It adds nothing to the conversation

Lmao what a useless comment right here

IDK dude, I don’t remember the sex thing being as played up as you’re making it seem. Might be time for a re-read

Yeah that’s a neat analogy, but it breaks down when you realize that the landlord is supposedly all good, all knowing, and all powerful. If a being with those properties makes a system that can go to shit, or needs to be “fixed”, then he either made it that way on purpose and is a monster, or he isn’t all knowing and all powerful. Either way, not worth worshipping in my opinion.

Whole wheat berries last a good long while if stored in an airtight container. But ground wheat berries oxidize and spoil really fast, unless you filter out the bran and the germ, which I very much doubt ancient people were bothering to do. And lean bread only lasts a couple days before either molding or going rock hard. Basically what I’m saying is that grinding up flour and making it into bread is actually a pretty shit method of preservation, we’d be better off just eating a porridge made from whole wheat berries, and I bet bread stuck around just because it’s friggin delicious.

Yeah it would have been way easier for the apparently all good, all knowing, all powerful god to just, you know, forgive us, but that wouldn’t have made for a good book

A ban isn’t “un-personing” someone, it’s a temporary restriction on their engagement with one particular community, as a consequence for bad behavior. If that restriction doesn’t actually happen though, it doesn’t seem like a very effective consequence.

Mmm yes, tea and crumpets, long love the empire, God save the king ol chap

What do you mean? Those are just my programming socks

my grandmas cinci style chili

You wanna hook us up with the recipe, or is that one a tightly guarded secret?

Glad I could brighten your day in these dark times

You’re gonna have to explain that one too

Brb, going out to acquire a ballistic missile submarine

I feel like you might like James Hoffman, a coffee YouTube creator. His baseline attitude is much the same as yours - if you start with good tasting water and good, freshly roasted beans, you’ll likely end up with good tasting coffee. He also delves into the nitty gritty, doing a lot of cool experimentation with different techniques and data-driven stuff, but he usually does a good job of stressing that all those minute details end up making very small differences in the resulting cup.

Of course Starbucks roasts dark in part because they’re cheap, but it’s mostly to ensure the flavor is consistent across all their thousands of stores. Roast any bean to the level Starbucks roasts it, and it doesn’t matter what the origin, fermentation method, species, or terroir was, they all come out tasting the same. Granted, most people aren’t going to enjoy that taste by itself, but that’s sort of beside the point. Starbucks coffee isn’t really intended to be enjoyed straight, it’s supposed to be made into milk drinks where the dairy, syrups, and toppings provide most of the flavor, and for that use case, it’s adequate.

I can’t drink coffee anywhere else anymore

That’s an absolute shame, because there’s tons and tons of cool coffee shops absolutely all over the place doing really cool, interesting, imaginative, and downright tasty things with coffee that you’re missing out on.

Nah what’s actually lazy is people sitting in positions of privilege with the power to help, but instead all they do is sling mud and beat people down. It’s hard enough for Americans to fight back as it is. Adding your inflammatory bullshit to the pile is just making it worse.

No, please explain exactly what you mean by deterrence, educate me

I’ve gone most years since like 2020, and 2024 was the only year it was super muddy

Saw these guys at Louder than Life in 2024. It was muddy as fuck because it basically monsooned the day before, and was still drizzling on and off that day. I was soaked to the bone, covered in mud up to my thighs, and I’d do it again in a heartbeat. Definitely one of the funnest, most high energy performances of the whole weekend.

Hol up, I thought we were talking about moving to a whole ass new continent for some really good foreign dick, not because of hitting a glass ceiling lmao