As Abraham Lincoln famously warned, "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet!"
CodexArcanum
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I'm far more afraid of the Nazis in Baton Rouge running this state than I am of Acadians hunting out in the swamps. Just don't go in the swamp! The Nazis are actively making life worse whether you seek them or not.
Coffee beans are laid out on a big sheet after roasting and then sprayed with flavor oils to create this kind of thing. So it's no more or less healthy than any coffee, plus some flavor compounds that probably won't give you cancer at those concentrations.
Flavor-wise is up to your preferences. Coffee snobs are dorks, don't listen to them. Obviously M&M flavored coffee isn't something you hand grind for a pour over, you brew it up in bulk then add some sugar and milk to bring out the chocolate flavoring.
Would I prefer a pour over with some fine cocoa powder? Sure. I also have time and energy to put into coffee. Some people need the coffee to put time and energy into them.
Ah, the WSJ, bastion of level-headed reporting. Since I clicked through to the article and read the one paragraph us free-tier losers get (one more than the rest of you read) I know that it was Huawei trying to recruit semi-conductor manufacturing engineers from Germany.
So settle down, China isn't trying to pay you $240K a year to make wordpress sites for them, it's just another front in the ongoing microchip wars.
I can't find them online anymore, but I've had this exact model for several years and really like it (or similar) for travel. The cord winds up into the body and the round shape is accommodating of larger plugs. It rests flat in a bag so pretty easy to store.
I got it mainly for airports: no fighting over the one outlet if you can make it 5 outlets and share! Throw in one of these universal power adapter bricks and you're ready to go basically anywhere!
My LPT for travel is to buy a travel router and take the time to learn how to use it. They're little pager-sized wifi routers. Set up a secure network with it, attach all your devices to that network, then use the software they come with to have it mirror whatever hotel or airport or coffee shop wifi you are using. I have mine loaded with my VPN details as well. So all I need to do is get my laptop online, proxy the network on my travel router, and then all my devices (laptop, phone, switch, partner's phone and laptop, etc) are on my secure network and sharing my vpn securely over whatever public wifi I'm on. Mine has a little SD card storage as well, so it also acts like a mini hub for streaming movies or whatever.
I first heard Gamer Supps advertised on a Twitter shitpost account so I assumed it was a joke for a year or two. But no, it's a real company that sells processed snacks, energy drinks, and other assorted gruel to The Gamers™️, using extremely horny ads full of anime girls.
I still feel like it's 60% shitpost, it's such condescending marketing that I'm astounded it works. Honestly, I can't wait for other companies to catch on.
"You want to play games on this pc you simping goon? Install Windows 12 first, WinChan demands it of you, then purchase 3 crates of WinChan protein fluid to replenish the nutrients you jerked out while this ad was running. Do it sub, dommie mommie WinChan demands your tribute before allowing you to install more porn games."
The full screen "it's time to upgrade to Windows 11 and set up all these AI features" popup was the last straw for me. This is finally a Windows-free home.
Thank God for Stephanie Motherfucking Sterling! Other game "journalists" barely cover the blatant evils of the industry, it saddens me to think that she's probably looking for an exit and may not be reviewing for a lot longer. No one is going to fill those fabulous boots.
The dark one rises from his watery tomb! IAEA IAEA NLXL CTHULHU HEHE!
Thish posht... isht very intereshting sniff what ideology can we ashsume from it?
I had in some ways the opposite 23&Me experience and goals. My parents told me growing up that I had some small native ancestry. This is actually a common myth many Americans have either been told or somehow deluded themselves into believing.
So I did the DNA testing (which I now regret from all the obvious enshittification and privacy reasons) to prove that my ancestry was boring and predictable. Which it was, no indigenous ancestry, just the expected European countries that my great grandparents came from.
They also do a lot of nice health screening things and I think that's probably the much more valuable aspect of it. It really is very American that people are so much more concerned with what DNA says about one's race or ethnicity than about their health and wellbeing.