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.

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

Semenal album more like it

Good to know, thank you! Yet more reasons to avoid it

I think the point is that to you, it’s just semantics. But, to use your example, given that some people have started intentionally using “female” in place of “woman” as an (arguably) subtle way to exclude trans women, it suddenly becomes more than semantics to both trans and anti-trans populations. That’s what Smotherlove is saying about “dog whistle” language only being transparent to the perpetrator and the victim.

So from your/my perspective (admittedly assuming you’re neither trans nor anti-trans), it’s largely a case of “a few rotten apples ruining it for the rest of the bunch.” What should just be a semantic difference has been coopted and intentionally weaponized by some, so all of us have to be conscious of whether or not we’re making that worse.

It’s also not a new phenomenon. Many epithets start as PC terms and then become offensive based on how a specific group starts to use them, notably, almost every one-time PC terms for Black Americans and people of color. Unfortunately, it’s basically the reason that, for at least 100 years, (responsible) individuals/media have had to change terms for many marginalized peoples every 10-20 years, with many other examples, like “Oriental” and the terms that predate it, and plenty of others.

What is this from? It’s great

That’ll do, donkeh, that’ll do

Gotta fit pics of ur mom

I hear they eat food cooked by rats

Not that hot, only Luke warm

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.

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.

I do/have used a Kruve an I’ve been very surprised with by my findings with it. In my experience, even very nice grinders I’ve tried still produce like 4% fines, and some midrange ones are maybe only 6%. By percent, that’s significant enough, but in the end it’s less than a gram difference, and therefore sorta hard to use as the comparison between 2 grinders. Sifting is also essentially worthless for that purpose if you didn’t take the same measurement when the grinder was new, since you have nothing to compare the present to.

I honestly think your best bet is going by taste. If you feel the quality of your cup has declined, that’s probably the best way to be sure. Everything else is just a proxy for trying to determine how the cup will taste.

Read G.E. Moore’s take on it https://uen.pressbooks.pub/knowledgeforhumans/chapter/g-e-moores-hands/

It’s a common and ultimately pointless/self-indulgent philosophical “question,” lots of good essays on it.

In that I always eat it all, even if I made way too much

Lol they said “threatening violence” because it was the easiest thing to ban you with. The real reason you got banned is that you’re a psycho, man. You sound like you are saying you wish you were allowed to hurt or kill your own children, and you’re talking about them as property. That’s crazy person shit.