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  1. 12 minutes ago, teachercd said:

    If they USE/Do anything at all that hurts they environment, anything at all, then they are liars and hypocrites.  And their thoughts and actions do not matter.

     

     

    This is among your least funny lines.

     

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  2. 6 minutes ago, teachercd said:

    Ahhhh, got it.

     

    Does it make it "stronger" or just have more flavor, if that makes sense?  

     

     

    Kinda depends what people mean when they say "stronger." To some that means more caffeine, to some more flavor. The press definitely amplifies the flavor. 

     

    The amount of caffeine in coffee is tied to how the beans are roasted. Darker roasted coffees lose more water/oil during the roasting process. Caffeine is leached out  via that moisture, so the longer the roast, the less the caffeine. Which is a bit counterintuitive to some people, who believe darker roasts are necessarily "stronger" coffee. 

     

     

     

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  3. 1 minute ago, teachercd said:

    What does the press do exactly?  I have seen them but never used one, does it change the makeup of the coffee?

     

    Coffee will have better flavor the longer the beans are in contact with the water. In a traditional drip coffee maker, that's a very short time. It's longer with those older perk coffee makers, where the water percolated up through the central stem into the basket with the beans, and circulated over and over. With a press, the beans and water interact for several minutes before you push the plunger down, which screens out the beans from the water (now coffee).

     

     

  4. I like black coffee, sort of ashy tasting. The stronger, the better. Typically French Roast, but some places don't roast their beans enough. 

     

    My favorite is Peet's, but the best around Nebraska is Starbucks. Even Starbucks is getting weaker because everyone is ordering milkshakes instead of actual coffee. 

     

    When I make coffee at home it's French Roast or Komodo Dragon, in a press. Black, no sugar.

  5. Just now, teachercd said:

    For years I always thought squatters were just what we called girls when we had to pull over so they could pee.

     

    Cool story. So what were you talking about here?

     

    8 minutes ago, teachercd said:

    Am I missing something here and I might be because I am wrong a lot but are you FOR squatting???

     

     

    If so...can I have your address, please?

     

     

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  6. 14 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

    So, I decided to look at this more.  It appears that on March 26th, the price shot up and the volume increased.

     

    I wonder who was buying.  Was it just a bunch of MAGAts that decided to pump their life savings into the savior?  Was it foreign investors?  Or, did somehow, wall street actually find some form of value in this dumpster fire?

     

    It's interesting. Orange Man Bad can't sell his shares for six months per an agreement. It'll be interesting to see if a company that's hemorrhaging money, with a tiny user base, is enough to keep that obviously inflated price that high for six months. 

     

    The other problem is, for Orange Man Bad to realize any profits he'd have to sell his shares, but without his involvement what's the point of the app? There's every likelihood that as soon as he announces he's cashing in, the price plummets and he realizes a tiny fraction of that grossly inflated value. 

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  7. 5 minutes ago, Danny Bateman said:

     

    If you care at all about data this is just another drop in the bucket. The stack of special elections so far is very decidedly blue since the Roe decision so that indicates this is a very salient issue on a district level.

     

    What we make of that on a national level is up to us. But it is staggeringly different than the top line general election poll numbers.

     

    Exactly. This is just another in a long trend, dating back to the 2022 mid-terms that the Republicans were supposed to sweep, that have hinged on women voters protecting their rights.

     

    It's a fair point to bring up that only 6,000 people voted in this special election. But it's also fair to point out that the Republican platform is not driving their voters to the polls. This was a solid red county that a Democrat flipped decisively in Alabama, among the reddest of states. 

     

    Only 6,000 people showed up. Low turnouts are typical of special and primary elections. But the salient point here is that the Republican platform - which comes from the top down - is not popular among Independents and a lot of Republicans. That's why they've lost since overturning Roe. 

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  8. 22 minutes ago, Crusader Husker said:

    The worst thing that happened to the Repubs was the reversal of Roe V Wade.  It is an issue to run on, but you don't want it to actually happen like this.  I told my wife the republicans are now going to lose on this issue.  For once, I was right.  

     

    I am sure there are other issues that parties run on that they don't want to actually change.

     

     

    It's the ultimate "be careful what you wish for." The Republicans have been playing a decades-long game to stack the Supreme Court and overturn Roe, and now they're setting their sights on Obergefell, trans rights, religious exemptions to discrimination laws, etc. 

     

    Problem is, when that plan was hatched, America was a very different place. Today more people want freedom of choice, freedom to have the consensual sex they want to have, they want legal weed, they want the government out of their reproductive lives, sex lives and healthcare. 

     

    The country changed, but Republicans didn't. I think that's going to bite them hard, starting this year (although it really started in 2022).

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  9. 25 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

     

    I assume he means until the ship's owner, or Maersk Lines, repay the US Government, right?

     

    Mexico is going to pay for it. ;)

     

    Jokes aside, he was asked about that, and he said that will come later. Finding out who's responsible could take years in maritime law, but that bridge needs to be rebuilt now.

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  10. 8 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

    Was the ship too tall or did it hit a pylon?

    Edit: just watched the video. Edit2: Ok I decided to Google instead of ask Huskerboard.

     

    Yeah, you can see in the video it loses power, regains it, loses it again, regains it again, but by that time it had drifted over 500 feet off course. 

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