There was a time, long ago, when the best cup of coffee you could get was at Starbucks. Back when they hired actual baristas and used actual espresso machines. And then the great capitalist fist began to squeeze, and they started hunting for bigger and bigger profit margins. So they automated the coffee makers, streamlined everything about the store, and basically turned every Starbucks into a coffee-themed . Mcdonald's.
Oh, and they cut back on the pay and health benefits of their employees. Howard Schultz grew up poor, and any employee who worked at Starbucks got full health insurance and even 401K benefits, regardless of how many hours they work there. That was scrapped, and the new policy was to only give health insurance to employees who worked more than 20 hours a week, which was obviously a loophole that Starbucks would exploit like every other part-time employer does.
That was always a lesson for me about why the free market was a failure. In the end, profit always comes at the expense of quality.
I don't believe there was a time when Starbucks didn't overroast their beans and make bad coffee
Ahhh, but you're not taking into account how shitty every other cup of coffee was back in the day. Outside of a few coffee culture areas of the US, you were only getting weak-ass drip coffee at the diner, so Starbucks really was a step up.
Even by today's standards, I'd say it was decent. It was way more like a real coffee shop - the baristas would grind the beans, tamp it down, and make the espresso themselves. And it was only after Starbucks became popular that all these other coffee shops started popping up.
Starbucks may have been a mass popularizer of the coffee shop, but they were most certainly not the first
Oh yeah, for sure. Especially in the Pacific Northwest, there were better coffee shops everywhere. But Starbucks had to at least get close to them in quality, because that's where their first stores were, and they weren't beating them on price. It was only once they started pushing for nationwide coverage and huge brand recognition that they tanked the quality of their product.
grind the beans, tamp it down, and make the espresso
I'm confused. I go to Starbucks like once or twice a year and apparently don't pay attention ... how do they make coffee?
They have automated machines that grind the coffee, pack it into the uhhh, thingy, and brew it to the desired strength all by pressing one button. The only thing the employee does now is whack out the used coffee grinds into a garbage can and put the (apparently it's called a portafilter?) back in place. They're basically fancy keurig machines.
Yeah, it’s a portafilter. That’s a troubling way to do things unless you don’t give a shit about the end product. Even the non-snob places will tamp and pull by hand. The snobby ones usually just have more temperamental roasts and will take time to calibrate for flavor a couple times a day.
This is why we all should have supported trumps revisionist history program to teach americans the real history of America, where starbucks is one of our most important historical sites
Lmao to the people who thought organizing under Biden would be easier, especially after the libs got a Reichstag fire handed to them on a silver platter to “both sides” “extremism” with
Back to the Robert Mueller model of beating the war drums against so called terrorists and then using the funding to attack animal rights groups. Time really is a flat circle.
Side note, haven't seen your name around these parts in a while, it's nice to see you around again 😊
The FL governor De Santis was pushing for that over the summer, along with making it legal to shoot protestors who "make you feel uncomfortable" or block traffic. Of course he re-introduced the bill right after the Capitol protests.
Being antifascist is also the radical position in the US now?
"The suspensions were first reported by Andy Ngo, who runs the conservative blog The Post Millennial."
Actual god damn fascist Andy Ngo is still on twitter, but antifa cant be
I genuinely don't get how he doesn't get more shit for literally providing kill lists of local activists and shit to the neo-nazi group Attomwaffen. Like, we live in a bullshit country so I see how he could avoid punishment, but why isn't that shit glued to his name and reputation like it should be?
"ties to antifa", the very real centralised organization you can have ties to.
thx for helping libs get orange man out. now shut the fuck up and go away before you try to change anything or we’ll make u a non person
No trust me bro the FBI is good now, they're cracking down on white supremacists now bro, they just want to save democracy from MAGA terrorists bro they probably took those leftist accounts down because they were racist bro trust me
:agony-acid: :agony-consuming: :agony-limitless:
It's funny how NY Post tries to reconcile their glee at antifa getting 'dealt with' with their horror that 'communist' tech companies are cracking down on freedom of speech.
As a source for this article, they cite Andy Ngo, an alt right shithead whose newest book's subheader is 'Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy'.
They also seem to draw the number in the headline from this tweet by an antifa org in Sactown, which states that an account with 17k followers was suspended. How that gets reported as 71k is unclear (is there some shared experience all rightists go through that cause them to have Zenz-like mathematical abilities? Licking boot is that toxic?)
Edit: changed post to fix hostile tone.
They just added some follower numbers of several accounts together:
several popular accounts with alleged ties to Antifa — which have more than 71,000 followers combined
:party-sicko:
Without the pressure valve of social media people will take to the streets to be heard. Yes, haha, YES
I got suspended from that damned bird site for 6 months due to "following too many people."
