Four words for you: Stay At Home Parent (or one works part-time). Easily doable in a country with a lower cost of living, and we have the option due to three citizenships between us:)
People like them and value them. If people felt ripped off, they would stop going. But people don't feel ripped off. You're simply disagreeing with their preference. It's like saying a jazz music concert is a ripoff — I don't like jazz, but value is subjective.
You can't reproduce a good jazz concert in your own home for a tenth of the cost.
It's really the "convenience" explosion. You pay for the convenience of not having to fool with it.
Decades ago, they made this machine that would automatically brew a hot cup of coffee at whatever time you set the coffee alarm to, so that people could wake up to a hot cup of coffee ready and waiting for them.
The true stupidity is listening to the Starbucks generation dealing with store lines, drive thrus, and obscene prices, claiming their way is somehow more convenient.
If you're talking about Goblin Teasmade, they could only produce crap coffee.
it really depends on what you drink, if you go for a latte (breve), making it at home is a much different beast than simple drip coffee. those espresso machines are NOT cheap, and despite what you're reading in this thread, a 80 dollar mr. coffee espresso maker simply cannot produce enough pressure to properly steam milk (at least in comparison to a professional grade machine at a coffee house can do)
Espresso doesn't have milk.
I agree you can't make a decent cappuccino at home without some effort.
If you love the taste of tea then you would likely a) not have tea that comes in bags, and b) not pour boiling water on it
I thought tea needed proper boiling water? I am pretty sure coffee doesn't. If neither do, what the fuck is the point of a kettle? You might as well just use the hot tap in your sink.
I am not a coffee drinker, but my wife makes coffee with a French press and swears it's delicious. We paid $99 for the fancy one but I've been told that you can get just as good for a third of the price.
A French press is called a cafetiere here in the UK. By far the easiest way to make decent coffee easily.
How do you prevent it from charging 100% when you're asleep ?
Code yourself a simple app to sound an excruciatingly loud alarm when charging reaches 80%. You wake up, and pull the plug out when you throw the thing against the wall, job done.
The dog was generalizing. Most cats run on being confronted by an aggressive dog. So, he expected normal cat behavior. It's true, not all cats run, but the vast majority will run from even a smaller dog who is aggressive.
Yes but dogs will keep doing the same thing over and over again with the same cat, if my pets are anything to go by. Maybe dogs can't differentiate between different cats?
That's fairly near the top of my list of Unlikely Things To Read On Slashdot (number one being any post including the phrase "while I was having sex with my girlfriend").
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Four words for you: Stay At Home Parent (or one works part-time). Easily doable in a country with a lower cost of living, and we have the option due to three citizenships between us :)
Two words: helicopter parent.
When we have kids
Translation: I have no fucking idea about how kids actually behave nowadays.
Fecesbook... I like that.
Almost as witty as Micro$oft.
You can are going to let you child do something that you vehemently is wrong
You a word or two somewhere.
JJ Abrams Trek is better than Michal Bay Transformers
Since sawing off your own penis with a rusty breadknife is better than Michael Bay's Transformers, this is really not saying much.
with a hollow meaningless life, whose only joy comes from getting exploited by hollywood
Well someone's a grumpy little bear this morning.
So... you'd pay for a place to go and wait for someone while using the WiFi?
I think I just had an idea for a business.
Perhaps you could serve them coffee too.
Or you could follow the Starbucks model and serve them scalding piss flavoured with syrup to reduce the cost.
People like them and value them. If people felt ripped off, they would stop going. But people don't feel ripped off. You're simply disagreeing with their preference. It's like saying a jazz music concert is a ripoff — I don't like jazz, but value is subjective.
You can't reproduce a good jazz concert in your own home for a tenth of the cost.
It's really the "convenience" explosion. You pay for the convenience of not having to fool with it.
Decades ago, they made this machine that would automatically brew a hot cup of coffee at whatever time you set the coffee alarm to, so that people could wake up to a hot cup of coffee ready and waiting for them.
The true stupidity is listening to the Starbucks generation dealing with store lines, drive thrus, and obscene prices, claiming their way is somehow more convenient.
If you're talking about Goblin Teasmade, they could only produce crap coffee.
it really depends on what you drink, if you go for a latte (breve), making it at home is a much different beast than simple drip coffee. those espresso machines are NOT cheap, and despite what you're reading in this thread, a 80 dollar mr. coffee espresso maker simply cannot produce enough pressure to properly steam milk (at least in comparison to a professional grade machine at a coffee house can do)
Espresso doesn't have milk.
I agree you can't make a decent cappuccino at home without some effort.
I factor in warming up time. If I want an espresso at home in the morning I'd need to wake up 15min earlier.
Are you talking about some whizz-bang Hipster Steampunk machine or something?
Domestic espresso machines are pretty much as quick as making a cup of instant coffee assuming you have to boil a kettle..
If you love the taste of tea then you would likely a) not have tea that comes in bags, and b) not pour boiling water on it
I thought tea needed proper boiling water? I am pretty sure coffee doesn't. If neither do, what the fuck is the point of a kettle? You might as well just use the hot tap in your sink.
I am not a coffee drinker, but my wife makes coffee with a French press and swears it's delicious. We paid $99 for the fancy one but I've been told that you can get just as good for a third of the price.
A French press is called a cafetiere here in the UK. By far the easiest way to make decent coffee easily.
The coffee shop explosion is one of the great rip-offs of our age
Still not as bad as bottled water when the stuff from your tap is perfectly drinkable.
DON'T charge you battery to 100%
How do you prevent it from charging 100% when you're asleep ?
Code yourself a simple app to sound an excruciatingly loud alarm when charging reaches 80%. You wake up, and pull the plug out when you throw the thing against the wall, job done.
buy one of those, tape it to your phone I think this fails the "elegant hack" test.
A butcher, Yeti, an honorable candidate for the Presidency, and a pirate are at a four-way crossing of the roads...
That's how you butcher a joke.
A butcher, a butcher, a butcher and a butcher are at a four-way crossing of the roads.
That's how you butcher a joke.
Are there people identifying as non people?
I believe "otherkin" are a thing, yes.
Aren't there large quantities of human waste in orbit?
Yeah, when astronauts want a dump they just open a window and let fly. It's like medieval London.
Why are all planets round?
Well right there I have to pull you up, since at least one (Earth) is flat. Although I suppose a disc is round, so I'll let you off.
There's a species of dolphin that has 37 billion, so we're only half as smart as a dolphin!
Yeah, but when was the last time a dolphin won a Nobel Prize?
The dog was generalizing. Most cats run on being confronted by an aggressive dog. So, he expected normal cat behavior. It's true, not all cats run, but the vast majority will run from even a smaller dog who is aggressive.
Yes but dogs will keep doing the same thing over and over again with the same cat, if my pets are anything to go by. Maybe dogs can't differentiate between different cats?
As someone who has owned a wolf in the past
That's fairly near the top of my list of Unlikely Things To Read On Slashdot (number one being any post including the phrase "while I was having sex with my girlfriend").
It sounds like the pilots in question will *not* be taking off.
Yes, that was the joke intended. Well spotted.
Opps. Should be per year
Metric or imperial?