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If you feel like taking the chance, go for a lighter roast or a breakfast blend. Something unapologetically nutty and smooth. Drip coffee is not usually great. Pour over or French press is the easiest method for getting smooth coffee.

It may take some experimenting to dial in the steep time that works for you, but for French press I’d recommend starting at 5 to 6 minutes before slowly pressing the grounds. Too strong or bitter? Steep for less time.

Add half & half to taste. It softens the coffee flavour a bit and complements a nutty brew.

Starbucks and other corporate coffee is not good. If you have a small local coffee shop that roasts their own, give them a try. A good barista can suggest a brew for you if you describe what you’re after.

Or: Continue to not drink coffee. You’ll avoid that slight daily caffeine dependence and save some money, so I really can’t fault you at all.

He has a very punchable, condescending face.

I’m not threatening, simply observing.

Platonic ideal of a punchable face.

Adorable dryer lint

I was gonna check my iPad 1 to see what’s still on it but it might finally have died for good. There were some fun time wasters like Ragdoll Blaster, Cube Runner and Robot Unicorn Attack, and if you create music there’s NanoStudio and BeBot. I think there was a solid video pinball game as well.

They came after DankPods?? That’s it. The accelerated climate change, massive content theft, and literal fascism was fine but how DARE they

Willy’s Wonderland is a way better Five Nights at Freddie’s than the actual Five Nights at Freddie’s.

Seriously they need to fail faster

So what exactly does he do that’s worth $300,000/hr? Or let’s say he works 10 hours a day, 7 days a week for the whole year (and you know he does not), $190,000/hr?

Good luck - you’ll do great!

I don’t have anything more helpful than what others have posted, but I wanted to add that you cannot control the actions of other drivers, but you can watch them and plan for their actions.

I ride a motorcycle, so I assume other drivers are always trying to kill me (that is an extreme way of putting it, but not inaccurate). Under this assumption, I am constantly scanning the road conditions, signs, traffic flow, and importantly, other vehicles’ behaviour. It sounds like a lot to take in, but with practise it is not so bad.

Start small - sit behind the wheel in a car park to get used to how things look from that position. I love the suggestion to place paper bags as obstacles when you start moving to improve your perception of space around the car. Typically, people will eventually “extend” their sense of their own body to include the car itself, but that is easier for some people and harder for others.

Getting back to my original point: when you drive, you are almost driving the cars around you as well, since you should monitor and predict potential issues caused by other drivers. Like “feeling” the car around you, this is also something that comes with practise.

Most of the time, I leave ample distance between me and other cars and drive a comfortable speed. If someone doesn’t like my pace, they can pass me. Their urgency is not my concern. I watch how cars ahead of me drift and move along the road, how their front wheels are angled at intersections (to predict where they plan to go) and how they navigate around other drivers.

After a while, based on other cars’ “body language” it will get easier to predict their actions and leave yourself plenty of time to react, or even take a different route to avoid issues.

Finally, a positive note. Most drivers do not want to damage their expensive car. Around 90% of problem drivers are simply distracted, which is usually something you can predict by their movement, or by any change in traffic flow that might surprise someone not paying attention (curves, road hazards, roundabouts and intersections, highway exits and onramps, etc.).

Driving is something you can do, and it is a lot of small, quick observations that become part of your technique the more you drive. Start small and practise at your own pace with someone who is supportive.

If you were comfortable with it, you might be prone to distraction while driving, so use your discomfort as a weapon! It will keep you vigilant and likely be your biggest strength on the road.

I really enjoy tinkering with stuff and repairing it if I can. Doesn’t matter what. It’s satisfying keeping stuff out of the landfill.

Probably not ‘barrels’ of fun, but at least a couple of buckets’ worth.

Literally ask someone which switch it is. Then ask them what idiot wired them up that way

First thought: now I want grilled cheese and tomato soup Second and all-consuming thought: holy carp that is my exact stove

I also have to use it for work. I don’t know if it’s Adobe, or Windows 11, or a toxic combination of both, but not a single day goes by where I can just create without things randomly breaking. Illustrator stops letting me drag with the direct selection tool. Premiere switches to hotkeys as I’m typing text. InDesign…actually InDesign has been behaving.

But literally all the other Adobe apps will break AS I’M USING THEM - like, an action I’ve literally just done suddenly doesn’t work or glitches out. A couple weeks ago Premiere and Photoshop would literally crash on open. The day before they were both fine.

I have Gimp, Inkscape, and KdenLive installed just in case.

I suppose so, but we usually only see this level of fanaticism from one of the sides, and it happens to be the side that turned politics into a massive clown show.

Well, publicly anyway. In the last 50 years.

Greetings Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada…

I am with you on every one of these points. The image selection process is terrible now, where before it was quick & simple. And in the past couple of updates, sending larger images and gifs was sporadic until now I always get an error. I was happy when they added message reactions, then puzzled when they just stopped at six, half of which are rarely useful.

I’ve been a paid user for years, but now I’m causally shopping for something else. If they’re giving up on their app, so am I.

As someone else who lives in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, I use Amazon for stuff I can’t find locally. Our local (and family owned) grocery & hardware stores are not much more expensive, so I tend to buy essentials there and save Amazon as a last resort. Amazon’s pricing isn’t anything special, and being able to talk to a knowledgeable shop owner is more than worth the extra few cents in price.

It wasn’t my idea and it’s an inherited friend group (they are my partner’s friends) but you are more than welcome to grab this idea and run with it!

It’s a great way to turn work into a fun social activity.