The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home
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Do you have a blog? I’d love to read how all of this came about. What an awesome project. It looks great!
And forever be overqualified for working at Starbucks, lol.
Stocked up on extra beans as well the other day in anticipation of it all going to hell soon in Australia.
EDIT: I was thinking about this a bit more... The first pot is 4am~6am, the next is 6am~10am(or so), and the 3rd pot is nursed over the next 12-or-so hours). I guess I am bootstrapping the system pretty hard at the beginning of the day... I haven't done a cost-benefit analysis, or even thought about it much, but looking at this conversation, it might turn out to be more cost-effective to take up meth (just kidding, that stuff sucks. Coffee is smooth).
I cannot imagine you're drinking 30+ espresso equivalent per day ... Do let us know as I am curious.
p.s. regardless of potency of the coffee it is excessive intake.
Then I was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea and started CPAP therapy.
Now I drink about half a pot of half-caf a day, more because I like it than because I need it.
Tangentially, have you considered making cold brew? Cold brew over ice tastes a LOT better than hot coffee poured over ice due to the lower acid content. It’s very easy to make if you have a French press.
I was originally going to theorize something about office workers having more options to deal with fatigue -- taking a nap, or staring into space (and maybe being less fatigued in general from all the time saved commuting?) -- rather than just drinking coffee and toughing it out at their desks; but in light of this stat, it seems that this is all about how hard cafes & restaurants have been hit by lockdown.
0: https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/heb-prepared-coronavirus-p...
King of the hill predicted the TP apocalypse for y2k.
The job of the press is to inform the public--not yell "Fire!" in a crowded theatre.
Yes, they should have self-censored.
Shouting "Covid causing shortage of bottled water--News 6 reports!" does nothing to inform the public nor does it create a useful call to action. It only creates a problem--often where none previously existed. There was ZERO reason to believe that Covid would cause a water system failure or contamination.
This is different from "Hurricane incoming. Stock up on water. Here are the places which still have it." The information is useful, timely, and relevant.
Having the free speech protection of being the press does not absolve the press of the responsibility to not be a jerk.
But yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is only wrong when there isn’t one, no?
You go on to argue that it’s ok to have the press explicitly tell people do something (i.e. to stock up on water) when we live in a time when having the press directing anyone to do anything results in the exact kind of criticism you levied against them in your previous post. They reported that toilet paper is flying off the shelves. Arguably, an equally if not more effective solution would be to restrict to the number of units a customer could buy at once. But that doesn’t involve bashing the press.
B) The press reported toilet paper was flying off the shelves. Except that before they did that, there were only marginal shortages in certain places, mostly because toilet paper is bulky and slow to restock. After the reporting, it was out everywhere instantly. In this instance, that did great harm to those who couldn't just "stock and store".
C) "Arguably, an equally if not more effective solution would be to restrict to the number of units a customer could buy at once."
Sadly, this doesn't actually work. If most people buy toilet paper once a week, a shift to once every 5 days is way more than enough to cause a supply chain shock. There is no way to enforce a consumption level that wouldn't supply chain shock once the panic got started.
The shittiest (ha) TPs are the ones where the buyer cheaps out, i.e the one you found in every AirBnB on the planet (when AirBnB was still a thing)...
I do not recommend Angel Soft unless "falls apart like it was formed from loosely collected glitter" is a plus for you.
Summer, for example, is generally considered a slow season, because many people are travelling and spending time outside, less time shopping.
That article even predicts that eventually demand would drop as restaurants closed.
Now I set my alarm for fifteen minutes before work. It's preferable for me if I go to bed early enough that I wake up with enough time for a shower, but if I don't I can take one after work (or during lunch). The only reason I need a whole fifteen minutes in the morning is that it takes a couple of minutes for me to log in my Mac and VPN in.
At work we have nice coffee machines with free coffee. I have coffee at home too but I am less tired in the morning. Not that costing a little prevents me from drinking coffee, it's more that it being free is an enticement to drinking it, as if I am missing one of my perks of the days at the office when I skip coffee. Also, I am getting less physical activity every week now, so I also avoid coffee for the calories, and go for water instead.
same mentality for me.
> so I also avoid coffee for the calories, and go for water instead.
i'm pretty sure coffee is like almost 0 calories as long as you dont add milk, isnt it?
By just drinking water/decaf coffee/decaf tea, and putting in an effort for a decent meal, I started getting more consistent energy levels. Your mileage may vary.
Upper-end-of-bad coffee beans from Costco (so, about the best they have there) are my go-to at home. Steeping the grounds slow & cold yields way less cigarette butt flavor/odor than doing pourovers with them, so I'm making a lot more cold brew than before. Good thing it's Summer.
250g coffee doesn't last more than a few days for me anyway, but if you were worried about it you could split down again to 125g, so you've never got more than two or three days for mould to set in.
At home, I barely go past 2 cups.