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June 30, 2025 (personal) by liha

My sister began this journey around three years ago. For a small additional fee, she and my mother invited me to join them in this ambitious undertaking. I must admit that I was skeptical due to all the paperwork and red tape. I will also state that they did most of the work. Yet the notion of it becoming a possibility compelled me to take that leap of faith and join them in their quest.

I've never visited this location. I have never experienced its culture firsthand aside from my grandfather who came over as a child. My knowledge is limited to book descriptions, magazine photographs, backdrops in films, and the stories my sister would share with me. And I clearly need to dust off my Duolingo account and perhaps invest in some more sophisticated language learning apps if I am going to have any hope of navigating this new chapter of my life with even basic conversational skills.

But now I find myself grateful for the very systems of oppression,…

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Choosing and storing coffee beans. (how-to) by wertperch

"Yes, beans, because while I may be a coffee snob I am also a realist who trusts the science."
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"Coffee snob(noun): [One who has] a true epicurean appreciation for the fine art of all things coffee. This is far and above the myraid [sic] of lemmings who ritually congregate at the local Starbucks, trying like hell to appear hip and trendy."
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Stove top espresso (opinion) by wertperch

There is no "stovetop espresso", there is only good, strong Moka pot coffee.

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ANy coffee afficionado will tell you that espresso is its very own thing. True espresso (N.B. not 'expresso") is made by a machine that uses pressures of around 8 atmospheres to force very hot water through a dense cake of finely-ground coffee. It needs a particular build of machine to make it, and nothing else comes close to

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