I got up this morning and thought "I need a coffee". I'm not interested in pour overs, I want that shit ready when I get up. Are people still doing drip coffee makers in 2026? Or are they all bullshit machines full of vendor lockin?
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The standard coffee pot brings such a wonderful spirit of community. Having an easy option to make 4, 8, or 12 cups is good for the soul and invites one to imagine using it for a gathering that would call for it.
Keurig is the epitome of alienation and Western decadence. You WILL consume this alone, or you will be greatly inconvenienced. You WILL create endless single-use plastic waste. You WILL soon have a useless, expensive, broken appliance (as time has gone on, it seems to me that older Keurigs invariably break down like the overengineered cheap plastic crap they are).
It is curious to me, when you read literature from the 70s and before, how often people seemed to drink coffee - in Raymond Carver's stories, for example, the characters seem to have a pot of coffee on at all times and have no problem drinking it together at 11pm. That shit would keep me wired until the following night and ruin the next week of my life lol. Maybe I'm just overly sensitive to caffeine.
I wonder if the coffee back then was just less potent, kind of like with weed
No, their bodies were just full of over-the-counter amphetamines
When you're that hopped up on speed, coffee is a downer
My grandparents used to just make it weak when they would drink it in the evenings, like use way less grounds. Idk why they didn't just drink decaf at that point though
No, it was more nasty though.
based on absolutely nothing but vibes, i'm gonna guess that it used to be generally more potent because robusta is cheaper and people had less say in what they got