The suffering is the point. It’s got nothing to do with morals or human rights or the death penalty or abortion or “Christian values”. It’s all about making “those people” suffer.

GNU’s Not Unix

So you’d normally say “that’s too much!” in which case the subject “that” is plural and countable so therefore “much” would be correct.

Otherwise you should say “you have given me too many refried beans!” since the beans are volumetric and not countable entities.

Similarly, ranch powdered baked pork chops are super delicious. Get the thin sliced ones if you can find them

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Lol. That was 2007. I feel so old.

Even just getting the user grounds and fines out would require at least a gallon of water.

True, but I drink coffee daily and only do laundry every week or even two weeks some times. So although that may work for some, it would not work for me.

So my issue with this is the amount of water you need to use to clean it. Paper is compostable and bio-degradable.

I haven’t read every single reply but the vast majority say probably not.

My experience is basically the opposite of everyone here. I bought a refurbished gaggia classic for $275 in like 2012 or so. I use it daily. It’s not hard to use, and in fact my 5 year old can pull a shot all by himself.

There is a comment that for the same prep home espresso won’t be as good as commercial because the machine quality is lower.

I’m sorry but IMO this is 100% wrong.

As long as there’s nothing wrong with your machine, water, or beans, there’s no difference. The goal of an espresso machine is to supply 9 bars of pressure. The coffee doesn’t care if the machine cost $400, $4000, or even $12,000.

The reason commercial machines are so expensive is really twofold. Mainly they are built to be able to pull shot after shot all day every day for decades. The second thing is that commercial machines are pretty much universally multi group dual boiler setups where you can steam and pull 3 shots at the same time. So not only do commercial machines require the highest quality stuff, but they need 3, 4 or more copies of everything.

But again the goal of the machine is to supply heated water at 9 bars of pressure. The results will be the same in any machine that can accomplish this goal, the cost difference basically boils down to how nice the machine is to use, and what extra features it has.

The grinder on the other hand makes a huge difference. But, you don’t have to spend a ton to match cafe quality. A baratza encore will do the job but not well. Step up to the sette and you will be able to get close.

Lastly is the beans. Now this is an area that you will have to research, but I found a local roaster that mainly sells to local cafes and hotels, but is also is open to the public. His coffee is fresh and I really enjoy it.

The last thing is that tricky statement “for the same amount of prep.”

Cafes pretty much do the very minimum. Press a button on the grinder, get a volumetric dose that should be within 1.5g or so, quickly tamp, pull a shot, and move on to the next customer. I’ve even started seeing mechanical automatic tampers being used.

You on the other hand will (likely) be weighing beans with sub gram accuracy, checking the machine temperature, carefully distributing the grounds, carefully tamping or maybe using a calibrated tamper… Etc.

You will be putting in more prep just simply because you have to. You don’t have the equipment that cafes do that will make the process as easy as pushing 2-3 buttons. But that’s okay. If you enjoy espresso you will enjoy the process and it’ll become a hobby more than anything.

But that last part is the key. Are you willing or ready for espresso to become a new hobby? Yes? Buy a machine. No? Keep using aero press. Or do some else. Only you know what you want.

Idk which was first, but it was either blue ba dee or walkin on the sun. Both were absolute bangers to me as a kid.

They are still around in S.E. VA

Seconding the above, I want to say I paid $60 in a pretty average city.

The store I went to is called Jos-a-bank, feel free to look them up but any higher end men’s fine clothing store should have a tailor on site at all times.

There are also dedicated tailor shops you can try looking for one of those.

I don’t think places like dillards or Macy’s will do alterations but I could be wrong.

Worst case the place you go may tell you something like “he only works Tuesdays and Saturdays” or something like that, so you may want to keep trying to get them on the phone, but I’ve not been told that before.

That’s exactly what I was thinking, how is it possible?

But… It’s a legume?!

…the US knew about it but allowed it to happen…

I hear this, and in hindsight it makes sense to say, but put yourself back in the mindset of the late 90s. The US was a fucking giant. The world saw what happened after pearl harbor, I believe it was less of “allowing it to happen” and more of “we were so arrogant that we couldn’t believe anyone would be dumb enough to actually do it”.

Maybe, maybe not. Just depends TBH.

“flavor” lol

This just made me think… What exactly defines a soup vs beverage? Solid matter? A bloody Mary is a soup. I’d like to be a bloody Mary.

But in reality I’d probably be cream of something soup, which now sounds more like a terrible beverage than a soup.

I would recommend staring with a tax on income (ANY income with NO deductions) over $1M/year, maybe 10%.

Well it’s already 37%, so 10% wouldn’t be nearly enough. I’d suggest more like 80%, and since the progressive brackets are what they are you could add another at 5M with 99% tax.

I mean not really no. Even without any artificial limits, as people gain education and move out of poverty, birth rates naturally go down.

In fact birth rates in some places are decreasing as we speak.

Allowing everyone access to education and a UBI would cut birth rates. Going below 1.5 or so would actually be undesirable.