"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

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I can't vote because 2 of the choices say weekend without differentiating between Saturday [boo! terrible] and Sunday [yay! awesome].
On a more serious note, anything that happens before 1330EST/1:30PM works, but after that, I'm working on the days mentioned, so the noon EST streams were always ~half done before work, and that was good enough. Fingers crossed for Sunday, though.
And Café Bustelo always reminds me of housesitting for friends who told me to make it in their percolator [pre-vegan days] so I had it with half and half from their fridge. Good stuff. Cuban espresso, comfy logo:
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After I quit using Mr. Coffee-style makers, I realized those things make coffee taste like a melted candle; I have to assume it's the broken plastic molecules, which are dangerous as well as untasty. Plastic re-forms as pseudo estrogens when heated and that shit is bad for everyone, we're talking breast cancer for starters, and this has been known for a long time. Do what you gotta do, but do it sans plastic.
French press for me, if I'm making coffee.

Jesse CounterSingal
[I know, shitty pun, but it's an opportunity to mention (not aimed at you) that his name is spelled Singal, not signal, and thus is pronounced like 'single']
Probably showing my power level too much by saying this - but the best fucking coffee hands down I've ever had is this little shop out of Dallas. Eiland Coffee. They source the beans straight from the farmers, roast, grind and bag them in house - literally, it's a hole-in-the-wall house sized shop. Definitely recommend if you can afford the shipping. I will die on this hill.
 
Looks like Elon's desperate to hold onto that free speech cred after the community notes called out his de-bluecheck bullshit.
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I want a list of everyone who is unbanned from Twitter before I am.

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a magical substance known as aspartame
Every sweetener has a downside:

Aspartame (Equal, Blue packet): Makes you hungry, and rumors of cancer
Saccharin (Sweet N' Low, Pink packet): Tastes bad (and a laxative)
Stevia (Green packet): Tastes a little bad (and a slight laxative), possibly also kills the white blood cells in your mouth.
Sucralose (Splenda, Yellow packet): Expensive and not truly Calorie free.

I demand sodas be available that use cane sugar. However instead of the teeth rottingly diabetes quantity (12% of the soda by weight!) they use now, a much reduced amount.
 
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Aspartame: Makes you hungry
oh trust me, i know.

I switched to coffee because it's easier on your body but I can't drink it black because coffee is a putrid taste. I add milk, and a lot of it.

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talking at least F2~B6 up to d1~A4 if I really splash it in.

so that's at least a cup of milk, 120~150 calories. if I drink 3 cups of coffee a day (EASY) that's like eating an extra beef burrito from taco bell every day.

I've thought about either investing money and time into getting a coffee brewing station that *might* make such a deluxe level of coffee I can acquire a taste for it, but that's a lot of money, a lot of counter space, a lot of shit to haul around when I move again, and it might not even work. It's also a maintenance level that something like instant coffee, a kuerig, or drip coffee just doesn't require of you.

My other options are tea, water+caffeine pills, or to try and quit caffeine.

Tea is an appreciable option I've done before but I lost my equipment in a move so I stopped. I've never tried caffeine pills (something about taking pills is weird to me), but I will try it.

Quitting is an option a lot of people have suggested but I've never been able to. Ever. Not having caffeine makes me feel like I'm half asleep and my brain is one of those pin coushins just staked through a thousand times hindering focus.
 
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