Light and medium roasts are finicky and vary by the bag.

The lighter the roast, the easier it is to brew too long, resulting in astringency.

If a brew is astringent, keep reducing brew time until the astringency goes away.

Spot the difference…

They’re all pretty much the same people.

Yes, that’s pretty much it.

Sparsely populated states like the Dakotas have more votes than their population proportionally should have.

Take North Dakota vs California, for example:

North Dakota has 3 electoral votes, California has 54

North Dakota’s population is about 784K, and California 39 million, or about 50 times North Dakota’s population

If California had proportional electoral representation to ND’s based on their population, it would have 150 electoral votes to ND’s 3.

Also Southern/conservative states mostly take away the right to vote from felons for life, and therefore a large chunk of the African American vote is ineligible because of disproportionate policing of those communities. Among other problems with AAs’ access to their voting rights, like gerrymandering, fewer polling stations, etc.

“A slight edge” isn’t enough.

Harris needs at least a 4 point lead to overcome the built-in Republican advantage in the Electoral College (fuck the EC).

I’m space radio, the real space radio

All the other space radios are imitating

So won’t the real space radio, please stand up

Please stand up, please stand up

Then private industry will claim it was all their hard work and boostrap pulling that made development into space possible, so they deserve all the profits instead of their workers.

WTF is newsfromthestates.com?

The site itself seems pretty neutral, or “left leaning” as some news bias bot would put it.

Oddly, the site takes pains to hide who is writing it.

Indirectly, it says that it’s written by “statesnewsroom.com” which actually does say that it’s published and written by these people Chris Fitzsimon and Andrea Verykoukis whose google searches appear to have bona fide histories as progressive journalists.

At first glance, I kind of like it, actually.

There is a deficit in state-level local news, but I’m not sure how many people would actually take the time to read all of it.

My scribblings will still be illegible after I’m dead. HA!

So much good stuff in this episode…

The moment Aqua realizes his reason for living is over…

The “arrows” from Ruby into Mem,

and Kana totally not being interested if Aqua joins them on this trip…