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Fines need to stop being set amounts and start being percentages of revenue. We live in a world with companies that can make almost nothing and others that make more money than God does. This requires a more flexible solution. It'd also incentivize the government agencies to go after companies, especially big ones.

Meanwhile their algorithm identified a post of mine about chicken breeds and another that leaned leftist as spam and silenced me for a day.

Yes, you are. If you have to ask, you are.

Threads is still a thing? I thought it was heading down the G+ road - lots of fanfare at the beginning but quickly dropping off to irrelevance?

Wouldn't be that hard to do on ICE vehicles. Just need a heating element added somewhere that heats the antifreeze to 100ish F. Then a remote to activate the blower motor.

Also depends on the environment. Down here in central Texas you can't expect the el cheapo batteries to last more than 2 or so years because the summer heat is brutal on them.

I was going to suggest refurb, too, but looking around their site there is no longer a page for refurbs. A little googling and it appears since Breville bought them in 2020 they've gone downhill some.

Did Baratza stop selling refurbs? I got mine as a refurb but don't see a page for refurbished ones on their site.

Have you tried grinding at a medium grind instead of coarse? There was a video posted here of someone that did a test between grinds and found that the medium grind had the best results. You could try a small batch and see how it goes. Also, instead of sieving before steeping, try running it through a filter after steeping. You could get a cheap pourover to run it through. Alternatively, look on Amazon for filter fabric that's down to like 2 microns or less like these - https://www.amazon.com/Pack-Micron-Filter-Short-Socks/dp/B09SY6DKD8

You’ll be sweeping the floor, using a wet cloth on your countertop, washing out the bin, and using a brush and cloth to clean out the machine.

Huh. As a counterpoint, I have a Baratza Encore and have encountered none of the cleaning issues outside of the machine that you mention.

Not even a majority of Republicans want a civil war. It's just a bunch of wonks looking for views and loud idiots who don't get what it would actually take for it to happen or what the fallout would be. This has also been a narrative that Russia has been pushing for decades.

I live in Texas. The rural and urban Republicans here do not all see eye to eye. When they've actually worked at passing non-performative legislation the two groups have fought each other on many occasions. There is no monolithic GOP here. And if there's no monolithic GOP in Texas, then it likely doesn't exist elsewhere. They only succeed here because of the stigma attached to voting Democrat. If the Dems had run someone other than Beto and who had good charisma, there might have been a fair chance at unseating Abbott. As it stands, Beto still gave him a run for his money and his smallest win yet. Hell, it was the smallest GOP win since W beat Ann Richards in 1994, so almost 30 years. This is against a man who the GOP here absolutely hates with a burning passion. There were plenty Republicans interviewed who said they didn't want Abbott, but Beto was a non-starter for them to vote Democrat. All that and he still got the biggest vote percent for a Dem in 28 years.

All this talk of civil war is just bunk that has no basis in reality whatsoever. It is all just foreign propaganda that people on both sides are eating up without using their critical thinking skills.

Edit: Allow me to put forth a more timely statistic. Recently the Texit movement tried to get a resolution to discuss Texas leaving the Union. Out of the 103k signatures they gathered, less than 9k were actual Texas citizens. So, in a state with 30 million people, this group could not even muster the 0.3% of the population of this state to want to leave the union. They didn't even get 0.03%. So, do you think Texas really supports leaving the Union or joining a Civil War? No, they don't. Neither do the politicians because they know the absolute nightmare it would be to try to support all the people who would lose their federal support. Every military veteran getting support from the government, every retiree, every child in a poor household. Texas makes a fair bit of coin, yeah, but they don't make enough to be able to replace the payment for all those without significantly raising their taxes and people here are already pissed about taxes, especially their skyrocketing property taxes. There's zero chance any politician who supports any increase in the way the government generates funds, whether you call them taxes or fees or whatever, will get re-elected. Abbott, Patrick, etc, are not so stupid as to not be aware of this. Nor are other conservative political leaders across the country that stupid or unaware, either.