• Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        10 months ago

        I’d probably categorize the keurig as a liberal machine rather than the one where you have to grind, distribute, and tamp your beans.

        (But also, my god yes- the flair is fantastic if you can handle the thermal management prior to coffee making. Highly recommend)

        • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
          2·
          10 months ago

          Yea, I agree, though one could argue having the money and time for an automatic machine and espresso machine is pretty Labor Aristocracy, haha.

          That being said, I’m a huge fan of my Flair 58, no annoying thermal management issues (for the most part) and great turbos.

          • Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2·
            10 months ago

            I liberated my Rancilio Silvia from a relative who decided their covid hobby wasn’t as satisfying as they thought lol. But I still prefer espresso from my Flair most of the time since the Silvia still needs to be PID modded to have decent thermal management.

            I swear if I end up getting the 58, I deserve to be thrown into the ocean. I initially bought the Neo, then sold it for the classic, then replaced the brew head with the pro brew head and pressure gauge.

            • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
              2·
              10 months ago

              Hahaha, it’s the never ending climb. I went straight for the 58 from a pour over setup because I truly can’t trust myself not to upgrade to it. The hand grinding is getting old though… the Zerno is calling my name but my wallet is desperately fighting back.

          • Mint@lemmy.one
            4·
            10 months ago

            I wouldn’t personally call “Gong Fu Cha” a ceremony, more like a “discipline” since that’s sort of the idea behind “Gong Fu” its the idea of get better at something doing it over and over again, so best translation for would be a discipline. Unless you meant Japanese tea ceremony, but that’s not really for tasting the tea its more like the tea is used for symbolism sake like say how wine is used in mass.

            I also don’t think it has that many steps? Preheat the vessels using water at the temperature you’ll be using for the tea, pour that water out, put tea leaves rinse the leaves with the water pour that out, steep the tea after say 10s pour that water out into a secondary vessel (probably a gong dao bei) pour that tea liquid into your small tasting cup and slurp to taste. Pour some more until you need start a new steeping, do what you did previously just slightly longer steeping time.

            • Lumu@beehaw.orgEnglish
              3·
              10 months ago

              Honestly I get lazy and skip the pre-heat and fairness cup, then it’s even faster/easier than brewing in a pot!

              Also tea people should check out [email protected]! The only tea community I’m aware of on lemmy. Though it’s super inactive right now; I should probably contribute…

  • Xanthrax@lemmy.world
    13·
    10 months ago

    Pairing Trotsky with a consumerist product is an insult. It would be shared instant coffee at the Slabs, and everyone drinking it would say the other coffee was stolen.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    Posadism attempts to introduce elements of ufology into Marxist thought.

    WTF?

    …Arguing that only communism can allow the development of interplanetary travel.

    I’d argue that the infrastructure we need to colonize other worlds is going to require larger organized population than capitalism can provide.

    But as a reader that sees ideologies as starting points (that need to be developed so as to create a pathway to post-scarcity), I can’t say what the corruption-light system is that will allow for interplanetary colonization and trade.

    The fabricator IRL would be late-game magitech that manipulates huge amounts of energy. (A fabrication failure could annihilate a continent). Far, far, sooner, we’ll have the food-printer / turbolift system of Star Trek TOS to deliver us our custom-made coffee.

    Meanwhile, in 2024, we’re having a tough time escaping the gravity of fascism-driven autocracy.

  • Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    10·
    10 months ago

    Everyone knows the true test of a person’s character is the consistency of their grinder, not the brewer. (please don’t look on my kitchen countertop- it’s full of almost all of these and a single hand grinder. My forearm is crying for help)