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Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Post by pkroll »

netsharc wrote: post #38
ksaj wrote: post #9

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That makes me wonder if the toilet paper industry is also seeing a short-term dip in sales because of all that hoarding earlier this year.

Apparently industrial (enterprise? hahaha) toilet paper is different to home ones, and they couldn't just route for-office TP to retail. Although I heard this on a podcast which didn't cite any sources. The shittiest (ha) TPs are the ones where the buyer cheaps out, i.e the one you found in every AirBnB on the planet (when AirBnB was still a thing)...

The TP at my place of work was (probably still is but I've not been there in months) Angel Soft... which is sold in a giant box by Staples. And that's the only place I could get it from, early on when TP became a unicorn. It is, frankly, horrible, and now I have half a box of nasty TP and more recent, decent TP of various kinds.

I do not recommend Angel Soft unless "falls apart like it was formed from loosely collected glitter" is a plus for you.

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Post by dwd »

seattle_spring wrote: post #3

Wow not me. Probably because my home coffee setup and beans are a lot better than my office.

Same: My manual expresso machine at home has always been better than the fully automatic in the office, and I usually have an extra cup because I enjoy it more.

Stocked up on extra beans as well the other day in anticipation of it all going to hell soon in Australia.

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bsder wrote: post #70
save_ferris wrote: post #67

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> The job of the press is to inform the public--not yell "Fire!" in a crowded theatre. But yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is only wrong when there isn’t one, no? You go on to argue that it’s ok to have the press explicitly tell people do something (i.e. to stock up on water) when we live in a time when having the press directing anyone to do anything results in the exact kind of criticism you levied against them…

A) You will note that I changed the example to "water" specifically because there was NO possibility that water was going to be an issue. And yet there was still panic and shortages, mostly due to reporting. B) The press reported toilet paper was flying off the shelves. Except that before they did that, there were only marginal shortages in certain places, mostly because toilet paper is bulky and slow to restock. Aft…

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Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Post by dwd »

regularfry wrote: post #35
mtts wrote: post #19

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You can freeze coffee beans. Helps keeps them fresh a lot longer.

I do this. Get a kilo of good beans, freeze them in 250g batches.

Any issues with moisture? I find most things I freeze end up with condensation freezing inside the bag, which isn't going to be good for the coffee. I could imagine it going moldy within days of defrosting with the local humidity.

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Post by endemic »

ci5er wrote: post #60
dsr_ wrote: post #56

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There was a time when my daily intake was 4x 20oz bottles of Jolt Cola and 120+oz of coffee. Then I was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea and started CPAP therapy. Now I drink about half a pot of half-caf a day, more because I like it than because I need it.

I'm moving into your territory, I think. I find that I absolutely love the smell and flavor, but the caffeine is starting to be an irritant as I age. I don't (and never have) like sugary soda drinks, and water is "OK", but boring. I just like sipping on ice-coffee as I work.

Probably lots of tech folk who are getting older fall into this category. I loooove drinking coffee while working, but as I get older it’s giving me pretty bad heartburn. I’ve tried just about every other type of drink as a replacement, but nothing is as good as coffee :(

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

ci5er wrote: post #44
colordrops wrote: post #37

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Are you being ironic or do you actually drink that much?

Ummm. Pretty close. 3 pots of coffee - poured over ice - from about 4am ~ 10pm or so? I tend to pretty obsessively sip during coding sessions. Although as I have aged, I have noticed that it might be disrupting my aging sleep patterns, so I may need to start cutting it back. But, in Japan, in my youth, when I was working in semiconductor - people considered it excessive, but not extraordinarily, you know, extraordina…

If it’s tobacco you smoke, that may explain why you prefer more caffeine - nicotine has been proven to reduce the half life of caffeine significantly.

Tangentially, have you considered making cold brew? Cold brew over ice tastes a LOT better than hot coffee poured over ice due to the lower acid content. It’s very easy to make if you have a French press.

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Post by wakkaflokka »

ci5er wrote: post #60
dsr_ wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a time when my daily intake was 4x 20oz bottles of Jolt Cola and 120+oz of coffee. Then I was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea and started CPAP therapy. Now I drink about half a pot of half-caf a day, more because I like it than because I need it.

I'm moving into your territory, I think. I find that I absolutely love the smell and flavor, but the caffeine is starting to be an irritant as I age. I don't (and never have) like sugary soda drinks, and water is "OK", but boring. I just like sipping on ice-coffee as I work.

I drink a single cup of coffee a day (used to drink two), but love the flavor and taste that I considered drinking decaf the rest of the day. Never got around to doing it, but possible one resolution to this issue. Although decaf still has some caffeine, so I can’t really drink it too late in the day.
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