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Starbucks positions itself internationally as an ultra premium brand. I remember visiting one in Thailand and being astounded that the prices were the same as the USA, just converted to bhat. This meant that a single drink could cost like half a day’s wages for a poor Thai person. I imagine the situation in China used to be similar before wages and purchasing power caught up. Now that consumers in China know enough about coffee to tell that Starbucks is crap, they won’t pay American prices for it any more, and it’s got Starbucks sweating.

lol, Starbucks laments that people actually know about coffee there now.

Nowadays people in China have access to amazingly cheap coffee grinders, because many great ones are made there (DF series, Timemore). Their colonial projects in Africa have resulted in relationships with lots of African coffee farmers. The Chinese province of Yunnan has coffee farming in the mountains and I really want to try some, one of these days. I think burman coffee has some green from there. They also have access to lots of coffee grown in Vietnam where the historical patron client relationship of tribute and suzerainty between the two countries has resulted in lasting coffee relationships. I find that Chinese roasteries I have seen online tend to have a lot of information about their beans published, as well as extensive cupping notes.

Specialty coffee in China is probably a more innovative scene than the West Coast USA one but I don’t have access to everything they’ve got in terms of beans and equipment and vice versa.

proboscis kitty

let them cry

more power to you m8 that is not so easy. I took intro computer architecture with one of the guys who wrote the manual for the first x86 processors at Intel and I still had a hard time

for real I bet none of these are that bad. wouldn’t choose them but gun to my head I’m going to just eat em up idk

this is why I brew espresso with bottled water. Scale will really fuck it up. I make pour overs with my approx 200 TDS local tap swill though because I’m a basic bitch

i worked for Walmart for years. they are definitely a plantation. Racist as hell, only tall white men get promoted

nobody is forcing you to use the far superior operating system. it’s funny because I’m pretty sure most Android developers use Macs, as do many developers, but everyone who likes to use FOSS and have control of their device uses an AOSP based OS on their device.

If you don’t want to be called racist misogynist rape apologists don’t be racist, misogynist, or apologize for rape. Pretty simple. Gamers are not actually an oppressed identity my guy. Nobody is out to get you.

good read. TLDR is that Sun Microsystems database software truncated passwords to 8 characters and the OP assumed that others must do that too. I surely hope not, TBH. I thought truncating to 8 characters had to do with computational or storage efficiency back when that mattered. I’m pretty sure most database fields if they’re modern use like a 256 character limit for passwords right?

Just say you don’t like coffee and go take your pills mate some of us enjoy the flavor of the beverage

oh hell yeah. Ben was always the good one, he came to my school and talked about how selling out to evil ass Unilever allowed them to actually do a lot of charity work. Jerry was nowhere to be found.

Shit, I remember when my machine couldn’t handle compiz fusion and this demo made me jealous. We’ve come a long way.

that’s the bear riding its bike through Central Park that RFK Jr. put there

they are, though. My nerve pain, dysautonomia, and chronic fatigue from long COVID are all dismissed as being just in my head

When people asked me if the pope shits in the woods I would always ask “is the bear Catholic?” back and this confirms that the bear is indeed Catholic

they created agitation, too, I see what they did there

isn’t it “up yours, children?”

The little monster peed on my hoodie that had fallen on the floor. Also inside an open box that had a wire rack I was going to build. I need to figure out what’s wrong with her. The urine is very yellow and concentrated. We have fleas we can’t get rid of that came from the vet’s office when they were spayed, and she’s allergic and pees because of that supposedly but it’s been less than a month between doses. I did it on the 22nd initially and she has peed on things earlier in the month ever since. I don’t know what is wrong with her. It’s Revolution Plus she is prescribed.