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yofuckreddit
12hr ago
Three strong cups a day is too much, and my sleep has suffered as a result.
I've been cutting out afternoon coffee while physically recovering to help sleep. I hate to say it, but it's a major upgrade. I've now compromised a bit and offer myself high-quality decaf in the afternoon. The state of the art here has changed, though it feels strange to pay drug-high-prices for the drug being removed (similar mental challenges with NA beer).
On one hand, sleeping well feels great. On the other, the pleasure of an afternoon coffee is one of life's greatest. It helps me keep workin' hard at the computer from 2:00 - 5:00 when my brain is already fried.
yofuckreddit
12hr ago
No. No, no no. Don't excuse the Keurig use by @Muninn. It's a machine that exemplifies everything wrong about late-stage capitalism and the infantile American palate.
Just talking through it should be enough. Here's the "pitch": we're going to take a tiny, 9-gram dose of coffee and grind it to immediately start the process of decay. We're going to entomb it in a 3-gram amalgamation of aluminum and plastic - just enough to make sure nothing can be recycled, and packed full of air so idiotic consumers don't realize how much we're ripping them off.
We'll design machines with the lowest-grade plastic available, full of shiny surfaces that attract fingerprints. Each one a crime of industrial design: Debossed KEURIG front-and-center, pathetic blacks and greys, chunky cup holders that eat up so much vertical space that no meaningful drip dray can exist, and side-saddle water reservoirs to even destroy the tiny mercy of symmetry. No water filtration necessary! The algae growing in the poorly maintained office example should make it into every cup. While we're at it, let's spread that coffee dose around 3 different water sizes, spitting in the face of ratios, and make sure we only have one brewing temperature (Nuclear Hot) as insurance against someone tasting the slop we're pouring out. A scalded taste bud can be abused with impunity.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. The coffee's bad enough, but there's a whole secondary ecosystem of "hot chocolate" and "apple cider" HFCS delivery systems that the underclass loves to puncture with those plastic needles, just to hasten the day they need to do the same with insulin.
I respect spooning instant coffee into the bottom of a mug 10,000x more than the animal self-cruelty of using the worst fast-coffee system ever devised.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
It got me thinking if I'll be able to. The number of highly respected boomers I loved who have calcified is high. It's difficult to think of those who stayed flexible, and the number can be displayed on a single hand.
Maybe the lesson is to line yourself up before 50, to make the glide onto the landing strip as graceful as possible.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
This was exactly my thought, and the elements led to very emergent social situations. No dancing emotes needed, just severe financial consequences for leaving yourself open to being backstabbed etc.
yofuckreddit
6d ago
Sure, but the cumulative capital flowing from the couple to this therapist (3 different types of therapy...) is a huge outlay. I'd pick being Poly over being forced into therapy like this any day.
yofuckreddit
6d ago
Wild dynamic - your gf is essentially demanding another person be in your relationship! I wonder what she gets out of it.
What machine do you have? I'll mention I replaced a ful set of gaskets in my Breville Dual Boiler last year. It took an hour or so, which I consider pretty great for a famously less repair-friendly machine. It's been chugging around now with some aftermarket upgrades for 6 years.
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