Perfect! You just summed up the problem more clearly and concisely than I have seen in any mainstream media.

But I see this kind of coffee shop maths everywhere going completely unchallenged. Company statements just printed wholesale.

I keep reading this, I don’t think it adds up in the way that coffee shops are claiming.

Nikki Bravo, the co-owner of Momentum Coffee in Chicago, raised prices by about 15% last week for lattes, cappuccinos and other drinks at her four locations.

Bravo said she is paying 15% more for coffee beans compared to a year ago and has started roasting more beans in-house to save money. She gets most of her beans from Africa.

When you a buy a coffee you’re paying for beans, sure. But mainly the expenditure of a coffee place is it’s staff, premises, taxes, equipment, water, electric and all the other overheads.

The average U.S. price of a pound of ground coffee hit $9.14 in September, a 3% increase from the August average of $8.87 and 41% higher than in September 2024

40% in a year is massive, but what does a lb make? 50 cups of coffee?

So the cost of the beans went up 8c and she puts her prices up 50c and says it’s the beans.

and none of it is indeed by search engines. No one else will ever be able to Google their problem and find the answer. All the useful knowledge put into a box and buried. It’s just awful.

Same as if you let go of a kite. It’ll just tumble back down to Earth over some distance.

Have a look at the clock faces there using to Benchmark and it’ll make more sense.

£2k. And £50 a year for a chimney sweep.

Pretty sure heat pumps have higher maintenance costs as well.

Fire is dirt cheap, that’s why a good chunk of the world still uses it as their principal source of cooking and heating. They’re not doing it for the vibes.

Hear pumps are great, they have many advantages but cost is not one. Hopefully that’ll change.

A heat pump is £10k to buy and install, that ain’t cheap. In fact that would buy me enough wood to heat my house for 50 winters.

I think that’s how it’s been justified but the company just sold so it’s not worthless anymore right? Can’t have it both ways.

Firefox blocks this behaviour. If you click a link hijacked by an app you can choose to continue in the other app or open it as a website.

This is what diplomacy with a narcissist looks like, and everyone is doing it. Trump whisperers are in hot demand.

The bit I find funny is trump is so dense he doesn’t even realise he’s being spoken to and manipulated like you would a child. In this case for a good cause, so well done Rutte.

Yeah, they have some kind of formula that looks a bit like this… Something weird, something quasi-sexual, and actual products all mixed in together.

I get ones that always have something that looks like (but on closer inspection isn’t) sex toys or BDSM clothing or nudity. Stuff like that.

But I have to say, it definitely works on me, I’m like wtf is that, and then spend a good 30s decoding what it must mean.

RIP. She was a fighter and a hero.

We can lament the lack of full justice but please let’s not forget this woman’s massive achievements…

Epstein died awaiting trial. Maxwell is doing 20 years. Andrew is a social pariah who has been ejected from the royal family. And everyone around the world knows about Epstein’s trafficking ring.

None of this would have happened without Giuffre’s tenacity and bravery for so long in the face of insurmountable odds and incredibly powerful people.

It’s not justice until every charge is answered for and every perpetrator faces trial. BUT… this woman achieved so much and deserves to be remembered as such.

Let’s not frame her as a downtrodden victim. She’s a fucking fighter. And she won an astounding victory. This woman felled giants.

Still, it probably has a chilling ef fect. Voting Dems becomes like a secret you have to keep rather than something you should shout from the roofs - less likely to make that post on social media, put up a sticker or a sign, tell your friend and family etc.

Reddit has kissed the ring.

Yeah, Reddit has been leaned on. And is compliant.

I had to use teams with multiple accounts with multiple organisations. Sometimes my account is added to their organisation, sometimes I used their provided account. Microsoft was going for a one sign in approach and the whole thing just totally failed to account for my situation. It never successfully let me switch accounts, running multiple concurrently certainly never worked.

With one situation the work around was to follow the original organisation invite again, reset my password then proceed with my meeting. I’d do this maybe ten times a day sometimes if I had to bounce between different companies.

And all controls are basic as fuck. It’s a business tool that thinks its target market is my grandma. All controls were apple-ified. I’d get a long error code and I couldn’t select it to copy and paste it, and if I clicked off the window the notification displaying the error code would go away, so i’d have to print screen the error code, paste out somewhere, and then type it out manually into Google to try and diagnose. This was a solved problem 30 years ago. Why are we going backwards?

Anyway, rant over. It’s a pos. Slack is light years ahead.

That was first bribes. What about second bribes?

The racist ai we made is racist.

Seeing musk, trump and a Tesla in a single shot just makes that toxic association so much stronger. I don’t think this is going to play out like they hope.

Plus, you know the boycott is working, talk about desperate.