Anonymous asked:

re: indigenous rights, genocide, etc., it's like people have never heard of the bantus

sure, most people have not thought much about how their theory of colonialism or indigeneity stacks up outside of the handful of cases they want to apply it in.

but my narrower point is that you have to either just admit you mean pre-columbian or really play definition twister for “native american” to both mean all the people typically want it to mean and not have mean it all the people they want to not have it mean.

tbh, I have no issues with the use of native or indigenous americans to refer to these groups of people in the manner normal people do. we all know what they mean.

but, if you want to make these into moral and organizing categories that determine people’s rights, then I’m going to demand a little more rigor.

and at the end of the day, I hold that people have rights and freedoms guaranteed to them as individuals, without regard to ancestry or origin. I do not think anyone needs to prove their blood lineage back to 1493 in order to deserve human dignity.

Anonymous asked:

Not all lettuce is created equal. Iceberg may indeed be worthless, but there are other breeds that would have the similar nutritional value as other similarly-colored leafy veggies. I'm curious how iceberg stacks up against other pale cabbages.

bold of you to assume that I, the guy posting about romaine hearts, is talking about iceberg lettuce

Anonymous asked:

bolsonaro's a puppet. (and not in the political sense)

so you’re saying bolsonaro has got the hiccups because his animating finger has departed?

[rustingbridges]

what's in Kenosha, anyway

[poipoipoi-2016]

It’s an extreme exurb of the greater Chicago Metro Area that happens to be barely across state lines with a train station running directly downtown.  Which in another context is called *Greenwich, CT*.  

Also, it has a museum to “Auto Production in Kenosha” but no actual auto production so uh I guess we all know what that story is.  

[rustingbridges]

sure, I know where kenosha is. every once in a while I get on a train which is theoretically bound for kenosha. but it has never occurred to me before today to think about what’s in kenosha

anyway I thought I knew what was in greenwich, but it turns out bridgewater associates is actually in westport. so no idea what the deal with greenwich is either, besides taxes

[rustingbridges]

why is time always a flat circle. let time be thicc

[antihumanism]

Because flat is justice, and all things are made fair by the inevitability of death!

[rustingbridges]

justice is looking kinda thicc imo

why is time always a flat circle. let time be thicc

[canary3d-obsessed]

Apparently this is controversial but I think LIKES are GREAT! If you like something I made but don’t feel like sharing it, that’s cool! Your blog is a curated space where you show your followers a particular set of stuff! You can personally like something without wanting to stick it in your living room or out on your front lawn! 

[rustingbridges]

something something discourse zooming past my dash on a tangent

[idiotdotdotdot]

[rustingbridges]

this show was pretty funny. too bad they got dropped, altho they had sort of run the course of the premise. but it was a real cliff hanger

what’s in Kenosha, anyway

[raginrayguns]

mcdonalds coffee is bad but cheap. Starbucks coffee is alright, but also the same price as really good coffee.

[rustingbridges]

mcdonalds coffee is not only cheaper but better than starbucks. you want me to pay what for an overextracted drip from an overdone roast

[raginrayguns]

i would describe mcdonalds as watery and starbucks as normal

but “mcdonalds is normal, starbucks is overextracted” is also consistent if that’s your preference i guess

certainly can’t argue with overdone roast. Not sure what’s up with that… I’ve heard the theory that an overdone roast can be kept consistent between stores or something? I dont’ really follow the argument

but it seems like the reason starbucks can charge the same amount for worse coffee is that sometimes im not near a good cafe but I am near a starbucks. Whatever they’re doing, they really figured out how to scale it up, and not be limited by… whatever other cafes are limited by, whether that’s skilled employees, or, I don’t know

@synecdoki-fresh once sent me an article on starbucks’s journey to providing baked goods. (I think it was you.) How do you make compatible

1. the mcdonalds style everything’s just shipped to the store, basically just needs to be heated up EDIT3: I think this is an incorrect description of mcdonalds

2. bakery items, which quickly go stale?

I don’t remember what the article actually said, but it rings true to me that that’s the problem they’re solving: making a café chain, without anything complicated having to be done at individual locations, and without opportunities for variation between locations

EDIT: I mean most cafes I remember from Houston didnt do their own baking either, they got stuff from a bakery elsewhere in houston, but i imagine starbucks bakery items take a longer journey and thus have to stay good longer

EDIT2:

Maury Rubin (2009):

Starbucks scale is such that it requires baked goods be prepared at least the night before they will be sold. In real bakery time, with a bakery that’s organized, I’d venture that that becomes the afternoon before. They must bake, cool, be packed, then shipped–and then still distributed to (for example in NY) more than 100 stores. Many moons ago, Starbucks talked to me about baking for its NY stores, and of course, I was interested. But the protocol to get our product into their distribution system meant we had to start baking at 2:00 p.m. the day before.

Believing as I do that our croissant should be eaten within two hours of the oven (maximum), plugging into their system meant we had to bake at least 8 times earlier than desired. I ran the other way. Why bother? And the better your product, the worse it gets: it’s a long (and hurtful) way down for a lovely croissant baked at 2:00 p.m. and eaten 20 hours later. Ouch. OuchOuchOuch.

[raginrayguns]

@rustingbridges said:

starbucks is also less dilute than mcdonalds coffee, but that’s a separate (but not wholly orthogonal) issue from overextraction, which is about the percent of the coffee brought into solution (as opposed to the ratio of coffee to water). weak vs strong, underextracted vs overextracted

[necarion]

I read somewhere that Starbucks is one of the greatest things to ever happen to coffee. Not because it was amazing. In certain spots, it was possible to get better coffee. But it was very consistently good. And by that I mean “good compared to basically all the coffee generally available, at places like gas stations and diners”. It created a really strong baseline of quality that pushed the barista revolution (and even diner coffee is way better than it used to be, because people could recognize good-ish coffee). Now, basically everywhere has, in close proximity, a cafe that does better coffee than Starbucks. But (a) you don’t always know where it is, (b) you might pick a bad one, and © Starbucks is easy and reliable, so it’s why it has a thriving business. Peet’s coffee has a similar pressure on the coffee market as a whole, and probably also on Starbucks.

Side note:

I’ve seen similar arguments made about Bing as a lower-bound pressure against Google. Bing is just fine! And is better than most search engines would have been 5 years ago. Google is better, sure. But if it decided to go full-evil and too cluttered with ads, and hard to use, and (etc), there would still be Bing as an option.

[rustingbridges]

yeah I’ve heard it said that somewhere in the range of 15-20 years ago mcdonald’s coffee sucked compared to its current state. and starbucks is central to the whole chain of events which led to the current state of affairs

I mean, I go to starbucks sometimes. starbucks is just kinda also a parody of itself