Los Angeles/OC/San Diego 🌈

[cedar otter]

the space IS tiny tho. but that's everywhere in Japan

[lunar fjord]

US is just so expensive and we don't get much for it

[cedar otter]

yup

my shift lead still complains that he doesn't get paid enough

like he refused to do a task

but he gets paid $21.50/hr plus around $10/hr on tips

which I would argue would put him like top 10 percent of baristas in LA

[boreal solar]

Right, after my breakup I looked into operating out of my garage and cottage food. Even that was prohibitively expensive in California

[cedar otter]

customers pay a lot, business owners pay a lot, nobody makes money and nobody is happy lol

only banks and the govt make money

[mellow sonnet]

Govt makes less than they spend anyways

[boreal solar]

They still make a lot. They just utilize it poorly 😂

[mellow sonnet]

I think QoL improves drastically when you have multiple streams of income

The stress of relying one your actual job sucks

[cedar otter]

yup

I understand it's harder when you work more of a physical job

but yeah

I wonder what it would take to actually open a shop in Japan lol

When I talked to owners and managers here, they say multiroaster concept doesn't exist

and they all think it's a cool idea

🤔

[mellow sonnet]

Multi roasting in japan

[vivid violet]

jondoman

[cedar otter]

They started calling me Ondosan

[vivid violet]

that’s better

[cedar otter]

like "oh what's your shop called?" "it's called ondo" "oh ondo-san"

[lunar fjord]

lol

[crude citrus]

When I went to cokunn and talked with Miki briefly, she mentioned that coffee in Japan is seen more as a specialty drink since tea is the more common drink in Japan.

In contrast, it’s not exactly 100% reversed in America since we don’t drink tea, but coffee is seen as a cheap drink here and Starbucks is treating yourself to a nice coffee.

[cedar otter]

yeah, and there are more and more tourist-trappy shops happening here too

[rough crypt]

the tourist trap shops are so annoying

ondo's the only place i buy higher tier brewed coffee now

[cedar otter]

all of a sudden I see white people lined up and they all speak English

or Koreans

I would argue that Koffee Mameya Kakeru is a bit of a tourist trap but they execute things really well

[rough crypt]

i've had too many $10 espressos that tasted like roast at other shops

[cedar otter]

we try

[mellow sonnet]

Ondo and mandarin the only shops I go to I feel like

[cedar otter]

I think most shops are just stuck with the 18:36 24-30 second rule

[crude citrus]

I feel like there’s this idea in Japan that you need to have as much control over the product you sell or else you’re inferior

[cedar otter]

right

[mellow sonnet]

Recaphe, kumquat, yihui, play. I wouldn't mind if I was in the area

[cedar otter]

that's why I still roast my own coffee

[rough crypt]

coffee by reddit 🙁

[cedar otter]

because there can be gaps

when you rely 100% on other roasters

and by having your brand on the shelf you also give custies an impression that you know what you're doing and you care

[crude citrus]

Lots of foreigners when I went too but it didn’t feel tourist trappy to me either. I think it’s more so that coffee is more a luxury good in Japan

[mellow sonnet]

Half the things you do are to give customers good impressions

[cedar otter]

it's all about looking like you care and you're a professional at it

fake it til you make it

Dinner last night

[mellow sonnet]

Need more eg-1 sitting around the shop

[cedar otter]

He wrestles and also raises money for stray cat protection

[mellow sonnet]

Wao stray cat

Wrestling looks hard af

[boreal solar]

Did you get body slammed for not tipping?

[cedar otter]

definitely got coerced to order wagyu beef on the menu

but it was delish

[compact hound]

What’d you end up getting?

[civic crest]

Lorenzo, tonno, and penne meatball for the kids. On the way to pick up from school so can’t enjoy until later

[desert stirrup]

Yeah it definitely is

[compact hound]

I need to visit one day with a group of friends to try at least 3 sandwiches

[desert stirrup]

My bad. I ponder and contemplate while I sip my brews in silence

It’s a bad habit

I need to go back to pumping rock or hip hop while sipping

IVE BEEN SAYING

[desert stirrup]

Yeah you’re telling me. This is the second time I’m getting laid off cuz of a reduction in force caused by some dumb fuck at a VP level

I’m trying to figure out income on my own terms

So difficult

[cedar otter]

Or leave your kid at home with your wife

Jk

[crude citrus]

Then I would risk losing my translator for life

[glossy sail]

my greatest fear when im in china - losing my translator and my alipay wallet

they're the same person lol

[mellow sonnet]

[boreal solar]

In Tokyo you don’t need one anyway 😂

Just alternate. That’s what we do when we travel with ours.

My partner took ours to get taiyaki down the street when I was at glitch for instance.

Then I took her to the park while she was looking at some specialty shops

[crude citrus]

True, but we rarely go to Tokyo

We go to the Arkansas of Japan

[vivid violet]

what city, usually ?

[glossy sail]

he said arkansas, japan

LOL

[vivid violet]

Arakansasu

(a friend who was learning Japanese told me, many years ago, about words not ending on consonants.. and that always stuck in my head, as i read “Famima” and other store names)

[glossy sail]

i googled thinking there might actually be an arkansas japan

[crude citrus]

Mainly around Kyoto but really all around

[vivid violet]

guess i’m a moldy oldie. love Kyoto

[crude citrus]

But all these places I’ve never heard of before because they’re not on TripAdvisor. Been to Ine, Mie, Kagawa, and Oita

Oh can’t forget Kanazawa where I had the best mind blowing white children sushi

[civic crest]

I passed out after dinner from jet lag now I’m thirsty AF

[tight gorge]

so it was aight

[cedar otter]

I need to buy another bag

Cant fit

[earnest robin]

Mask it as duty free

[cedar otter]

We will do another cupping which will include 3 matchas

[mellow sonnet]

Is that Thailand a catuai?

[glossy sail]

nice

no checked bags? lol

[cedar otter]

The unobtanium

[short condor]

Just open and refuse orders unless someone seems like the don’t want coffee then give em a discount. Flawless business plan 👌I’d support the kickstarter

Legitimate question, do you know of many shops that actually own there space vice just renting it ?

[mellow sonnet]

I would only run a shop if I owned the space

Ur competing w big real estate companies that want the whole plaza and will pay premium above market for it if they don't already own it though

[short condor]

I algae the wynd guys at quat pull me a knitter shot for one of the geishas there. I’m not paying for 16 for orange juice. I’ve had plenty of good coffee from there but just mid shots while they were there.

[mellow sonnet]

saks officially filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, restructuring. time to shop saks, bergdord, nemain marcus for sales even though they rarely carry my size

[short condor]

I’ll always look for fixtures and miscellaneous storage items when places close. Unfortunately a lot of places closed during Covid but I bought a shit town of stuff from shops and stores. People would cut prices left and right. I look for closures on marketplace a lot, usually good deals on there for that stuff.

I still really wanna open up a coffee playground, if I had capital or a decent investor that’s what I’d do out here. Put it in ROW DTLA, massive spaces for fair price, lots of parking guaranteed influx of people and you could host events no problem.

[cedar otter]

Yes

[mellow sonnet]

lol i was thinking of opening one

[cedar otter]

Aiite everyone pitch your money in we going into ROW

[mellow sonnet]

row wouldnt let u own though

[cedar otter]

ROWNDO

jk

[short condor]

This is true but if I had to rent I’d do it ther w

[cedar otter]

I’ll be slowly looking at properties we can buy with SBA loan

Hopefully do roasting + shop in there

[short condor]

Don’t tempt me I need to invest in something in my life god know it shouldn’t be coffee related but damn I’ll do it hahah

[short condor]

Row is set up for it still, the coffee manufactory ran out of the third or forth floor for their LA roasting for a year or two.

[cedar otter]

Yeah

Rip

[fallen gulch]

I could not get the thought of sichuan food out of my head the entire time I was making this shot lol, the smell was just making me think about it

[boreal solar]

Ondo bags looking fancier these days.

[cedar otter]

Some customers actually called the coffee “lavender field behind Chinese medicine shop”

[eternal birch]

theyre pretty good

perforated opening now

also juliana guevara gesha pretty cheap, 200g for $24

[desert stirrup]

Your ||wife|| speaks Japanese ??

How is it everyone speaks Japanese now???

[vivid violet]

it’s just like Spanish with S.O.C.K.S.

Sue Me, Mah Seine

[mellow sonnet]

🫡 there goes my ozik money. Tesla switching to subscription only FSD next month

[vivid violet]

ah, so you purchased outright ?

what hardware do you have ?

[mellow sonnet]

Yeah I'm HW4

[vivid violet]

ah good

i figured..

[mellow sonnet]

I'm pretty sure when HW5 eventually comes out they'll give option to transfer FSD the same way they let HW3 owners transfer

Not to mention they randomly run promotions letting everyone transfer too

[vivid violet]

mayyyyybe

[mellow sonnet]

HW3 owners are still eligible for transfer when they buy HW4 vehicles anyways

[desert stirrup]

Is FSD even that good? I rented a Tesla for a few weeks this summer and the basic lane keep assist plus speed control was so finicky

Like a false sense of confidence type of finicky

[vivid violet]

i really like my HW3 FSD

[mellow sonnet]

fsd is insanely better than basic cruise control

[desert stirrup]

It would try to do stuff then just bail

[vivid violet]

the summoning is assssss

[mellow sonnet]

also cruise control on my old bmw was so ass i hated it

i think the most recent update kinda broke its ability to lane change but its been a constant 2 step forward and 1 step back every other update basically

[trail tiger]

rip bilt card it was fun while it lasted

[mellow sonnet]

Bylt was unsustainable and got abused by every cc rewards minmaxer

[desert stirrup]

@tight gorge Tsubame for sale

https://discord.com/channels/726985544038612993/1460791702896775289

[desert stirrup]

Wait has the new card prices dropped?

[eternal birch]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CreditCards/comments/1q60pb1/found_bilt_20_card_details/

[trail tiger]

yeah like 30 mins ago

leaks are pretty much true

[eternal birch]

dang

they done travel carded it

[trail tiger]

gotta spend 75% of rent to cover transaction fee (and get points)*

[eternal birch]

I think the only card thats no headache worth it now is the RH gold one

[trail tiger]

is it still waitlist

[eternal birch]

3% cashback no questions

[eternal birch]

idk

[trail tiger]

guilty 😂 purely used it for rent and 4 other transactions were less than $3 all the time

[eternal birch]

trying to consolidate our credit card situation when I get married as well

CSR for hyatt redemption and delta amex for domestic-ish travel

kinda regret the delta amex now that the alaska one is out but w/e

[mellow sonnet]

Am aiming for CSR and Robinhood card as my only 2 cards

[desert stirrup]

I wonder what the rent transaction fee would be

[civic crest]

i'm pretty much almost full chase with CSR, flex, unlimited, 2 freedoms, amazon prime

amex blue for groceries, citi costco, citi dividend (first credit card so still holding)

[eternal birch]

its best to keep all the cards you already have

[trail tiger]

i think it's 3% of the rent

[eternal birch]

just put some whatever subscription on autopay to keep it alive

im also pretty much full chase but I dont use unlimited/freedom much

I think one of them is my gas card and the other pays for insurance

[civic crest]

flex right now for restaurants is like 7% this quarter

[eternal birch]

gah dayum

[trail tiger]

wtff i really need to get the flex

[eternal birch]

thats the thing, I dont want to rotate so much but holy

[trail tiger]

downgrading the CSP to flex soon

[eternal birch]

7% is crazy

[civic crest]

its 3% restaurants, but stacks with the quarterly category for 7% total

flex first year gives you 5% or something groceries too, which for chase is like almost everything including coffee roasters and farmers markets

at least thats how they sold it before, not sure if it's still something they do

[civic crest]

yeah i play the rotate game to maximize lol

wife always has to ask me what to use what on

[eternal birch]

I just use CSR and if not dining unlimited for 1.5%

but yeah 7% is crazy and I need to get that

5% groceries as well

[trail tiger]

RH gold catch all and no rotating game

[eternal birch]

I do like perk

[civic crest]

i used like half a million chase UR on our recent asia trip

[eternal birch]

and also transfer from business to personal

[civic crest]

anyone here try a dreo before

[eternal birch]

milk steamer?

[civic crest]

lol yeah, it looks like @surreal pivot has one?

[eternal birch]

I have the subminimal one

[dull adder]

Yes and no
There's a chance this will happen https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaFSD/comments/1ksa79y/1328_fsd_accident/

[civic crest]

you like it? trying to figure what to do if i switch to strietman

[eternal birch]

its fine, just dont change your milk

you have to dial it in

[civic crest]

oh that make sense

[eternal birch]

its also definitely not steamed milk

but it works for latte art and texture is similar

[civic crest]

wondering if my wife would notice

[eternal birch]

people also complain about washing it, esp for the subminimal one but honestly its not bad? idk why people complained so much

[eternal birch]

if she's really sensitive to texture and how she likes her milk yeah

otherwise prolly not

if you did a blind AB you could probably tell there is a difference but not which one is better

[dull adder]

I don't want to lock myself that hard into RH gold.. but yet every year I keep doing the IRA matching so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Also they give you $1000 of free margin which nearly pays for itself

[eternal birch]

free margin

[dull adder]

Right into SGOV it goes haha

[dull adder]

Unfortunately 185 😪
My understanding is the 155 fits in the DE1 with the pour over basket

[tight gorge]

newest version is really good. My buddies tell me software has gotten a lot better in the last year

[dull adder]

Sure. But it's not and likely never will be fully autonomous. And they're going to keep ditching customers like they did with HW1, HW2, HW3,

I think they've just started to get most of the way there. Now just need to go from 97% to 99.99999% and then start solve all the edge cases

Not to mention all the problems that are impossible to solve with their current approach and current sensors (cameras)

[eternal birch]

which waymo has already done

but also waymo on the hwy is horrible

[dull adder]

You can sit in the backseat of a Waymo and read a book lol

Let me know when Tesla ever takes any liability

[desert stirrup]

I agree with this completely

Also I’m pretty sure the reason why Tesla is making a change to this is because of the recent CA DMV vs Tesla court case

[dull adder]

I nearly typed the same message

[desert stirrup]

Judges ruled Tesla lied and advertised falsely

Yeah I don’t trust nor enjoy Tesla

It’s pretty reckless to make such claims while people who trust those claims are dying or being injured

[dull adder]

And then I share the road with those people too

[desert stirrup]

Exactly, it puts everyone at risk

Waymo’s 2025 year was pretty damn good in terms of safety

[trail tiger]

i have slept in waymo 10/10

[desert stirrup]

Tesla is dumb for thinking they can achieve similar results with just cameras

Why limit your car to the same sensors we humans have?

Aesthetics I guess cuz ngl, Waymo ugly af

But safe and reliable

So I’ll take it

[eternal birch]

they have these lil things now

[dull adder]

If it even had the same sensors. Our eyes and brain are on another level to some stupid webcams

[tough locust]

lmao i was going to eventually ask if you wanted to join mine

[surreal pivot]

Dreo gets the job done. Produces roughly 85% of a proper steam wand

[civic crest]

do you find that the regular milk and oatmilk settings work well when switching milks or do you need to dial them?

[surreal pivot]

There isn’t really much dialing that you can do. You’re sort of stuck with the presets. I don’t drink regular milk, I’ve only used the almond and oat settings

[civic crest]

ahh

is there milk waste, i think i read the fill line is quite high so it uses more milk than you need (let's say a single drink). or can you just put less milk and it'll work fine?

[surreal pivot]

Lots of waste. I should try putting less to see if it’ll work fine but manual says it won’t.

[civic crest]

ok, good to know. appreciate the info!

[desert stirrup]

Bri why is that chick walking like that???

[mellow sonnet]

its funny bc those new waymos are chinese EVs the one thing trump keeps pushing against

[dull adder]

He's also pushing against US EVs, which is propping up those Chinese EVs

[mellow sonnet]

https://sibarist.coffee/products/brewing-set?variant=51005178642769

im pretty sure if i poured fast enough i could get the filter to fall into the brew

[crude citrus]

What’s people’s thoughts on how likely would Tesla honor the supposedly HW3 upgrade

[mellow sonnet]

theyre basically forced to because elon promised fsd on hw3

liekly a 100-200$ cpu upgrade or they ll try to give u discounts on a new car

[vivid violet]

word out there is they’ll likely do a HW5 “lite” computer for the HW3 folks who have purchased it in full.

I’d be surprised if it costs under $1000 (like the HW 2.5 -> HW3 that they did)

(also, i 1 kajillion percent agree with everything theavatar was mentioning above. I always doubted the approach. it gets the job done for highway driving.. although i wish there was a mode where i could just keep it in the slow lane and chill a bit more)

fyi, for the spoon fans. rare one, hard to get.

[lone pier]

that’s a nice spoon man

[mellow sonnet]

Well FSD was also like 3k back when it was HW2.5

FSD is now 8k and soon subscription only, so hard to say

[vivid violet]

yeah, i think i got it for $5k

but it was $3k at the very beginning.. (with the 8-cam setup. i can’t remember what the autopilot add-on was for the MobilEye 1-cam setup)

[mellow sonnet]

My dad paid 3k for fsd and has continually transfered it to his next car

Met dupe

Piston pressure spro

Looks more like a polished up jianyi though

[eternal birch]

how much estimated? or just renders

[mellow sonnet]

Just renders

Honestly it's prob 2.5-3k based on the jianyi

Would rather get a met

[tight gorge]

they just released a sloth mode today lol

🦥

[vivid violet]

slowly flip upside-down

[mellow sonnet]

Mad max, hurry, standard, chill, snail(?), sloth(?)?

I'm usually on standard and chill

[vivid violet]

yeah.. me too.

sometimes “Hurry”, but not very often

[tight gorge]

chill = behind semi so I go with standard

[vivid violet]

chill works well for rain, too.. w.r.t. power output

[tight gorge]

hurry tends to miss exits more

[crude citrus]

I’ll buy fsd rn if you tell me there’s an Allen Tran mode

[mellow sonnet]

I've never missed an exit

I get anxiety if I'm not on the right lane by the last half mile

I'll turn the signal myself early so the car moves over

[drowsy knot]

hurry is too slow for me 😂

but everything is too slow for me so pretty sure the problem is me

[dull adder]

The rhetoric has changed to "when FSD is truly FSD on hw4" which it'll never be either

hw3 people are abandoned. You'd need to rewire the car to support the updated cameras.
They might as well give away new cars to those people, it'd be cheaper

[cedar otter]

I’m usually on mad max

[vivid violet]

Allen Tran mode with pedal to the metal for me. I'm with erik.

[crude citrus]

Did they say there will be a HW5?

[vivid violet]

oh yeah definitely, they’re already working on the chips

the upgrades won’t stop for a while. they’re also already planning AI6 architecture.

like theavatar said, those edge cases are a b***h. i don’t know how they’ll drive in heavy snowfall, etc.

[cedar otter]

Charcoal roasted coffee

[weary chasm]

The American latte?

[lone pier]

hit up holbox earlier this place doesn’t miss

[mellow sonnet]

Going to holbox this Saturday

My friend needs to buy the hot sauce to take back to London for her friend

[cedar otter]

Just bought 40 spoons

[drowsy knot]

oh good I was running out 😉

[lone pier]

wait do they sell it individually

love the thicker peachish colored one

[dull adder]

Good to know they're the same price in Japan

[cedar otter]

Coffee County has a super limited tsubame that I want

It’s like gold inside with burgundy outside

[compact hound]

Road runner

Meh

[cedar otter]

Did u brew yeem’s coffee with it

Might be a good combo

Dark roast + french press

Classic 2000’s coffee

[compact hound]

Can’t share any intel but it was not with yeems coffee (thank god)

[compact hound]

Wouldn’t know since i was like 4

[short condor]

Anybody know any good espresso machine techs ?

[vivid violet]

what type of machine do you have ? (make/model)

I used to go to Pasquini Espresso Company until they stopped servicing Bezzera machines

[trail tiger]

i saw this while in tokyo is it just more expensive because of the brand? seemes like theyre usually cheaper

[cedar otter]

Tsubame is a special product

There’s branding on it so maybe they are charging more for that

[short condor]

I bought my very first from them but they don’t travel out side of conventional La and charge out the ass now. Long wait times too sadly, black rabbit has like a 3 month wait and when they fixed it last time broken heating element it was 2.5 months for parts and 3 months to do the repair with me dropping it off. They only care about big cages now.

[dull adder]

Tsubame is $67 on Amazon US so

[short condor]

A @mellow sonnet and @tough locust financial literacy class, I’d watch that Tedd talk

[mellow sonnet]

I don't think anybody should take financial anything from me I'm 25

I think I'm just lucky

[tough locust]

derp will teach you how to make money selling vol. i will teach you how to lose twice that money trading futures

[mellow sonnet]

Volume = momentum and the backbones of price action

[tough locust]

so uhh, first, you draw this line. then this other line...then a few more.

[dull adder]

You being humble makes avocado want you more

[opaque laurel]

Any of yall can recommend good coffee roasters in north OC?

[mellow sonnet]

Play in orange/Fullerton?

There's not much coffee there anyways

They're a multi roaster but their stuff better than stereoscope imo

[tough locust]

yeah, not much in terms of roasters. just stereoscope comes to mind

[mellow sonnet]

I would rather drive to recaphe in south OC

[tough locust]

as far as shops go, play, thank you, re ca phe, hopper and burr, seven syllables (it's my homies), ondo2

i think fountain valley still counts as north county

[mellow sonnet]

Honestly between moongoat and stereoscope I think I would rather drink moongoat but I haven't been to either in years

Oh yeah ondo is OC I forget

[tough locust]

technically LA still, but right on the border

[tight gorge]

Moongoat was hella coal when I tried it at the meetup

Like oily coal

[mellow sonnet]

Yeah but it's a decent medium roast vs stereoscope which parades itself as light roast but isn't imo

Oh van dyke in Buena park has decent medium roasts

[tough locust]

damn i havent been to van dyke in so long

[mellow sonnet]

The BP location always got homeless tho idk why

[tight gorge]

Well with stereoscope you get a free drink with bag purchase, a lost perk nowadays

Play does or used to do this too

[mellow sonnet]

It's 5$ off a drink now

[opaque laurel]

It looks like seesaw beans and stereoscope is closest to me. Might check out the latter if they give out free drinks haha

[mellow sonnet]

I would buy a random bag and get competition bean pourovers

[tight gorge]

Smart, I would get the priciest shit

[mellow sonnet]

15$ pourover for a 25$ bag? Say less

[short condor]

You’re 25 and financially well off which is the new 15 so you’ll be treated like your 21 and in the body of a 30 year old. Moral of the story I’ll take my chances, when’s the first day of the semester Mr derp 🫡

[mellow sonnet]

Take high risk and get lucky and then realize it being dumb and then derisk but with more capital

[tough locust]

all it takes is one good wallstreetbets trade

[tight gorge]

Your port is was momo so yeah this checks out

[mellow sonnet]

My first 100k was 0dte spy options 🤡

[dull adder]

Without going WSB level, this is the way. I've seen some convincing stuff that you should use some margin and be pretty aggressive as you're young. Even if you have to reset you have plenty of time on your side

[mellow sonnet]

I only use margin to roll CDs early

I never use margin otherwise

[short condor]

Look I’m 10 years older and until I was 29 100k was literally the dream goal, I have that and I’m set.

[mellow sonnet]

When I sell puts I sit on cash

[short condor]

Cash is king till you can’t pull it from the bank, mattress are still a bad idea but having physical cash in a large format isn’t a bad idea these days.

[dull adder]

Pretty sure he just means cash equivalents

[mellow sonnet]

My mom's mom passed away and they found like 50k under the mattress 🤡 they were super poverty for no reason

[short condor]

Thought so as well after typing it but my statement still rings true imo

[mellow sonnet]

No I actually sit cash

[dull adder]

If it's in a brokerage it's in default sweep which is a cash equivalent, usually

At least the boomer brokerages I use.. Vanguard and Fidelity

[mellow sonnet]

My Roth IRA is all-in one 1 stock I either retire super happy or I keep on doing what I'm doing

[vivid violet]

nah. derp literally means he takes out the bands and makes a chair to sit on

[mellow sonnet]

I just write myself a check and sit on it

[short condor]

I’m always ready for the world to go to shit real quick, lil cash lil gold few armed necessities and some heavy duty radios. Cant forget the flair 58 pro2 a kettle, kalita wave and some good water and beans. Always need the later.

[vivid violet]

John Deere ?

[mellow sonnet]

I'm still a degen so it's a tech stock

Small cap

[tough locust]

all in boner pills

[mellow sonnet]

I'm all out of HIMS lol

[vivid violet]

why do you use both Vanguard and Fidelity ?

i had a zillion, including those, but now down to just Fidelity and ETRADE (for historical reasons)

[mellow sonnet]

Fidelity from work and then vanguard personal?

[dull adder]

Vanguard is my preference, for their ownership structure mostly. Vanguard is owned by it's funds. So by buying their ETFs you are an owner. Almost like a credit union.
Fidelity from work, mostly. But they also have better features

[short condor]

@cedar otter how much are the neos out there ?

[dull adder]

I setup my ||wife's|| banking entirely through Fidelity. Her savings is just a regular brokerage account and it can sell off automatically. And she can write checks and have a debit card and stuff. Vanguard could never

[mellow sonnet]

I have 3 regular brokerages for different strategies (Schwab and Robinhood), Roth IRA(Schwab) 403 from work-fidelity, and then an additional managed brokerage under chase.

💀

[dull adder]

Oh and now Robinhood because IRA matching

Free money is free money

[mellow sonnet]

I'm too lazy to transfer my Roth IRA 🤡 it's my smallest account and I make too much to contribute and I'm too lazy to backdoor bc I'm cashflow poor and mostly make money from stocks

[dull adder]

Tax free forever tho. But I get it if it's hard to cash flow that

I can mega backdoor through my job but I'm too poor for that 😔

[mellow sonnet]

Well I plan on retiring before 65 so what's the point if I can't access it too

[dull adder]

Roth you can access your contributions at any time.
And also there's options to access your money before 65

Rule of 55, laddering, probably others

[vivid violet]

starting early, if you do DRIPs they’re pretty effective, and then start self-perpetuating pretty well.

but we all know derp has mad drip

[mellow sonnet]

Well one of my 3 brokerages is to see if I can outperform DRIP and dividend style portfolios

Statistically though dividends underperforms just doing spx and withdrawing when u need money

[vivid violet]

oh, i’m sure you can

[mellow sonnet]

Dividend portfolio is currently 2 years old and is underperforming spx

[vivid violet]

just one part of diversified strategy..

oh doh

[mellow sonnet]

I'm honestly not too worried tho bc my main account is carrying 99% of my gains

I think dividends should only be looked at if u want cash flow

Even with DRIP dividends underperforms spx unless u want to count stocks like NVDA as a dividend stock

0.01/share is like fake divided thou

[vivid violet]

yeah, but it’s nice to slowly build it over 20 to 30 years, then it continues to multiply

[mellow sonnet]

I think mentally it's nice seeing your small principal amount pay out larger amounts every year but it will underperform the market statistically

[vivid violet]

(yeah, underperf spx)

[mellow sonnet]

The company is throwing away the money essentially because they don't have a growth plan

Companies are better off reinvesting capital into r&d and then increasing share price w a better company, but that really only works for tech stocks with high TAM

[vivid violet]

and giving you discounts on the stock price (free money) if you purchase directly.

the waived brokerage fee for the trade isn’t a compelling thing anymore..

[vivid violet]

yep, good ol’ blue chips

[cedar otter]

Ondo is also technically a roaster

We might do free drip/iced coffee for ondo beans purchase

[mellow sonnet]

Ya I forget Artesia is OC

[cedar otter]

Or like the loyalty cards but for beans

Prolly need to do 15 bags

Maybe have rewards every 5 bags

Like any pourover/espresso on the menu

[vivid violet]

so.. like.. every purchase ?

[mellow sonnet]

Every 5 bags seems fair

15bags is more than a years worth of coffee for a normal person I feel like

[cedar otter]

Also might consider carrying high quality matcha for slow bar

Mmmm

[cedar otter]

Good point

A bigger reward for 15 bags tho

Iono what would be fair

Haha

Free spoon

[mellow sonnet]

10 bags for XX$ off a bag

[cedar otter]

[mellow sonnet]

Oh free spoons? Count me in

[tough locust]

i used a free stereoscope drink on the most expensive matcha they had, then made them drown it in milk

[dull adder]

Monster.

[cedar otter]

Got this idea from visiting bookstores and stationery stores in Japan: we will make postcards and then customers can write notes to send beans to their friends

If they come in and wanna send beans to their friends/family

We will then later pack and ship them and include their postcard inside

Beans/filters/drippers etc

Non-perishable stuff

[mellow sonnet]

I'm going to mail the crossaint to my sis in the bay area

[weary chasm]

Gotta go brew a 2000s coffee for that retro vibes

Everyday, thinking coffee from a donut shop is like a time capsule

[weary chasm]

I remember getting it no brand, but copper tsubame for like about $60 usd in June 2024. This is +$20. Maybe branding?

[vivid violet]

have you considered doing this on a really slow bar menu ?

on the plus side, bball skills would help.. so wider hiring funnel.

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Filter coffee.
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[lone pier]

longshot, but looking to buy a gaggia e24 locally if anyone’s selling theirs

[mellow sonnet]

am debating really last min sunday twice show

[trail tiger]

get the tix!

but do feel theyre world touring almost every other year 😂

[mellow sonnet]

depends if im ok w any seat tho

i generally only want to go to concerts if i can get row 1 lower bowl

[left kite]

Get the tix

I got VIP seats for thurs and pit vip for sat 😂

[desert stirrup]

How was the line?

[desert stirrup]

BRO I SWEAR

[earnest robin]

I haven't been in Holbox in years

It's hard to find a reason to go to that area. It always felt like a lunch spot for DMV workers

[desert stirrup]

Dawgg

I’m saying

[civic crest]

should've bang banged with komal

[desert stirrup]

My goal is to roll up to Derp’s just finished house, drop a suitcase of cash, then say “make me some money please”

The walk the fuck out

I trust

[civic crest]

the derp fund

[desert stirrup]

In Derp I Trust

[civic crest]

he wants his name on the fking door

[desert stirrup]

He can have his name on the damn building

[neon scaffold]

Had a really nice espresso at arcane estate in NYC today, definitely a spot to visit if y’all ever go to the east coast

[mellow sonnet]

I honestly don't see the point of having a fund unless I can "borrow" more than I can just get through margin

[tough locust]

ill let you borrow my total net worth

[crude citrus]

I’m not sure I believe your tag. Unless you’re poor because of twice 😂

[mellow sonnet]

i only have time on sunday i want ur thursday tickets but couldnt get out of work

[crude citrus]

I sold them already at a huge loss 🤡

I did the opposite of derp. Buy high sell low

[left kite]

Exactly the reason I am poor - spending on the fly whenever I want for things I like

The viewpoint of a young 25 year old that has given up on the thought of home ownership in urban california (will not catch me in menifee)

[dull adder]

Just tell yourself it's financially better to rent. That's what I do

You gotta invest the difference though

[trail tiger]

yolo (responsibly)

[cedar otter]

I considered putting Weber HG-2 on the slow bar.

Then I actually went to a shop in Japan that did that

[boreal solar]

Oh?

What went wrong?

[eternal birch]

opposite mentality with same age

sooner u buy, more money you will have later

[glossy sail]

Gonna go tonight!

[eternal birch]

komal

Holbox branzino plate a rlly good deal but idk if I can ever wait in that line

blown up way too much

[glossy sail]

my plan is to sneak a counter spot for the octopus

And really just eat at komal lol

[mellow sonnet]

just buy a house and make sure u get fire insurance \

[eternal birch]

o right

is your house near completion derp

[mellow sonnet]

soontm

they said late feb last i heard but honestly april/may is realistic

i have windows installed though

went up for the anniversary of the fire

[eternal birch]

windows installed = good enough to live in

[cedar otter]

Lmao I paid $22for the inflight wifi

[mellow sonnet]

no insulation or walls done though

its just the wood

[cedar otter]

Just so I can order botz

Rip

[mellow sonnet]

u flying back arleady?

[eternal birch]

its california, insulation optional

[cedar otter]

Yah landing around 2pm

I was there for 9ish days

[civic crest]

If you go 15m before open it’s not bad

[lone pier]

no line, i usually time try to get there after the lunch rush though

[weary chasm]

doing chapresso - its interesting.

this def needs to be optimized more. but this is what i got now.

(1) 8g jasmine tea
(2) grind it to medium coarse. i think i'm using a kingrinder p1 (?) at 60 clicks. (2 full rotations from lock)
(3) pull on a tea portafilter. using extractamundo dos, but i should play with this more.
pull to 36g (rather, it stopped here because of the logic)

put into 180 g of milk + 5g white sugar
add ice

[cedar otter]

They also have tea profiles on decent

[crude citrus]

I use a modified blooming espresso profile for my tea

I think it more closely matches what they do at a popular teapresso shop, chicha san chen

I pull at a ratio of 1:16 usually

[civic crest]

went to mensho tokyo today, really good. better than torisoba. pricey.

[tight gorge]

so jack is not doing Noma, lol

I got fake news from a coffee shop owner

they said a lot of coffee people keep asking them this which I think its funny

[eternal birch]

what PF are u using

theres tea portafilter but I think most pressurized baskets might get close

[weary chasm]

This kind of style

[eternal birch]

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o u got the tea portafilter nice

[mellow sonnet]

kaiser is striking again

Our per diem pharmacist asking if anybody wants to give him their shifts

He saying he going to doordash and sell plasma at this rate

[cedar otter]

AJ was hanging out with someone from Noma hmm

[mellow sonnet]

What if we get tangible gratitude x noma

[boreal solar]

Have you tried using filter 3 for loose leaf?

[eternal birch]

which dept is it this time?

[earnest robin]

Ask him if he's into day trading and refer to your discord

Sell courses

My cousin sold his dealership and pizzeria and started selling trading classes

[crude citrus]

Nope does it work well? If it does I have a reason to keep the f3 then

[tough locust]

my friends and i joke about monetizing our room...we should do it

[boreal solar]

I was hoping you had. I don’t use mine much and was just thinking about it based on the convo.

Chemex works for tea. So in theory it should be ok

I’ll give it a try later. Because why not

[mellow sonnet]

My discord isn't educational in any way it's just a journal of my thoughts

[bright flint]

the one in culver city? I've been wanting to try it out, miss the SF branch

[tight gorge]

Mensho sf def was unique

A bit acquired taste, at least for me 10 years ago

[bright flint]

which bowl? the toripaitan?

[tight gorge]

(Cue sloth saying he was 12 and only ate nuggs)

[tough locust]

i remember their vegan tantanmen being great...but i added duck to it if i remember correctly

[tight gorge]

I forget, I just recall it was very different than the ramen I was eating then

Also hella long lines made me only go twice

[bright flint]

yeah line is crazy

we would send someone early from work to wait in line lol

like 20 mins before opening

its definitely more unique than traidtional bowls like ippudo, hindeya at the time

i think ippudo was open 12 years ago?

nvm 2018

I just looked at the new menu

$24 a bowl omg

so much pain after getting top tier ramen in jp for like $6-7

pretty damn good though I'd get it again for the memories

[eternal birch]

coffee recs near ucla?

[cedar otter]

Uhhh

None

10 speed?

[eternal birch]

sawtelle?

weho I think works as well on sunset/santa monica

[cedar otter]

Way home

Maru espresso bar?

[cedar otter]

New handles location

[eternal birch]

ah yeah all 3 of those work

I think I'll try wayhome

brand new

[mellow sonnet]

Malou? It's ok but the sandwich shop next to it is good

[eternal birch]

too far, next time

[glossy sail]

whats the best things to eat at komal?

[short condor]

Pits never worth it for K-pop fans are vile down there

[tight gorge]

Anything mole

[crude citrus]

It’s worth it when I tower over everyone and cast a shadow behind me

Jk I genuinely feel bad standing

[short condor]

With these rates it’s hard to justify for homes that have more problems than you can fix, to top it off a lot of new construction is mid level work for top dollar.

[short condor]

I’m gonna try and make some better tea recipes on the x bloom, I like the tea brewer but recipes need some work.

[eternal birch]

tamal

[eternal birch]

im just looking for an old home that looks decently maintained

like the kitchen and bathrooms are kinda old, but its not falling apart

then you can live while renovating

[tight gorge]

I know a guy

[short condor]

Ooof Watery coal but it’s been years since I’ve been back. I was always surprised that area didn’t have more shops or carts

[weary chasm]

Iunno. If you figure it out, let me know. I'd rather just brew tea the old way...

Adding it to a pot and hot water. Lol

I was like. Maybe I can make tea recipe cards.

Then I saw how they worked. And I was like. Whelp. Maybe not.

[short condor]

My ||wife|| and I went one year for pit and it was crazy those girls are feral and seeing that people were shitting on the floor at stray kids was enough for me to say never again.

[crude citrus]

Ok what

[short condor]

That’d be nice, I want an a frame kit house real bad with just a enough room for my dogs and small garden to cultivate that veg

[eternal birch]

big backyard hard to find 🙁

[crude citrus]

I’ve done seated floor once. That was a good experience

[left kite]

Yea I was about to say I don’t think I had a bad floor experience

But to be fair an experience like that could be pretty defining for a person

[glossy sail]

what concert floor forces oyu to shit on the floor...

lol

[crude citrus]

The only reason I can’t do GA floor is bc all the non-uncs will camp out days before

[short condor]

I had a screaming girl to the left of my that made my ears damn near bleed

[crude citrus]

Ah yes the infamous eagles. They can also be found in the seated section

[glossy sail]

if this isnt your first kpop concert, you should already know to bring earplugs lol

[weary chasm]

How are they so loud? Is it resonance?

[crude citrus]

The kpop idols emit pheromones

[glossy sail]

i like the aespa amazon - no juveniles

[short condor]

But I like seated personally I can stand and chill, but if any of you are at the show on the 24th my ||wife|| is handing freebies that look like official tickers so there’s something to remember the show. She made like 100 of em

[left kite]

True

[short condor]

Don’t know what worse the screamers or streamers that hold the phone blocking every bit of view

[left kite]

Yea earplugs for me everytime for ppl like this lol

[left kite]

I wish I got tix for this 😭 I did the twice one like a year ago and it was really nice

[eternal birch]

phone holders 100%

no one is going to look at ur shaky ass fan cam

and I legit dont get why you would record the entire concert

[civic crest]

yessir

i just came back from japan too, fuck these prices lol

[short condor]

First time I saw ITZY they asked the crowd to put their phones down because a lot of people couldn’t see and they wanted them to be present in the moment. I thought that was cool.

[glossy sail]

i would go see itzyl ol

lol*

[left kite]

Lsf did same last year

I dont mind phone holders as long as they aren’t like clearly obstructing someone else’s view but most of the time thats not the case lol

[tight gorge]

I just looked up this twice thing and ima be honest I dont get it

[civic crest]

kpop? lol

[tight gorge]

yeah pretty much

[civic crest]

we uncs bro

i did see black pink last year

[tight gorge]

tru, but like a group with like 10 people in it

[glossy sail]

lol ... different strokes for diff folks

im just glad my wife doesnt give a shit about the boy groups

[civic crest]

we met up with a friend in taipei who saw twice, twice hah

[tight gorge]

American individualism vs East Asian collectivism

thanks for attending my ted talk

[bright flint]

if some venues had this as a rule I would go there

[mellow sonnet]

When I went to IU some girl like 4'10 at best was wearing some crazy 6"+ platform boot and she was like not even that tall w them

[crude citrus]

Can’t blame them. They gotta do what they gotta do to see

[glossy sail]

wish i had 6" platforms at aespa

short king problems lol

[crude citrus]

I listen to un-unc myself

[vivid violet]

whaaat. dude, you’re not that short

[glossy sail]

perry 6ft head be blocking my view of karina you know

lol

[vivid violet]

true true

[earnest robin]

I wanted to go to moto ramen today, might try that instead

Should I expect a line?

[earnest robin]

Internet set the standards to Scandinavian ones

[earnest robin]

I tried listening to many different types and still didn't get used to it

Now I'm sitting and listening to repetitive chopped up disco made by French boys in 90s

[eternal birch]

https://tenor.com/view/daft-punk-daftpunk-okay-thumbs-gif-27624455

[desert stirrup]

I so badly want the west to adopt a more collective mindset.

I’m so tired of dirty public restrooms and trash on the ground

[weary chasm]

lol.

the west is

got mine, don't care anymore.

[mellow sonnet]

that's never happening unless we choose to give up the rate Americans innovate new things

[civic crest]

No idea we went at lunch it was maybe 70% full no wait though

[earnest robin]

I'm there. It's 50%

[civic crest]

Going to downtown Culver City during rush hour is awful though lol

[earnest robin]

Agree

[civic crest]

We got the ajitama and vegan yuzu shio

Then went to the new matcha place for soft serve

[earnest robin]

That's a lot of ice cream

[desert stirrup]

I hate how you’re right and I’m laughing

Fuck

That’s why I’m strongly thinking of heading to Bangkok or Saigon

[desert stirrup]

Do you think it’s possible to have both, an innovative and more collective culture?

[short condor]

Thailands fun, never got the chance to to go to Saigon

[mellow sonnet]

No lol

[desert stirrup]

I ask because in the “Golden Age of America”, the 50s and 60s, the US was leaning much more socialist than it may ever have. At the same time that may have been the best time to be an (white) American

[mellow sonnet]

Collectivity suppresses creative independent thinking

[desert stirrup]

Tasty????

[mellow sonnet]

Notice how it's "of America" that's basically impossible with technology and the speed of which data can pass unless u want to have a dictatorship that promoted heavy censorship

[earnest robin]

Amazing chicken broth and noodles

I liked it. I usually don't eat chicken ramen but this one was really good

[desert stirrup]

What do you mean? America at that time was also one of, if not the most innovative countries in the world

I’m confused on how quick flowing and free information has changed anything in terms of collectivism compared to individualism in the US

[mellow sonnet]

Because it's not about America anymore u have to consider the rest of the world

Also theoretical discussions like these never get anywhere anyways just focus on reality and make the most of what you can out of it

[desert stirrup]

It’s good brain juice. I’d rather wrestle with ideas than scroll

My focus:

1. making money
2. not being sent to the gulag

I keep shit simple

[mellow sonnet]

I started making money when I stopped focusing on theoretical and accepting reality I'm not the type of person to have these discussions with

[crude citrus]

I don’t equate hyper capitalism with shitting on the toilet seat tho

[desert stirrup]

Damn you don’t like those super clear Tori shio or shoyu ramen

I love those cleaner lighter broths

That bowl still looks like a slapper

I shall add it to my ever growing list

[desert stirrup]

Ngl, I def do

Mofos will shit then instantly be like “ain’t my problem”

[crude citrus]

Actually I do now that I had a moment

[desert stirrup]

Hahahahaha

Please tell me more of this moment

I’m curious

Quite interested honestly

[mellow sonnet]

People will shit on the floor and say "I'm giving janitors job security"

[desert stirrup]

YES

HOLY FUCK

OMG

Yeah those people need to be sent to the gulag

[weary chasm]

i was gonna suggest going there to live for a bit, but i guess you need someone to take care of your pet.

[desert stirrup]

Those are the people need to be in the SAW traps

[weary chasm]

your savings would go farther.

[desert stirrup]

Not these normal criminals

[weary chasm]

like there's a breakeven point with daily cost of Food and the plane flight there.

[desert stirrup]

My man, if this country further delves down the Handmaid’s Tale universe I sadly will not have the luxury of time to sample the locations

I’m just gonna get the fuck out

Bangkok seems to be a prime location

[mellow sonnet]

Learn from the past but live in the present

There's no reason to worry about the future

It'll happen when it happens

[desert stirrup]

Understandable. At the same time. Our ability to plan and think through time is what distinctly separates us from all other life on this planet. It’s our most powerful edge. I plan to utilize it for at least my own well being.

[mellow sonnet]

Our ability to plan is driven from our ability to learn from past mistakes 🤷‍♀️

[eternal birch]

going to a country whose language u dont speak at all and expecting to be more comfortable than the US

[desert stirrup]

That’s not fully accurate. Dogs, and many other animals, can experience positive or negative stimuli then alter their behavior accordingly. What they can’t do is extrapolate those past experiences into different contexts and patterns like humans.

It’s the reason why a dog who knows how to sit in the home can’t at a park or at another location. The history and knowledge is there though the ability to extrapolate and recontextualize is not. That is something we as humans are unique in. I can convey a concept to you that you never knew beforehand, yet you can extrapolate that into your future actions.

This whole concept is something I learned and thought about ever since training Momito more intentionally.

[weary chasm]

force english in Thailand.

[desert stirrup]

I find the whole concept of animals vs humans so interesting

[weary chasm]

unless you can speak Chinese, or thai.

[mellow sonnet]

U can force English by living in a tourist area but that's just a false understanding of another country's culture at that point

[earnest robin]

Ramen for me is heavy bone broth

[mellow sonnet]

Well I'm not a psychologist so idk.

[weary chasm]

i don't know about you. but thailand is very similar region in Cambodia.

and cambodia is really hot.
all the time.

[desert stirrup]

I mean I only plan to emigrate if the US goes fascist. So hear not speaking the language in a foreign land is more comfortable than being on edge of being sent to the gulag or shot in the dome piece

[weary chasm]

its like, hot wet, or hot hot.

aka, California weather is SSS tier.

[desert stirrup]

Yeah that’s not gonna be fun

[eternal birch]

it already is

[earnest robin]

Being immigrant is not fun

0/10

Not recommended

[desert stirrup]

However, the food of Thailand!

[weary chasm]

a visit to hollywood?

lol.

[eternal birch]

u have a couple options

either deal with it, protest, or move

whining and complaining not rlly a valid option

[weary chasm]

def is an option and can hear the rants, but for a bit.

[desert stirrup]

Yeah I know :’(. if Nov isn’t a landslide for the Dems I shall be trying to figure out how to get the fuck outta here

[weary chasm]

turning on the AC so you can sleep...

[desert stirrup]

Yeah man it’s gonna be a massive shift in life

[eternal birch]

also holy shit dodgers signed kyle tucker

[eternal birch]

arent u indian?

[weary chasm]

can you translate that for people that don't know baseball

[eternal birch]

can you speak hindi/urdu/punjabi

[mellow sonnet]

I'm picking up my Taiwanese citizenship and leaving if it goes crazy stock trading in Taiwan is really good bc no income tax in stock gains

[crude citrus]

We live in a super zero sum game economy and the people that feel left behind, even though they might be defined as not behind, will shit on toilet seats

[eternal birch]

idk if I'd move to KR, I'll just burn

[mellow sonnet]

I also realized that Taiwanese people love issey. im not as unique as I thought I was

[short condor]

I wish protesting did something. I support people voicing for the voiceless but Its hard when the government has shown they’ll do nothing. Someone dead and there won’t be consequences and that’s truely the first real domino to fall. Who knows where the last one will fall.

[eternal birch]

there's a statistic thats something like when 5% of the population starts protesting changes happen

no kings hit 1.5% or so

[mellow sonnet]

That was only 1.5? Crazy

[weary chasm]

on that talk, more materialistic things.

what are your monitor setups?

i have dual 1080p monitors at 23". but i'm thinking if i should upgrade .

the macbook pro screen is too good.

but mac display screen is like $5k.

[vivid violet]

i think it’s 3%

and we went over that amount for one of the protests

[mellow sonnet]

I went from triple 27 before the fire to 1 32" and debating a second one

[weary chasm]

like 1440?

whats a32", 4k?

[mellow sonnet]

3x 27" 4k to 1 32" 4k

[weary chasm]

i saw those ultrawides too like 49"

oh, gotcha

[vivid violet]

one 13” MBP 😅 and an 11” iPad Pro M4

[eternal birch]

dont think we went over

[mellow sonnet]

I think ppi on anything 1440 and below is terrible and hurts my eyes

[eternal birch]

1 34" monitor with kvm and dock

[mellow sonnet]

1440p on 26 is ok. 27+ I want 4k

[weary chasm]

yeah. alternatively, i just stay with just macbook pro screen. no extra $$$

[short condor]

I don’t doubt the statistics but that’s before people started getting shot, too many people doing nothing and it eats my soul to see. I love the number we saw at no kings and seeing what the people care about.
But marching is easy, signs are easy, screaming easy and therapeutic but the real work is not :/ it’s hard it’s dirty it means giving something up and I don’t think a lot of Americans have that in them. They have families and kids and things in their life they don’t wanna put at risk. It’s rough line to tread.

[vivid violet]

what type of work do you do ?

[mellow sonnet]

It's worth pointing out I trade tho so having more screen real estate is nice

[vivid violet]

it’s nice that the newer iPads work seamlessly as a 2nd screen

[mellow sonnet]

Yeah depends on what you do for work

[eternal birch]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule

[weary chasm]

probably more coding things. but the mac is more for fun / personal use / and i guess coding

i have a work laptop for work. that doesn't look too out of place when i connect with my 2011 monitor 1080p..

[eternal birch]

found the rule, no kings october hit 2%

[tight gorge]

I’m at one 38 and one 27 vertical

[short condor]

I just project on the wall with and hook my Mac mini to my tv, been my go to for years.

[vivid violet]

what.. tools / env do you use for coding ?

[mellow sonnet]

I've never owned a TV

[tight gorge]

Cringe

[short condor]

I really hope it stands true

[mellow sonnet]

I had a nice UST projector but it burned

[eternal birch]

same

every year is different, we'll see

"his" health is also not great

[vivid violet]

symptoms of stroke, edema

[weary chasm]

i guess its probably rubber duck time,

but i suspect that even one screen (laptop) should suffice. i was just seeing if there's a need to spend money.

but i guess i'm mainly just using visual studio code (text editor). so i guess i just need to learn how to swap back and forth between screens on a mac.

[tight gorge]

Doge

[vivid violet]

even on a 13” MBP , i can have a full coding window (with multiple tabs), and switch to the Terminal for a bunch of other stuff needed.. or the browser.

do you work on anything which needs to compile ?

[vivid violet]

LA doge-ers

[weary chasm]

not now. maybe going to see if i can try making an app in Flutter due to ease of crossplatformness. but no for now.

but i guess for my needs now. i guess one screen suffice

[vivid violet]

i worry about the up-to-date support for lib bindings, but tbh haven’t used it at all.

yeah, i think it’ll be fine for now.. you’ll know when to add another.

having a wireless additional screen is nice with the larger iPad Pro

you just mouse off the side of your computer, and it goes onto the iPad

[weary chasm]

mac eco system synergy

[short condor]

Doges

[vivid violet]

yeah, i’m originally a linux guy.. but eventually gave up and went Mac

[mellow sonnet]

Is that an Italian greyhound

[vivid violet]

used to compile my own kernel, etc.

[vivid violet]

the ears on that little guy ! 😍

[short condor]

Sure are, little ones 11 in March and the big boy is a biggy iggy at 20 lbs and he’s 1 1/2

[weary chasm]

i'm not a linux person. i used to run it for a time, but i gave up and went windows/thinkpad.

but ever since i saw M1, i was like, damn. this is good.

so now i got an m4, and its so sweet.

[vivid violet]

nice. my laptop is M1, iPad M4

[short condor]

Definetely thought that was dog toy before I read earphone lol

[vivid violet]

nice to be able to run iPad OS apps on silicon chips

[cedar otter]

It’s my airpods case

[weary chasm]

i bought labubu shirts from uniqlo

proudly wear them. LOL.

[mellow sonnet]

I survived 2025 without a single labubu 🫡

[short condor]

Gotta ignore the cup when you have an apothecary cabinet in the background! Pictures please!

[eternal birch]

same

[civic crest]

My wife got one of these in Seoul

[eternal birch]

did do one miffy blind box

but miffy is cool

[civic crest]

Pop mart so cheap in Asia

[mellow sonnet]

Ya am guilty I have Miffy ones

[civic crest]

We bought a bunch for gifts

[tight gorge]

I may have seen you at ondo once. You tried to convince me to buy a processed coffee bag to no avail

[short condor]

Were you sitting at the bar with a pour over by chance or a table with spro? Lol I’ve had two encounters but the last time I talked to someone about coffee o don’t know if I had them with me but I’m unsure. Last time I was there I there I chatting about suica 2.0

Speaking of which I’m about to brew the suica 2.0 as an iced coffee

[tight gorge]

yep, sitting driking a PO. Prob suica given the processed talk. You said I was boring

I was drinking spro

you PO iirc

I remember an older small dog and the tiny italian in a lil vest or something

I was picking up timmy beans and datura

[short condor]

Hmmm I’m ballsy but I don’t think I could ever call someone boring for their choice in coffee. Both times I talked about beans with someone I don’t think I brought them but I do love putting her on clothes so it sounds like me but I always bring the pair of them unless it’s a vet visit. Oh who was behind bar that day?

[cedar otter]

Yaaaas

[tight gorge]

Did you also say you like the whoop?

something something rao

[short condor]

Yep now that sounds like me lol

[tight gorge]

lmao

nice

glad you found this corner of the internet

[short condor]

Not the biggest fan of raos brews but I did like that he introduced me to the hoop brewer it’s great for consistent quick brews but doesn’t sell on nuance imho, and it’s all thanks to @desert stirrup I tried to get him to sell me his pietro cause it was in the background of the other stuff he was selling and he sent me an invite.

It’s a lovely corner of LA coffee and lifestyle and damn good food

[weary chasm]

i might get in on the pietro too

lol.

the legend of bad ux

[short condor]

Do it it’s the best hand grinders I’ve used hands down

[weary chasm]

i'll compare it to timemore m01

so far m01 is my most treasured grinder.

[mellow sonnet]

M01 is so tempting

Need to hold strong

No GAS

[cedar otter]

U need stronghold?

[crude citrus]

New stronghold distributor?

[cedar otter]

Uhhhh

So ondo tokyo might actually happen

[crude citrus]

Most well deserved stonk emote

But I was hoping for kansai area

[cedar otter]

I mean

We gotta start somewhere

My dad’s friend’s wife is Japanese

[weary chasm]

you opening up a shop in tokyo?

or well, japan?

[cedar otter]

And she lives there

So my dad’s gonna meet his friend up in Feb in seoul

[weary chasm]

business trip to your tokyo locations...

[cedar otter]

And talk to the daughter

[short condor]

Tax write off for travel for business expenses 🤩

[cedar otter]

There aren’t any multiroaster shops

So if we can execute the program we have there

[civic crest]

lol it’s like Craigslist missed connections going on here

[cedar otter]

There was a guy at glitch who was wearing born x raised Dodgers hoodie

So I went up to him and asked if he’s from la

Told him to come visit us lol apparently he’s a big coffee nerd

[mellow sonnet]

u sending international people to ondo

[weary chasm]

strive to be a destination location

[crude citrus]

Gonna fly to Tokyo to fix a stalling issue on an EG-1 now

[weary chasm]

maybe you can have Two EG-1's

for when one is broken.

they can't have Two broken eg-1's at the same time, right??

[glossy sail]

Swung by holbox too lol.

[short condor]

I always feel bad for eating octopus, they’re too smart and it hurts but they’re so tasty.

[tight gorge]

charcoal grilled octopus in adobo is so goated

[short condor]

Is that nopales?

Or peppers

[tight gorge]

looks like rotting fungus

but maybe not, not as dark

oh wait the green stuff is nopales

[short condor]

Woodear mushroom maybe for that one

[cedar otter]

Oh he’s from LA tho lol

[short condor]

@cedar otter about to soup the suica, and it iced was 🤤

[cedar otter]

At 8:40pm?!

[mellow sonnet]

I just got email my W-2 is ready

[surreal pivot]

Came to see LeGoat and LeCrybaby tonight 😂

[tight gorge]

what happened to fit luka

[mellow sonnet]

Tax season soon

Tax season makes me sad

[trail tiger]

boondocks in brentwood

[short condor]

Don’t worry I hate myself, I’m 36 and I don’t know what it’s like to go to bed before midnight and wake around 6ish. I got one foot in the grave and as long as I’m caffeinated I should hold a few more years 😉

[surreal pivot]

I dunno but the performance is still there so I’m good with it 🤣

[short condor]

Haven’t been yet what’s it like ?

[weary chasm]

its super good.

theres sliver and black

both look pretty good

i have... double dipped.

[tight gorge]

Find mookie

[trail tiger]

it's decent coffee, i only go for signatures since they do Filipino flavors and the beans are coal; they focus on brewing beans from the Philippines

[glossy sail]

nopales

and huitlacoche

been a hot while since i had huitlacoche

the wife does not like the look of chapulines. lol i dont mind ... crunchy bugs is crunchy

[surreal pivot]

I think he’s in section 112 if he’s in his usual spot. I’m in 101 right across

[mellow sonnet]

https://www.kkinstagram.com/reel/DTiTCIFkpOd/

Why is the EK omnia worse than the Ek43

[crude citrus]

That’s crazy

[short condor]

I’ve read a lot of reviews on the Omnia being shit and released to early. Still had bugs and tolerance issues but they wanted to release it in time for shows.

Also the right video this time 🤦‍♂️
Suica Soup

[vivid violet]

the last vid just prepped us

[glossy sail]

do you cut your own filters?

[short condor]

The Hoop brewer filters fit really well and I use those

[short condor]

After more in-depth searching I found the culprit for my espresso machine machine issue

Now I just have to hope it’s not what I think it is and the heating element or gasket is bad as that will take elbow grease I don’t have 🤦‍♂️

[eternal birch]

fuse?

hopefully u can just pop another one in and it functions as normal

[earnest robin]

Your machine has old school fuses?

[short condor]

First generation eagle one prima, had more problems than god and the worst app user interface. If the app failed or glitched it didn’t let you change any parameters which was the selling point of it in the first place.

I got bait and switched hard, should have bought a Linea or the decent back then but kept telling myself if I ever do a coffee cart it’ll be a workhorse.

Gonna sell it for half price on here once I get it fixed up. Get either a Met or the Bengle. I’d do a Linea mini R if I could get it for under 6K after everything but that’s not likely.

[dull adder]

Pop concerts are ass for floor, imo

People camp out so they can be 3 ft closer. They get all bitchy about "their spot" even those it's all pit/GA

Also costs are just astronomical. So that I can stand a little closer and listen. As opposed to seats where you... stand and listen

[dull adder]

VAPE1 strikes again

[weary chasm]

If I'm looking to get a pietro right now, any suggestions for best price?

[left kite]

I like floor for vibes and the down up view for the most part. I’m not trying to get railed in a crowd 💀

[civic crest]

hunted down a box of sey tamiru tadesse tesema alo white honey, hope it's worth it

[vivid violet]

where'd you get it from ?

[civic crest]

local shop is holding it for me, i'll reveal once i pick it up so i don't get sniped lol

it was the last one supposedly

[vivid violet]

heh cool, glad they've got your back

[short condor]

Yepp, just installed the new fuses and the fuse to the brew boiler/group head blew. Don’t have a multimeter at the house but one of the heating elements or gaskets now has to be replaced and between parts and the labor it’s probably gonna 5-700 plus 2ish months down time depending on what the schedules look like.

Funny enough its was February 3 years ago that the machine was went down for a broken heating element.

[short condor]

Lots of 350-400 for full sets have been popping up in the buy sell.

[weary chasm]

Yeah... But they're sold

Presumably they just get passed along between members

I've seen some pietro users that buy, sell then buy again...

[short condor]

That’s what I’ve seen as well and those 3 people need to update their header and not just put it in the message that it’s sold

Time to call black rabbit and see if I don’t get proper fucked on price and time 🙃

[dull adder]

I'm trying to settle the score with people 😂

Concerts where you can shove each other and throw your body into them are much more chill in a way

[dull adder]

I'm not a big fan of Sey but that was a pretty good coffee. Based on the one shot I had

[compact hound]

Junia?

Actually theyre not local to you

[civic crest]

Local enough

[boreal solar]

@mellow sonnet any thoughts on acorns?

[mellow sonnet]

The investment platform?

I never really looked into them but I think u Should just do your own recurring deposits into VOO or something

[weary chasm]

junia is so local to me, its easier to walk there than to find parking there...

2nd visit felt better, i guess they moved some things around.

[civic crest]

i'm in south torrance a lot due to inlaws

[boreal solar]

I haven’t either. I saw they had a job posting I was considering. Was curious if you’d used them given how much investing you do. Looking more at company info.

[dull adder]

Investment platform doesn't really matter. So long as they allow you to access the funds/features you want

[mellow sonnet]

Well their whole thing is they help u DCA

Which I feel like is kinda pointless

You can DCA on any platform

Personally to me it feels like they are catering toward people who don't want to learn how to invest properly

[compact hound]

Is that the shop you got it from LOL

[mellow sonnet]

trying to gatekeep but the bean degen knew exactly where

[civic crest]

figured he would know lol

[cedar otter]

I haven’t had a spro in like 10 days

First day back I pulled a shot for myself

Had to add some hot water

[earnest robin]

Like a true Korean?

[cedar otter]

I should call Americano “mizuwari”

[desert stirrup]

Yeah but I was born here. My parents also just recently gave up their Indian passports because both of their parents passed away.

Also my parent never taught me brother and I the language so I’ve always been caught in this awkward conflict of “I look like them but aren’t them”

[desert stirrup]

My lineage is from the south western state of Kerala. The language is called Malayalam

I have also been thinking about learning it so India is also an option if America gets too dangerous

It would be neat to talk to my parents and other family members in the native tongue.

My parents really cucked my brother and I

He and I are the only two who can’t understand or speak the language in the entire family

[weary chasm]

I guess you could try to learn

[desert stirrup]

I’m trying!

I actually just bought a book 🙂

I didn’t know this until I bought the book a few days ago but this language is ancient and super hard. One of the most difficult languages in the world it seems

So I got my work cut out for me

[desert stirrup]

Bro it’s gonna get worse in Taiwan too!

[mellow sonnet]

You misunderstand where I am on the K shape economy

I have time on my side in the K shape economy

[desert stirrup]

Yeah man that’s why I’ve been more on edge. Before people died in the gulag. Now people are being executed front and center.

It only escalates from here

[desert stirrup]

Oh that’s interesting! I didn’t know that