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This morning, I spilled a little boiling water on my hand while making coffee. I shouted FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK while waving my hand in the air. What do you shout when you do yourself a slight injury?

Good morning everyone! I hope I get lots of customer satisfaction surveys today!

For a happy life, spend money on experiences, not things.

Unless the things are luggage to use on your experiences.

Can’t we do better than building open source versions of the social media silos that rose in the 2010s?

[The] core driver and cause of the low standing of the Democratic Party right now is not wokeness or immigration or Joe Biden’s age but the fact that Democrats are simply not effective at advancing the policies they claim to support or protecting the constituencies they claim to defend. Put simply, they are some mix of unable and unwilling to wield power to achieve specific ends.

And:

…if your goal is to show that you can address the needs and fears of ordinary citizens, the best way to do that is to try to address those needs and fears, and do so as they exist in this moment.

— Democrats’ Hamlet Moment Isn’t the Start of a Solution But the Heart of the Problem (Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo)

I am learning, not for the first time, that the Aeropress is a forgiving way to make coffee, coffee is forgiving of different ways to make it, and you can make yourself insane trying to follow all the various Aeropress recipes you find on the internet.