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

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

Semenal album more like it

Lol yep, what a weird freaking place

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.

I was recently in palm springs, and not only is it among the shittiest-vibe towns I’ve visited, with some of the worst restaurants I’ve been to anywhere in California, I saw a depressing, near windowless, one-story home with no yard for sale at $3M. Their market made absolutely zero sense, I feel like this was inevitable, especially after speculative building during the pandemic.

This must be how you get “binders full of women”

What is this from? It’s great

I hear they eat food cooked by rats

Not that hot, only Luke warm

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.

At least an em dash!

It tended to be that Native Americans would do it in or after battle/fighting an enemy. But in response, colonists, particularly those “settling” the West, started offering standing rewards for every Native Americans scalp people could collect. Many white colonists then ended up scalping every Native Americans they could find, regardless of enmity, and even scalping others as well, such as railroad workers, in order to pass off their scalps as those of Native Americans. All to say that, yes, much like many things, scalping was a tradition of another culture that colonists adopted and took much further.

And their response is literally “you farted!”

Maybe they can’t fly, but no one said chickens can’t be fly

Sometimes I think Lemmy is even worse than Reddit at telling when something is obviously fake/a joke. Big ass tattoo, no mezuzah by the door, Israeli flag has clearly not been out of its packaging for more than an hour… This was done for the gram by someone who doesn’t even seem to be Jewish.

That’s great to know. I’m definitely excited to pick up a bag