Very helpful, thank you!

Ahh that’s interesting, so the issue is as much having a conveniently shifting position as it is a further-right-than-progressives static position. Thanks a ton, that helps me understand a lot!

Gotcha, so it means fake leftists almost? Does it imply someone is even further right than a current “centrist”? Or more like, “the center is right wing at this point, and so much so that even the Dems who are just left of center are still on the right [but therefore less than centrists still]”? This is not meant to be obstinate, your response was just very helpful and I want to bracket in on where folks consider liberals to be on the political spectrum so I can understand/use it properly.

We’ve all snuck something home from the office here and there

Communism (or Marxism more specifically)

Totally. Every next safety measure from airbags to seatbelts are about adding extra inches, rarely even full feet, and they are shockingly effective.

Largely true, but it’s crazy what the difference of just a few feet of slowing down does (rather than zero feet of abrupt stopping) to acceleration forces. The crumple zone on a car only has to be 3 feet long to turn a 60mph crash from a fatality to a horrific injury.

Wow that’s interesting, cuz I share zero trust with the NSA, too.

That goose is so fly they call his feathers “up” instead of “down”

Dang, really thought that’d work…

Semenal album more like it

This is definitely making me Rage

Seems to me like the one locked door and the literal hiding room would be the two most important places to look. How did they ever consider the search done without going in these two rooms?

Gotta fit pics of ur mom

Yo how’d they fit a smartphone in there

Idk I feel like chaotic neutral would be something surprising without being much more likely to be negative for someone else than neutral. Something actually random would be a note like “look in your socks” or a random phone number

But there is in causing panic or a potential breakup

I feel ya, the number of times I’ve opened up my gear to get just a few more months out of it til the next thing breaks…

If you want to maximize versatility and quality for a good price, I’d consider getting a nice enough espresso-focused grinder and a really high quality hand grinder that can do coarse grinds well. Grinding coarse is fast and easy by hand, and you can get grounds as or more consistent than am electric grinder 3 times the price with something like a 1zpresso. But grinding for espresso can be harder, so that’s one that’s more worth a machine doing the work for you.

So you really don’t believe someone can like something for themselves and not for how others see it? In my mind, that’s a sign of massive insecurity on your part, projecting that 100% of others think that much about what people think about their stuff, rather than just buying things they like.

Some people are definitely compensating, but you can buy a Porsche as a trust fund baby with something to prove, or as an engineer who is enthusiastic about design, performance, and guaranteed replacement parts for even discontinued models.

I think you’ve gotta worry a lot about what others think of you in order to assume that’s the only reason someone else would buy something.

Very true, especially because taste (and the calibration of the grinder you receive) don’t always line up with the grind size distributions you see other people make from experimenting. For me it’s always had to be one at a time, compared to what I was using before and returning if the intended upgrade isn’t satisfactory.

It would be amazing if coffee shops started doing equipment tastings/comparisons as well as beans. We have a lot of cool cuppings/tasting courses here, but nothing for hardware.