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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.

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

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?

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

CD players were first sold in 1982, when Boomers (if the baby boom started 1945) were hitting their 40s and established in every industry. I think they were actually the perfect demographic to be able to afford a CD player when it first came out.

believe in the ball, and throw yourself!

idk, I would live there, it looks about the same as my apartment. Detached dwellings are nice if you get a yard to customize but I think you’re right, it would be more efficient as apartments because you don’t even get a yard with these.

this is untrue. strawberries get moldy at the store all the time, I both stocked them and culled them and picked them for customers and I can confirm that almost once a day I found moldy berries if not more than once a day

the only reason anyone has bought a cybertruck for a business is because incentives for heavy vehicles make it possible to almost entirely write them off on taxes

don’t other truck manufacturers that actually know how to build a truck also make electrified models?

Accurate username

Agreed, in my limited experience with both CSS is like the conceptual opposite of assembly. When I do web design I tell it what I want to look like but can’t see how it’s getting there because that’s done for me. Assembly is the lowest level of abstraction we’ve got and it took me ages to write a little program for class that returns an argument in it (Jasmin VM) and then get GCC to compile it.

I would say that CSS is like doing an incantation that magically makes the site look good if you do it right, and assembly is like building something by hand.