TBF, that’s a pretty rad looking thing she bought. I kinda want one, too.

It absolutely implies confidence. And his horrified look on his face, well, fuck him. What an absolute shit reaction to your friend saying they’re better in some way than some artificial, professionally made-up fake persona.

No, your waifu isn’t prettier than your IRL friend, and if that were your reaction to your friend’s statement, kicking you to the curb is the least I’d expect from them.

Panel 4 is a dream. A couple of years ago my wife discovered this pregnancy pillow that’s basically a ginormous U anti-moat. She loves the damned thing; it’s a soft, defensive wall I have to cross to get to her. It gets ejected during sexy times, but we might as well have separate beds.

grumble

Her reaction, no. His reaction, yes. Confidence is sexy, in any gender. Him looking flabbergasted… the gun was justified.

Because she was really hungry.

Wall of text incoming, sorry, I get anxious trying to explain myself

I asked; no worries!

I can’t find affordable loose-leaf tea in any store nearby. Ordering something I need regularly online is difficult because I need to remember that I need to do it and then also do it.

Ok, word of warning: I’m a guy, and an engineer, so I’m going to try to solve all of your problems whether you want me to or not. That’s my burden.

I would definitely look for tea online. Unless you’re in a big city, you’ll have better options, and tea ships better than, say, coffee. If you can find a place that sells a tea you like, they may offer an auto-ship service so you don’t have you worry about it.

You say you like having a handful of options to select from - many tea vendors offer samplers and this is an opportunity to go on a culinary voyage of discovery. Once you find a tea you like, from a vendor that has an auto-ship service, you’re set!

As far as brewing, there’s not much more to loose leaf than a tea bag, really. We get keep our tea in big jars, and keep a tea scoop in the jar. With one of those tea infusers I linked, it’s just: one scoop into the infuser, fill with water, and 5 minutes later put the infuser on top of a cup and it dispenses itself. Dump the used leaves in the trash, rinse the infuser, and done. I used to wash the thing, but haven’t in years.

But! Just keep doing what works for you! I just don’t want you to think it’s any more trouble using loose leaf because - in your case - it probably wouldn’t be. And there’s a whole extra world of tea open to you if you can use loose leaf.

Good reason.

I’m not sure if any of the GPLs are my ethic, but maybe I’d better review my default of grabbing the BSD license.

I’m still a “whatever” MIT guy… or, more lately, 3-Clause BSD.

What changed your mind? Did you catch leaches, or suspect someone of leeching?

Huh. Ok! Whatever works!

Great clarifications!

And… why do you even have those with you, anyway??

Once a year or so, I re-learn how to interpret Smart values, which I find frustratingly obtuse. Then I promptly forget .

So one’s almost 6 y/o and the other is about 5½?

I think I see what you’re saying.

B2 has multiple data centers around the world - at least 3 in the US and 1 in EU, that I know of. If you want your data replicated, you have to create buckets in multiple locations and connect them for replication, which they’ll do for you (the replication).

If you’re saying that they don’t automatically store multiple copies of your data in multiple locations for you, for free, you’re right. But they do have multiple data centers located around the world, and you can create multiple buckets and configure them for automatic replication so you have redundancy. You have to pay for the storage at each replicated location, though. If you want a bucket in Sacramento, it’ll cost you those pennies. If you want it replicated to Rest on, you’ll pay double the pennies. If you want it also replicated to Amsterdam, triple the pennies.

I don’t think it’s fair to say that they’re single location that could have a natural disaster and you therefore lose your storage. It’s only like that if you set it up that way, and it’s pretty trivial to set up global replication - it just costs more.

I quadrupal vote for this combination.

You could trust B2 more; maybe dig into their structure. They’re solid, and not only that they provide an awesome service with their yearly HD failure rate evaluations, in which they describe the structure of their data centers.

I’m terms of NPS, I’m on their side. Unless something comes out and shady business practices, I’m brand loyal to B2. Been with then for years, and love the service, pricing, and company.

I don’t have easy access to loose-leaf tea, unfortunately.

As in, you can’t easily buy it, or that it’s literally hard for you to access?

My wife likes Earl Gray, but it’s caffeine sensitive, and she’s very picky about taste. So she gets hers via mail order; if the issue is sourcing, then the web is your friend.

Also, this is not specifically directed at you but it’s on my mind lately: loose-leaf tea is more effort than tea bags.

This is interesting. Sincerely: how? I’m walking through the process in my head, and it seems to me it’d be harder getting the little bags out of their packaging and manipulating them.

Our process is:

1. Pop the lid on the tea container (must be similar in difficulty to getting into a box of canister of bags, right?)
2. Scoop a scoop with a spoon into e.g. a Teavana tea maker (or the million similar products). I can see how manipulating a spoon can be a challenge itself, but is it harder than digging around in a container for a tea bag?
3. Pouring water’s the same process, either way
4. When it’s steeped, put it on the cup and it dispenses itself. Again, fussing around with a tea bag to pull it out of a cup seems like it’d require more fine motor control and be more challenging

I’m sincerely curious since I’m ignorant about the details of how tea bags would be easier, and I’d like to learn. Every person has different obstacles, and I know you don’t speak for everyone; also, this is just curiosity on my part, so if you’re not interested in explaining, no problem.

The integrated tea cups are some of my favorites. I have a beautiful one where you dump in the tea and just lift the integrated strainer out when it’s done.

Or, buy loose leaf and use a strainer - steel if you think you can’t tell the difference (like me), or ceramic if you think you can. It’s more economical, too.

If you like this sort of thing, check out legume. Similar, only it works with the todos in place

So… if I start a nuclear war… and wipe out the entire human race… I’m the most moral person because I’ve reduced the number of killers in the world to zero, forever?

I mean, someday I’ll get a new TV, and I’d just been assuming I’d leave it disconnected… but I hadn’t thought about the nagware, and that would definitely be an issue.