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jaybirrd

@ jaybirrd @lemmy.world

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  • Burger Pre-Smush

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  • Not molting...

  • Burger Pre-Smush

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  • Not a snake, but it definitely worked. Heading into surgery shortly to have my jaw reattached. 5/7

  • Planning to buy Gaggia Classic Pro Evo as my first espresso machine. Thoughts?

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  • Espresso is a big learning curve, especially if you want to get good at milk steaming, but the end result is fantastic once you get the hang of it.

    I bought the 2019 model of the Gaggia Classic Pro earlier this year and really love it. I have a lot of prior experience as I was a manager and barista in a specialty coffee shop for a while, so that definitely expedited the process of learning how to get great results out of the machine. You may not have that experience to go off of, but there are a ton of great resources online for learning.

    What grinder do you have? There's a good chance you're grinder may not grind fine enough or consistently enough for espresso. The one thing a lot of beginners underestimate when getting started is how important it is to have a good electric burr grinder that's made to handle grinding for espresso. Those can cost a lot of money and generally run $300+ for entry level espresso grinding. All that said, for just getting started, I think it's totally fine to have your local coffee shop grind your coffee for espresso while you start learning the process.

    I'm not sure how the Evo comes set up, but the older model was not set up for espresso enthusiasts but rather consumers who aren't looking to get too deep into it. As a result there were a couple upgrades that I found necessary out of the box; namely the tamper was just a piece of plastic, the portafilter came set up as a pressurized portafilter so I had to remove that piece of it, and the machine was set to 15 bar pressure so I had to switch out the OPV spring to get 9 bars. The Evo machine comes set at 9 bars out of the box so you won't have to worry about that. I'm not sure about the tamper/portafilter situation though.

    Espresso is a blast one you get the feel for it! Let me know if you have any other questions, I'm happy to help!

  • Planning to buy Gaggia Classic Pro Evo as my first espresso machine. Thoughts?

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  • Where does the king keep his armies?

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  • This is amazing

  • Metaverse could be renamed to escape

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  • Posthumous Michael Jackson activated

  • An X is kind of a sans serif German swastika

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  • Is there something tangible? Slack's logo is a symbol that suggests clockwise rotation while the version of the swastika that the Nazis used is a symbol that suggests counterclockwise rotation.

    Especially given that the Nazis appropriated one version of a symbol that had many other versions/uses/meanings in different cultures, do we really need to equate every symbol or logo that has remote similarities to the swastika with Nazism?

  • No one hates programming languages as much as programmers

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    • Albert "Confucius" Einstein

  • Did you know that laughing too loudly is illegal in Hawaii?

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  • This is one of the worst jokes I've ever seen. Thank you!

  • What if the length of a term was proportional to the amount you won by in the election?

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  • I like this question, although I don't think it could work. Someone who campaigns really well, does not necessarily mean they will fulfill their office well. It also penalizes when there are two good candidates running against each other.

    I could see it being more viable if the upper term limit is still along the lines of what we have today. Perhaps a presidential candidate winning an election by landslide could get a maximum term of 8 years, whereas someone just barely winning would have a shortened term of 1-2 years. I would definitely still be concerned about the negative ramifications of potentially more and more dirty campaigning to try and capture the highest portion of votes that others have mentioned.

  • Why does my Cane Corso stare at me?

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  • TIL what a Cane Corso is.

  • Homemade char siu pork buns

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  • I echo this! Would love to know more details about the process. They look great.

  • I found a tic in my ear. Should I be worried or looking for any symptoms?

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  • Do you still have the tick? The best thing to do is Google search for a service that you can mail in or drop off the tick. They will identify the type of tick, as well as test for the diseases that ticks carry. If everything is negative then you're good to go, but if it tests positive for something you can take that to your doctor.

    I just went through this process a couple months ago. Found a tick that had definitely been attached for a few days which is easily long enough for a disease to be transmitted. Mailed the tick in, got the results in an email a few days later that everything was negative.