cafebee

This reply shows a complete lack of empathy. Was that not something you learned in your functioning community?

I’m working on a shattered teapot and am finding the scaffolding part very difficult. Any tips on holding pieces in place that you’d be willing to share?

Thank you for the detailed answer! It makes sense that the vegetal flavors are the raw flavors from the beans themselves. And that temperature is much more complicated than it appears. I also appreciate the Scott Rao pointer, perhaps that will be interesting future reading.

What are the variables that a roaster can tweak? Temperature, time, and lots of others I assume? Which variable can produce vegetal flavors? I’d never thought much about roasting but now I’m curious!

How? Wouldn’t they check your ticket at the gate?

There’s a big cultural divide between urban and rural Americans. It shows up in all sorts of contentious issues, not just this one. For example, urban Americans that would like to limit gun ownership where they live are largely prevented from doing so because of the preferences of rural Americans.

That’s fascinating - my weirdest stranger story wouldn’t make your top 100. Is there something about your home, work, or hobbies that could account for so many strange encounters? Or just luck of the draw?

> For better or worse, the side channels are not an accident. They are extremely intentionally designed. Accessing them often requires performance of being a professional-managerial class member or otherwise knowing some financial industry shibboleths

What is meant by side channels here? Is it writing "a paper letter to the VP of Retail Banking", as mentioned elsewhere in the article? That doesn't seem "intentionally designed", so the author must be referring to something else, but I don't have the imagination to guess it

To my ear, the two translations you listed sound very similar to primitivesuave’s “I am time…” translation and dissimilar to Oppenheimer’s “I am death…” translation. Can you explain why you disagree?

> People don't move to the big city because they want to live there

Perhaps you think that because you live outside a big city and so you’re experiencing sampling bias

In practice, backcountry hikers in the US do commonly bury toilet paper. There’s definitely a growing contingent arguing they shouldn’t, though. Portable bidets (like the culoclean brand) and pee cloths (like the kula brand) can reduce toilet paper use and make packing it out easier.