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It's really tough anymore to post positive content here. It feels like spitting on a fire to put it out.
I'm from the US, but I've always tried to include everyone in my posts, at the price of looking ignorant every now and then when I get things wrong, but it's nice when I've had people from across the world remark how they're pleasantly surprised to see something local to them being covered by a non-local. I've learned so much in return from just having brief interactions with users from other countries, just by showing some genuine interest in them, their languages, and their home countries. But outside of my own posts, it's hard to find a place on Lemmy where there doesn't seem to be things looking to drive a wedge between us.
I used to be able to jump into random posts, even if it was something I wasn't very familiar with, to try to get conversations going, but so many news/political posts just feel rigged to get people riled up, and I'll scroll through and not find anything to interact with a lot now.
Plenty of people tell me that I'm doing something important by doing positive stuff here. I really like the small community we've got of people that regularly interact. It's hard to feel like I'm making any kind of difference though. I'm going to show up as long as people are talking to me, but there's plenty of times I ask myself why I don't just devote this time back into music or my volunteer work. I've dropped all my news and politics podcasts at this point because I'm sick of hearing it all. I censor myself on discussing animal rights issues because I don't want to add to the pile of negative stuff to worry about. I'll keep at it the best I can, but a lot of people here are sure making it an exhausting effort some days.
No problem!
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Note: it will block other words, so if you block trump and musk, you won't see things about trumpets or muskrats, at least as of a while back. It was blocking one of my own posts, and I bug reported it, but then was told it's a pretty basic filter.
Oh, I'm not saying all of it is hooey, just after the things you mention, there are rapidly diminishing returns.
I started with just an Aeropress and experimenting with different grocery store coffees. Then I got a Barratza Encore for my birthday. I switched to the OXO dripper pour over and prefer that cleaner taste, and my wife prefers the Aeropress still. She doesn't notice the difference between grocery coffee and fresh ground, so she usually gets a flavored coffee, and I get a different single origin from Trade every couple weeks.
I probably spend the most of my friend group on coffee, at least home coffee, but I think it's better than any coffee I get out, and I think the value ratio is still well in my favor for what I get. A coworker seemed interested in my setup and bought it all, but she seemed to like it when I did the work, and even that level of hands on was too much fuss, and her and her husband went back to using a French press without measuring anything.
I find the setup a bit much to do in the morning when I wake up and am all groggy, so I've gone to making it before I go to bed into canning jars, and I vacuum seal it so we can either warm it up or have "iced coffee" in the morning, and we think it tastes as good as fresh.
I read that as (19)30s documentary at first and was slightly confused until I clicked it! 😁
Spot on though! Especially about the made up lingo and the rituals to maximize his "throat velocity!"
Again, I won't shame you if you do all that stuff and really enjoy it, but you should be self aware enough to know your level of fanaticism isn't the norm.
The Tech is my favorite also! I have a couple handles, and the Tech may have been the last one because it seemed liked everyone was always calling it "too mild" or that our clogged too fast because the gap was too small.
It is the smoothest, most gentle, and least fussy handle I've got.
I had been so excited to get a Slim Adjustable, the most expensive of my collection, and that thing shreds me on any setting. 😮💨
The boar brush was nice when I shaved my whole beard, I liked the sensation, but it is fussy.
That is another great example. I bought a few used razors, but never spent more than $20.on any of them, and I bought a few blade sample packs and swapped a bunch for even more on a forum blade exchange so I probably had at least 40 kinds.
My beard grows every which way, so I shave whichever direction actually gets the hair off, and the blade differences are so miniscule. There were maybe 3 that tore me up for some reason, but the rest I probably couldn't pick out blind.
So much hocus pocus there about something pretty dead simple. It is somewhat cute to see all the guys talking about soap scents and such, but one static article can easily cover all one ever needs to know about wet shaving.
Ignore all the chit chat and just enjoy cheap shaves.
Heck ya, some solid experimenting to me is way cooler than someone dropping massive cash on something. That's kiiiinda interesting sometimes to see what's new and experimental, but I'll never spend that on it, so there's limited use to me. But the fart sniffing stuff of overpriced scales and stuff like that, I can live without that type of content completely.
I find some beans to be a bit denser than others, so I don't try to guess that, but I can hit the desired water target range pretty easily by eyeball these days.
The hardest part of my setup was finding a grinder setting that works for 90+ percent of the coffee I enjoy. I order something new every time, so it gives me a good baseline, and if I want to tweak it, 2 clicks up or down gets me where I want without much fuss.
Good point! Even if you make something and it doesn't turn out in a way you like, you at least have an idea of how you can change what you did that time to get something more like what you do want.
Lol musician forum are always great for that. There ends up being a lot of work to convince people to just buy this one more new thing and you will have the sound you have always dreamed of. This either leads to people selling their last gear purchase to either buy the same thing in a new package or to rebuy what they sold off to buy their current gear, but now at an inflated vintage gear price. Or you get everyone buying the same thing and now you sound like every other tone chaser in your quest to find originality.
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I also try to avoid staying directly behind them so I'm not in too much of a blind spot, and if there's the opportunity to purposefully cast a shadow I'll do that as well.
I don't take offense to it. If someone that was built like me was the only other person around, I'd keep an eye on them also. It doesn't have to be prejudice against them like people always imply in these posts, it's just common sense.
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One...two...thick Freddy's coming for you... 😂
This is why I have a hard time with hobbyist forums/communities. I get the idea of wanting to hone your end result or what have you, but it always seems to veer off into obsession while getting results which are debatably any better than keeping it simple.
I weigh my coffee/water to keep the brew ratio the same, and that is fine-tuned enough for me.
It was a blast. We went to grab breakfast on our way out of town and this place popped up as I was looking for the best breakfast along the way. It intrigued me that a pharmacy was the number 1 rated breakfast spot.
It's Lincoln's P&G. Half the place is a regular pharmacy, and the other is a diner/soda fountain. This is the menu with the soda specials and they have a bunch of old photos of the place on this page.
They advertised top notch pancakes, which I'm usually meh about, but these were light and had a nice crispy outside that seemed to set them apart. Good stuff if ever anyone is ever passing through there.
You are correct. I just reeducated myself. They just have a record if you voted or not. Apologies.
One could look at that as more suspicious in the context of why they may be trying to collect this data. This is the guy that wanted Georgia to "find more votes" and a registered Republican voting for a Democrat sounds like one of those things that is "obviously a mistake" as you surely intended to vote R.A registered Democrat voting for a Democratic candidate would be largely assumed, but if all your votes are going to another party, this may be the so far undiscovered "evidence" of the Dems stealing votes or doing fraudulent mail in or drop off ballots.I don't disagree with what you do, I just think it would stand out more if I were to be looking for statistical anomalies.I like the olde tyme medicine / cocktail bitters type taste!
I had a fun time last year outside of Pittsburgh there was a diner that had the original soda fountain in it, and I ended up talking with the soda jerk about a lot of the oddball ingredients and he gave me some of the phosphates and I was tasting them straight up and mixing them with flavors in different proportions and such.
A-Treat has an online store now, with the brown and white birch beers both available, as well as the pumpkin cream and cranberry ginger ale holiday flavors, which I also love. There's a few other Pennsylvania birch beers, the PA Dutch red version and the clear Kutztown ones are on Amazon I saw, but the A-Treat is the most local to where I live.
I mainly just talk about things I'm genuinely interested in. That makes me naturally more conversational in my posts, comments, and replies.
When someone replies to me, I want to acknowledge their contribution, so I try to at least say something relevant to their comment. Hopefully it's something that can get another reply out of them or someone else, but you at least want them to feel their comment was appreciated more than just an upvote or a one word response. I think that encourages them and others to comment again, as even if you can't add much to that current thread, you show you're there and open to conversation and that you are willing to engage if they speak up first.
I will reply to people that comment on my old posts because I'm still interested in the original topic (I posted it after all!) but if I'm reading someone else's post and it's much over 24 hours old, I'm usually assuming they've moved on unless others are still interacting with it as well.
Rats can be expensive! They go for around $2-5 each, and it adds up really fast when you've got a lot of carnivores to feed.