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2024 YR4 is an asteroid recently discovered by scientists in Chile (it's not the flying Tesla "asteroid", this one is legit). It is an "Apollo-type" near-Earth object that crosses our planet's orbit.
This week, scientists learned it had a 1.2%-1.6% chance of hitting Earth on 22 December 2032.
At a diameter of between 40 and 100 metres (130 and 330 ft), an impact with the ground could release approximately 8 megatons of destructive energy.
For reference, that is 533 times the bomb at Hiroshima and more than double the maximum yield of a US Navy Trident II ICMB.
All this places 2024 YR4 at a troubling 3 (out of 10) on the Torino Scale of impact hazards. It is the only non-0 threat, and the second highest ever recorded, exceeded only briefly in 2004 by 99942 Apophis before closer observations revealed that asteroid would not hit Earth.
So that is the bad news. Ready for the good news?
Calculations by NASA and the ESA show that 2024 YR4's "risk corridor" (where it would hit) doesn't pose a threat to anywhere important.
Other sources:
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- BernieSanders : How to do coffee right : throw it in the sink
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Homoshrexual
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Dirt
If you buy ground coffee, Congratulations!!!! You are buying dirt!!!!!
Don't buy pre ground coffee ever. Coffee grounds go stale within hours after being ground. When you buy coffee grounds from the store, the coffee is already stale and has been for probably multiple weeks already.
Seriously, that shit is stale before it even reaches the stores shelf.
Bugs
Coffee beans are a little better, not as stale as ground coffee but there are other worries.
Quality control is terrible, with the amount of contaminants very high for coffee beans.
The FDA limits contamination at 10% of the total coffee beans count are insect-infested or insect-damaged.
So yeah, ignore my advice, and keep eating the bugs like a good little NPC.
The other issue is how old the coffee beans are will heavily affect taste quality. Too fresh, and the taste will be too bland, to old and the beans will go stale. Expiration dates aren't accurate methods of determining roast date, so honedtly you are spinning a wheel whenever you buy.
How to Do Coffee Right
The only acceptable form of coffee making is the use of GREEN COFFEE BEANS. Green Coffee Beans go stale as well, but if kept in an airtight container will be good for a good 3-6 months.
Then you roast as much a you need for a week period. There is an art to coffee roasting which I am not going to explain but YOU WILL NEED TO RESEARCH. Also don't start a fire by cooking them too long lol. After roasting, you should put the coffee grounds in airtight container and wait generally between 2 days to 2 weeks lafter roasting. This highly depends on roast and what type of taste you prefer. So play around with it a bit. I personally prefer waiting a shorter amount of time, around 3-4 days.
The before you make your coffee you grind the amount of beans you need for the amount you will drink (obviously). Don't grind all at once. This ensures coffee grounds are fresh for each cup of joe.
Machine and Method
Espresso machines are best (if you can find a good one which is hard). You want to get an all metal inside one though, which honedtly can be difficult to find and expensive. Like $2000 expensive. There are ones with plastic internals that pull amazing shots but you should obviously not do that unless u like consuming microplastics. The espresso machine imaged above is really good, great workhorse, finicky, but a classic. Rancillio Silvia, is its model. This is one of the few espresso machines I still have, since I adore it, but its plastic water reserviir so I would recommend no. Just let me be nostalgic though about pulling a better shot thab you have ever tasted on a $400 machine.
This one is all metal, but obviously, doesm't have as much capabilities:
Europiccola 8, cost around $600-1000 depending on if you know how to find used stuff.
Europiccola is the other espresso machine I currently own and is good. If you are on a microplastic free diet but still like machine precise espresso, this would be good pick up.
Pulling a good shot cna be difficult. Measure out grounds and learn the right pressure ti press the grounds into the thingy (cant remember name).
Depending on machine you might want to learn how to temperature surf. This might be outdated, since newer models might just be better at getting right temp. I had Rancillio I can't remember model, but it was like a classic. Plastic internals, but pulled amazing shots. Had to temperature surf though to get it right.
Crema
Crema is the easiest test to figure out if you pulled a good shot. Crema is layer of golden brown foam on top of the black espresso, that forms NATURALLY.
More Crema = More Swag.
Less Crema = More Strag.
No Crema = You have not only failed at making espresso, but you are also probably r-slurred.
Note on Cappuccino
If you add sugar or anything else to a Cappuccino besides frothed milk and espresso then exit my post immediately. You are a cute twink who I will slam head first into a brick wall.
Cappuccino is amazing. You need a steam wand, bezt ones come attachrd to Cappuccino/espresso machine. Don't use one of those terrible handheld frothers.
You want the container you put the milk into, to be solid metam and it should be in freezer before hand, so its icy cold. Pour milk into container froth, starting at botton then rising to top to create the froth.
Top: Froth
Bottom: Steamed Milk.
You want about 50% froth and 50% steamed milk by volume.
Then you tilt espresso cup slightly like 45° with espresso already made JUST BEFORE!!!! and you pour in while tilting espresso cup back to facing up.
Cappuccino Art
Cappuccino art is created with how you pour the frothed/steamed milk into te espresso.
Using a stencil, using some sort of cinammon, or whatever isn't acceptable.
Cappuccino art is ONLY achieved through the pour, using additional instruments or methods is not only cheating but also is the equivalent of sucking a peepee.
If you see some fancy desig with a logo or whatever on Cappuccino art, then that person kust used some stencil thing and I give you permission to beat them bloody.
i am not amazing at Cappuccino art, but I am much better than you will ever be. I am not going to share my secrets either. Continue to next section.
Not Espresso
Nowadays I don't even bother and only make Pourover or Mocha Pot for Espresso (rare). Too many iszues finding an all metal espresso machine under 2k so it is what it is. That being said you can pull great shots with Mocha Pot, like Italians do all the time. You just have to he an OG artist not a scientist. You knowimsayingneighbor.
Pour over is an art as well, don't listen to the cute twinks talking about temperature with therm and measuring out yada yada yah. Its an art. You use your intuition. You won't make good coffee this way if you are a nerd.
Speaking of which.
Coffee isn't for Nerds
If you want to measure out evrrything and tempetature whatever, die. That isn't coffee. Italians (the inventors if coffee), pretty much just grab the beans roast them in the oven and grind with simple grinder amd use Mocha Pots. They pull better shots than 99% of coffee shops in America.
Nerds require fancy equipment. If you are an artist, you will require less and less fancy equipment until you can pull a great shot with a handful of green coffee beans, a handgrinder, and a stove.
Alternative to Roasting
You can buy from Coffee Roaster directly and they usually (should) in most cases roast the coffee well and deliver freshly roasted coffee.
I will be honest, this is gay. Straight men don't let other men roast their beans. So if you are gay, this might be good option. If not, stick to roasting yourself.
What Coffee Roaster to Use
While you can roast Green Coffee Beans in the oven, you absolutely shouldn't for many reasons I am not going to get into here.
What you need is a good coffee roaster. These can be expensive, bunch of different types and I don't feel like explaining. Do your own research idiot. Expect to pay at least $200 for a good one though. I have a decent drum roller type one that cost like $300, but there are even better types of coffee roasters some being $600 ones all the way up to like $20,000. Obviously thise ones that aren't drum rollers, can't remember what they are called, but they are OG as shit. You probably don't need one of those though.
Look here for Drum Rollers (my preference):
https://www.sweetmarias.com/roasting/drum-roasters.html
There are other types of coffee roasters, but yeah.
Grinder
Probably most important after roaster. Get the best one you can afford, or learn how to hand grind like a true Italian. Probably cost around 400+ for a decent one.
i have a $500 (?) roaster, pictured above. That model is outdated, but I recommend since its served me well for past 10 years and alnost as good as the Italian hands grinds.
Italy
Most importantly, to make good coffee you will need to go to Italy. If you haven't been to Italy, Congratulations!!!! Your coffee is almost guranteed to be shit.
Putting this one last, since I know this is the biggest barrier to entry and want people to read through thinking they are gonna make some good joe, then realize they can't visit Italy so they juzt wasted their entire time reading a straggy article abiut coffee making.
Import Info on Italy
When I refer to Italy, I am referring to Southern Italy.
"Northern Italy" isn't Italy, its basically Brussells + France + Amsterdam if they were black. North "Italians" can't make Coffee.
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There was 0 care when Elon gave his three word reply to a tweet about redditors wanting to kill him and his zoomer concubines :soysnooseethetalkingtyping:
and the sub just went down at a snap of the finger.
We all know it's because of them needing to janny it up so he can't find anything more,
but does he even have any power to potentially bring the entire site down?
He always replies to longposts about shit nobody cares about
so could it be possible to compile a large list of Reddit wrongs
, threadify them for twitter
, then send it straight to him and see where this goes?
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I've watched both the WAN segment clip and parts of the show itself, I at this time no longer remember its original content. So I went to rewatch it quickly + threw it into a transcript generator.Not at any point did Linus apologise or address his own fricking statement. He literally began with a script of the clip Steve played on his channel, yet didn't think to address its "context" and "intention". It was a 22 minute holier-than-thou dress down at Steve.Though it should be pointed out Steve's own management of the situation hasn't been terribly great, adding much ammunition to the people defending Linus, and the root cause of the drama: Linus SHOULD have addressed the Honey thing publicly when they found out. (11)
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(This is a continuation of my reply to the recent thread about the Civilization series.)
It's got some issues with, for lack of a better term, historical accuracy. There's some weird dodgy stuff in the tech tree. You may try to scoff and say that it's just a game, it's not meant to be accurate. Yeah, of course not, to a certain point. Old Man Redactor once saw me playing Darklands and pointed out that if you just changed the data files you could use the same engine to make a game about running a laundromat. What elevates games over spreadsheets is that there's some kind of story that it's telling you where the numbers mean something. In Civ, that story is history in general, so it had darn well better at least feel like it has to do with history.
I only realized later that actually my father is a Satanist who was trying to drive me away from good Christian games. One day on the solstice he made carry a bunch of 1-gallon milk jugs full of blood (I dunno what kind) from the garage to the trunk of his old Honda. Then he got in and it flew away into the night. That's when I put two and two together.
The way religion is handled I think is pretty butt-backwards. In the original Civ, it's all abstract. You build a temple and that's it, it's assumed that it's a temple for whatever these people believe in. It doesn't really matter what religion it is because, for the purposes of the game of Civilization, people from different religions act pretty much the same for the most part because we're all human.
The other approach you can take is what they do in Europa Universalis. (I dunno if they still have the guts to do this but they did when I played it.) Where you decide which religions are good or bad and give them bonuses and penalties. This obviously has some disadvantages. Like it's really fricking obvious what's going on when the game is made in Sweden and the good religions that get bonuses are in northern Europe. You can't get away with that if you're making a game outside of an extremely ethnocentric culture like Sweden.
Swedes always score themselves as the happiest country on Earth when they make those rankings, yet all the Swedes I know complain about how their husband just drinks all day and won't do anything even though she physically beats the shit out of him. Curious.
Civ IV tried to have their cake and eat it too but you end up with nothing and you're still hungry. The religions use the superficial trappings of ones from the real world but in gameplay terms they're completely generic with nothing differentiating them except which tech activates them. If they're generic why do we need them? Why not just leave it completely abstract like in Civ I? If we're assigning them to real world religions, why don't we give them their own special bonuses like we do with different civilizations?
The approach in Civ IV is kinda stupid both in terms of gameplay and theme. You might as call the religions pokemon because you're best off just collecting them all. Each one in a city adds happiness and gives you the opportunity to build more improvements. Honey, please. This is a stupid gameplay mechanic where you're encouraged to build missionaries to convert all your cities and build the same improvement several times for each religion. I consider this to be what Soren Johnson (designer of Civ IV) himself called a "degenerate strategy" in his seminal piece "Water Finds a Crack". You're doing something that's stupid and not interesting because the game rewards you for it. There's no interesting choices going on here. The other gameplay impact religion has is that basically it makes some of the AI civilizations hate you for no reason. This was obviously intended to stop you from just turtling and being friends with everyone, but it's annoying when you're left with fewer options to pursue in diplomacy.
In terms of history, this is all really stupid. Religious diversity works in America because the Founding Fathers designed our nation around it. In the rest of the world in the rest of history, having many different religions in one city is not a recipe for everyone to love each other. Let's look at the late 1500s, when religion was perhaps the most important in history that it's ever been. You had stuff like Protestant mobs surrounding the convent and yelling lewd suggestions of what the nuns should do. Today in Beirut they've got 15 religious sects and it's not giving them +15 happiness points. It's giving them continuous simmering animosity. Damascus, Aleppo, Baghdad, great cities that have "stood the test of time" like the ones represented in Civilization are not finding that diversity is their strength. By ignoring these real issues, I feel that Civ IV is demeaning both to America, where we actually solved them to some extent, and to the poor bastards living in those shithole countries where they have to deal with sectarian bullshit on a daily basis.
In 1976 the Lebanese decided that their happiness bonus from being multicultural society was so great that they asked the Syrian Army to come and violently put down sectarian violence experience it for themselves.
Also, what do you do with the Jews and Hindus? If you're putting real world religions into the game they're incredibly important so you have to include them, but they're not like the other ones featured in the game. They're not sending missionaries around trying to convert people. So what do you do? Write special rules for them? Who's gonna do that? You'd need to hire some guy from Hebrew University who also loves 4X to do any justice to it.
Now this is a nice campus.
The way that religion affects diplomacy in the game is stupid in the other direction. Countries won't make alliances with the "infidels"? How fricking naive do you have to be? Are like 4 fricking years old? Let's look at the late 1500s again. I don't have the book at hand at the moment, so this is from memory, but there was an alliance against the Hapsburgs that was something like this: Sweden, Denmark, England, the Netherlands, France, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, various parts of Italy, and the Ottomans. They'd have added the Moros in the Philippines if they had better communications technology. In Lebanon they've gone through every possible combination of different sects allying with each since 1975. Most hilariously the Druze who have been both allied with and fought everyone else at least once since then. The elites running the country or the faction usually don't give a shit about sectarian hatred except as a tool they can use to manipulate the plebs.
Sana'a Mehaidli. Carried out a suicide bombing against the Israeli occupation force in 1985. I guess nobody ever told her that as a Christian she wasn't supposed to be on the same side as Muslims.
Which takes me back to my original point about how Sid Meier did it with generic temples. It's not because he's some atheist who hates religion. (He's actually a Christian of the actually going to church kind btw.) It's because trying to fit too much low-level detail about religion into a 4X game is really tricky and probably won't work in terms of gameplay or theme. I've always had a strong impression that this feature was basically put in because there was a feeling among (mostly atheist) 4X fans that religion was a big thing in history so we need a gameplay mechanic for it. And my feminine masculine intuition is rarely wrong.
After all this time I spent writing this I really feel like... starting up a new game of Civ IV. It's a great game.
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The account seems to be mostly focused on anti-miscegenation, calling black men "nakers" and putting out a narrative that because of yts girls getting BLACKED , the black race is getting BLEACHED
The profile pic is misleading because that's supposed to represent the disgustingness of BMWF couples
This is who she actually is:
I'm getting a Black Girl Magic vibe here, anyone else? She fine! Tell em, sis!
So here's one of her typical TRVTHENVKEs
JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJJAAAAAAAAAAA
This naker really said the line.
Anti-racism (pro-racism) vs pro-racism (anti-racism), who should you listen to when two Black women are arguing?
Anyway to lazy to make a big post about it, the account is a great follow for black woman seethe.
Here are some screenshots of her other posts:
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"All the trillion dollar corporation CEOs are donating money and having one-to-one dinners with him. Hello oligarchy." - /u/erotic_sex_worker
So just like it's always been: Biden inaugural committee raised $62M with big sums from billionaires, corporations
I love that it's only news now because Trump does it.
It's (D)ifferent ya know
God America is corporate wasteland now. They don't even hide buying politicians anymore. But don't worry rich orange Jesus is here to save us, he totally knows the struggles of the working man.
This is what 78 million Americans voted for.
They wanted corporate welfare, billionaire immunity, and pay for play.
Oh, you thought you'd get cheaper groceries and a one time $600 dollar check? Fricking dolts.
"I don't want consumer protection, workers rights or more financial freedom like never having to worry about healthcare costs again! I want to stop woke and trans and poor people from having freedom."
terrorists don't attack us anymore because they cant achieve our level of destruction with ignorance voting. - /u/herefromyoutube
I'm certain they wanted more corporate welfare and to not own the libs lmao
Look, I didn't like Trump and never voted for him. I thought Biden was honestly doing a pretty okay job. But as a lifelong Apple fan, if Tim's on board, then I'm willing to give him a chance. - /u/Ok-Echo-7764 [-50]
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It's even worse when you consider the fact that he's a gay man supporting this admin. Sad.
These people really think the GQP is really going to take away gay rights lmao - /u/OmniAtom91
Honestly I don't blame Cook that much for this. With Trump as president, you have to pay to play. Trump would be petty enough to do something to ruin Apple stock if Cook didn't pay.
Didn't hate the player, hate the game. - /u/d-cent [-8]
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Compare the posts in the thread to my example:
https://rdrama.net/post/342112/rddt-is-in-freefall-after-daily/7787580#context
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I trust everyone understands the seismic impact of what's occurring here with Trump effectively letting the water that's been long diverted into the ocean, to flow down into California.
— AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ (@AwakenedOutlaw) January 28, 2025
Imagine the visible impact this will cause as the state greens quickly and the water flows… pic.twitter.com/rDy3AEYmvi
Oh nevermind all he did was turn on a few federal pumps that had been down for maintenance for three days
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- DickButtKiss : Whose your favorite million dollar BIPOC?? - trans lives matter
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Happy Superbowl. I hope your team wins. pic.twitter.com/eqWo99K02D
— Josh (@XJosh) February 10, 2025
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 16, 2025
A Uber popular YouTuber has editors?!? Egads!!!
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- DickButtKiss : I dont think I've heard of any of these and I'm a big time coomer. These are no pornstars
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Our story begins with a whore called Em Indica, who decided to make a list of whores in the porn industry who support Trump, obviously intending to have them blacklisted.
You can immediately see the problem with this list. Namely, it is more appropriate to call it a "List of people who have said something that made me in any way upset on the internet", as is usually the case.
Naturally, the whores being called out didn't take this lying down.
Yo, what is @BlizzieMcguire trying to say here? "Loser Mayo"?
In all seriousness, it is obvious that Ms. Indica is trying to start a witch hunt here, and to pretend otherwise is r-slurred.
I'am French ! I can't vote in your country You're ridiculous.
Correct, and you pissed some people off. That's the consequences of your own actions
Wouldn't it be funny if the Trump whores decided to make a list of people who support this list and then have them counter-blacklisted.
Darn, that's one thirsty boy.
Hey dumb munchkin face skank…how did we not make your commie list?
Fun fact, I once made a post about this guy and y'all seemed to like it.
I'm an extreme alt right?! 😱😂😂😂!!! RFKjr is an independent 🙄
Yeah. On a photo of him with Trump. Don't let go of that last brain cell there.
True
It's so nice when big creators give a shoutout to the small creators
Real interesting to see ♠️ people for trump, makes you think!
Yeah, a lot of these galls are findommes and hotwives. That just proves how diverse the MAGA movement truly is.
I'm about to stick a lawyer so far up your butt remove me right now
Am I supposed to feel bad for being on this list or something 🤣🤣
I mean, seriously.
This b-word tried to put forth another girl for the list but was too much of a kitty to @ her.
And she gets rightfully called out for that.
But then, somebody casually drops that SHE MIGHT BE THE MOST BASED WHORE IN HISTORY:
Shes been an issue for a while from what Ive known. Didnt she light a sub on fire?
Yeah I unfollowed her shortly after that and for her "jokes" about fricking her finger monkey
HOLY SHIT DRAMANAUTS! WE NEED TO FIND OUT EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS QUEEN!
It might all be a giant nothingburger though.
If this girl weren't sperging out at the Trump whores throughout this whole thread, I would have thought that she was being sarcastic.
Anyway, let's get back on track:
This completely unethical and unacceptable. Take this down. Perpetuating hate is not the answer. Ffs
NOOOOO! HOW DARE YOU NOT BE AS UNHINGED AS I AM!
I wonder if any of them were paid by the Trump campaign and/or Russia
Please enjoy our video "Grab Me by the Kitty" for free on pornhub!
Here's the video link.
You tell her, hoss!
Another good point. How come she's only blacklisting people who don't throw money at her?
One of the biggest lolcows in this drama is a girl called @Betty_BouncePSO, who went out of her way to bring up Project 2025 in almost every reply:
Educated? Project 2025 will ban all sexwork and porn, you just put yourself out of a job 😆
Project 2025 will ban all s*x work and porn, you just voted to kill your own industry 😆😆😆
Another big lolcow is @KandyKittyXXX who absolutely sperged out at every opportunity she had (at least I think it's a "she"):
How dare you think this is about opinions. Oh right, I forgot, you're an idiot.
To the surprise of no one, this is what she looks like:
There are several more of these lolcows, but you get the gist of it.
Apparently, there was at least one failed attempt at defamation already.
"Ummm maybe you shouldn't joke in BAD TASTE sweaty."
Here's a blog that lists porn stars accused of sexual assault as well as acting like chuds on the internet. Clearly the same thing. it is somehow connected to this list. Don't ask me how, I have no idea.
This article points out that a person who helped co-author this list, porn star Michael Vegas, is a known abuser in the porn industry. Who would have thought?
It also helps summarize this whole drama. So there.