Absolutely fucking correct… You can maintain locks on my so-called smart devices for as long as you maintain your services… You want to pull the plug, you should be forced to open source and expose the tech so that we can keep it working on our own private servers. Proprietary tech is a bullshit excuse as well… The vast majority of these devices are about 10% of in house code riding on 90% of open standards, protocols, and packages. None of them are building the wheel from scratch.

For fucksake most of these devices could easily be implemented on decentralized architecture, if it wasn’t for all the pesky data mining they are doing

I was convinced about 20 years ago that at least 30% of humanity would struggle to pass a basic sentience test.

I didn’t wake up expecting to hate someone today

I mean technically… At least half of the elemental construction of both of those ingredients is chlorine… So… Technically it is.

Yeah but it says right on the front that it’s half potassium chloride and half sodium chloride.

And several times throughout the story you are forced into making some “decisions” about how to deal with stale memory registers.

This is the silliest shit I’ve ever discussed on the Internet. I will say kudos to you for keeping things mostly amicable. It’s been awhile since I’ve had an argument on topicality and it’s been entertaining for me. Thanks my friend, best wishes.

Velocity is not suggestive because it is defined as speed in a direction.

In your example you are only taking speed, assuming direction and stating velocity.

That’s not how legal systems work… Plenty of things are legal in one place and illegal in another. No Christians are worried about blasphemy against Zeus or Jupiter. Like wise a Zoroastrian is only concerned about blasphemy against Ahura Mazda and not Allah.

Okay… Which one? It’s pretty clear that decaffeinated coffee violates no religions that I’m aware of… And in fact for some religions would be the only allowable way to drink coffee. And if you argue that I just meant in general that it is a slight on to any God then how would you interpret that as anything other than humor or sarcasm?

Do you always feel like a victim or is it just when you aren’t caffeinated enough?

Opinions, such as “all methods of decaffeinating coffee are blasphemy” are subjective in their very nature. What makes this more obvious is that the definition of blasphemy is entirely subjective and can’t even begin to be assessed objectively until at very minimum a religious dogma is declared for the basis of evaluation.

That’s because words on their own all have definitions. The subjectivity is created contextually. I swear it feels like I’m talking to a bot.

How do you gather? You think there isn’t many ways to decaffeinate beans or that some of them aren’t gross? Or that most ways used to decaffeinate beans doesn’t make the coffee taste bad?

These are the very points James makes in the first 2/3rds of the video.

The only point that he and I might delaminate on was that all decaf is blasphemous, and that’s a stretch because he never talks about the religious criminality of drinking coffee?

Why do you think I would offer a video to people about decaf that I didn’t watch? Hint: I don’t hate decaf coffee.

Yikes this is getting drawn out and silly, eh. I’ll save us some time.

You win.

But one thing that I couldn’t help but chuckle at is your interpretation of the coffee capitol point.

You live in a hockey capitol. That doesn’t make you an expert, but I bet if you wanted to buy a hockey stick you would have a number of stores carrying top gear… If you wanted to see a game you probably have a number of hockey teams from pro to amateur you could go watch live.

I have direct access to three of the top 20 roasters in the country. I’m fortunate to have access to some of the best coffee in the world regardless if I’m an expert or not.

And this is sort of the point overall… You added so much of your own arguments to my position that you aren’t even arguing with me or the points that I’m making.

I’m not hiding behind subjectivity, I was the one who posted the video “negating” my so called “opinions”. You still think I did that as a mistake. Which I think is the second example that shows you are coming to this discussion in bad faith.

It’s no wonder you recommend introspection, given you have been arguing only with your interpretation of my opinion.

I’m a huge fan of James Hoffman… I don’t think anyone alive understands coffee better than he does.

I live in a US Coffee Capital…

I make brilliant decaf for my pregnant wife.

My preparation is flawless in drip and espresso

You guys really don’t understand subjectivity or sarcasm and are filling in a ton of the blanks.

No no, that was the only reasonable part. Everything else wrapping that was absurd though.

That’s the funny thing about subjectivity right?

That’s some top shelf stretching there.

There are many ways to decaffeinate a coffee bean… Some more gross than others… All of them blasphemy.

And yes most of them ruin the taste of coffee.

Also it’s obvious you have seen this already. https://youtu.be/yYTSdlOdkn0?si=6Z1RlexQCt2I4OI9

I mean you could always substitute a witch if you are unable to source the live duck…