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  • Oz or whatever strange body part comparison you guys prefer would also be fine for me. As long as it’s standardized between products.

    With 100 gramms/millilitres it’s a simple guideline:

    • <100 kcal: probably healthy
    • 100-200 kcal: mostly ok
    • >200 kcal: consume carefully

    Of cause it’s fine to consume oils (~700kcal/100ml) but they shouldn’t be the major part of your meal. And sugary drinks are obviously bad for you, even though they’ve got less than 100kcal/100ml.


  • 475 kcal

    Not so hard to calculate. It’s still stupid though, that they don’t have to print the values per 100g, as they do in Europe. That makes it really easy to compare two products with different package sizes.

    The value per serving is mostly useless, as a serving is just some made up amount, usually tiny to make the product look healthier. For example, a serving size of crisps could be 20g, which is not even a handful.



  • That’s why I always use password hashes as my passwords. So when some hacker steals the database, with all the clear text passwords, and look at my account they think somehow this password is still hashed and don’t try using it directly. My current lemmy-password is $argon2d$v=19$m=16,t=2,p=1$Mk9RTWNESzMyWVljUGo5RA$BiGKlhzFuiWA0N78KzEmCQ




  • exclusive, absolute

    Fine. You’re responsible now for every particle in the universes, the laws of physics don’t have control over them anymore. Planets will no longer orbit their stars. Electrons won’t repell other electrons, so things will just fall through each other. Unless you actively decide otherwise for each and ever one of the >10⁸⁰ particles. That’s a lot of responsibility for one person.


  • Thank you, finally someone is trying to bring some sense into what Frezik meant by “American coffe culture”. To me that’s still a pretty niche thing and not “everywhere” as they claimed, but at least I can acknowledge that it exists.

    Yet I’m still not sure how much of that development is based in the US. We have had small rosters in my hometown all the time and not only Tchibo, but I guess the numbers might have gone up again lately and maybe the US could even have played a part in that trend.

    Just as with Craft Beer, it’s not something the USA invented. We’ve had crafted beer in Germany all the time, and every little town had it’s own local brewery. We just didn’t call it “Craft Beer” it was simply “beer”. However, the general trend was going towards industrialized big brand beers and away from the old fashioned Dorfbrauerei in the late 20th century, with a lot of smaller breweries closing down. The US Craft Beer szene might have helped turning that trend around and giving small breweries a new fancy name for their old product to bring it back into the supermarkets.

    My local butcher is closing after more than a century, my local bakery was replaced by a local chain a few years ago. Maybe the US can start a Craft Butchering and a Craft Bread trend next, so I don’t have to drive 2km to the next local bakery.





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    Mr Coffee was not extremely cheap outside of America, it doesn’t even exist outside of America because the problem it solves was already solved by other companies outside of America.

    I understand that it might have been a great improvement for the American coffee drinkers (I don’t know, I’ve never heard of Mr Coffee until yesterday because I’m not American), but it did nothing to influence “coffee culture everywhere else” as the OP boldly claims, because everywhere else is outside of America!




  • Instead of assuring me, maybe you could enlighten us by telling us what the fuck it is, you’re talking about. Because the American

    modern coffee culture that exists everywhere else now

    does not exist in Europe. At least not outside of Starbucks or maybe McDonalds. The Italians still drink the same espresso from Lavazza or illy as they always did, the German still buy their filter coffee from Jacobs and Tchibo, just like in the 1960s.



  • I just read about the “second wave” for the first time, and allegedly it was Starbucks’ idea to “transform coffee consumption into a social event instead of just consumption of coffee”.

    But I can guarantee you, that that’s a purely American view, as coffee consumption has been a social event long before in the rest of the world. Fika in Sweden was a thing since the 19th century. Sospreso has been a thing in Italy a century before Starbucks copied it. I don’t know since when Kaffe und Kuchen is a thing in Germany, but my Gradma told me how her Grandma used to put out the white table cloth only for the Sunday Koffee. And she was long dead when Starbucks got their Idea of serving pastries with coffee. Austria got their first Kaffeehaus a century before the USA even existed. In Mecca, coffee houses were banned from 1512-1524 as they were too sociable for the imams who feard the politicization of the coffee drinkers.

    And don’t get me started on the “third wave”, a marketing term coined by some hipsters in Los Angeles or New York to sell overpriced “specialty” coffee to other hipsters from San Francisco or Boston.



  • I totally agree with you, especially in the second part where you’re talking about the US being a weird ass country full of wackjobs.

    But that doesn’t mean that we in the other countries aren’t a bunch of wackjobs either. We might not be as totally wack as you are right now, but that’s just a matter of past or future. Just so you know: We already found the worst possible solution, so you don’t have to find it for yourself, you can learn from us and choose another path.