power lately, especially over this issue.
401He doesn’t even understand what a “boycott” of these financial institutions would mean.
most retail investors have little/no transparency over who the custodian-of-funds is for their 401K. They might know their company uses Vanguard for their plan… but do they have any say in whether or not to use them? Fuck no.
Many people own iShares ETFs but have no idea that Blackrock is the institution which originates them.
Who, exactly, is he appealing to? State Govts who use these firms for Pensions? Private companies who use them for retirement/investment services? Individual investors to sell their ETFs?
He doesn’t even know what they do, other than, “hurr durr they own gun shares”. And technically, *they don’t*. Those shares are probably part of portfolios which back their various Funds (Mutual or ETFs), and those funds are owned by… all of the above.
I wasn’t imagining the result being a consumer “boycott” in any kind of traditional sense. I have no idea how that would work. Obviously these companies are not dominated by individual investors, I would presume. But when Hogg says something, his army makes noise, and his noise and their noise become headlines. And I think it includes a lot of Bethesda mom types, not kids like people have been saying here. And yes, local governments, unions, and private companies like to virtue signal. Aren’t there periodic “divestment” from this or that controversies all over the place? Plus these finance companies themselves like to virtue signal and probably are run by people who share Mike Bloomberg’s values anyway. The strategy is to destroy neutrality, to make silence look like taking a position, and it seems to be working well. Would it be in any way good business? No, but then absolutely nothing of what we’ve seen in corporate virtue signaling on this issue would be anything but harmful to the bottom line. So it certainly wouldn’t surprise me if this awareness-raising exercise does result in some sort of gesture from these companies, even if nothing like a real “boycott” is remotely on the table.
Damn that’s funny. That kid has reached parody status in record time.
Vanguard, LOL
You keep at it, David!
LOL.
I’m so glad I have a significant chuck of my IRA in Vanguard. This kid is a joke.
Here, I made up a chart of the total investment holdings of his 764,000 followers:
____0_____
Nobody picked up on this line from the monistat link?
I was nervous to even think about putting something intended for vaginas on my face.
I’m sorely disappointed in the commetariat.
And have a lot of suggestions.
I don’t think I want one of those Hitachi’s on my face either, you could probably lose some fillings that way.
Suprisingly, if you look at the box, that image is always there.
Sing into my microphone, baby.
So by clicking the picture of the woman using it on her SHOULDER (exaggerated wink), I learned that:
1. Brookstone sells one, which I find amusing.
2. The reviews are also amusing.
Cordless massager allows me to target “needy” spots quickly and easily
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Oh shit, I didn’t even notice the TREAT MOM RIGHT pop-up ad. I’m dying over here.
People read the links?
Paging SP:
On Hater, a dating app that matches its 100,000 users by their mutual dislikes, Hawaiian pizza was the most widely detested food of 2017, beating out spray cheese and overstuffed burritos.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-divided-nation-reveals-itself-in-one-question-do-you-like-hawaiian-pizza-1523976831
On Hater, a dating app that matches its 100,000 users by their mutual dislikes
Genius.
Fox alpha, d00d.
Hawaiian pizza, spray cheese, and overstuffed burritos?
Sounds like a party. Whose got the booze?
Chole Kim can eat whatever the hell she wants, including shit, and I still would watch enthralled.
I shall continue with further thoughts on this subject next Monday.
I’m not saying that’s how OMWC and I met. But that’s how we met.
I continue to have a crush on Nikki Haley. End.
Me too!
/*looks down, bashfully toes the ground*/
So, threesome?
Bah, boring! Pretty easy “would,” as far as politicians go I think.
The real question to you is–given that they’re now both legal in every state (happy birthday, Big Guy)–David Hogg, or Emma González?
https://media.giphy.com/media/QV5vp1BYenfCE/giphy.gif
No. Just no.
State Record https://imgur.com/a/TCzip
been that kind of day. 80 degrees, beautiful. Life is good
I was going to say kiss my frozen ass, but the awesome photo changed my mind.
I’m not trying to rub it in. It’s been cold as hell, hail, and a few tornados around her for the last week. I’m glad good weather is finally here.
I was just reading that the expected ice-out here is late May. Then Google Photos sent me one of those ‘rediscover the day’ things from two years ago today. We were on a local lake catching crappie! Truly a brutal winter this year.
I have a lot of pics of my (now 18 yo) son catching fish. Your pic made me smile – enjoy these times, man!
It is an exceptionally smile-provoking photo! Cute kid, and beautiful picture-perfect little fish! Looks just like what I used to imagine it would look like to go fishing with my dad.
Damn Harry Anderson died.
NOOO!!! He wasn’t even old! Please let it be a trick Harry.
65.
“Asheville Police responded to the actor’s home at 6:41 a.m., where he was found dead. Asheville police spokesperson Christina Hallingse said no foul play is suspected.”
They reacted to a home?
Oh look. Judd Apatow is a lefty who quotes Sanders. Here’s my shocked face.
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/986361905177595904
Did you just try to link a retweet? Those don’t show up. Or does Apatow have a reply somewhere down there? Twitter replies are always depressingly dumb unless the account is relatively limited-interest; and these are certainly no exception.
I saw it on Apatow’s twitter.
It’s okay to bash capitalism on Twitter.
Make a comment about Muslims and you’re banned.
I responded to Bern’s Twit.
“Yes and they do pay a living wage to literally millions of people. How many people do you pay a living wage?”
https://twitter.com/Bobbipenut/status/986288228297838596
I can’t take Breaking911 seriously.
That’s crazy.
It’s clearly Tom Brady.
Her ex does look like Brady’s more busted-faced ex-con brother!
Um currently drinking a beer and have my father and brother in law in the bucket of the tractor that I’m operating. They are raised up putting board on a lean to they are building on their shop.
As I sit and wait for them to need to move to the next spot, one of my favorite songs comes on the radio.
https://youtu.be/Sd5ZLJWQmss
Let them truckers roll.
10-4
Road trip fun:
Every time you see a Kenworth, the first to say “It was the dark of the moon on the 6th of June” wins!
(but you have to say it in the CW McCall voice)
Extra points if you’re about a mile outta Shaky Town ?
Shaky Town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AzUMlAsFhs
You could make a fairly extensive road trip game just from the references in that song
Also, extra, extra points if the Kenworth is hauling logs. I’ve only seen it once that I can recall (I’m sure I’ve seen it several times, but I just wasn’t paying attention).
You mean a Cab-over Pete with a Reefer on, and a Jimmy Haulin hogs?
And there was even a bear in the air.
Just keep clear of the suicide jockey.
And a chartreuse microbus
Just make sure you watch out for the Illinois (s NOT silent) national guard.
How many votes are required for something to become the official glibs road trip anthem?
Never let anyone tell you that heavy machinery and alcohol don’t mix.
As an aside, I only know of that song because of The Simpsons.
Same here. I knew of it from the Simpsons, but had never heard the whole song until recently, after a couple of people made “chartreuse Microbus” jokes that I didn’t get.
So. Many. Police. Chases. Today.
Korea better reunify quick because it’s full steam ahead over here, not that I think their reunification would slow down a build-up.
Also, fuck you whoever posted that Southwest Airlines crash, and fuck me for clicking it. That is my worst nightmare. I hate flying. I have a very irrational response to it because I know it’s so safe. Control issues I suppose.
Which branch of service are you in again? Also, you around golden week?
I don’t fly for them.
I don’t remember when that is but I am currently headed for Okinawa and won’t be back until the 27th, then fly back to Alabama on the 7th.
Er…fly to Alabama, not back to.
LIAR
Happy trails. Keep the ‘stang on the road.
Thanks. Unfortunately the car is in Oregon. I’ll be back two weeks after that and should be around for a bit. Should…
Beginning of May. We’re going camping for most of it.
Nice! Have fun!
Get yourself a flight simulator yoke and throttle that you can use to pretend you’re flying the plane.
Or go into the bathroom for a little yoke and throttle. That works too.
Looking up safety stats beforehand actually helps.
My best friend is a private pilot. Flying in the right seat in a tiny plane completely cured me of any lingering fear.
Yep. Flew in a Cessna once. ONCE. Don’t mind flying, but that was nauseating.
I flew a Cessna Skyhawk II to get my avation merit badge when I was in the Boy Scouts. I figure if I could take off and land successfully at 14, a professional pilot should have no problems.
My previous roommate/friend took me flying a few times. He works for some regional airlines now. I was fine then because I could see him and he unexplained a lot, which is why it’s completely irrational.
I am totally fine in helicopters.
I had a bad bout of fear after I had three horrible flights in a row, back when I flew a lot. One was a very rough ride over the Southwest, another was a flight on a commuter plane thru a nor’easter. The last was a flameout during takeoff on a 757 out of Dallas. It took a while to get my trust issues under control after those and I used to have a pilots license, so I should know better.
So I know what it feels like. I would suggest that you busy yourself with something else. Note that flight attendants don’t ever seem concerned and they fly all the time not in control of the plane. Part of it is that they have a task to perform and that makes then focus on something other than what could go wrong.
There’s always alcohol…
That too
I’ve taken five Benadryl and stayed awake on an international flight. Melatonin, Unisom, whatever. Been totally hammered. All it does is make for a really shitty, groggy flight.
That’s what I usually do. A lot of the flight attendants these days seem really rude. I’m not sure what it is (maybe because they’re not Southwest), but damn they can be mean sometimes for no reason.
Maybe it’s you. :-p
Screaming “we’re all gonna die!” doesn’t get you good service? Who knew?
I found footage of Mustang’s last flight!
This was probably mentioned last year but our favorite former United States DA has his own podcast.
Preet Preens? Preet Prances?
Thought Don Adams was dead.
Missed it by that much.
If a podcast falls in the forest, does it make a sound?
only if you feed it into a woodchipper
Who wouldn’t listen to it. I hear that man is incredibly intelligent and hansom. Truly a great human being who made the US a better place. And sexually virile too, I hear.
Hope someone slips in a history lesson on Robespierre during Starbucks’ emergency training.
If Starbucks ceased to exist today, would anyone care? I mean outside of the small army of blue and pink haired androgynous freaks who work there?
Soccer moms everywhere would panic
You have a point. I’m failing to care.
I rarely if ever fuck with Starbucks because (1) I seldom drink coffee and (2) when I do I am a super serious nerd about it. But my impression was that Starbucks is more popular, more mainstream, more thoroughly suffused into America than ever. I thought the idea that Starbucks is for a particular demographic rather than as much a mundane part of the American landscape as McDonald’s used to be–that there is a “latte set” and you wouldn’t expect to see, say, oil workers in Oklahoma there every morning–was being ridiculed as ridiculously out of touch twenty years ago. Where do people go who don’t go to Starbucks?
Regional chains?
I really have no idea why anyone would go there. Their coffee seriously sucks ballz. There was a while when the wife and I would go there because she liked their green tea frappacinos. After that wore off, we’ve never been back. All the people who go in there to type on their tiny little laptops are wanna be hipster jackasses. The only other people I see in there are like Scruff said, soccer mom’s and their litters of soccer offspring.
Oh, and where else to go? Home to brew your own good coffee.
Dunkin’ Donuts, I’d guess.
Sexist Glibs has been making fun of Teen Vogue since its inception, but what remains of the men’s magazine sector seems nearly as uniformly woke these days. (It would be one thing if this was occasional, but it’s all the fucking time. And I just picked it because I was googling the topic; this is actually one of the least insufferable ones.) Did mostly I change, and become a lot less tolerant of leftist culture, or has leftist culture just become that much more intolerable and shrill? It’s like every magazine is Rolling Stone at best these days.
Is there any unwoke “space” left for a young man looking for a guide to being a man to look to nowadays? Maybe the question is hitting me harder because of how I grew up, I don’t know.
Why did it post here? Im’a repost down below.
well shit
I’m doubtful that any mass media product was ever the place for that. My role models and mentors had vastly more impact on me – not just my father, although he was certainly at the top of the list for me – but also other older male relatives, and professional colleagues and mentors whom I respected and learned from.
Soldier of Fortune magazine probably has not gone woke.
But you have to like fiction.
Where do people go who don’t go to Starbucks?
Circle K, MotoMart, Speedway, Duke and Duchess, Valero, In and Out, Mike’s Mini Mart, that one Sunoco that’s still open up on Park Avenue.
Just about anywhere else, I’d guess. A lot of the fast food places seem to be trying harder with their coffee these days. Many people are fine with gas station coffee. I think for most people (as others have pointed out before) coffee is only a delivery system for caffeine.
Me, I make a (large) cup at home in the morning and that’s it.
I drink a pot before I leave the house, then another through the course of the day, but I make my own and then buy it from Royal Farms. It’s crap, but there’s a lot of it and it’s a buck. My wife will pretty much only drink Starbucks French Roast, but she dumps a bunch of International Delight French Vanilla in it, so her opinion isn’t worth much. I’ll go to Starbucks for Frappucinos, because it’s pretty much a coffee-flavored milkshake, and that’s about it.
I think Ted’s right. Dunkin’s the main competitor. After that, people who go to cafes as a thing seem to go to local places.
Well, I have a $25 gift card, but other than that, no, I wouldn’t care.
My sister misremembered which chain steakhouse we have in town, and got Dad a gift card to a restaurant where the nearest one is almost an hour away.
There are porn sites that will let you exchange starbucks gift cards for credit. That’s what I heard anyway.
Starfucks?
*prolonged golf clap punctuated with muted cheers*
“You’ll be sorry that you thought there really wasn’t any difference between Trump and a true statesman like Hillary so threw your vote away on a third party.” How’s that workin’ out?”
But… but, Trump fucked some washed up whore who now falls down in public like Hillary! And pee whores! Pee whores for gawd’s fucking sake! If Trump was a true patriot, he would have dropped pee bombs on the Norks! Bomb something, something besides Syrian and use pee! Where the fuck are you Bolton!? You ain’t a real war munger!
Is the Barbara Bush news for real this time?
She’s actually George Washington?
One Google headline has her deceased; the other–only 5 minutes older–has her “in poor health but still sipping bourbon.” Unfortunately I suspect the former is more accurate.
Good bye Barbara Bush. I didn’t care much for you husband as President but you were one tough, classy lady. The fact that you spent you last night on earth hanging with the family and drinking bourbon says it all.
Fun fact: Barbara Bush’s hair turned white as an undergrad. I think her melanocytes were the only part of her that wasn’t tough.
Meh, close enough
I was thinking more of “”Freebird” by Lynyrd Skynard.
I believe I’ll have a bourbon for “grandma”
“I didn’t care much for your husband as President”
You left out “son”.
But yes, classy, always. She raised over a billion dollars for charity, and never asked for any recognition. There’s probably a whole bunch of other stuff that isn’t public knowledge. Not yet, anyway.
Dubya…DHS and Iraq make had me yelling at the television. You can do everything right raising your kids and they can still turn out to be a dumbass.
This is all our fault.
I thought about a dinner you and I had in Baltimore about 20 years ago with a buddy of ours who was a TV news crew guy covering the White House. Remember what he said about Barbara Bush?
So I was driving home when I saw a big billboard I hadn’t seen before for the Admiral, the local strip club. Anyone want to guess who will be preforming there in the near future. I’ll give a hint, she fucked the president, maybe.
Awwwwww sheeeeiiit! You gonna go?
Chicago Glib meet up at the Admiral?
Admiral, no. Shaw’s, yes.
She’s gross.
Well, I would’ve guessed Barbara Bush but if so they will have to find a last-minute substitute unfortunately.
So washed up ho is getting her payday. Go figure.
I was going to guess Breet Pharara.
’ll give a hint, she fucked the president, maybe.
Michelle Obama?
Hillary? Oh, yeah, forgot, even Slick Willy had some standards.
Nan Britton?
Marilyn Monroe?
*reposts “Goodbye Norma Jean link*
*remembers that the actual name of the song is Candle in the Wind*
Melania?
Teachers union in California is starting election ads already.
Did you know out of state billionaires are trying to fund candidates willing to destroy education for Koch-allies and Betsy DeVos? Did you know that they might fund CHARTER SCHOOLS that are evil personified? did you know that we might not get billions of dollars to waste on teaching your kids that white people are terrible? well you should vote for those candidates NOT funded by out of state billionaires, but instead California billionaires instead!
Ok they didn’t say all that, but that’s what they meant. Not looking forward to six months of this garbage. I hope this is only for a June special election, but I’m afraid it’s starting for November already.
Glibs can join forces with the Cali AFT to break the Kochtopus!
Did you know out of state billionaires are trying to fund candidates willing to destroy education for Koch-allies and Betsy DeVos?
I hope they succeed.
Yeah, where can I donate?
Those teachers unions get disproportionately under my skin compared to the rest of the Never-Ending Cavalcade of Bullshit. Probably because they’re more in my face on a day-to-day basis, pissing and moaning about how underpaid and underappreciated they are, before they toodle off to their weekend vacation cabins to get them all ready for when they retire at age 55.
Why does everyone get on teachers about their hours and summer breaks? I think it is fantastic when someone gets a job that gives them copious free time. If they actually taught anything true I’d applaud them. I think we should get on them for their treasonous AMERIKKA BAD COMMUNISM HOLY indoctrination of their charges! The only reason the left wins any elections is because they followed Dewey’s plan and took over education and the entertainment media. If we could retake those things we would eliminate socialism from serious influence.
Why does everyone get on teachers about their hours and summer breaks?
Because they constantly bitch about low pay and the thankless work. Sorry, when you work 9 months a year at a job with set hours and low pressure for production, you don’t get to bitch about your job.
Peeling back a layer of the onion, there seem to be a few tiers of “holy careers” in today’s culture. Tier 1 is military. Tier 1.5 is cops. Tier 2 is firefighters and EMTs. Tier 3 is teachers, social workers, etc.
Add to that the pension that somehow always gets overlooked in their wage moaning.
Fully agree with your point about “holy careers” although in terms of both PR volume and raw pocket-picking, the teachers have definitely leap-frogged the firefighters. I can’t even remember the last time those guys tried to pick my pocket, but with the teachers and cops it’s non-stop.
I debated flip-flopping them, but firefighters get lumped in with cops enough as “first responders” that I boosted them over the teachers.
Because their copious free time is being paid for out of my wallet while they simultaneously tell me how criminally under-valued they are and that they really don’t have as much of my money as they truly deserve?
Nonetheless, I do agree that the “service” they perform is the worse part of the problem.
Sexist Glibs has been making fun of Teen Vogue since its inception, but what remains of the men’s magazine sector seems nearly as uniformly woke these days. (It would be one thing if this was occasional, but it’s all the fucking time. And I just picked it because I was googling the topic; this is actually one of the least insufferable ones.) Did mostly I change, and become a lot less tolerant of leftist culture, or has leftist culture just become that much more intolerable and shrill? It’s like every magazine is Rolling Stone at best these days.
Is there any unwoke “space” left for a young man looking for a guide to being a man to look to nowadays? Maybe the question is hitting me harder because of how I grew up, I don’t know.
Replied above but it wasn’t deep enough to repost, I’ll give others their chance to warp and misguide you.
“with gains in surprising demographics, including independent voters, men, and whites with no college degree.”
That’s an odd way of saying “high school students”.
They must be utterly cleaning up in this demographic.
No.
Its because print media lost ~50-70% of its advertising revenue between ~2000-and now.
when there was a lot of money sloshing around that area, magazines hewed to ‘takes’ which appealed to the widest possible audience.
When the audience was fragmented and the money started getting tight, they had to choose = “Who CAN we reach, and who can we keep coming back?”
The answer to that question is: “who do we know?” who are the sort of people who work in and read the media? Urban, 20-something college-grads. The audience of most print (and i use the term to mean anything in digital publishing) has gradually narrowed itself down to where its mostly “millenial left talking to other millenial lefties”.
tl;dr = its not you.
*I realize my ‘no’ wasn’t really even addressing your question; it was more “i think this other stuff is more relevant”.
I don’t know if “the left” has gotten shriller or more hysterical (i’d guess they have), but specific to the MEDIA… the average age of the person writing that sort of drek? Is younger, and leftier and definitely more click-baity and desperate to try and spin contemporary Social-Media gabfests.
even that article is just “Talking about what other people are talking about”. Most of what media does these days? Is shit on other media outlets, other writer, or shit on some emerging consensus on social media.
Nobody does any actual reporting, or original writing, or try and tell stories no one is paying attention to *yet*. No one is smart enough: they’re 20 something idiots who sit on their computers all day and create-consensus out of twitter gossip. The “stories” they write reflects that.
It’s really pathetic if you take a close look at the situation. So you have the NYT, who are now nothing but a 24/7 ‘who can bash Trump hardest’ one track rag. I think it’s entirely possible that they themselves are among around 1% of the population who don’t realize how entirely stupid they have become. Then you have CNN, not even worth talking about, how can anyone take that shit seriously? And WaPo, please, a haven for trolls apparently scooped off the streets and paid their daily meth money to post deranged non-sense. The MSM is a fucking joke. Their imminent downfall is … imminent…
Hmmm, this is all very interesting stuff from you and Gil. I think I will be wanting to discuss this further on another thread sometime soon, since it’s becoming a broader topic about the media as a whole…
*if i could footnote/correct something:
i think the reason the audience focus narrowed to “young, left-leaning” wasn’t because that was the only option, but because it was both a) the audience advertisers pay the most for, and b) who also happened to be the cheap + readily available labor pool to use to churn out lots of clickbaity material
I think Politico’s “Yes, there is a media bubble” story actually helps clarify a lot of this, as do comments like those in Ben Rhodes NYT profile, like this =
He’s only talking about “foreign affairs reporting”, but the point stands for every other aspect of the print-media world as well. = There are no more grown-ups involved. Its a combination of managers/editors who grew up in the Dot.com boom, and had zero experience in 1990s newsrooms, and writers who are literally fresh out of college and more interested in the happy-hour they’re going to attend in Bushwick that PM than they are “Journalism”
Asshats like “Asawin Suebsaeng” – ENB’s squeeze – are considered the “upper tier” of millenial journalism. And what does he write about? shit like, “TV star’s college girlfriend says he was a dick” (piling on to the #MeToo tidal wave). And he says it ‘was the hardest reporting he’d ever done’.
This is a generation of journalists who never went through those “5 years in some local paper, doing endless quote-taking at crime scenes, sitting through budget meetings and PTA events, interviewing old-folks in nursing homes, counting potholes, for “expose of local civil-service failures”, etc. They don’t know what reporting even is.
They start doing clickbait for buzzfeed, and then, hopefully, if they’re not entirely retarded, they write “pretentious clickbait” for better-paying outlets.
Which is why more than 70% the content of newspapers these days is mostly “Stories you don’t have to leave the office for”.
The worst part is watching reporters interview reporters about events.
Is there any unwoke “space” left for a young man looking for a guide to being a man to look to nowadays?
It’s not 100% perfect, but nothing is. The Art of Manliness
I was going to make a joke about PUA groups being fairly unwoke, but didn’t want to risk it being taken seriously.
I liked your comment too, btw. I understand a book (or magazine) cannot fully substitute for a person. But it can serve some important purposes.
Also, fuck PUAs. Their followers are weak, because insufficiently redpilled. Incels/MGTOW ftw.
Best official First Lady portrait: Mrs. Coolidge.
Discuss.
Excluding the current title holder?
I’m dredging up the archives to put the present in perspective. Also she hasn’t had an official official portrait painted yet.
So, you can go to that one place, in DC they have one. It’s called:
Madame Tussauds
The thought of that makes me nauseous. There’s something for me, I find any type of sycophant behavior appalling. Maybe it’s just me. I’d rather puke out grits through my nose.
Got it. Looking at pictures is bad.
Wait I don’t even follow what you people are talking about. What is the issue here?
Ogling portraiture leads to Toryism and Monarchist Tyranny.
If we get Silent Cal as our Monarch I might have to go along.
You protectionist asshole!
I’ll put up with bad on trade if I get massive tax cuts, surplus budgets 6 of 8 years paying down a third of the national debt, and who said “Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.”
He is my favorite president too. (Well, WHH is my favorite, but since him.)
It would ordinarily be Cleveland. As a Democrat myself I am quite proud that we distinguished ourselves by being the free traders. And from Washington to WWII, even when their opponents were as a whole better, the very best people of all tended to be Democrats. But (though I do not share his monetary views in general) I tend to agree with Milton Friedman’s disapproval of rigid monometallism, and suspect the Federal strikebreaking may have been unjust as well. And if anything was a distinguishing article of faith for “liberal Democrats” of the time, it was those. So Coolidge–whose protectionism was not quite his only fault either–gets the edge in my book. He certainly was a very, very, very not bad president. And that is certainly high praise among his peers in my book.
Joos, man. Joos is always the issue.
Fuck yeah. Lookit that dress! The deco silhouette! The color! The shoes!
Does it have to be officially the first lady, or can it be whichever of the couple was the more effeminate?
Which prez was more effeminate than his Mrs.? I’ll probably kick myself when you tell me.
FDR
The Mrs.
Alright, yeah. I knew I was going to kick myself. And frankly you didn’t need to go with the famous childhood portrait; an adulthood one would’ve done just as well. To the very end, he was indeed a lot prettier. And a lot dumber.
A credible effort but still not the right answer.
Think mom jeans.
Oh, fuck. Jesus Christ. Here I was searching back to the powdered ponytail era and shit. Yeah, my ass is getting pretty damn sore from the kicks right now.
It’s understandable, you vastly overestimated the amount of thought and effort on my part, it’s a common mistake.
Was Obama the first female president in the same way that Clinton was the first black president?
Are you joking?
Obama?
Yeah! What kind of dog?
Seems a bit Mallory Archer
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
No no, just an observation
Duchess! Duchess!
So, who has read/seen Ready Player One? I’m reading it right now. I have… opinions.
i have read and seen it. i have mixed feelings about it. i feel its a mixture of interesting and dumb. the movie and book handle that mix very differently.
the general idea is pretty cool but it got cringe worthy on occasion in regards to the nostalgia and the war games segment in particular i think was a really bad idea which was handled much better and differently in the movie.
I agree with you about cringe worthy and pretty cool.
So far, it has kept me roped in, while all the while annoying me, and boring me.
I guess the main reason It has so far kept me interested is my passion for technology and gaming, especially VR gaming, especially now that Skyrim VR is sort of the greatest game eve created by humans. I want to see the film.
the film sticks to the premise pretty much but dials back on the nostalgia and it benefits from a professional writers touch.it also makes pretty much every character other than holliday, the main character and main villain much less developed than in the book. the level of change between book and film is similar to what it was for jurassic park a lot is different but doesnt go beyond what constitutes as an adaption. I would give the film a B. Its fun but it has pacing issues that likely would harm its rewatchablity
My son both read the book and saw the movie, and my husband saw the movie. My husband (far more knowledgeable about movies) was mostly interested in how Spielberg referenced his own movies and influences, changing it up from the book. As a big fan of the Kubrick Shining movie, he also liked that section a lot, though said it was pretty obvious they used an unrestored print of the actual film, since the quality was noticeably lower in certain parts. My son was disappointed that Blade Runner wasn’t used as it should have been (though apparently that was because they were prepping BR2049 so refused permission). OVerall they both seemed to think it was okay, but didn’t love it.
The book is total garbage. I haven’t seen the movie but I hope Spielberg (and Zak Penn) reworked the relationships and dialogue.
See? BlackRock, for example, is already doing this shit for any number of issues. Does Fink feel he has a responsiblity other than to make money for his investors? Or does he just think this is good business sense in today’s environment? At the very least it seems he has an increasing number of clients–probably a lot of unions, universities, NGOs, local governments, etc.–that are interested in these types of caveats.
And they now offer firearms-exclusive investment products, which they say most people are not interested in but a lot of people are, and interest is growing especially recently. This is really what Hogg intends to keep rolling. BlackRock will not pull out of the “ethical-neutral” fund business by any means, nor will any “boycott” affect them. But this is now out there. Hogg and others will keep it growing in popularity and keep the pressure on Fink to keep the pressure on about this issue. I don’t think Hogg is delusional to think he has a lot of power (all on loan from Mike Bloomberg, of course; he’s more an instrument that amplifies Bloomberg’s voice than anything else) here and can make a big difference, even if he is ignorant of exactly how he is making a difference.
Looking for a big nut punch?
The family that gang-rapes together, get’s probation together
“If I knew she was underage, it wouldn’t have happened in the first place.”
Dafuq? Gangrape is okay as long as they’re above the age of consent? There’s gotta be some meth in that family tree.
The family that gang-rapes together?
They get head shots from leftist radicals?
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U.S. economic aid to the Palestinian Authority – paid for by your tax dollars – averages $400 million a year. The Palestinian Authority’s 2018 budget includes approximately $360 million to support imprisoned terrorists and the families of dead terrorists – including murderers of Israelis and Americans.
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The U.S. funds do not go directly to the Palestinian terrorists and their families. But your tax dollars pay for other projects that enable the Palestinian Authority to divert $360 million for its terrorist support program.
The average Palestinian makes about $300 a month. A Palestinian terrorist in prison is paid between $368 a month for those sentenced to less than three years, rising to $3,400 month for those serving at least 30 years and for the families of dead terrorists.
This creates a perverse financial incentive to commit murder. While in normal society someone might worry that going to prison or becoming a suicide bomber would create financial hardship for his family, in Palestinian society the family benefits financially from terrorism.
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In recent years, the Palestinian Authority hid its line item budget for terrorist payments. This year, however, when faced with the possibility of U.S. congressional action to withhold aid, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas not only placed it openly in the 2018 budget – he defiantly thumbed his nose in the face of the American taxpayer.
Abbas stated in January: “There is something that the Americans are telling us to stop – the salaries of the martyrs and the martyrs’ families. Of course we categorically reject this. We will not under any circumstances allow anyone to harm the families of prisoners, the wounded, and the martyrs. They are our children and they are our families. They honor us, and we will continue to pay them before the living.”
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President Trump signed the Taylor Force Act into law March 23. It is named after a U.S. citizen killed by a Palestinian terrorist during a March 2016 attack in Jaffa. Taylor Force was a former U.S. Army officer and West Point graduate who had served honorably in Afghanistan and Iraq, heroically risking his life in defense of America.
Force was a student at Vanderbilt University’s graduate school of management at the time he was brutally murdered by Bashar Masalha, a Palestinian terrorist from Qalqilya in the West Bank. Israeli police killed Masalha and Palestinians literally danced in the street celebrating his “martyrdom.”
To think that the Masalha family will now be financially rewarded for this heinous act is insulting to the Force family’s memory of their son. To think that U.S. taxpayers – that means just about everyone reading these words – are indirectly footing the bill for these payment is outrageous and disgusting.
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[head desk]
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/04/17/your-taxes-are-funding-terrorists-demand-that-this-stops.html
Rather stridently (if not exceptionally ugly) anti-Israel comment section, which is quite surprising on a Fox website. Sometimes I do wonder if we really are seeing a bit more “diversity” reviving on the Jew issue on the Right nowadays, like the Left is practically busting out of its pants with hope to observe–that it’s really not just a handful of /pol/ trolls, about 10% of which take it seriously anywhere, that are everywhere.
*anyway
I dunno, maybe it’s just me, but I cannot even remember in the last couple of decades at least, when the left did not have some sort of deranged hatred for Jews and Israel. Seriously, can anyone refute that?
The original 1%-ers
Ah yeah, how could I forget, privilege… intelligence, perseverance, hard work, achievement, all of that stuff is bad. I be woke!
If admissions were fair, the top unis would be nearly all Asians and Jews. (They are the real victims of racial identity politics, not regular old whitey.) Their voting patterns continue to astound me.
Of course. I discussed this with some commenters (#19) a few weeks ago. Of course the Left would rather not think of itself that way, which is why it has been so eager to herald the return of good old-fashioned “Nazis” so they can return to their comfort zone of reassuring themselves that the Right are as always the real baddies qua Jew hatred. That was what I was saying. My question was, “are they really entirely full of shit on that, or is there lately a bit of a revival of more Israel-skeptical (and, on the margins, outright Jew-hating) thought on the Right? Not nearly enough to compare to the Left’s continued descent on the issue (especially outside NYC), of course. But something.”
Fucking outrageous.
I’m very late to the coffee discussion, but the main differences you can get depend on the bean, the roast level you take it to, the freshness of the grind, and the extraction method. If you’re looking for a completely different flavor of your standard over-roasted mixed grade bean, look for a good Sumatran bean with a medium to dark roast. Get whole bean, grind it at home, and you’ll get a good note of fruitiness and wine notes from the bean. Another great one to look for is called the Monsooned Malabar, which will also be best generally at a medium roast, but will have more earthy and woody notes. Finally, if you can still find Celebes Kalossi cheap (back in the day it was about $8/lb), get it. If pure Jamaican Blue Mountain (hard to find, and expensive as hell (~$40/lb last time I really looked) is a 5 star coffee, Celebes is a 4.5 star coffee.
For extraction methods, there’s nothing wrong with the traditional drip method as long as you clean the system on a regular basis. I prefer either a French Press or Cold Extract as my brewing methods. Both are very similar, it’s just time dependent and a matter of what temperature water you need to use (don’t use boiling water in your press, please).
Finally, if any of the glibs are interested in a coffee roaster that’s been sitting on my counter unused for quite some time (since I gave up coffee a couple of years ago), let me know.
Does anyone ever warm a cup of cold extract?
Yes. You can use cold extract coffee as a coffee concentrate to mix with hot water (usually in a 1:2 ratio) if you want hot coffee instead of cold. As food and drinks are warmer, more flavor and aroma are released. This means you need a stronger flavor for something served cold.
Like revenge?
I mean if it tastes that good cold, how awesome would it taste hot?
I don’t even know what that means. But you know what I do? I sometimes just pour some extra water in my Bunn machine and run another batch through the same coffee I already just made. Did I break some sort of coffee rule?
No, but if you’re getting a proper extraction rate from the first batch, the second batch should just wind up as colored water with a little bit of flavor. If your second batch actually tastes like coffee, then you may want to get a new coffee machine.
Have you ever seen coffee that was ground in South America? But I’m with you, I want to learn.
Negative, I always ground my own at home. I’m guessing it’s a coarse grind (visible chunks like very fine gravel), instead of the more standard grind (similar to sand). There are more optimal grinds for different extraction methods, such as finer grind for espresso, standard for drip, and coarse for french press.
I gots me some privilege. I can typically keep this, but sometimes I run out. Right now, I’m a run out. I get my coffee from Brazil, I get the commercial brands like Pilao, Santa Clara, etc, which are all really good, but I also get some of the local mountain grown stuff from Pernambuco state. Spoiled, spoiled man, I cannot drink shit coffee. Well, ok, that’s not true, I still drink the shit Keurig shit coffee at work. Well, I mean it’s free. I just use my Bunn machine, it’s all good.
It’s so cheap to make coffee miles better than the Keurig stuff at home, I’d say it’s hardly worth consideration that the shit is “free”!
I’m in a client’s office, typically at least 2 times per week. They all have Keurig machines. I mean they have many, many different varieties of those K-cups… which all taste exactly the same. Oh well, they seem to have at least 10% of the caffeine my home brewed coffee has, with at least 1% of the flavor, it’s all good.
I got into roasting my own coffee when I was in my early 20’s. It was one of the first real educations in how much cheaper something could be when you did it for yourself. Doing a quick look, you can still get green coffee for ~$7/lb for most types. Considering it takes about 20 minutes to roast a batch for ~30 cups of coffee, it’s not even a huge time sink either. Especially since most roasters nowadays allow for programming to trigger different fan levels and trigger an automatic cooling cycle at the end.
True this. Roasting your own is much fresher, and it really shows when you grind right before you brew.
And for that $7 you get a pound of the very best 1% beans, that you can roast exactly as you like.
If you are serious about coffee, once you roast your own, you never go back.
Again, I’ll point out I have a roaster sitting unused since I gave up coffee… as well as several pounds of green beans. I’ll gladly let them go for shipping costs.
Time to reset the “days since Women’s March co-founder Tamika Mallory said something anti-Semitic” counter to zero.
https://twitter.com/TamikaDMallory/status/986386072685940736
Zero days without an ((Accident))
Twitter will respond by banning Ben Shapiro.
“He’s literally (((Hitler)))!!!”
Hitler is the Tulpa of the left.
Jesus that was funny. And probably accurate.
The idea that the ADL, in particular the ADL under its new ridiculous leadership (Foxman retired a few years ago), is insufficiently “woke” is ridiculous. Time was they actually were–alone among mainstream Jewish organizations–the last opponents of affirmative action; but they pretty much thoroughly gave that up this decade too. This woman’s got some stones on her, I’ll give her that.
Are there any mainstream organizations opposed to affirmative action anymore?
LET HER SPEAK.
Thank me later.
I read most of that thread. With all of the Afrocentric Jew-hating, the Anime Nazi Jew-Hating, and the vapid “can’t we all just get along” comments, I now have eye and brain cancer.
Fuck you, JB.
What is wrong with you?
I see on this thread black and white nationalists, so often at each other’s throats in these divisive times, coming together with not a whiff of hostility, in mutual support and perhaps someday even tacit friendship. It’s a glimpse–even if for now only a brief one–of what our world can become. And, as it always is whenever we see it, it is all due to one tiny but crucial people: the Jews.
random thought
There are way more people on earth than ever and sharing info is easier than ever. I wonder if we are approaching a point where every possible idea or opinion will have been expressed. Think of it as Rule 34 applied to everything.
Once every possible idea has been had and recorded, what then? Arguments I guess.
The filthiest, most subhuman race of “persons” on the face of the Earth are the Sammarinese. Also, we need to end the Fed and adopt a strict molybdenum standard.
Just doin’ my part, son.
Shut up, Lorite.
All my friends know the Lorite!
Yeah, we’re getting pretty close to the “everything has been thought of” stage:
COMPUTER BUILT USING SWARMS OF SOLDIER CRABS
https://www.wired.com/2012/04/soldier-crabs/
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COMPUTER SCIENTISTS AT Kobe University in Japan have built a computer that draws inspiration from the swarming behavior of soldier crabs.
The computer is based on theories from the early 1980s that studies how it could be possible to build a computer out of billiard balls. Proposed by Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli, the mechanical computer was based on Newtonian dynamics and relied on the motion of billiard balls in an idealized, friction-free environment instead of electronic signals like a conventional computer.
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I drink instant coffee most mornings because I’m lazy. We’ve got a handful of gadgets for the weekend. I imagine Starbucks would quickly be replaced by regional chains.
Dunkin Donuts sucks.
Their coffee is terrible but their doughnuts are wonderful.
I read this sequence and i think,
“What you’re really saying is that you wish a hairy brute of a man would slap you, say, “Woman: now is time to mate, not speak”, ravish you breathless, walk out of the room without a word, drink all the beer in your fridge, and then vanish, never to be seen again”
This is particularly amusing. But in the end, looks like just the typical intrasexual competition/ sexual sorting story. User (you can see it better in her bigger profile pic) is a low-desirability females; that is likely a big reason why she’s adopted this grievance/militance feminism–her hostility at the current “patriarchal” game that she is losing. Her true fixation–her true enemy–is not men at all, but the women who are winning the current game. So this screed against this or that piggish male behavior is merely a reciting of boilerplate of the fig-leaf ideology, not a statement of her actual tastes in men. She probably has perfectly conventional tastes in reality.
Exceptionally clueless, sad-sack low-desirability males, though, don’t know this. These people who have been bombarding her with unsolicited whiteknighting are going to be a cut below, in intelligence and desirability, the “moderate” soyboy types who play the more subtle and less unalloyedly pathetic game of positioning themselves as “allies” in the hopes that a small amount of masculinity will distinguish themselves in that low-testosterone environment. These guys wish they were those guys. And they offer their support (or she’s contacted by their girlfriends who conjecture she’d be as happy as they are with someone like them) and she’s all, “Ew; I’m not that much of a loser.”
Dang, Diego. Very interesting.
more or less exactly where i was going with it, but i preferred to boil it down to,
– “Women Seeking Toxic Man for Hate-Fuck-Fling: Must hate cats, potpourri, enjoy domination role; must reek of potential for violence and contempt for nuance. Not interested in names; will provide beer (unlimited), sandwich (1)”
or something like that.
Working on adjusting my internal clock, and increasing my alcohol tolerance, I’ve now seen that the Lost Boys is on Netflix.
I know how I’m spending the next 90 minutes or so.
Are these things related?
Are you saying that alcohol doesn’t make the Lost Boys better? Can you name any other movie where Bill S. Preston was killed in an awesome way?
Santa Cruz is indeed a very weird place. If anywhere’s got vampires…
Try Holy Water death breath!
Don’t ever invite a vampire into your house you silly boy.
Great flick. I just enjoyed Roadhouse a couple days ago, I appreciate the 80’s gifts of film awesomeness.