Are the coffee grounds blowing up into the machine? If they aren’t cleaned from there after each coffee is made, it can cause a bitter burnt taste, could be that?

Here’s an angry explanation / view of it. I like to think of it more like coming to an understanding of why a person would behave that way, so as you can forget them. If you’re angry, they don’t feel that, it doesn’t punish them, it only punishes you because you have to carry around that bitter feeling that taints everything. It can be seen as giving them power over you to think of them at all. Whereas if you can find an understanding, not letting them off the hook, or saying it’s ok, but just that you get why those behaviours come out of people, sometimes. Then you can pity them and look down on them, for choosing that path, so really, it’s just about flipping the power back into your hands.

Yeah, not only that, people who pirate wouldn’t have consumed the product, if pirating weren’t available as an option. They’ve priced cost of living so high, and reduced access to content availability. When Netflix first came out, especially the streaming version, I bet there was a noticible drop in piracy, now they’ve made content access to hard, more piracy. They control the levels of piracy. It’s not a choice to pay for everything we want to watch, or pirate. It’s pirate or don’t watch. And they created that situation, and then try and brainwash / gaslight us into feeling guilty and feeling like it’s our fault. And then add in the moral clause, these companies are committing or contributing to atrocities. Some piracy is an attempt to avoid supporting companies that cause harm to people. If “wrong” is condemned, what about the wrongs that have caused them to be listed on boycott lists. Underpaying employees and writers, who should own the content. I think writers should be as famous, and focused on as the actors. The content being created currently has a heaping of “conform, don’t think” built in, too, I could rant about that, annoyingly, for a bit, too! So many things.

I bet Zelensky actually got some sense into trump at the funeral. It’s been since that conversation he’s flipped his usual script.

I’m so sad he rests on Sundays, cos sundick has such a great ring to it.

For every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction?

Because it takes the edge off anxiety? I haven’t even been on it all that long and I entirely forgot it did this. Holy crap, what was I even like before! I remember being in constant pain from the migraines. More pain than I even noticed I was in, weirdly enough. Is it helping your migraines? My head still feels like Swiss cheese, or something. But more brain fog and heavy than pain, now.

I have just discovered chia pudding. If you like Boba tea, (is that what it’s called?) it’s got that same bubble poppy, feel, if you don’t, puree / grind the chia first. 1tbsp chia, Add whatever flavor you like, chocolate pudding mix, drinking chocolate, whatever. And a cup of whatever milk you like (or water). (I add some flax meal but it kinda tastes like dirt a little, especially if you put too much.) add whatever protein powder, pea protein is flavourless. Bam, tastes like chocolate pudding. Good fibre, good brain food (aka omega something something) I actually find I have more energy when I eat it. I make a jar of it and just have a couple of table / tea spoons a day. Good for a few days to a week. Oh, wait a few hours to overnight for it to solidify.

But you’re operating from a state that, all people operate in good faith. These people will twist the narrative no matter what you do. They don’t wait for you to validate them. They twist reality and logic and manipulate events. There is no reasoning with these types. If you sit back and do nothing, they’ll twist that to their agenda just as much as if you do something. But sitting back guarantees a smooth path of no resistance, they get thier agenda easily. Resisting means they don’t get there as easily. Nobody in history made changes by sitting back and sending love vibes, my friend, I truly wish that were the case. Women lost their lives, just for the right to vote. How many rights have been removed or are under threat right now? I mean absolutely no disrespect, and I can see your logic, I just feel like maybe you aren’t personally familiar with these manipulative types. I get that you understand reactive abuse and you see they’re trying to use that, but it really doesn’t matter, they’ll do the same thing anyway, so maybe the path is somewhere in the middle, not giving them a reason, but not sitting back quietly and there’s no waiting for someone to oppose them, it’s now, right now.

Yet

But Does he have FAS, though? This Pic!

One step further, even. Women take responsibility for their own emotions, and filling their own needs. So if they feel lonely, they create community, in friends. What I hear, when I hear “loneliness epidemic in men” is men expecting women to tend to or serve their emotions and they aren’t capable of tending to their own emotions. Like a little baby, I don’t know any woman who wants to be responsible for their partners emotions, AND their own. Because it’s not like these men are going to be looking after the womens emotions, the same.

It’s emotional immaturity. Borderline, sometimes actual emotional abuse. You are supposed to be responsible for filling your own needs, as an adult. I feel like men have just never stopped and noticed all that women do (or ended up being socialised or forced to do).

I just watched a tik tok that talked about women being called irrational for worrying if everything is together at the holidays, they do everything. Then if they’re walking out the door and worrying if everyone has everything, the husband says “you worry too much, everything will be fine”. Everything is fine, because she’s planned and prepared for every contingency, and it’s entirely overlooked, it’s unseen, unacknowledged work.

And I can’t help but see the link between what has been baseline accepted / perceived as what women “do” or “women’s responsibilities” in relationships for men, predominantly all the house work, holiday planning, knowing stock levels and needs, kids / friends / family birthdays and needs, doctors appointments, clothing… I can’t understand how that became a basic expectation that one person in the partnership do all of that, and then, women are disengaging from relationships with men, and instead of looking at the environment they created for women, that they wanted to no longer be engaged in that, they doubled down and shouted about how it’s a strangers (all women’s?) job to fix their feelings, while they roll around wailing on the floor (I imagine).

Ultimately men have been conditioned to not appreciate or see what women do, and to feel like their “manliness” is tied to how much they subjugate another person. And ultimately both of those social dynamics serve capitalism and are predominantly strong in extreme evangelical religions. It makes the rich richer if men are emotionally immature and taught to oppress women. Then women provide free labour to capitalism, emotional support, children and home. If capitalism had to make space for or compensate the work women do, raising children, it would go broke, overnight. It’s not that providing the next generation is a worthless task, it’s that the division of wealth is being hoarded by a handful of people and they violently don’t want to let go of that.

If someone gets Knickers in a knot, because they know one woman or one man who isn’t like that, you missed my point and that doesn’t detract from my point, I’m not saying if they all don’t do this, it doesn’t hold water, obviously lots are disengaging, currently. Some in a healthy way, some not. I just find all this stuff fascinating to talk about, and the fact it’s hidden from you, you have to piece it together yourself. We’re all being collectively manipulated, on a societal level to, essentially, funnel money to a handful of people. It blows my mind how deep it goes. This whole nuclear family, is relatively new. It’s against our nature and our grain. And it’s very much not working.

You’re essentially telling your nervous system it’s safe, right now, which seems like an important thing to do frequently, in the current climate.

I could imagine that what US has done has caused fear and a feeling of needing to hoard enough to get your country through a war. It’s making me, a lowly in Australia feel like we should be able to survive on our own, and have more available resources. I’m going to guess they’re more aware of threats than I am, more aware of where the next steps of this whole “mastermind” plan of Elon and Trumps enacting. This is not the only consequences of what they’ve done, we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg, yet.

The terminator movies had it wrong, this is how Ai became all human hatey, on the timeline.

“you know, new day, same old, how about you?” think of it as a game of catch, throw the ball back, if you don’t want to / or have a quick answer.

I think a lot of that kind of stuff is going to happen. I don’t think other countries are insulted, as much as they find it ridiculous, and to be ridiculed, I think they’re going to do some inventive chaos. I think we need to be building some world bingo cards, and I’ll bet we won’t guess all the (hopefully hilarious) petty revenges about to snowball.

Netanyahu put hamas in power. And yes there’s been reports from people captured by hamas. They don’t paint that picture at all. The only thing that paints that picture is Israeli propaganda. I don’t understand why launching missiles, after being under attack for decades, is seen as a horrific act, but bombing and targeting children, as Israel is doing for a year and a half, not once, like hamas did, is somehow not. What you’re reading isn’t the truth. It’s out there of you look. And you don’t have to look far to find it, first hand accounts. Doctors in the hospitals there, actual footage. How do you think that made up bullshit, flies at all. Please tell me you accidentally fell down that hole of propaganda, not that you’re just a troll for Isreal, because there’s lots of them. More on reddit than here. I suppose that was going to change.

This is some absolute bullshit. I guess the bots and misinformation bombing has started again. Even on cursory glance this is some bullshit. So hamas are being targeted by Israel, that’s who they’re supposedly bombing, even when they’re underground they’re bombing them, under tents, under hospitals, under all the children they can find, but they just go out, put orders on and kill their own citizens? How stupid do they think we are. I haven’t seen one of these propaganda pieces that actually have or pass basic common sense.