of Trump's 
Cabinet Members 
Worth Almost $12 Billion 
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The new administration assembled by President Donald Trump boasts a combined net worth of at least $11.8 billion. The collective wealth of the potential 2024 cabinet is unprecedented for The Cabinet of the United States. Senate confirmation hearings are currently underway in Washington, D.C. β and the potential conflicts of interest for these cabinet members are a fraught topic. We dived into the financial reports and investing strategies of this new administration to understand their financial backgrounds and what this could mean for potential conflicts of interest and insider trading while in office.
Findings
Crypto Enthusiasts 
One finding is that President Trump's nominees are crypto enthusiasts. Data on the stock portfolios of Trump's cabinet nominees tells us that almost half of them have significant crypto holdings. Among the greatest is Sean Duffy, Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Department of Transportation, who holds up to $1.1 million in Bitcoin.
Media Wealth
The second, and less startling finding is that the wealth of the nominees is disproportionately from roles in media. Nominated Secretary of the Department of Defense Pete Hegseth made over $4 million in the past two years as a FOX News Host, based on a recent Office of Government Ethics filing. Nominee Tulsi Gabbard earned over $1 million this year from book advances and speeches β most of which for the Republican Party.
Notable Members and Controversies
Robert F. Kennedy Jr β Health and Human Services Secretary (confirmed)
Nominated in November for the position of health secretary
Cleared the Senate by a razorβthin 14β13 vote
Net worth is about $15 million
Controversial views scrutinizing the efficacy of vaccines
Received backlash for ties to Wisner Baum, an LA-based personal injury law firm
Holds a Bitcoin position worth over $5 million
Opposition from the scientific and medical communities persists
Pete Hegseth β Secretary of Defense
High-profile figure and Fox News co-host of "Fox and Friends"
Received over $4.6 million from Fox News as an annual salary across the past two years
Holds between $5,000 and $15,000 in Bitcoin income
Controversies for financial mismanagement and accusations of sexual misconduct
Tulsi Gabbard β National Intelligence (nominated)
Earnings in the past year have exceeded $1.2 million
Passed the Senate committee vote last week, approving her nomination
Main source of income: speaking fees and book royalties related to the Republican party
Nearly $300,000 from an advance on her 2024 book "For Love of Country: Leave the Democratic Party Behind"
Pam Bondi β Attorney General (confirmed)
Net worth of $18 million
Worked with the Trump administration for several years
Made more than $3 million from the recent merger of Trump's Truth Social platform
Disclosed owning between $2 million and $10 million in shares of Trump Media & Technology Group stock
Scott Bessent β Secretary of the Treasury (confirmed)
Net worth of at least $500 million
Wealth originates from years in hedge fund management
Holds over $50 million in ETFs and investments in major currencies
Holds between $250,000 and $500,000 in Bitcoin
Linda McMahon β Secretary of Education (nominated)
Estimated worth upwards of $3 billion
Earnings from co-founding World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
Holds significant investments in TKO Group Holdings and bonds supporting universities
Doug Burgum β Interior Secretary (confirmed)
Earned over $2 million last year from businesses and investments
Significant investments in technology stocks including Netflix, Alphabet, Apple, and Adobe
Sean Duffy β Secretary of Transportation (confirmed)
Recently pledged to divest from investments in technology stocks
Numerous investments in cryptocurrency, including up to $500,000 in Bitcoin
Howard Lutnick β Commerce Secretary (nominated)
Net worth of $2 billion
CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Group
Holds over 800 separate positions across various companies
Vocal supporter of cryptocurrency, particularly Tether
Where to Look Next
Public disclosure of funds allows us to examine the financial profiles for the new cabinet of the United States. Looking at the potential cabinet members holistically, it is apparent that they are united by holding large amounts of wealth. Some of this wealth, of course, will have to be divested if taking office. The Office of Government Ethics requires officials to divest from funds which may pose a conflict of interest β a move which many of Trump's nominees will see as costly.
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Dear God. James Shupe has hanged himself a month after receiving vaginoplasty pic.twitter.com/VKJh1bxruY
— Graham Linehan ποΈ (@Glinner) February 11, 2025
here is an interview with him (which i didnt watch)...
suicide note (didnt read) but apparently he was mad at Elon...
https://zerodoesntsleep.substack.com/p/vet-found-hanging-draped-in-trans
musical-misogynist at Kennedy-Center resigns under pressure as
takes over
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His 
fratboy neocolonialist cishetnormative anthem of mysogyny :
about how much they support the misogynist taking a stand against national socialism
https://old.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1io0uh5/ben_folds_resigns_from_advisory_position_at/
misogynists stay losing
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: "Disney Background". Yeah, her prince charming will arrive anytime soon
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you need to be fucking serious LMAOOOO iβm way outta your league https://t.co/WIuipsmJeL pic.twitter.com/jtIjkqgIb5
— alexaπ§Έπͺ (@inmybloodgrande) January 25, 2025
https://x.com/_troubling/status/1883566145489527031
To be fair you guys look closely related
β MariΓ¨ (@p8stie) January 26, 2025
Looks matched tbh
β Nugs (@Nugjokes) January 26, 2025
you're barely a 4
β Haile Selassie Groyper (@bannedgroyper23) January 25, 2025
You're both actually looksmatched if you take off the makeup.
β Involuntary Celibate (Incels.is) (@IncelsCo) January 26, 2025
B-word πππ pic.twitter.com/sFpvHPUlKD
β ChadCathGroyp βοΈ (@ChadCathGroyper) January 26, 2025
you somehow becoming convinced that this is not your exact stone cold looksmatch is the reason that fertility rates are going to zero https://t.co/rURcM2uOpc
β doomer (@uncledoomer) January 26, 2025
Itβs funny in a way because women are delusional when it comes to their looks but it is an actual problem. Many such cases. pic.twitter.com/NH5BwjprZp
β ktπ§π»ββοΈ (@amishescapee) January 26, 2025
Yea Iβm not gon hold you yβall are in the same league, same conference, division rivals even https://t.co/6HctQoqVI3
β Trill Burr (@ReloadedJu) January 26, 2025
This is proof that women can't rate themselves objectively and think they're way more attractive than they actually are.
β Involuntary Celibate (Incels.is) (@IncelsCo) January 26, 2025
The truth is that they're both looksmatched and not a single person would bat an eye if they were together. https://t.co/gPpkTtchRe
Being a narcissistic whore putting down your looksmatch is based and good until enough people start pooping on their appearance too, then suddenly it's about "heart" or whatever the heck. Lol https://t.co/WqZSrqqsBa pic.twitter.com/ngmcyuhcgX
β αβΈα (@hisenkeigeniac) January 26, 2025
sorry it's such a lazy post but yeah pretty funny huh π I made a post about this guy being ugly and jewish before but they actually do look like my childhood friend's parents and the mom would go all out for every holiday with themed hand towels and such and the dad liked to drink beer and watch hockey but they were nice and wholesome and always bought us chinese food so I feel like these two should get married 
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Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good.
— Gabrielius Landsbergisπ±πΉ (@GLandsbergis) February 15, 2025
This is what we now know, and what we now have to do about it:π§΅1/17
- 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. 
I'm proud to be on the list πΊπΈπΊπΈπΊπΈπΊπΈπΊπΈ #MAGA
Darn, that's one thirsty boy.
Hey dumb munchkin face skankβ¦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?! π±πππ!!! RFKjr is an independent π
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 β οΈ 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 π€£π€£
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 π
Project 2025 will ban all s*x work and porn, you just voted to kill your own industry πππ
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.
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The international standing of the US is literally never going to recover https://t.co/k21jJ9fv0z
— #1 Venlil Enjoyer (@EmpressThaliaa) January 27, 2025
Like I don't mean to be overdramatic, but this is straight up the end of the American century
β #1 Venlil Enjoyer (@EmpressThaliaa) January 27, 2025
Itβs the fact that Americans have 0 idea how important it is that America has so many Allieβs around the world that Trump is just now cutting off one by one for absolutely no reason because he failed to communicate.
β You were warned πΊπΈπΊπΈ (@Rickie99_) January 27, 2025
I canβt believe weβre burning down the world for literally no reason. I am never forgiving republicans
β Flaming (@FlamingAUS) January 27, 2025
me when i have to end my alliances built up over a century because i'm bored
β AmadΓ‘n (@Mr_Elephant2004) January 27, 2025
its true lol. i think many countries are going to rely far less on the us now
β pierbi (@pierbiwierbi) January 27, 2025
the hostility is insane, the amount of people on here who act like its deserved and shows the us is strong is insane aha. comes across as incredibly petty and weak
β Jan202021 (@Dixie202021) January 27, 2025
losing power in the global south speed run (new record: 6 days)
β SandstormRefrigerator (@Pokemonprimed) January 27, 2025
Yeah, it's basic diplomacy. America would lose badly in Sid Meyer's Civ right now.
β Tom (@iamtomgranger) January 27, 2025
Anyway remittances from the US account for 3% of Colombia's GDP so a single deportation flight is pretty devastating to their national economy. And the threats worked immediately
So we are thankfully not going to be deprived of all the many things Colombia exports here. I don't know what those things are besides coffee and cocaine but X (formerly Twitter) informs me it's a lot and very important. Crisis averted.
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I technically have only 1 trophy left to get the plat, just to finish the game on hard but after beating all the challenges it's an easy part.
So the game continues the divisive game ff7 remake or part 1. A vocal minority didn't liked that part 1 wasn't a faithful remake
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/168653-final-fantasy-vii-remake/80041128
My fully objective opinion is that if you want to play original story then play the original game. I played first time the game in 2017 and it held very well, the graphic is part of experience it also a lot better in many ways than the remakes.
So devs had hard choices to make second part more faithful or do some creative freedom.
They started with big middle finger to canon lovers by putting Zack in front of their promotional art. And teased that you can actually save Aerith. And the whole game will end up being a very big tease.
The game start with you playing Zack and them showing parallel universe where Zack survives but cloud doesn't wakes up. Zack enters Midgar and sees helicopter crushes with Avalanche including Aerith. This shit absolutely doesn't make sense timeline wise but goal was to show Zack surviving is bad. So cloud than wakes up, yeah every Zack moment in the game is dream sequence.
Devs made every Zack sequence as dream so they could always back steep if majority of gaymers don't like the new direction and say "ha it was just a dream"
So the next 7-8 chapters of the game have basically no story. Just gameplay and the gameplay is alright, it has some strong far cry motif but what is really impressive is the balance. The game is so balanced
FF7 is a legendary game because there was so many way to break the game so many players were experimenting with the builds and stuff. RPG are generally about min/max and breaking the game. So ff7 remake parts showing such a middle finger to rpg elements. Some rpg elements will only show up at end game but you'll still will never be op. They also future proof the balance. Like you can't use equipment to get a status boost +100% attack or magic. You get only 1 item in the game that can give you +25% attack so it's impossible even to reach 100% attack boost and they already creeped you
You end up being in that game weaker than in part 1. In part 1 every character can reach 9999hp because the hp materia gives you 50% hp boost and you can use multiple of those. In part 2 30% hp boost max 
You could assume it an action game but nope as action game the gameplay is absolutely not balanced but luckily you only encounter it doing hard mode or challenges.
So on chapter 8 comes the first legit big change. Tiffa falls into mako, in og game that happens after aerith dies.
On chapter 13 happens some wild religious symbolism shit in those dream sequences starts happening. Here my fav:
They start giving player a choice hinting that you can save Aerith but same time foreshadowing that non of those choices are real, neighbor can't escape fate and some symbolism like all those choices had this dog
Hinting that you won't save Aerith. That dream sequence also killed Zack multiple times showing you can't change the fate, Zack must die from bullets from those soldiers. So the moment Aerith is about to get killed, cloud saves her in his head and starts fighting Sephiroth and then thinking that he saved Aerith when she got killed
The game ends with illusion of Aerith telling she will stop Sephiroth and all this is still cannon since in og ff7 Aerith did showed up in the end in life stream defeating Sephiroth.
The real changes are basically just Tifa mako event and Yiffie being the main female protagonist, she has even more screen time than Aerith if you ignore the dream sequence. It's understandable, modern Japan is quite libertarian so no wonder she is everywhere and the strongest character in the game. Despite being total optional in og game. She got her own dlc in part 1 and in part3 she will get a huge chapter for her self.
Graphic of ff7 part 2 is actually worse than in part 1 but part 1 is not open world so understandable.
Part 1 is generally a better game than part 2. Part 2 just has so many mini games like 1/4 of chapters are just mini games. Part 2 is too much of an fanfic game.
The story also needed more changes because like I mentioned before that og ff7 did a lot of things better than the remakes and one is that in part 2 it doesn't make sense how the party was following clearly mentally unstable cloud without questioning his actions, many characters interactions just looked better og game than with modern graphics. In rebirth so many interactions and characters motives look so robotic than even most giga neurodivergent would write a better interaction of characters, just show how robotic japs are.
So objectively the game is a 7/10 but if you like Japanese nonsense the game becomes 8/10 and if you like serious shit that makes sense the game is 5/10.
If you go after platinum it will be an harder platinum than any souls game
It has challenges where you have to fight 10+ bosses and if you lose one fight you have to start from beginning, you cannot use any items. All bosses are faster than you and have moves that will wipe you out in one hit so you need to know their patterns
I didn't had any trouble with the game and beating the mini games but the feeling that after fighting a challenge for 30 min the prospect of losing last battle and then start from zero didn't felt nice. I have no idea why they made a jrpg this hard. I am pretty sure the 1% that finished all those challenges didn't liked it and devs will make them even harder in part3.
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Introduction
Y'all remember the smash hit One Punch Man (OPM) in the mid to late '10s? The persiflage of the entire shounen genre as an invincible but bored superhero defeats all enemies with just one punch? Filled with other nonsensical characters like the strongest man on earth who's essentially the weakest man alive or the guy whose basically just a male feminist (male feminist) in real life? Anyways, that shit is still going strong but I've to elaborate here, OPM is based on a shitty drawn but sovlful webcomic by ONE, which in turn got adapted into an official (tm) manga with much better art by MURATA. The thingy got picked up as an anime and rose to immense popularity. Naturally, the original tone of the comic has been lost as it essentially became what it was making fun of - but that's a given for japanese "writers" as they're all whiny or talentless hacks or a combination of the aforementioned - except Fukumoto he's bae(sed). Anyway, OPM has always had a terrible release schedule but lately it's gotten so disgusting that even long-time fans are dropping the series.
Context
To reiterate, here's the release schedule of the original comic (ONE):
while lazy he managed something
Here's what Murata has managed to draw after late 2023:
You may notice the Retconned tag after some chapters. And yes, it's exactly like you are thinking. He draws those chapters, releases them, and then later decides he isn't happy with the chapter (or the entire arc) and revisions all of it while making slight adjustments. Anyway, the latest chapter is a redraw of an already redrawn chapter originally released in 2023 featuring a filler side story of a filler arc. So basically the entirety of chapters released in 2024 are retconned - people don't like this ... at all:
Drama
/r/OnePunchMan
I love OPM, I love all the stupid drama over which wiafu is best (they're cartoons and y'all are weird), I love the characters and story, I love the art. But the thing is we are getting a product for free here, and early. We don't have to wait for the Manga to get released, we don't have to wait for the finalized product to be able to read what's going on. We literally get a look behind the curtain as this is being made. And part of that process is fixing work that they felt needed to be fixed. Who's to blame? Murata? One? Who cares. It's their work. I'll complain about redraws when I have to rebuy my physical mangas because there's an updated version. It's not done until it's been printed and released. It feels like people are acting privileged and entitled because One released his content online, and now they assume they deserve access to finalized and completed content at our convenience. It will be done when they say it's done. Can we just enjoy what we have in the meantime?
I'd argue that trying to pretend that deleting 14 month of progress out of nowhere is completely fine is far more insufferable.
This isn't a look behind the curtains. It's officially released chapters that also gets official translations. No other series even remotely com close to this mess so of course there is nothing wrong about pointing it out.
Another moment of silence for the poor fools read the official version of OPM on VIZ's app. Because VIZ doesn't translate redrawings.
It is fine? That's how the creative process works sometimes
Literally no other manga series does that.
why make us wait a whole year for a promised move forward in this story and then throw it all away? Its not us being ungrateful but if Murata truly wants quality for this manga he ought to take his time rather than rush and give us half-assed butchered storylines and retcon it constantly
What you don't understand is you're not the audience.
He is getting it right, and the version he wants is what will actually make it into the volume.
He is the audience. Fans like him are the reason why OPM got an official English physicals in the first place. His opinion will be valid if he says it in Japanese or so? That's just silly. He's still a supporting fan, and he could buy the physical manga just like any Japanese fan could. That's a narrow way of looking at it. Every fan contributes to the series' success.
Thread Dump
https://old.reddit.com/r/OnePunchMan/comments/1i7eqxi/basically_everyones_reaction/
https://old.reddit.com/r/OnePunchMan/comments/1i8a4nr/battle_for_the_ages/
https://old.reddit.com/r/OnePunchMan/comments/1i7eies/im_still_reading_it/
/r/Manga
DISC One Punch Man Chapter 195 - 2nd Revision
Ngl the constant redraws have killed my excitement for this series. Doesn't help that I personally think the story gets worse with each version (just my own opinion)
Simple redraws or changes to the pacing is one thing, but changing the literal plot or direction is too far. It feels like that they don't have a vision for the manga and is just drawing whatever they feel works, which they then don't stick to and subsequently and in my opinion wastes my time and attention.
This manga fell off so hard, it really needs to be studied. Being so utterly clueless in what direction you want to take the story that you have to rewrite an arc for a third time. Just copy paste the webcomic at this point.
The funny thing is the defenders of the comic on the main subreddit
Well, it's easy to find defenders when the powertripping mods on there will parma ban anybody even remotely stating something negative about the manga.
OPM is genuinely starting to feel like an afterthought with both of its artists at this point.
I know Murata has that animation project he's working on, and ONE seems occupied with Versus and Bug Ego.
Deleting an entire year's worth of chapters, after having already done a complete 180 on the direction of the climax of the most pivotal arc of the series, is actually mental.
What's the point of reading any of this if it can just be retconned whenever ONE or Murata feel like it?
And the people that are on maximum strength copium trying to justify this shit by saying it's some sort of meta-level 4th wall interference by God to prevent his will from being hindered by the plot are just hilarious. Yes, it's totally that and not just blatant mismanagement and confusion by the creators as to where they want to take the narrative.
/r/OPMfolk
Thread Dump
https://old.reddit.com/r/OPMFolk/comments/1i7dbee/jesus_fricking_christ_just_end_this_manga/
https://old.reddit.com/r/OPMFolk/comments/1i7d8f0/redraw_chapter_195240_raw/
https://old.reddit.com/r/OPMFolk/comments/1i7d8f0/redraw_chapter_195240_raw/m8jpizt/?context=8
All of 2024's chapters are gone from the site lol.
Get ready for another year of ninjas
I'm bored and this isn't as interesting as I've initially assumed. I'll revision this thread in the future. 
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LMAOOOOOO YE cooking random people on IG ππ
β Ye Streams (@kanyestreams1) February 4, 2025
Anyone who has IG can you go see what else hes up to.
- 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 45Β° 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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: As always, frick you nvidia
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!g*mers laugh at Nvidia-cels a $2000 GPU still cant play cyberpunk at 4k 60 fps with gay tracing. Have fun paying $2000 for a DLSS software update.
Oh yeah remember this?
Total fricking lie by 4090 performance they mean 5070 can use 4x frame generation to have an equal framerate, but frame gen also increases the latency to like 60 ms meaning the game will play like utter dog shit despite looking smooth.
Its kinda funny how the cope went from "well 60 fps doesn't matter" to "well its 400 fps who cares if the game has 60 ms latency"
!fosstards !linuxchads Nvidia continues to suffer the curse of proprietary BS
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