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4 votes
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School uniforms are on the rise — even for toddlers — and it’s changing back-to-school shopping
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What's your favorite obscure and/or archaic sports rule?
Today I just learned about the uncaught third strike rule in baseball: On an uncaught third strike with (1) no runner on first base, or (2) with a runner on first base and two outs, the batter...
Today I just learned about the uncaught third strike rule in baseball:
On an uncaught third strike with (1) no runner on first base, or (2) with a runner on first base and two outs, the batter immediately becomes a runner. The strike is called, but the umpire does not call the batter out. The umpire may also signal that there is "no catch" of the pitch. The batter may then attempt to reach first base and must be tagged or forced out.
Honorary mention to the defensive possession after a touchdown in American football. I can't find it in the rulebook right now, but the essential concept is that, after a score, the team that was scored on actually has a choice on whether to receive the ball and start the next possession on offense (which is normally what happens), or whether to kick off the ball and defend (considering that the team that just scored on you gets the ball back to do it again, I don't see how this could ever be a good idea in today's game).
8 votes -
The Danish centre-left aped the far right to win an election – there's a better way to deal with people's fears
9 votes -
Cherokee nation takes up 1835 treaty right and names first delegate to US Congress
18 votes -
Mike Pence heads into potential new Nordic storm with Iceland visit
6 votes -
For the formerly incarcerated, occupational licensing laws can be legal prisons
5 votes -
Australian Federal Police raid Canberra home where intelligence officer lived
3 votes -
Session | Steam Early Access trailer
6 votes -
Tennis needs change if it wants to restore fairness and transparency
4 votes -
Burnout symptoms in tech
7 votes -
AMD announces BIOS fix for Ryzen 3000 boost clocks, update comes September 10
7 votes -
Virtual Cards by Privacy
8 votes -
Five steps to becoming a read out-loud book hero
10 votes -
Why everyone should care about what is happening in Hong Kong, despite all the world’s troubles
10 votes -
A town for people with Chronic-Fatigue Syndrome: Patients moved from all over the country to Incline Village, Nevada, for an experimental drug. Then the drug disappeared.
10 votes -
Australian government braces for poor GDP result as shoppers keep wallets shut
7 votes -
Philippines Supreme Court thumbs down same-sex marriage petition
7 votes -
Communications and internet have been blacked out in Kashmir since August 4 - five people explain what it's like to live through
8 votes -
The process of arming teachers in one Ohio school district: ‘You understand that you might have to shoot a student?’
8 votes -
Polyamory in the Pacific Northwest
10 votes -
The myth of the free speech crisis: How overblown fears of censorship have normalised hate speech and silenced minorities
21 votes -
Conservative MP Phillip Lee has defected to the Liberal Democrats ahead of a crucial no-deal vote, leaving the PM with no working majority
22 votes -
Reducing your own carbon footprint is great, but it won’t save the planet unless governments and corporations step up
19 votes -
Robots that can kill: Tomorrow’s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare
6 votes -
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair | Release date trailer (October 8, 2019)
4 votes -
Firefox 69.0 released
22 votes -
What's it like to have conversion therapy?
9 votes -
Usage share of desktop internet browsers 1996–2019
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Local coffee/tea cultures?
@cadadr's Turkey AMA coffee commentary got me curious about what coffee consumption and cultures look like among Tilders. If your principal national beverage is tea instead of coffee, feel free to...
@cadadr's Turkey AMA coffee commentary got me curious about what coffee consumption and cultures look like among Tilders.
If your principal national beverage is tea instead of coffee, feel free to comment on why you think that might have arisen.
I spent a bit of time chasing one of @cadadr's mentions about tasseomancy, and it's fascinating, so please describe if your coffee culture has any comparable rituals.
I grew up with my mother's Montreal Canadian coffee-drinking standards: starting around age 8 or so, a half-cup of stovetop percolated coffee with a half-cup of milk added, eventually graduating to full cups of strong black coffee by my teenage years. For most of my life, the commonest means of consuming coffee was via the Bunn restaurant coffee maker - a drip coffee maker with an electric burner that held the brew scalding hot, near-burnt.
The commonest U.S. home coffee preparation still uses a drip coffee maker. "Pod" coffee makers that use prefilled cartridges and a pressure boiler (lower pressure than espresso, but similar) are increasingly popular.
Practically all coffee in the U.S. is made from imported beans, with robust global supply chains. There's minimal boutique coffee production in the states of Hawaii and California, but the territory of Puerto Rico grows coffee for local use and premium export. Coffee is taxed at the same rates as other food products, and no import duties are levied, so it's incredibly cheap - usually $5 - 10 per 450g.
In the U.S., at least, there are now widespread corporate coffee shop chains - Starbucks, Peet's, Caribou, and others, which produce very standardized, uniform coffee, in pressure-expressed, brewed, and cold-process variations. They're often prepared with flavored syrups, and typically have dairy added, either as plain or steam-heated and frothed milk. Average cost for the fancier variations is around 5 USD, though a cup of plain brewed coffee is usually $1.50 - $2.00.
Even tiny villages have neighborhood coffee shops that serve plain brewed coffee and espresso drinks, teas, baked goods, and simple sandwiches. Local coffee roasters are relatively common, too. The coffee shops may feature their products, or the roaster may have its own cafe'. Most of the larger bookstores also serve coffee, teas, and espresso drinks in their own cafe's.
We usually drink our coffee relatively strong, around 10 - 15g of ground coffee per 200 ml of water for brewing, and dark roasts are preferred over mild ones.
Most U.S. cities support thriving international food and beverage cultures, so we get to try coffee variations from around the world. My personal favorites (aside from the obvious Italian espresso culture) are Turkish-style with cardamom, Ethiopian, and Cuban colada.
There isn't much of a national tea tradition here, though there's a common practice of herbal tisane use for health purposes.
I've visited around 43 of the 50 U.S. states and haven't noticed really distinctive regional variations, except for New Orleans chicory-flavored and New Mexico piñon-flavored coffee. My spouse adds chicory to coffee at home, and piñon coffee is delicious. We'll treat ourselves to shipments a couple of times a year. Hawaiian Kona variety beans are boutique-premium and there's some fakes, so we don't go out of our way to get it when fair-trade Ethiopian or Guatemalan varieties are better and cheaper. I try very hard not to think of the carbon footprint of any of this...
18 votes -
Go 1.13 Is Released
6 votes -
Hong Kong protestors using Mesh messaging app China can't block: Usage up 3685%
23 votes -
Brains on Film - Documentary about an 80s public access show that praised cult movies
3 votes -
Hurricane Dorian: Storm inches north west, leaving devastation in Bahamas
5 votes -
Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ
5 votes -
Anamanaguchi - Lorem Ipsum (Arctic Anthem) (2019)
7 votes -
Pat Metheny Group - Have You Heard (1989)
8 votes -
Jojo Rabbit | Official trailer
6 votes -
Lezer (the parser used in CodeMirror 6)
3 votes -
Finland under pressure to criminalise lack of consent in rape laws
10 votes -
Swedish cashless app Swish is teaming up with six other companies to form a European network of mobile payment solutions
5 votes -
The Kindle is fine. It could’ve been much more than that.
27 votes -
The country disappearing under rising tides
4 votes -
Norway Sámi community fights for survival as temperatures rise
6 votes -
Denmark's central bank roundly rejected finance industry entreaties to ease the burden of the world's longest negative interest-rate experiment
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Advice for first home server?
Hello, I have a few questions. I didn't want to wast money so I wanna use what I have in terms of hardware, only the PSU and storage if needed. PC: CPU AMD 5 1600 RAM 16G SSD 125 GB for OS...
Hello,
I have a few questions. I didn't want to wast money so I wanna use what I have in terms of hardware, only the PSU and storage if needed.
PC:
- CPU AMD 5 1600
- RAM 16G
- SSD 125 GB for OS
Services I think of running:
- Node Tor middle relay
- Node Bitcoin
- Node XMR
- Gitea or Gitlab
- Maybe some service to host files or make a share for lan or a could service
- Maybe a TS Server or Minecraft
Questions:
- Do I have enough power to run all of this or I am being to greedy? I have raspberry(not pi 4) stopped at home doing nothing I could run some of this services on them if the computer can't handle everything.
- Should I virtualize? Can you explain me your response on this?
- I thinking of buying a good PSU since I am running this 24/7, should I invest in gold platinum or something like that?
- Should I have multiple disks if yes can you explain how much and for what.
This is will be my first server at home so I would like to hear tips if you think I am forgetting something.
Thanks in advance.
Edit: visualize > virtualize17 votes -
Mikhail Shufutinsky - Trietje Sientiabria (The Third Of September)
4 votes -
The Searl Effect Zero Point Generator
3 votes -
Greta Thunberg has spoken about her Asperger's syndrome diagnosis after she was criticised over the condition
11 votes -
To Fix the Climate, Tell Better Stories: The missing climate change narrative
6 votes