For MANY Americans, the US is their whole world. 🤷‍♂️

Sorry bud, you’re in the wrong community if you’re looking for allies when you bring logic based on reality into the conversation.

You’re probably in the minority, but probably not the only one.

WhatsApp is also owned by meta, so out of the 7 options, 3 of them are owned by the same company and yet continue to lack support for interoperability.

IMO if you aren’t making espresso then most burr grinders, even in the $40-50 are going to lead to more consistency and flavor in your brew.

If you are making espresso then my advice would be to budget enough to buy a grinder that is on par with the espresso machine itself, it makes more of a difference than I would have expected.

I struggled for years with an Encore before investing in a higher quality grinder, and now my espresso shots are much more consistent, without changing anything about the machine or process I’m using to pull the shot.

I’ve always assumed you’d melt the gold down and create coins or other tradable sub-amounts of the gold that you could exchange for goods and services. If people are still peopling, they’ll still want a currency to transact with; if the dollar has failed then gold has a historical precedent that would probably make it easier to convince people to trade with you using it as a medium of exchange. It always seems like it’s more suited to be an emergency measure than a plan A to me.

You’re being too kind.

While I know where you’re coming from, there’s no path to ever making things better without kindness, empathy, and an open mind. Yes, their actions are draconian and misguided, steeped in superstition and myth, but if we simply give up entirely, we don’t have any hope of making the progress that we all seem to agree needs to be made.

I don’t have a silver bullet to solve the problem, I’m simply suggesting that those among us who are truly progressive should steadfastly seek to enroll others in our cause, rather than simply writing them off as a lost cause. Some people certainly are, others simply haven’t had issues explained to them in a way that fits into their world view. Good luck to us all on the path that lay ahead.