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Edit: after (rightly) getting called out for a post I made on FB, I've decided to just suspend my account there for awhile. I can't (and shouldn't) try to tell others what to post there, but I can control what I read. I'm tired of wanting to punch my monitor 2-3 times a day because of the toxicity there.
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The only reason I am staying on that platform is because it is my only real contact with a fair number of folk, but COVID19 is really bringing out some of the more disgusting Facebook memes lately. If I stay, I may have to start purging my friends list, or at least begin blocking people to keep my blood pressure down.
Rather than reposting the memes here, I'll just boil them down to their essences.
Like and share if you are smart like me and didn't buy a bunch of toilet paper.
(Wow, you're smarter than frightened people. You're so special.)
Why should we trust the government to battle this virus when the same government says they can stop global warming if we let them raise our taxes enough?
(You're so much smarter than those folks with education and degrees an' shit.)
I mean, the other memes are pretty bad too. The same people will unironically post back-to back memes calling on the government to a) stop taxing seniors, while b) spending more money on seniors.
Also, I get it folks - you don't like Trump. I understand. I don't like him either. But please come up with some new memes.
To put it in polite terms: Facebook people, please fuck off.
When I confronted the person about her corona virus/climate change meme, she admitted that she hadn't actually read and thought about it before sharing.
On the coffee front (how can you tell that I am retired?), I made a couple of minor discoveries.
Last weekend I picked up an interesting coffee from a local roaster. It's a very light roast coffee, made from beans that were dried without being de-meated. What I mean by that is that they removed the skins from the berries, but left the meat on them for the drying process. As a result, some fermentation took place during the process.
The resulting coffee had a very complex and interesting flavour, but it was very acidic. I don't mind a bit of acidity in my coffee, but I may as well have just added vinegar to this one. On a hunch, I added a pinch of baking soda to the brewing water and the change was just shy of miraculous. I experimented with the amount of baking soda from cup to cup and discovered that it took very little to be effective. If I added too much, it removed some of the other flavours as well.
The acidity of some lighter roasts is one of my main complaints about them, so knowing that I can throw the bad/good toggle with a tiny pinch of baking soda may change my buying habits going forward - especially in light of...
I stocked up on coffee from a (different) local roaster last week, and the other day I posed it all for a picture (I'm still on track with my 2020 picture-a-day project).
I have been favouring dark roasts lately, so it came as a surprise when I was processing the picture to post and noticed that my current favourite of the lot is a medium-light roast.
Well then! I guess that shows how little I actually know about me.
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The only reason I am staying on that platform is because it is my only real contact with a fair number of folk, but COVID19 is really bringing out some of the more disgusting Facebook memes lately. If I stay, I may have to start purging my friends list, or at least begin blocking people to keep my blood pressure down.
Rather than reposting the memes here, I'll just boil them down to their essences.
Like and share if you are smart like me and didn't buy a bunch of toilet paper.
(Wow, you're smarter than frightened people. You're so special.)
Why should we trust the government to battle this virus when the same government says they can stop global warming if we let them raise our taxes enough?
(You're so much smarter than those folks with education and degrees an' shit.)
I mean, the other memes are pretty bad too. The same people will unironically post back-to back memes calling on the government to a) stop taxing seniors, while b) spending more money on seniors.
Also, I get it folks - you don't like Trump. I understand. I don't like him either. But please come up with some new memes.
To put it in polite terms: Facebook people, please fuck off.
When I confronted the person about her corona virus/climate change meme, she admitted that she hadn't actually read and thought about it before sharing.
On the coffee front (how can you tell that I am retired?), I made a couple of minor discoveries.
Last weekend I picked up an interesting coffee from a local roaster. It's a very light roast coffee, made from beans that were dried without being de-meated. What I mean by that is that they removed the skins from the berries, but left the meat on them for the drying process. As a result, some fermentation took place during the process.
The resulting coffee had a very complex and interesting flavour, but it was very acidic. I don't mind a bit of acidity in my coffee, but I may as well have just added vinegar to this one. On a hunch, I added a pinch of baking soda to the brewing water and the change was just shy of miraculous. I experimented with the amount of baking soda from cup to cup and discovered that it took very little to be effective. If I added too much, it removed some of the other flavours as well.
The acidity of some lighter roasts is one of my main complaints about them, so knowing that I can throw the bad/good toggle with a tiny pinch of baking soda may change my buying habits going forward - especially in light of...
I stocked up on coffee from a (different) local roaster last week, and the other day I posed it all for a picture (I'm still on track with my 2020 picture-a-day project).
I have been favouring dark roasts lately, so it came as a surprise when I was processing the picture to post and noticed that my current favourite of the lot is a medium-light roast.
Well then! I guess that shows how little I actually know about me.
