'Safe'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Maybe there'll be an outcry about the slowing of the mail that will make Congress give them other options.
I may be completely in the dark about this, but it feels like if Congress is now in the business of bailing out failing enterprises, the postal service and libraries should be first in line.
ION, Cat-butt coffee: A critical review
Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world. At my local specialty coffee bean store, it sells for $420 per pound—or $10 for a 10 oz. brewed cup.
Kopi Luwak is very different from that cheap, gauche coffee you and I drink every day. This is because each hand-harvested bean of Kopi Luwak has been artisanally shat out of the digestive system of a small Indonesian pseudo-cat.
...
There is a difference in flavor. Kopi Luwak is noticeably not bitter. Swallow a sip, and it's like you just drank some water. There's no sting or heavy flavor left in the back of your throat. That makes sense. Proteins are part of what is responsible for the bitterness of coffee. Kopi Luwak beans have fewer whole proteins than normal beans. So they're less bitter, but still taste good. As my husband put it, "Everything that is wrong with cheap gas station coffee is right about this."
Kopi Luwak is not as tasty (to me) as Blue Mountain or Tanzanian Peaberry. I don't get the hype. But obviously I don't have a wide range of coffee I'll drink (the first sentence is pretty much the whole world of it).
The post office is in trouble in the first place because it was milked to lower the nominal deficit. It was forced to prefund pensions (for 30 or 70 years - I forget which) over the course of ten years. No one else, public or private in the U.S. has that requirement. As far as I know , no one else in the world.
Kopi Luwak might be un-bitter enough for me to enjoy. However, at $10 for a cup it may. E a while before I get around to trying it.
I clearly have peasant coffee taste since the stuff at 7-11 or my corner Racetrack tastes great to me. Less than a buck to refill my big cup, when they charge me, which they often don't.
Your postal service is still faster than our postal service, and cheaper.
It is Tuesday in 10 hours 29 minutes here!
ETA: Also, I believe restaurants are not allowed to serve burgers rarer than medium well in NS, due to health regulations.
It is already Tuesday for billytea.
Your postal service is still faster than our postal service, and cheaper.
The faster may be about to change.
Awwww, Teen Goth Nite.