I tried watching Breaking Bad but I couldn’t get past the glaring plot-holes. Like, Walter makes meth to pay for his cancer treatment and yet he has a friend that offers to pay for it? So he didn’t need to make meth at all? It’s sloppy writing
I returned to the cafe that gave me caffeinated coffee instead of decaf to conduct some investigative work.
Here is what we know.
I entered the cafe on Sunday, Aug 30th at 2:06 pm. I took roughly 15 steps to the ordering station (see image below). A woman in her early 20s cheerfully greeted me.
“How may I help you?” she inquired.
“A decaf coffee please” I said, matching her lightness.
“Do you want any milk?” she delivered with mastery.
“No thank you” I said delicately to avoid offending her generous offer.
“A name for the order?”
“Bryan”
“Ok, that will be $5.09”
I then double clicked the right button on my phone and tapped the bluetooth device.
Then, unexpectedly, this woman smiled, looked at the device I was holding in my other hand, and said “I like your walkie talkie”.
This took me by surprise. She had deviated from the script and routine. What was I to make of this?
She then flipped the payment screen around for signature and simultaneously turned away, as if to allow me to do my business in private.
I scribbled nonsense onto the screen and was presented with a tip conundrum of $1, $2, and “Other”.
What was I to do? She had clear mastery of her craft and had provided great service thus far. But I was suffering a debilitating aftershock from the surprise compliment and friendly engagement.
$1 would be shameful. $2 seemed more appropriate. That would be a 39% tip for the sixty second encounter. But I am rich. Should I give more? Should I give all?
An existential dilemma draped over me. My fingers dashed to touch $2 and end the spiral.
I then walked to the opposite side of the cafe where the barista would be fulfilling the order and handed them my stainless steel cup. This was to avoid using the microplastic lined material they would have otherwise used.
I’d brought with me a flask of warmed, freshly made macadamia nut milk. Before walking to the cafe, I had heated 8 oz of nut milk to 145°F, near the ceiling before plant proteins denature and aggregate and the emulsion destabilizes. The ten minute walk inside my insulated flask would keep it around 140°F and pair perfectly with the 185°F freshly brewed coffee. This would be my companion over the next few hours on this splendid Sunday afternoon.
As I headed to leave the cafe, I ran into some friends and engaged in a lively conversation for four minutes. I wrapped the conversation and left the building for the coffee pick up location outside.
My cup and the coffee were on a ledge with a paper order receipt below it. I picked up the cup and eyed the BPA-coated thermal paper receipt that unfortunately needed handling lest I litter. Such a moral dilemma. In this ethical deliberation, I forgot to check the receipt confirmed “decaf.” Rookie mistake.
I walked home with the anticipatory delight of savoring the first touch with my lips. I’d wait until at my desk, fingers on the keyboard, music in the ears and upright posture.
Then the sipping began.
It was glorious.
At 5:43 pm I messaged Kate “the nap worked, I’m still going strong”.
Earlier in the day I’d told Kate my plan was to complete 10 hours of deep, focused work. It was Sunday, my calendar was open and it was a unique opportunity to work in an interruption free stretch.
To do this, my plan was to take a mid-day nap to refresh myself. So earlier that day, at 12:12 pm, I’d taken a 31 minute nap with 94% efficiency. I woke up feeling refreshed.
Recently I’d been dipping with fatigue in the 2-4 pm window. Likely because I’ve been waking up at 4 am and completing an intense five hour morning routine (exercise, sauna, IHHT/HBOT) and then working 10 hours straight, until 7 pm.
The nap did work.
Turns out, I also made the mistake of attributing my caffeine high to my nap. Fatal.
I finished work and began my wind down routine. I laid down in bed at 8:01 pm and only then did I realize I had a problem. Whereas normally I’d fall asleep within 2-3 minutes, something was off. My mind was wired and buzzing. There was no way I was going to fall asleep.
Not having had caffeine in years, I tossed and turned all night, creating a subjective feeling that I was awake all night.
Was this a mistake, a prank or a crime?
Noise
> yesterday, I returned to the cafe with a sound meter
> the cafe’s background noise sat around 75 dBA
> I replicated my order voice volume. It was 72 dBA
> The person behind the counter is 3 feet in distance
> this created a -3 dB signal to noise ratio
> you can hear low-frequency vowel volume
> but high-frequency consonant clarity drops off
> even with healthy hearing between 1,000-4,000 Hz
> “a decaf coffee” and “a cup of coffee” could sound nearly identical
Ordering mistakes
> I took a picture of the order screen (see image above)
> that they use to input the order
> the caffeinated/ decaffeinated buttons are adjacent
> buttons are large enough a finger mishap is unlikely
> the failure point here is a “capture error”
> both buttons say “brewed”
> therefore size/color do nothing to offset autopilot error
> order error rate in a cafe is around 1 in every 8 orders
> afternoon mistakes (when I was there) most common
> there is also a possibility that the barista making the coffee messed up the order, or pranked me
Recognizability and prank
> given my social media presence, there is a ~55% likelihood that she recognized me
> she could have thought "lol, this is going to be funny"
Given this, what do you think happened?
@bulimics@YesYouH0@Say4Lifer@bannermanfiles This video shows more intense dance moves but it seems like shes making most movements look more exaggerated by bending her knees instead of stomping.
Also I didn't attend their tour so I dont know how every single dance was performed by Megan wtfdym "ignoring" lol
@YesYouH0@Say4Lifer@bannermanfiles Not really. The dances here dont have any extreme leg/foot movements that would cause damage. Also, exercise and movement is actually important in healing stages to prevent losing flexibility
@YesYouH0@Say4Lifer@bannermanfiles To heal fully, yes. But for minor sprains 4 days is enough time to reduce most of the pain coming from medium impact activities and walking.
Joking or not, the "pink cherry" muslims saying, "prophet ayah pbuh", "Allahu pinkbar" etc is extremely dangerous and they need to say their shahadah again. Saying this with genuine fear :/ it's quite literally blasphemy don't even say that as a joke. May Allah guide all of us
i never really fit in with lesbians online because half of them have a crush on cate blanchett or some another white woman with microbangs meanwhile this is my type to a t
misogyny is women's fault btw. they said that men are bad which is why men rape, kill, and want to take away all of women's rights.
To end misogyny, we should uplift men and silence women who speak badly about them. maybe even prioritize the patriarch
My own sister told me I was inherently violent and creepy to women for being a man when I was like 12 and I don’t think people quite grasp how many young men’s brain got broken by stuff like that happening during this period
Genuinely confused are people mad because she already has money? She should be allowed to build herself up and learn skills and responsibility regardless of how much money her parents have
North West says she wants to have a regular job and work at Starbucks next year in a new interview with DAZED magazine.
“I wanna work at, like, Starbucks next year… I want to have a regular job, I guess.”
concept: a fake safeword and real safeword
like, using the fake one for the feeling of it and to be turned down (knowing you will be turned down), while also having a legitimate one in your back pocket
This should be considered sexual misconduct, but because of the "sex work is work!" crowd it's going to be brushed off as a job recommendation.
We are in hell
Dakota Johnson Says Pedro Pascal Told Her To Start An OnlyFans
Dakota Johnson: “Pedro Pascal told me that I should have an OnlyFans.”
“That I could just, like, wiggle my toe and make money.”
Dakota Johnson: “Should I do that?”
“I’m not the right person to ask for advice.”
“Get out of here! Grow up.”
“That’s my answer for everything, to everyone: Grow up.”
I like how they used thighs and stomach as examples like those body parts aren't completely normal and non-sexual to everyone outside their rape cult lol
Now apply this same logic to everything on a woman, “it’s literally just thighs,” and, “it’s literally just stomach,” and soon you’ll be naked. God draws the lines, not you