That looks amazing.

My wife and I travelled to Europe many times over the past 30 years. We aren’t wealthy, we were a couple of budget travellers that enjoyed seeing as much of the world as possible. One of our favourite things to do was to spend the entire day walking a new European city … we never spent money on anything, we just enjoyed walking as much of the city as possible. We spent most of our time in southern Spain and northern Italy, the lands of coffee. The only thing we spent money on was coffee because we knew every major Spanish, Italian or French city would always have many great cafes with some of the most amazing espresso machines ever made. The first morning coffee was usually a cappuccino, then a walk and maybe a second one with a croissant or chocolate pastry. Then the rest of the day was an espresso or two and it was all enough to carry us all day until we had a great meal at the end of the day. In Italy, it was customary to eat your pizza meal and wrap it up with an espresso.

Thanks so much for showing me this … so many great and wonderful memories for me of being with my life partner just enjoying a simple cappuccino or espresso as we watched a new city. My wife passed away this past December, we had been together for just over 30 years. Your image has really made me happy … at first I was joking that I would act like a silly idiot like Ned Flanders over some coffee … but now your familiar image has me choking up with joy, sadness and nostalgia (but mostly joy). Enjoy your espresso, it looks amazing, it’s made me happy and I’m very happy for you.

EDIT: I was doing a quick search through some of our old photos and I thought you would be interested in this one … Majestic Café in Porto, Portugal … open 105 years ago in 1921, its described as a " It’s a living museum of Belle Époque architecture where literary figures, artists, and intellectuals once gathered to debate ideas and shape Portuguese culture." … not only do you get to have a great European coffee, you feel like you’re having it after entering a time machine

I stood in line at a Tim Hortons the other day just to get a small black coffee because I was going for a walk.

I was behind a young couple who looked like they were just hanging out. I thought this was going to be fast … I stood there for 20 minutes … because they had each ordered some sort of strange Mocha-cheeka-frapa-wach-a-me-call-it extra large with extra cream, six sugar, maple shot, vanilla shot ice frappachino thing … the server had to jump from station to station pumping creamers, flavours, sugar, cream, ice and coffee and then over to a milkshake mixer to mix it all together for each one. I assumed the couple knew it was going to take long because as soon as they finished explaining and detailing their order to the server, they went to go sit down … all while the rest of us 8 people in line had to wait.

Oh my god … I’m a guy and I would probably shriek like Ned Flanders with my fists in the air if I saw this.

Every time I go into a cafe of any kind, I look behind the bar to see what kind of machine they have. The board may advertise ‘espresso, cappuccino, mochafrapamachitomoochoochoochinowhatever’ … but if you don’t have a machine like this prominently sitting in the back for everyone to see, you aren’t serving proper coffee.

It’s surprising how many places are out there that call themselves ‘cafes’ and have a simple $500 instant coffee machine in the back. The ones who aren’t aware or don’t care, just place the machine in full view and no one cares. Some places tastefully try to hide the machine and pretend they have an expensive machine somewhere serving coffee.

But the gold standard is if you see a machine like the one in your image that costs $5,000 to $20,000 serving the most delicious coffee … that is the point where I will pay $10 for a single shot of espresso.

lol … I got the same French Press carafe as in the photo

I dump in four tablespoons of coffee, pour in hot boiling water, stir it with a spoon and let it steep while I make breakfast. Once steeped for several minutes, I apply the press and pour out coffee in a mug to go with breakfast … then the rest goes into a small thermos.

First coffee is hot and goes with my first morning meal … on most days, second coffee goes with me to the home office during the day … or I throw it in a backpack to take with me for a motorcycle ride in the afternoon.

… and yes I do get a bit of bitter grounds and grains at the end … but I usually don’t drink the last ounce of coffee, and just pour it out and rinse everything.

The problem is the filtering … yes you can filter it more to get the grounds out but it either takes a lot of time or effort and there is still a 50/50 chance you mess things up and you end up with grounds anyway … or you just do a rough filtering job and put up with a bit of grounds at the end and don’t drink the last bit of coffee at the bottom of the cup. It reminds me of Turkish coffee that has a ton of grounds at the end that aren’t supposed to be consumed.

Is this is a sibling or relative of the WAT lady?

I think its done by design to drive people away from using a browser where people have more control and the website has less control (of course depending on the skill and patience of the user)

Having a shitty service on browser and on certain devices just drives people to view Youtube more and more on self contained smart services like Smart TVs or dedicated viewing devices.

I use Linux, firefox and have ad blocking extensions … and sometimes Youtube just becomes unusable

Was the summer of 20 26

me and some guys on lemmy

had a group and we tried real hard

I had to learn … and I think most sensible people learn … the hard way.

I’ve broken several bolts over the years and now I torque wrench everything down to the 5lbf if I have to. It’s a real pain, especially if you start owning things that are 10, 20, 30 years old. The combination of aged metal that may have become weaker over time and use as well as the complication of finding the right part again (or a matching part) is just a huge headache.

I’d rather look like an uptight idiot torquing a tiny bolt than in being that guy looking for a bolt that either doesn’t exist anymore or is buried in a wrecking yard somewhere far away.

Even if I wasn’t a famous captain … or on an interstellar ship of any kind … or had plot armour … I’M STILL A MIDDLE AGED WHITE MALE! … I’M KING OF THE UNIVERSE!

(note: … I’m being stupid and mocking here … I’m a big brown, long haired, 100% Indigenous Canadian who spent his entire life either looked down upon for being who I am or glorified for being who I wasn’t … in essence, always being judged for my appearance … whereas I kept repeating the same conversations with my white friends who always asked what the problem with racism was all about and them thinking that it was either not that bad or didn’t exist because they never experienced it)

The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones

Then we learned that if you wanted to get the right answer from people … all you had to do was confidently post an answer, any answer, especially if it was wrong … and so many people would jump on you so fast to tell you how stupid you were and give you the right answer.

… and you also had to tie an onion on your belt which was the style of the time.

I’M A MIDDLE AGED WHITE MALE?

I don’t care what we’re doing, because I know I’m all set!

Looks like a hole in the wall to me

Are you a member of Ocean’s 14?

FRAH-GEE-LEH! … must be Italian!

The fact that you were able to participate and still work within HOA regulations is an accomplishment onto itself.

I’m Indigenous Canadian … 100% Ojibway on all sides of my family

As soon as I saw the first movie, I knew immediately it was just cultural appropriation … the blue space smurfs are modeled around jungle tribes … then their fighting is reminiscent of western Native tribes like the Apache, Comanche and Navajo … the war tribes are also modeled around African tribes … then all their spiritual stuff is weird space version of native mysticism from many Native cultures around the world

It wouldn’t have been so bad if they had left it like that … but the worst part is that they portray the Natives as being naive, childlike, simplistic beings who are incapable of defending themselves … so the story needs a white saviour who takes on the suit of one of the Natives … essentially, the Natives are too dumb to save themselves so they need one of the white colonizers to save them.

And we also have to feel empathy and sympathy for the white saviour who tried to save the natives … even though he volunteered for the mission and it was his people who wanted to kill them all.

As an indigenous person I’ve absolutely hated avatar because its cultural appropriation disguised as a space opera … love the cgi and effects but not the writing … probably better to watch it on mute.

Happy to discover that many people see it the same way and refer to it as …

DANCES WITH SMURFS

This is just another daily reminder of this quote …

“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich”

I remember reading years ago as well that there is more than enough food and water to make every living human comfortable and fed … Africa alone could be able to self sustain itself by producing its own food and providing clean water for every person the continent if all its resources and services were organized in the most efficient way - instead the finances of African nations is organized in such a way that they spend more on paying for debts and selling all their resources to first world nations.

In this day in age, with the amount of knowledge, technology and ability we have on the planet … every living human should have proper drinking water and they should have all the food they need … there should be no excuse for anyone any where to be starving or lacking water.

The fact that there are starving people in the world means that we all accept a world where thousands and even millions go without.