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[hedgie]

Actually, the "stronger" tasting coffees are actually weaker when it comes to caffeine content.  The lighter roasts contain more.

[Akima]

I did not know that. It might explain something that has always puzzled me a little. I don't drink a lot of coffee, being mainly a tea snob (big surprise, right?), but when I do drink coffee it is always a "short black" (espresso) or a "long black", to use Australian coffee-shop terminology. Both are strongly flavoured and dark, and yet I have not noticed myself getting twitchy, and can get a good night's sleep even if I have an espresso after dinner. Or maybe I'm just habituated, because there is caffeine in tea too.

[Welu]

I've totally moved away from coffees because I always got flavoured mochas or lattes to cover the coffee taste anyway.

[Pilchard123]

[Kugai]

Here's lookin' at you kid.

[Metope]

From how I understand it, dark roasts have less caffeine because the beans have been roasted to death and are stripped of everything! Light roasts still contain a lot of caffeine, but have a milder taste since the flavor people associate with strong coffee is actually mostly the flavor of burnt.

I had roasting explained to me with a ketchup analogy once: Roasting beans to death masks the flavor of the beans but brings out the flavor of roasting in itself which many people actually like, so it's a good way of roasting beans if the beans are of poor quality and don't taste very good to begin with. If you have great quality beans, you should do a light roast since the good flavor is preserved. Kinda like how people put ketchup on fast food to make it taste better, but if you have good quality food, ketchup would make it worse.

[Welu]

One of my strongest family memories is one if my brothers putting enough ketchup on to his mash potatoes and mixing it so they slowly turned to a quite vibrant pink.

[hedgie]

I did not know that. It might explain something that has always puzzled me a little. I don't drink a lot of coffee, being mainly a tea snob (big surprise, right?), but when I do drink coffee it is always a "short black" (espresso) or a "long black", to use Australian coffee-shop terminology. Both are strongly flavoured and dark, and yet I have not noticed myself getting twitchy, and can get a good night's sleep even if I have an espresso after dinner. Or maybe I'm just habituated, because there is caffeine in tea too.

Metope is right on this one.  I used to work at a coffee shop where we roasted our own stuff.  Even the espresso was a light-medium roast to give it a better flavour.  Most espresso is burnt to hell, as is any "French Roast", or "Italian Roast" for that matter.  If you actually want to taste the coffee, order a light or medium roast. 

[Aziraphale]

I didn't know this. Makes sense, though... kinda like the difference between ordering a stake medium-rare versus well done.

[Method of Madness]

Most of my life I've been single, but now I'm single for the first time in years and I don't know how to be single. Then again, I never really did, I guess.

I don't get people who like being single. I'm not saying they're wrong, I just don't get it.

Edit: Whoa, I hit 12,000 posts!

[Loki]

Ouch. So it's definite then?

[Method of Madness]

Yeah...she didn't say so, but at some point I have to move on.

[explicit]

I wouldn't call it better, but it's certainly easier to be single. Unless you depend on the other person a lot I guess. Meh, I wouldn't know too much. My most recent "relationship" was pretty much just having drunk sex with the same person every week for a year.

[GarandMarine]

Well... I'm at a point where I like being single. I date around a bit, I have a couple interests wherein I could be not single if they were willing to go for it. (Including someone on this forum! and it's neither of the people you'd automatically assume! Well. Those people too, but besides the point.) It's nice not being beholden to any one for anything you know?

[Masterpiece]

One thing I want to say, Method, is this: Don't get hung up on trying to find an answer. It may not appear to you this way, but you're probably not in the proper mindset to hear it right now.

[Method of Madness]

I'm always looking for answers, Piece of Master. But mostly because I so enjoy the questions

[Masterpiece]

Eh, I'm probably only inferring from my own experiences, but when I got answers they never sounded right for me. And I know of so many people that got hung up on trying to find an answer that was right for them and never hearing what I wanted. What I'm trying to say is, the answer that Sarah may give you as to why she ended things may not be the answer you're looking for, and that shouldn't be a motivation to find one for yourself (because, again, only inferring from my experience, you may not be in the right mindset right now to hear answers).

[Method of Madness]

Nah, I'm ok. I no longer care why she ended things because I've realized it was for the best. See my post in HHJJ

[GarandMarine]

Blessed Yule to you all by the by

[Is it cold in here?]

The days have been getting shorter for months and it's getting really bad. I don't know how much more of this trend I can take.

[Kugai]

[Pilchard123]

Dal shakka mel!

[Thrillho]

The days have been getting shorter for months and it's getting really bad. I don't know how much more of this trend I can take.

In Britain today is the solstice, which means the days will start getting longer again, is that not the case where you are?

[Metope]

Still takes a while until it gets noticeably lighter though. We're only halfway in the darkness.

[Thrillho]

Of course it does, I was just trying to put a positive spin on it. At least the worst is over, officially, from today. And being halfway in means you're halfway out.

[Metope]

But... so loooong ughhhh (I may or may not be getting a cold and feel like complaining)

[Akima]

Would it help for me to say that we just passed the longest day of the year, and that it is 29C (84F) outside?

[cesium133]

The days have been getting shorter for months and it's getting really bad. I don't know how much more of this trend I can take.

In Britain today is the solstice, which means the days will start getting longer again, is that not the case where you are?

The days are about to start getting brighter. The mornings, not so much.

[jwhouk]

Would it help for me to say that we just passed the longest day of the year, and that it is 29C (84F) outside?

Uhm, no.

But we'll remember you come June.

[Thrillho]

The days have been getting shorter for months and it's getting really bad. I don't know how much more of this trend I can take.

In Britain today is the solstice, which means the days will start getting longer again, is that not the case where you are?

The days are about to start getting brighter. The mornings, not so much.

Man, you guys are really doing a great job shitting on my attempt to cheer cold up a little bit.

[Method of Madness]

To be fair, you succeeded in cheering me up!

[LeeC]

I would love to see a newly weds style show with best friends and the 3 "couple" contestants are Sean and Gus from Psych, Turk and JD from Scrubs, and Abed and Troy from Community.

[GarandMarine]

I cannot confirm that any contents of the article is true. I cannot confirm that I have ever been to the nation of PRONA, or that the United States performs any of this training. I cannot confirm that I STILL fucking hate and have odd reactions to that fucking Kipling poem. I cannot confirm that this is one of the most in depth and accurate descriptions of SERE East that I have ever read.

War Criminal 131 signing off.

http://www.wearethemighty.com/sere-school-just-tortured-2014-12?utm_content=buffer3f4a9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[GarandMarine]

I want to travel where life travels,
following its permanent lead
Where the air tastes like snow music
Where grass smells like fresh-born Eden
I would pass no man, no stranger, no tragedy or rapture
I would bathe in a world of sensation
Love, goodness and simplicity

[pwhodges]

So, I've had a lot of spam bots on the forums I help admin (a gaming community with a few hundred members or so), you guys ever get those here?

An update for you:

Spam bots don't get through the comprehensive defences we have set up.  What we have been seeing for several weeks now is a sustained attempt to post spam by humans, in Ukraine I think.  They can answer the check questions (I changed those to check that they weren't simply bots programmed with the answers), and the point at which they get stopped is a lookup on a crowd-sourced database of email and IP addresses that have been seen to originate spam; this is stopping dozens of new accounts every day - but occasionally one will slip through (and get added to the database to save others).

[explicit]

So, apparently, we had gotten rid of our spam protection after there weren't any incidents for a few months. We just got it back up thankfully.

Some of the bots were posting child porn so... ... regular spam is one thing, but we cannot have that shit going on.

[Loki]

...why'd you get rid of spam protection?
"I have been celibate for months and haven't gotten pregnant, so I guess I don't need to use condoms next time?" [emoji14]syduck:

[explicit]

I forget the reasoning, I don't deal with that stuff. I think we paid for it and were just trying to save some money. Our operating costs are like $120 a month and it's all based off donations. We never have problems meeting that number so I dunno why a few extra bucks matters, but I'm not in charge.

[The Seldom Killer]

I cannot confirm that any contents of the article is true. I cannot confirm that I have ever been to the nation of PRONA, or that the United States performs any of this training. I cannot confirm that I STILL fucking hate and have odd reactions to that fucking Kipling poem. I cannot confirm that this is one of the most in depth and accurate descriptions of SERE East that I have ever read.

War Criminal 131 signing off.

http://www.wearethemighty.com/sere-school-just-tortured-2014-12?utm_content=buffer3f4a9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Just wondering. Given the number of servicemen who go through SERE, has anyone ever made it through the evasion phase? It seems the probability exists that at least one by incidence has managed to slip through the cordon. Either by luck, judgement or a mix of the two.

[GarandMarine]

Not many service members go through SERE. It's a rather exclusive school. I know at least one person's "made it" in the last few years, but it's pretty rare. There's a certain amount of design that goes into evasion and capture, especially modernly. You're in contact with "Allied Forces" and are getting "orders and objectives" during the Evasion phase that might not be there or be pertinent during a real evasion.

[Noxx]

Can't sleep. Foolin around the poker cub at 2:30 am. Probably not wise.

[Orkboy]

Like GM says, SERE training is surprisingly rare.  Only people who will probably need it go through it, like the crazy bastards who parachute into hostile places to perform rescue operations.  The evasion section is pretty much rigged against the trainee, so without some kind of previous knowledge or training, actually evading is slightly less likely than winning the lottery.  Someone with considerable wilderness survival knowledge might have a chance, but we have infrared cameras mounted on things that fly, so not really.  The infrared systems I worked on could tell how full the base water tower was, and could literally see a fart on a cold day.  Spotting a dude running through the woods would be pretty easy. 

[Noxx]

So I logged six hours at a 5-5 no limit table for a net total of....... -$10. Talk about your unsatisfying evenings.

[94ssd]

I'm considering living in a loft-type apartment that is located below a pizza parlor. This would be starting in August. The rent is cheap, it's actually walking distance to campus, and every room has its own bathroom which is rare for a downtown apartment. But it has no windows, and my mother mentioned the possibility that living below a restaurant might attract bugs.

The only other places I've found that meet my needs (close to campus, private bathroom) are located in old-as-shit buildings and also don't have the benefit of all-inclusive rent.

[GarandMarine]

What if the concept of privilege is just a self expression of already internalized racist, sexist, and classist norms?

[LTK]

Doesn't work like that, privilege is what you are given through no action of your own, doesn't matter what norms you do or don't have.

[Akima]

Perhaps not, but GM's musing is a pretty good explanation of why people are typically not aware of their privilege, because they have internalised racist, sexist, classist etc. norms. It is the old story of why a fish is not aware of water.

[GarandMarine]

Doesn't work like that, privilege is what you are given through no action of your own, doesn't matter what norms you do or don't have.

I more meant the assumption of  privilege. "Well he's white so he has to have it better then me."

[cesium133]

TV ads now seem to fall exclusively in two categories:
1) Sad-looking kitties want your money.
2) Sad-looking children want your money.

[osaka]

Damn, you're ages ahead of Spain. We don't have kitties that want our money.