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  • In my opinion, Musk is so worthless, that he doesn't deserve any sort of monument or anything of that sort. I've known so many losers! Do they get a monument? Naaah, they're just the butt of gossip and that's the end of it.

    I know Musk is more damaging, but stuff like this is excessively ineffective at changing anything.

    If you want public art, we can actually fund timeless art.

  • Ooooh nice. I used to get these natural process Nicaraguan beans. Ooooo so good! Had such a funky taste! Sadly my local roaster discontinued them for whatever reason ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

  • Oooo what's the roast and origin?

    I tend to be hesitant to add stuff to my coffee. BUT, sometimes sprinkling a little bit of cinnamon on a cappuccino is fun!

  • Oh no, completely agreed. Not having the vocabulary/not being able to detect different flavors is completely valid! Heck, even my vocab is super limited for this.

    BUT, using a completely different scale for description is annoying (at least for me). It's like some describing different music compositions as "loud". Sure, a non musician isn't expected to know the individual notes and stuff, but you know... noone would describe Duel of the fates as "loud" lmao.

    Same thing I suppose.

  • I feel like there are two components to this:

    • some people genuinely don't like bitter tastes.
    • what people define as "chocolate" is majority sugar and milk. Hence, real chocolate for them is "bitter, not sweet chocolate. The same goes with coffee. Most people's definition of "coffee" is just this stale, super sweet, paper tasting drink.
  • A light roast will taste more acidic (sour, less bitter) compared to a dark roast. Strength is not about taste, but about concentration. Consider it like music.

    Let's say there are two types of notes: deeper, lower pitched notes and higher pitched notes.

    Light roast: more higher pitched notes, less lower pitched notes

    Dark roast: more lower pitched notes, less higher pitched notes.

    Now imagine describing dark roasts as "louder". It doesn't make sense, right?

  • I get annoyed when people describe the taste and flavor of coffee as "strong".

    "Strong" is just the concentration of coffee particles in water. An espresso is stronger than an Americano for instance.

    Coffee tastes bitter, sour and maybe a little sweet. The flavors can be quite complex involving fruit, nuts, spices and such. Don't just say "sTrOnG" like an oonga boonga caveman.

  • I dunno, I find it cute.

  • YES!!! SAFETY RAZORS.

    We should seriously consider starting a propaganda campaign for safety razor adoption over the multi blade money plucking machine.

    They're:

    • waaaaay more environmentally friendly
    • no plastic
    • will probably outlast YOU
    • will save a crazy crazy amount of money over your lifetime
    • give you a better shave? This is what I've heard, but have never tried the scam razors myself, so no personal experience
  • "Hey AI overview! Can you please AI overview this wikipedia article for me?"

  • Anton Petrov. Talks about scientific papers. Cool guy.

  • No sympathy to drivers of objectively environmentally worse modes of transportation unwilling to follow traffic laws.

  • The manager should have Molotov cocktails smashed in their face. /s

    The "/s" is there only because it would end up killing them or end up causing irreversible damage. If the above was not the case, then yeah, fuck them.

  • Ehhh naming stuff after individuals just sounds very icky to me

  • This is why consumer coops are so so important for stuff like this.

    The insurance of a person I'm close to from their coop is around 9% cheaper than other non coop alternatives.

    Consumer coops (irrespective of sector) always tend to have top notch customer service in my experience.

  • Really? For some reason, I really prefer DDG's results over Google's. Too much SEO spam for Google now (especially with AI).

    DDG has this Reddit+ stack overflow thing that I quite like!

    For generic factual stuff, I default to wikipedia. For opinions, it tends to be Reddit/Lemmy. If I have questions that are more of "tell me why my understanding of XYZ is wrong", then LLMs (the big ones) tend to be quite useful (yeah yeah, hate on me for this as much as you want).

  • Calgary, Canada.

    Beverage containers are sold with:

    • Deposit: Depending upon the size of the container, your deposit is calculated. You get that deposit back when you submit the container to a recycling facility.
    • Recycling fee: Depending upon how easy/difficult it is to recycle a container, you get charged a recycling fee. Metal containers I think charge 0. Plastics charge a little more.

    It's kinda neat I guess. Haven't researched recycling systems around the world, so don't know if there are any better approaches than this one.

  • Idealism is intellectual jerking off. Quite fun!

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    Who was the MOST Trump like Roman Emperor/Consul?

  • Sockpuppeting an argument with yourself is just masturbation though.

    I would disagree. How else is one supposed to understand the limitations of a statement? The completeness of a position? Areas for further study? A confidence rating of sorts in a position?