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  • grammar_communisttoCoffee ☕•What's your coffee making style?
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    1 year ago

    I have a nespresso machine. For my morning coffee I use 4 pods randomly selected from my huge basket of pods (I buy in bulk every time the boxes of pods are on special at the supermarket), add 285ml of boiled water, and a milk froth cycle from the machine. I have a double-sized mug to put it all in.

    I used to drink coffees through the day using two Nespresso pods and frothed milk. But I gave up on buying the Nespresso branded pods because I got sick of their website fighting me. They offer a free thing if you buy x number of pods, but literally every time I ordered and spent time carefully selecting the pods I wanted, when I got to the order screen at least one of my selections was out of stock so I would lose my free thing and have to go back and refigure out my order. Why let me select pods you aren’t going to sell me? Anyway, Nespresso have lost a customer because of that. Once or twice would be tolerable but it was literally every time.

    Now my day coffee is nescafe gold, make sure you add the milk before adding the water.

  • grammar_communisttoMelbourne•Police storm Melbourne CBD tram after man holds passenger at knifepoint
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    2 years ago

    The poor tram driver was probably stuck in a really difficult and (for them) unprecedented situation. There are probably rules about opening the door at incorrect spots and if the guy got out and got skittled then maybe the driver would face repercussions.

    If the driver had never experienced that kind of situation before they might have panicked, and panicking people have been known to follow some internal script for how to behave that isn’t necessarily rational. If certain operational procedures have been drilled into them, they might fall back on those procedures.

    Or maybe the police had told the driver not to let the fine upstanding citizen out based on their own risk assessment which may not have all the information and may nor may not have been the best decision. Who knows? It’s interesting to think about as a thought experiment after the fact, and of course nobody got seriously hurt (beyond some psychological injury) so it could be argued that it was a successful series of decisions. The only question is what lessons to learn so that it could be done better in future.