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chains are predictable. less risky: your expectations are stable and accurate.
My experience with coffee chains is the chains are predictably mediocre or bad, and the small shops are less predictable but on average generally much better than the chains (with the occasional place that's a lot worse than the chains, but this is rare from my experience).
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I find the phrase "oriental philosophy" to be problematic in addition to being quite vague. Additionally, your statement that this "oriental philosophy"(?) doesn't give "due credit" to abstractions, which seems like a very wide dismissal of an undefined subset of philosophical groups. Then you go on to dismiss meditation as a practice as well, as an "escape from reality". I am assuming that you would agree that since…
>I find the phrase "oriental philosophy" to be problematic in addition to being quite vague. oriental philosophy And I find your tone to be unnecessarily confrontational. People have been writing about consistent differences between Eastern and Western philosophies for at least a hundred years. Hell, there's an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to Eastern philosophy[1]. I'm curious as to what exactly you find "problema…
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Expectations are more stable, but that doesn't mean the underlying product is at all stable and consistent.
I've a friend, a high end foodie. he proposes to use the big Mac as the international standard/reference point for burger quality. that would t be possible unless the big Mac basically tasted the same at pretty much every mc Ds