A postscript to "what happened to me"

[Belacqua]

I drink between 12 and 15 shots of espresso a day (no joke). How much caffeine do you imbibe?

I'd like a good espresso!

This is my current drug of choice:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/コカ・コーラ-ジョージア-ヨー...YY0BHZ25GH

(The price there is for a case.)

I've never figured out how much caffeine it has exactly, come to think of it. The vending machines for this stuff are ubiquitous -- always ice-cold, always ready.

My students joke about how I always have one, and it always ends up in the discussion. If I'm discussing what Blake says about God's infinite vision, I describe all the ways the coffee can could be seen, and how narrowly we see it instead. I guess it's my prop.

[vulcanlogician]

A true test of your palate:

Would you take a highly roasted Sumatra over a medium-high roasted Ethiopian? (Assuming an espresso brew in both cases.)

[Belacqua]

A true test of your palate:

Would you take a highly roasted Sumatra over a medium-high roasted Ethiopian? (Assuming an espresso brew in both cases.)

Oh, man, I don't have the least little idea about stuff like... quality!

If I had even a little connoisseurship I wouldn't be able to drink that canned stuff any more. 

What would you choose?

[The Grand Nudger]

He may be a little bit hysterical in his liberalism, but you have to understand that he comes from a place where alt-right is the new norm.

I missed this one. Can confirm that Shell and I have had disagreements. As she also noted, I’ve probably disagree with everyone that’s been on the board about something.

As a point of correction, though ( )...I’m not even remotely overzealous in my liberalism, here...mostly because I’m not a liberal in the first place. That probably explains how I managed to disagree with everyone.

I’m actually from a place where the alt right was always the norm. From a family that hides its drops of non white blood in shame, couldn’t bring my girlfriends home on account of brown, began my service cleaning up the ethnic cleansing mess in the balkans, and now live in rural fucking Kentucky, lol.

So, my patience for the sorts of shit I rail against in threads like these is less than zero. It’s not political, it’s personal, lol.

Other than my long-standing hatred of racist shitlords and disappointment in the people who make excuses for them....I’m exactly what people would expect from the Deep South.

Small gov, individual rights, free market, traditional values, American exceptionalism , pro military, pro gun, anti-abortion....the whole bit, lol.

[vulcanlogician]

A true test of your palate:

Would you take a highly roasted Sumatra over a medium-high roasted Ethiopian? (Assuming an espresso brew in both cases.)

Oh, man, I don't have the least little idea about stuff like... quality!

If I had even a little connoisseurship I wouldn't be able to drink that canned stuff any more. 

What would you choose?

The Ethiopian, prolly. I've very much grown to like Ethiopian coffee. But I hate to sound like some kind of coffee quaffing, douchebag hipster. I mean, pretty much everyone in Ethiopia has known this for centuries. I mean. If anything, they're the true hipsters. They liked Ethiopian coffee before it was cool.