Limo
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Wow. Awesome. I'm told the Rocket Appartamento is a classic and really, really good. See, there's the problem. I'd be all up for a setup like this, but there's also the wife to consider. She will absolutely not go to barista school simply to get her morning cup of coffee. Looks cool ... but I'd personally skip a device with a built in grinder as (I'm told / friends of mine experience) they break down sooner). You can get professional quality grinders for not that much money and replace the cones. Of course you'd then have to smuggle them past the spouse, but in my experience that's a simple matter of downplaying the size (or at least not drawing attention to it too much) until it's in place.
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There’s that, too - and it’s a whole different pet peeve of mine. But the issue I’m talking about here is simply adding too much water, not grinding finely enough or both. In Italy, from Verona to Palermo, espresso is a tablespoon or two of thick, syrupy goodness - with the bitterness increasing the further south you go until you’re drinking ground charcoal by the time you cross the straits of Messina. In Holland, even the good places kindly fill the entire espresso cup for you, not by giving you a double shot by default but simply by running twice the amount of water through the filter. I find this strange. Surely hundreds of thousands of Dutch people visit Italy each year and so can be expected to know what the real deal is supposed to be like? Especially the ones that buy these insanely expensive Italian espresso machines for use in their cafés and restaurants? And yet here I’m measuring out the kitchen top to see if there’s enough space for *another* coffee machine (thinking of a La Pavoni Europiccola manual espresso machine) for use on weekends when I can put in the time. Sigh.
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An FWP, I suppose: every time I come back from Italy I waste at least half a day on the internet looking up prices of espresso machines I know I'm never ever going to buy. Why oh why can't *any* of those Dutch coffee places that have the *exact same machines* as the places in Italy (and probably better ones) set them so they actually output espresso and not something that's a lungo at best and usually worse? Even the coffee from my Quickmill 820 is better ... ?
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Christ almighty this is brutal. Never thought he had this sort of stuff in him. Love the buildup, too.
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Just finished The Skin (It. La Pelle) by one Curzio Malaparte. It describes the conquest of Italy by the allies during World War II, focusing mostly on the period in Naples. One of the more disturbing books about war I’ve read - although it’s also, in places - grimly - funny. It’s also full of the stereotypes ( not all of them wrong ) and casual racism one should expect from a book written in the 1940s, so if you can’t stomach that you should probably skip it. But you’d be missing out on some seriously good (disturbing) war writing. And the chapter where they try to cheer up a young American soldier who’s dying because his guts have been blown out is just heart wrenching. Author is a bona fide interesting character, too. Fought in WW I, marched on Rome with Mussolini, reported on the war on the Eastern Front and the one in Finland, was then imprisoned by the fascists and ended the war as a liaison with the Americans (which is what this book is about). After the war he became a communist.
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I speak from some authority, having now had pizza both at what is supposedly one of the better pizza places in the New World (Joe’s pizza in NYC) *and* Da Michele in Naples, when I say: please open a separate thread about “American dough things with stuff on top”.
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Having done some further research I’m afraid I’ll have to disappoint you: snobs such as myself may use the cutlery to process the pizza in its entirety but it also turns out to be common to merely cut the pizza in quarters which are then folded and devoured.
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Supposedly the greatest pizza place in the world - Da Michele in Naples, Italy. Even Elizabeth Gilbert says so (barf). Wish I could say it didn’t live up to the hype and that it was terrible, but it wasn’t. A bit strange, with a thin crust that was soft rather than crunchy, but definitely good. Not worth the half hour (it was fairly quiet) wait, of course.
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Or a New York hipster working for an ad agency.
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He’s not wrong, but he takes a long time to get to his rather shallow and obvious points. I suspect the trick is he’s play-acting a hillbilly in the hope that this will attract hillbilly viewers so he can persuade them to vote for someone besides Trump. Since hillbillies aren’t stupid, this plan will fail.
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If there are cases in small towns in Northern Italy because there's a Unilever factory there that Chinese businessmen visit, you can bet there's cases in Africa. We just don't know about them yet. Edit: but you're right that *most* international Chinese businessmen probably aren't from Hubei.
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Right. Because we all enjoyed High Fidelity for the riveting plot and not for the specific subculture it portrayed - you know, the one that was very, very specific to the late 1980s / mid 1990s when youngish men sincerely thought someone's taste in music equalled their moral standing.
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Don’t know about South America, but sub Saharan Africa is in the middle of being scrambled for by Chinese businessmen, so it seems unlikely it wouldn’t have spread there.
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Oh boy: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/three-italian-residents-test-positive-for-covid-19-coronavirus-12458128 In Northern Italy the virus has spread from a Chinese visitor who himself did not test positive for the virus (which apparently you don’t unless you exhibit symptoms). Three small towns are in in lockdown mode.
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Thanks for posting this. Very interesting. Not because of the contents themselves but because it exists. Normally qualified medical practitioners are pretty strict about not going around posting half hour long talks about the conditions of patients they haven’t examined personally. (note, btw, I absolutely detest Peterson specifically and the alt right in general)
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Cool and therefore interesting: an archive of old book illustrations. This site will give you a random illustration from the collection: https://perchance.org/old-book-illustration Here's some background info and a link to the complete collection: http://www.openculture.com/2020/02/old-book-illustrations-download.html
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Huh? Yes it does?
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Amusing premise: immigrant mothers all across Europe are giving birth to blonde, blue-eyed children. The story, unfortunately, sticks rather closely to tried and true Hollywood thriller formulas, with virus outbreaks, brave journalists and evil mega corps, and the art is a bit bland, but there’s enough odd quirks to keep this interesting. Blurb here: http://www.europecomics.com/album/the-danes/ Preview here: https://bdi.dlpdomain.com/player/dqdzuIxryB6Cj6n1To1Whmw16ye5FCMj.html
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Been practicing inking with a brush, old-fashioned cartoon style. .
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They play you Music Has The Right To Children and if you manage to sit it out without throwing up, you’re handed your voting license. Not sure which candidate would win in such a world.
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No, Hitler had tards killed. Also, no Trump voters in Nazi Germany. So ...
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Ooh ... I forgot about that ... dude is perfectly ok with profiting off Behringer's work but complains about Behringer profiting off his.
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Probably not super fit, though, after all he'd been through. Still: good point. This thing might not be as innocent as it's claimed to be.
