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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I do a 1:16.667 ratio of coffee to water. That would be 30g coffee in 500g water. Pre rinse the filter. Then I add enough boiling water to bloom the coffee. After about a minute I start adding more water. Just enough to keep the grounds below liquid level. I swirl clockwise and then counter clockwise after each pour.

    That’s it. Keep pouring until target amount of water is reached.















  • Spez has been correctly advised that investors are going to be concerned with profitability, or at least a viable pathway to profitability.

    There’s a huge startup bubble starting to burst. Companies reliant on cheap money to supplement a business model that at best is years away from profitability but in some cases decades or will never be profitable.

    Uber and Doordash IPO’d when money was cheap and investors were fine with speculating on these disruptive, yet unprofitable, companies.

    I work broadly in the VC funded start-up world. My observation is that money is running out. All of these companies are trying to commercialize, even if the product isn’t fully ready, because they have to show revenue and there has to be a path to profitability of that revenue. That’s the only way they’ll get more money.

    In this context, Reddit is more like these startups. They’ve been funded by investors, including big ones like Condé Nast and Ten Cent, and they need more money, so they have to show a path to profitable revenue.

    The IPO is going to be a shit show. I wouldn’t touch it with a 9 foot pole. Reddit has been notoriously unprofitable for its entire existence. Now there’s no more juice to squeeze and their backers want to pawn it off on retail investors.




  • I really use very few platforms. Was mainly Reddit, now mainly Kbin. No Facebook, no Twitter, no Instagram, too old for Snapchat.

    I stopped visiting Facebook several years ago. I think it was for two reasons:

    1. I decided it was unhealthy for my in real life relationships to see how people behaved on Facebook.
    2. When I noticed that Facebook was showing me way more “suggested” crap than stuff from my friends.

    I never used Twitter. It just wasn’t for me.

    Maybe too old and too much of a curmudgeon for Instagram and Snapchat.

    Leaving Reddit was going to be hard. I tried Mastodon but, like Twitter, that wasn’t what I was looking for.

    When I found kbin, I made the switch and that’s it. I have one sub I still check out on Reddit, but here if used to be daily, now it’s a few times a week. It’s continue to diminish I’m sure as the community on the deliverer grows.




  • an old irishman shuffles into a bar at sundown with his eyes low and his head down
    the bartender says “ay, billy! whats the matter. you seem troubled”
    billy responds with "you see this bar we’re standing in. I built it with me own hands! but they don’t call me the bar builder, no!

    and the bridge everyone uses to cross the river to get to the market, i built that that with me own hands too! but do the call me the bridge builder? no, they do not.

    and the wall that protects our city, i built that with me own hands too! and they don’t call me the wall builder neither.

    BUT YOU FUCK ONE GOAT!..