this will go nowhere due to large bribes donations

There were still tickets available the day before, despite heavy discounts. I suspect they used seat filling services in the end to push it to capacity.They had to do so for some of the other knock out stages.

Yeah we stole all our good food from our former colonies and improved on them, see curry.

Yeah that’s not the same thing as a bland food diet, that’s up there with the cabbage diet for how awful it is.

Mine is: Scrambled eggs made with cottage cheese + porridge for breakfast Chicken, salad (no dressing) and rice for lunch Chicken, vegetables and rice/sweet potatoes/lentils for tea

No sauces, just dry herbs/spices as a rub.

Snacks are two protein shakes, naked bar (counts as a one a day of fruit/veg allowance), banana.

Repeat for past two years. Before that it was lentils, avo, boiled egg, before than goats cheese salad for lunch.

Its boring as fuck when you do it for months at a time but it works for me. Controlling

Bozos would absolulety wet himself with the opportunity to own slaves for his warehouses. He can claim too big too fail and just tap into all that free labor in Trumps Alligator Auschwitz.

just eating potatoes for every meal?

Only a small percentage of people keep weight off long term, Ive seen figures around 20% so whatever works for you is the right answer but its unlikely to be the same solution for the rest of your life. Its a higher relapse rate than alcoholics.

Speaking from experience, if you only buy healthy food it massively reduces the attack vector of unhealthy food, and by unhealthy I mean calorie dense food that leads to relapse due to its high processed sugar content.

If I am eating clean then everybody else in the house is eating clean, its no different from an alcoholic needing no alcohol on the house. Obviously food exists outside the house as well, but its about reducing your exposure to it as much as possible, which includes avoiding majority of restaurants.

Unless you have a problem with over consumption of food its very hard for people to directly equate it to an addiction. When people who can self regulate food intake, who have never had to diet in their life, try to give diet advice its like a fish giving running advice.

One of the strategies for long term weight loss is to swap from an interesting and tasty diet (which are often high calorie density) to one as bland and uninteresting to you as possible diet (often low calorie density). Idea being you will eat less if you are only eating to survive rather eating to enjoy, you will leave more on the plate.

Personally I say fuck that, as life is hard enough as it is.

If you are into tinkering with your pour over its hard to look over the options a Switch (and similar) provides as it can do both immersion and percolation and switch between both multiple times during the same brew, offering insane flexibility.

It can also reduce the skill/effort level for simpler brews because it can provide control over flow rate through the bed so you don’t need to be super skilled with your kettle. I think one of the most powerful things I have seen suggested for it, is to lock it out, add your bloom water then add in the grounds. This massively reduces the churn that a poor kettle or clumsy barista has during that crucial phase.

Obviously more options can lead to more complexity, some of the recipes I have seen are frankly ridiculous for the average brewer to follow every day. This is where an attractive brewer like the Suiren comes in, if it look great and you want to use it because its attractive, then that’s the better brewer for you rather than struggling with some over the top recipe that wasn’t optimized for the beans you actually using.

I prefer using my Yasukiyo or my Tsubame over my Switch or Flo or Orea for this reason, despite them not being the best dripper that I own.

This is about being able to charge more for Saturday delivery like most other “premium” delivery companies as they sure as shit wont be cutting the hours that they expect the Posties to work.

Because second class has a decent service level, even now, its possible to time your parcel delivery for a Saturday reasonably accurately for a low(er) fee. Drop second class then push up the prices for 1st class parcels.

Then when they can, with a more friendly Ofcom, they will stop first class on a Saturday and switch to a proper Saturday delivery tariff.

I have had a few that were very weakly soldered in, but the fine once they reflowed

I can’t understand that gibberish, speak RFC 791 like a true patriot

Without cutting back at all, even my frivolous spending and holidays, about six months.

If i cut holidays and frivolous stuff, about twelve months.

If i cut back essentials, sold some stuff, eighteen to twenty four months. If on top i downsized the house, probably five years.

If i could make it to seven years then my private pension would kick in and I can retire. If the government hasn’t already moved the age you can draw a private pension i could be retired already.

You also have to purge a decent amount of beans between such major changes otherwise you will risk bad cups for both. You should really purge on any grinder between changes, its less important for small changes in grind size in a low retention grinder but it can still impact the result. It certainly will cause problems with switching between pour over and espresso even in a very low retention grinder.

I would really just get a hand grinder for pour over (as that is easier to hand grind than espresso) and this, although I think a 64mm grinder offers a better prospect long term due to the ability to change the burrs for any of a huge range.

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Boil em mash em put em on a tattoo

UK we have had speed cameras for ages. There was a trend for people to either spray paint the lens or even firebomb the camera. So they had to put in a second (video) camera mounted as high as possible to protect the first camera, quite amusing that a safety camera has to be kept safe by another safety cameras, its cameras all the way down.

Personally I think speed cameras that monitor a fixed point are pretty dumb unless that fixed point is an accident black spot such as outside a school or a red light camera for dangerous set of traffic lights. Its far better to have average speed cameras for a large section of road but those are more costly as you need way more cameras to make them work outside of motorways as you need to cover all the junctions properly.

Latest cameras we have in testing can see if you do not have your seat belt done up or are using your phone. Just stopping people from using their phone has to be the biggest step forward we can make with modern road safety.

Scanning the list I’ve seen at least 70% of these. Majority of them are really really good.

However i wouldn’t put fleabag that far up, its heralded as orginal but is it fuck, invent talkingto the camera? Do fuck off. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is nepo as they come.

Also its not clear which version of the Office they are referring to, the UK version is so different. Its still good.

Its a well put together grinder with good build quality. However wouldn’t get this grinder if you aren’t sure its a good fit for your type of beans and your chosen method of making coffee.

One grinder with one burr set can be great at espresso and another at pour over, its rare to get a burr set that’s great at both at this price point, good yes, great no.

Also if you regularly switch between espresso and pour over/immersion it can be a pita with a lot of grinders switching between the two become of how much you have to adjust the dial. I think this one would be multiple turns. It doesn’t sound bad but try it, especially when you lose count of how many turns you done. I have two grinders for this exact reason.

If it was me, I would get a decent 64mm grinder as there are a metric ton of good 64mm burrs for all sorts of coffee. A 64mm grinder will enable you to play around a lot more with the burrs. The Oro locks you into their weird size with just their burrs, not good.

Remember I mentioned type of beans? If you like dark roast i would strongly suggest getting a conical grinder rather than a flat burr as it suits those beans better. If you like light roast then typically you want high clarity burrs, medium you could be in-between or in either direction.

Its the running costs of these that are insane, and the CO2 that it produces.

All will be rated by gallons per hour for the engines, the big boats can consume 500 gallons per hour. Now assume the owner wants to move the boat just 100 nm, or about 3 hours of travel at the most efficient speed (allowing for departure and arrival). Thats about 1500 gallons for one of the big boats. Assume £6 per gallon, thats £9k, to do 60 nm. Assuming an average of 40 mpg in a car, you could do 60000 miles for the same amount of fuel, or the same annual consumption as seven average UK drivers vs. 60 nm in a big boat. A 60 nm trip is something you do to get to a lunch stop before going on somewhere else for the evening. It can take multiple days of continuous travel to work across the Med, mean while the owner flies somewhere else while the boat is moved, then flies back.

Then there is the electric production on these. Sure, solar has helped a ton, but a lot of the really big boats don’t have a ton of solar as it takes flat surface space that has other shit on it. So they use a generator, a big one. Whole boat will have aircon and copious amounts of inverters to give the guests mains electric, electric toys, tons of lighting, and navigation equipment. The fuel for this is on top of the fuel burned to move the boat.

Then there is the staff on the boat, big boats can have a dozen or more staff on board, all of whom had to fly to get to the boat, and have their own food, washing, and daily energy needs.

Its not uncommon for a rich owner to request the boat moved to a particular location, stocked up with food and booze that is flown in from multiple locations. Then the owner and their guests fly in, and sometimes not, so all that effort and energy is wasted.

Final kicker is that really big boats have a second chase boat, full of even more staff and often similar size to the main boat in consumption. Bezos has two helicopter pads on his chase boat as he cannot have one on his main boat because he wanted sails on it, which don’t actually work properly, they have never used more than one at once.