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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Poverty in Kentucky and wider Appalachia is still a very real and very serious problem.

    It’s very hopeless feeling and was hit extremely hard by the opioid crisis.

    I’m sure it was bad 100 years ago, too–although alcoholism was usually the drug of choice back then.

    Lots of systematic suffering. Children growing up in the nightmares their parents created for them.

    But it’s not slavery, lol.







  • Dark Roasted coffee is the only way Starbucks can be Starbucks.

    Lighter-roasted coffee emphasizes origin flavors and i agree with you --generally tastes better and is more interesting.

    But you can’t sell coffee like that in tens of thousands of coffee shops and have it remotely consistent.

    Coffee growing from the same plot but on one side of a hill will taste different from the other side due to getting different quantities of sunlight. Complex origin flavors will always be the domain of small specialty coffee shops.

    Starbucks has McDonalds-like consistency serving millions of customers a day and that’s only because they emphasize the flavors they can get consistently–roast flavors.

    TL;DR The bigger the chain, the darker you have to roast. That’s just how coffee works.