I was so obsessed with Dutch Bros Paris tea that I went and ordered a bag so I’d stop spending $5/day going there. It’s still the best tea that I’ve ever drank, IMO. Add some agave and it’s my own little Dutch bros at home.
It’s not that expensive, here a package of Twinnings Earl Grey costs like 4-5€, and it comes with 25ish teabags. If they really like it, 50 for 150 is 15 times cheaper than what they were paying before so idk.
Not everyday, but most days. I had always intended to buy the tea myself, but kept forgetting to look at the tag, finally my husband took a picture of it. In my defense I was pregnant att and pregnancy brain is a real thing.
If you’re really hard up for caffeine, purchase pure caffeine powder. $20 is enough to satiate an average person for a year, or to overdose daily for a month.
Looking at the math it honesty looks like cheap black tea and cheap caffeine powder are about the same cost. Can get 400 tea packets for 15ish bucks, or a year supply for 15$.
Allow me to introduce you to Jolt soda. They make/made(?) cola, and a Mt Dew clone, but with something like 3-5 times the caffeine. That shits disgusting.
i legit avoid stores where the staff are notably friendly and talkative. i just want to get the thing i need, not feel obliged to talk and rude if i’m not in the mood [which is unfortunately often, but still a reality]
In my experience this mostly happens in the burbs. Once you get into the city no one gives a fuck about who you are and just wants you out of their line
Yep. Servers in the US already have miserable work lives, and having to put on a smile and fake niceness because your take home pay depends on how much you get in tips is just terrible.
I always skip going to restaurants for a while if one of the staff starts recognizing me. It’s like yea that was a nice guy but I don’t really want to be having conversations in the 20 minutes I have to go get lunch and go back to work.
Omg are we the same person? I actively avoid bodegas, caus fuck that same person behind the register shit. Much rather go to Walmart, where corporate America has so thoroughly destroyed their workers’ soul that they barely acknowledge your existence.
Sometimes the best memes are made by those who are furthest away from the subject matter. I’m over here with the 9¢ green tea bags from Wegman’s though.
So you’re people are saying native Americans have every right to kill, maim and rape settler-colonialist Americans? And that they’re all legitimate targets, since they’re all settlers?
I get it.
Edit: OP didn’t say that. People on Twitter did. I didn’t separate that. It’s an emotional topic, I have friends who are directly affected by HAMAS atrocities.
I see you made an edit, so I’ll respond to it here.
While no one should have the right to rape anyone or murder innocent people, the only one to blame for these atrocities is the Israeli state. They are keeping millions of people in a concentration camp, massacring them slowly every day, destroying their homes, cutting off supply lines and giving them just enough living resources to experience slow death. They burn their children alive. Their soldiers brag about raping Palestinians.
So then if those people lose it and retaliate, who are you going to blame? Those trapped in the concentration camp and chose to resist? Or the ones doing it to them?
And in reality, despite all of this, Hamas has been far more humane in treating Israelis than Israel is with Palestinians. They protected their hostages, and have a history of doing so. They give mothers and the elderly special treatment.
If you are upset about rape and cold blooded murder, look no further than Israel. If you’re outraged about Hamas, who’s not even a fraction the concern that Israel is, your priorities are not right at all.
I think that’s the main demographic of Lemmy from what I can gather. There is definitely a cohort of younger people, but most of us are due for colonoscopies
And the late Gen-Xers, who, if they were nerds, often were the first to grow up with computers and internet in their lives.
I'm 45, I know plenty people my age who are grandparents.
Me personally, I was always on the bleeding edge of tech, worked in tech all my professional life too, so I'm less affected by this behavior.
But it makes it really hard to keep in touch with people my age online.
I was one of the first to join Facebook and one of the first to abandon it. But I had to make a new Facebook account about 5 years ago because these days my whole family keeps in touch through Facebook and sets up family gatherings through it and Whatsapp and lost the ability to text me that info ...
I’ve always subscribed to the “shared formative experience” model of describing generations. The description I always remember best is that the most impactful experience that separates Millenials from Gen X is that Gen X remembers getting their first computer at home but for Millenials there was always a computer at home, while the dividing line for Millenials and Zoomers is that Millenials remember a time before the internet and Gen Z doesn’t. Being more or less tech literate does tend to shift how we interact with some of these paradigm shifts, at least in my anecdotal experience.
Personally, I’m right on the boundary between Gen X and Millenial by this definition, as I remember my family getting our first home computer, but barely. That’s not really all that relelvant to the discussion, but it really does help me understand some of the fundamental differences between the various generations, especially as a boundary case that doesn’t particularly feel like I belong to either group. Plus, I work in at a community college with a bunch of Gen X and Boomers, teaching everyone from Gen Z to Boomers, so knowing what some of the most common formative experiences really helps me communicate better.
Yeah, that's it, I'm GenX, but I actually had a PC in the home as early as I can remember, got my own by age 8 and build my own age 10.
That's how some of these generational boundaries blur together, where the experience that defines one, can already have been part of the previous in specific circumstances.
And personally, I've VERY interested in seeing 10 years down the line when we have the first adults who grew up with on-demand streaming and tablets/phones.
When I was a child, they shoved a picture book in my hands to keep me entertained while sitting still.
Now, you give them a tablet and they can watch YouTube or cartoons, right in their hands.
Really wonder what difference this kind of thing will cause.
That’s how some of these generational boundaries blur together, where the experience that defines one, can already have been part of the previous in specific circumstances.
Definitely. Especially when you go out of your way to learn or experience things more commonly associated with different generations. Personally, I didn’t ever really need to learn DOS or Win3.2, but because I loved computers from a very early age, I spent a ton of time learning about computers from very early on. Now it means that I understand computers and technology way better than my contemporaries that are more traditional Millenials (and don’t even get me started on Gen Z and their inability to understand basic folder/file structures).
That applies to technology, music, films, books, etc., especially since the internet has completely changed the way that people find, learn about, and consume media. It’s kind of tangential, but if you want to hear a great example of the effect of internet on music culture, just listen to the song Losing My Edge by LCD Soundsystem for the story of a Gen Xer whose encyclopedic knowledge of music briefly made him “cool” in the early 2000’s until all the Millenials started finding all the stuff he experienced firsthand.
And personally, I’ve VERY interested in seeing 10 years down the line when we have the first adults who grew up with on-demand streaming and tablets/phones.
Yeah, I’ve already noticed some generational differences with my own kids and some of the students I teach. They seem to be simultaneously less patient and more patient. Less patient because they are used to always being able to watch something of their choosing and change shows whenever they get bored, but also more patient because everything can be paused as is available on-demand, so they have no problem waiting for a more opportune time to watch something as a group (and with my kids, we only started to let them use tablets after they turned 5 and then only on road trips).
It’s also interesting because the cultural zeitgeist is a lot less monolithic. Instead of everyone watching Ninja Turtles or everyone listening to Nirvana, kids have developed their own little niches and shared interests by watching whatever piques their interest. Anecdotally, it seems like it’s resulting in a lot less of an “in-crowd.” Even though there are still “the cool kids,” the cool kids have known shared interests with the uncool kids, so it’s lot more like a web than a hierarchy. In my very limited experience, every day is like the end of The Breakfast Club, albeit still with plenty of drama and cattiness.
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