I’m now a pro magic the gathering player! Never thought I’d ascend to such heights, I’m terrible at magic lol
Dogsitter, probably, since I work from home and thus “sit” my own dog all the time
Coffee taster…
I live in a medium sized US city, and even here, StarBucks is pretty much the bottom of the barrel. Where do you live that StarBucks is the best?
Edit: Not throwing shade, genuinely curious. I had this situation in my hometown. But India is a tea-centric culture, so it’s understandable.
I drink homemade mixes, Starbucks it’s good also, check out YouTube for different kinds of homemade mixes there are some which taste pretty good made with instant coffee.
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Christ on a bike I wouldn’t take coffee advice from either of yous two loons
I don’t get it. Why do people like Starbucks? To me it’s bitter and granular. Compared to a Nero which is smooth and sweet.
Yet, many avid coffee drinkers I know love the taste of Starbucks. Is it a genetic thing?
Is it a genetic thing?
Probably more of a cultural one. Like how even Americans with Scandinavian ancestry consider black liquorice taste bud poison but us Scandinavians IN Scandinavia generally can’t get enough of it 😁
i’m from melbourne, australia which is one of the best places in the world for coffee… when i go to the US i try to find good coffee but our version of good tends to be VERY different
US good is a dark roast - which i find very bitter… australian coffee (and melbourne in particular) is quite a light roast, which is more acidic but less bitter
i find most good coffee in the US to be pretty undrinkable (this probably comes down to choice of preparations: black drip is pretty weak; espresso starts out strong), but a starbucks blonde is… inoffensive (note with relation to your comment: a light roast is probably what you’re talking about; especially a light double ristretto… a ristretto is a half shot, twice… the bitterness from coffee comes at the end of the shot, so nero is perhaps a light roast double ristretto… you also tend to get most of the caffeine in the first half i think? so it’s more caffeine if that worries you)
so when i’m in a rush and really just want to not hate what im putting in me, ill find a starbucks not because its good, but because its fucking hard work to find a good coffee that’s also my taste - my usual cues for a cafe just don’t work in the US, and there’s no a fantastic cafe on literally every corner so the choice is even harder
And he still wouldn’t have cycled to Starbucks 🤢
RN = Refreshments and Narcotics
Are you me?
Please refer to me as Total War XMunk in the future. I shall reign terror upon this land.
Well, either that or I’m now a professional pilgrim… gosh, I wish you could get paid for just walking a lot.
Power point archivist and people tracker downer!
I basically do farming at the level of a second job, so I suppose it would be that even though I don’t do it commercially (yet).
How is this going, where do you live, and what do you grow? I hobby-garden, have more space to plant and wouldn’t mind selling some of it but afraid of growing too much of one thing and throwing everything out of whack.
I live in a rural area in northern Japan.
We just started a few months ago (we were supposed to get the house last year but, due to various factors, we couldn’t take possession and get moved in until just before April). We’re definitely learning a lot about farming and what works for our land and environment but, because of the time we got the house, we’ve been super rushed. I think we’ll do better next year.
My goal is to position myself to deal with a lot of products foreigners living in Japan want and have trouble getting. That’s a lot of peppers, different types of beans, etc.
Opposite climate here in Florida, it’s okra season now & not much else wants to grow except the basil and mint but in the fall, winter and spring we can grow a lot of different things. We did get a couple of watermelons to harvest too, that was nice. Apparently they don’t mind the 35C temps everyday, but once the rains start in earnest it’s just okra time.
Fennel isn’t fussy, that might be good too for you.
Nice! I hadn’t really thought of fennel.
Cucumbers and okra have been our two most successful things so far. Most of my herbs are doing OK as well, I suppose. We’ve hit 35 a couple times this year. The forecast has us mostly in the upper 20s and low 30s for the next few weeks. I just got second planting potatoes in, so we’ll see how that goes. I planted a bunch of daikon radish, it came up nicely, then died a couple of days later. I’m not sure if it’s the intense sun and heat or if I needed to get water to them again sooner. I’ve still got more seeds, so I might try planting them again later in the season.
Professional Cat Petter! 😻
Sysadmin cosplayer or Barista.
Pro golfer or sword fighter. Can’t complain
Huh, I now get paid to waste time staring at the internet. Neat, I guess?
Urgh, better than being paid to start online fights. Your mother?
MY MOTHER’S A SAINT
Tracing shapes & cutting them out.
It’s like 20% sewing, the other 80% being planning, geometry, resource management, tracing, and cutting.
And I often discover that I’m still bad at math! Pain. 🫠
Director of building Magic the Gathering commander decks but not actually playing them
I feel you. Moxfield is my greatest enemy.
I really don’t want to play Arma professionallyI misunderstood the questionI’m a pro TTRPG think-abouter… Or a pro Pathfinder prepper.
