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nubbins`: it's all about single-origin
these days
ben_vulpes: <nubbins`> it's actual swill << every
time
that i'm up north i can't shake
the feeling
that's where
they ship
the
tired american brands
to finally croak
☟︎ nubbins`: !s
the buggers held full control
nubbins`: asciilifeform
this is
the guy w/
the ramblings i occasionally post
nubbins`: (was at friend's house one hung-over morning. his wife places chocolate chip pancakes on
table in front of him. he starts chewing, massive crunching sounds. i raise eyebrow; "coffee beans", he says)
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform>
the secret is, i LIKED MAC OS << noises were gorgeous
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i bet pigs would work just as well << May need an obligate carnivore for musk from
the anal glands. Perhaps physical Doge may have a use.
nubbins`: or even
that next year's batch will be fit
to drink
nubbins`: doesn't mean all coffee from
that region is great
nubbins`: too stupid
to realize
that coffee is produce
nubbins`: but i've never seen a serious coffee cupper give kopi luwak more
than a 7/10
BingoBoingo: <nubbins`> nowadays,
the animals are force-fed so you might as well feed
the beans
to a cow. << I have
the feeling a ruminant's multiple stomachs could defeat even a bean.
nubbins`: i guess
the intestinal juices / fermenting impart a flavour
nubbins`: nowadays,
the animals are force-fed so you might as well feed
the beans
to a cow.
shinohai: I always feel like reddit started
that
trend or something
nubbins`: and sell
the beans for $150/lb
nubbins`: pick
the intestinal worms out of
the diarrhoea
nubbins`: kopi luwak = let's
take some weasels, cage
them, force feed
them shit-quality coffee
ben_vulpes: i have 2
top-notch joints within 5 minutes stroll.
shinohai: Hey
there is always Kopi Luwak
ben_vulpes: my buddy goes
through a
TEU of raw cacao beans every year or so.
phf: nubbins`: oh,
that was re asciilifeform's comments.
there's plenty of good coffee in philadelphia
mats: asciilifeform: we'll see in a decade or
two.
this is my life's work.
ben_vulpes: how can you
trust
their roasting if you can't
trust
their
tasting?
nubbins`: real coffee shops filter
their water
ben_vulpes: they don't have
the water necessary
to make coffee you can
taste
phf: i'm surprised
there isn't some hip coffee shop with brooklyn roasted beans in silver spring..
ben_vulpes: our coffee's just about
the best one can buy in
this
town.
nubbins`: because of drive-thru bozos spilling out of
the parking lot and into
the road
nubbins`: it's a regular occurrence
these past few years for
Timmy's drive-thrus
to have
to be rebuilt
to accomodate more
traffic
nubbins`: phf same
thing with
Tim Horton's in canada
phf: starbucks is kind of like mcdonalds, and
the same reason microsoft won, guiranteed same mediocre experience, so if you're driving
through north carolina and you need your caffeine fix, you don't have
to engage any mental faculties, because
there be dragons outside your comfort bubble. i've noticed
that with a lot of my starbucks loving friends, for
them it's kind of like "i know
this,
this is starbucks"
nubbins`: BingoBoingo: even
the impression
that powdered cheese belongs is a bad one
mats: yeah I've heard
that, I only just finished
the pilot
mats: my motivation
to learn RE has been flagging recently and
this is just
the
ticket
nubbins`: mats it was a bit light on
the actual
tech stuff for my liking
nubbins`: the experience-seller waited until
the end of
the convo
to
tell us
that she'd be listing
the house $30k below market value and if we didn't like
that, find someone else
BingoBoingo: Several decades of "marketing" and you've got generations starting life with
the impression
that powdered cheese belongs on noodles
nubbins`: i'll do x, i'll do y, i won't do z, here's a
tote bag
nubbins`: second one spent a fuckin hour selling us on
the experience of selling our house
through her
☟︎ nubbins`: first one was very businesslike: what's
the house like, how big, how much you wanna sell it for
nubbins`: we were
thinking about selling P's house a few months ago.
talked
to a couple of realtors
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> is it some brain infection ? << Yes, disease was 1950's USia.
The appearance
that came from
the plenty of being only "civilized" area not
torn
to shit in
the 1940's and agriculture's strain
to provide real food. Marketing got really good at pushing "tv dinners"
nubbins`: ;;google
trappings of power site:thelastpsychiatrist.com
nubbins`: they
think
they're drinking it.
nubbins`: starbucks drinkers do not realize
that
the real
thing exists
nubbins`: why would anyone want
the
trappings of power instead of
the real
thing?
nubbins`: starbucks is dominant because people want
the experience of buying coffee more
than
they want coffee.
nubbins`: but really it's so
they can swap out bean X for bean Y in Holiday Blend and nobody notices.
nubbins`: they claim
this is so
they're not selling you pesky water-containing beans but fully-dried coffee goodness
nubbins`: starbucks roasts all beans
to "second crack", which is
the entry point
to "dark roasts"
nubbins`: that's because
they roast all
their fucking beans
too dark.
nubbins`: as someone who knows far
too much about
the science of coffee, starbucks is actual shit
☟︎ nubbins`: in
the sense
that starbucks is rich man's coffee.
assbot: Logged on 09-12-2014 02:39:31; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as a boy, i often
thought
that i would grow up, 'have money', and buy an apple computer - at least
to
try it (the crippled machines at schools, etc. were an interesting diversion, and i imagined
that mac is 'rich man's computer' somehow)
nubbins`: cocoa API is more nextstep
than anything else
nubbins`: i had a colleague who used
to carry around his macbook air in a manila envelope
phf: i like
to show mcl
to people who rave
to me about some new feature in visual studio
nubbins`: i
thought you couldn't even
turn
those back on again once
they powered down.
phf: BingoBoingo: i use
that ibook for mac os 9 now, with kaleidoscope, hypercard, mcl (macintosh common lisp). i boot it up from
time
to
time and it feels like
the cyberpunk future
that never was
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i like my 'hypercard' on at least 800x600 pixels << I usually do
the presentation with a "clean desk"
to heighten
to realization
that
this machine was small enought
to allow civilized other work at desk, as happened in age when computer was office accessory.