Indeed, it’s the major problem with drip coffee. Not only is the coffee wet for a long period of time, but it also then cooks it with the heating pad, that the glass cup sits on, which a lot of drip machines possess.
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These days I mostly encounter drip coffee when I am in Germany and I don’t have time to go to or locate a cafe which serves espresso.
For the first day, I sneer at drip coffee, as an abomination unfit for a refined palate. On the second day, I drink some in the afternoon when my caffeine withdrawal kicks in. On the third day I gulp it down like a native.
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Well then, I must submit this infidel for arrest (while holding my 18+ oz mug full of coffee) … 
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Very fun video. Love that guy.
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Your video reminded me of this one ^ that also features some electron microscopes
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I don’t know if it was just my knowledge of coffee at the time, but when they served in the French cafe, it looked like they’d made the espresso, emptied the contents of the cup and handed what was left to us. Espresso in the UK beyond specialist places is the size of a double espresso. Trying to get a server in a mainstream coffee shop to give you a long/short black rather than an Americano that fills the cup to point of achieving a scalding meniscus is near impossible no matter what you say.
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Ooh, leafing through the posts, found a kindred spirit… 
Neighbor and i meet for breakfast once a month. We try various breakfast joints, key metric is how they keep the coffee cups filled. No metric for coffee quality…
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There are often questions about the differences between resolutions, so here’s a helpful picture… Hope that helps!
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Today I learned, that the rc found in e.g. darktablerc or bashrc stands for run command - specifying these are commands to be ran at execution. Neat! Been wondering about that for a long time but never googled it.
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I once ordered an “Americano” in a breakfast restaurant ran by two very nice greek ladies and got
1.) a confused look
and upon explanation
2.) an incredibly hot, incredibly watered down coffee
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One thing that I find strange in some regions is the deep mistrust of tap water. It is safe in the EU and North America in most places, and if not, you will see warning signs, but in some areas every time people see me just get a glass of cold water from the tap they think I am committing some kind for painful suicide. Well-meaning people even come up to me and tell me the local mythology about tap water (“it is unsafe but we don’t know the specific reason, we just know it is unsafe”). I have experienced this mostly in the US, Spain, Portugal and Italy.
But the thing about bottled water is that it is not much cheaper than soda, so once you are buying something you “might as well” get something fizzy with sugar and food coloring.
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Yeah, we’ve had a scary realization at home how much sugar is in fizzy drinks. Ever since then when I see 11g/100ml I go “nope”. 3g is usually the most I consider acceptable lately. I remember trying a low-sugar flavored beer a few years ago and not really liking it. Nowadays I can imagine it being even slightly less sweet to be honest 
Also, not long after the government introduced a sugar tax, manufacturers started to offer drinks without sugar OR artificial sweeteners. They’re mostly just flavor and often taste quite good, depending on which one you get. Some drinks with tons of sugar don’t even taste that sweet to be fair, as if the sweetness was masked by something… Perhaps the carbonation? Like when a drink goes flat, it’s almost disgusting
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I remember getting violently sick after overdosing on chlorine from American tap water. My German stomach was not ready for that. The simultaneous overdose on sugar and grease and in-laws might have contributed as well.
A few days later, we drove to Flint, MI, where the tap water was undrinkable due to lead, bacteria, and disinfectants.
I’m a bit weary of American tap water since then. But in reality, I was probably just unlucky. Though for what it’s worth, the American side of our family seems to prefer their water diluted by caffeine, sugar, or alcohol instead of bare from the tap.
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In my experience the water in Europe is safe to drink, but in some places the taste of chlorine or other things makes me want to buy water. Most places the tap water is very good.
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We have an undersink water filter mostly to remove chlorine taste, I hate drinking water tasting like bleach, even if it is safe. This is a problem in most of Portugal, horrible tasting water, hence the popularity of brita filters and bottled water, etc. Should we accept the most basic human need to be subpar, when our ancestors had better water than we will ever have? 
Besides that, I wouldn’t want to drink tap water in places with high PFAS/PFOA concentration and I absolutely don’t trust the water services. These chemicals aren’t even tested in most places, let alone removed. “PFAS levels in Dutch blood samples exceed safety limits nationwide” and it is a group 1 carcinogen. Draw your own conclusions That said, bottled water in the Netherlands is probably equally polluted…
Tap water is probably better than bottled in many cases, I reckon. Thankfully restaurants in the uk will always offer bottle or tap these days, sometimes filtered and/or carbonated. Plastic bottle caps where you have to break the serrated seal can create a cloud of microplastic particles on top of your water/soda, I’ve read. My wife will boil a kettle at night to drink the next morning cold. I tell her she’s probably just concentrating the heavy metals, estrogen or cocaine in the tap water. Then she tells me to mind my own business. Some parts of the countryside with historic lead mines have turned out to have very high levels of lead in the water, which the uk doesn’t check properly. The US is much better at this. Successive governments have avoided dealing with the issue because the cost of clear up is enormous.
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I’ll drink tap water without hesitation (at least at home, in the Netherlands). How good your tap water is kind of depends on where you live; I grew up in the coastal west, where the water is naturally filtered by dunes, now I live in the north and there’s a definite difference.
I did get a Brita can to filter out the calcium, I got tired of having to descale my water kettle so often. Now, I haven’t had to in 4 or 5 months, the bottom is still pristine.
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It’s demoralizing how the politicians know about this and just look the other way because it will be “too expensive” to fix, how much is a life worth for them? When is it not too expensive to fix?
Lead has many other repercussions too beyond health and brain development, like increased aggression, violent crime, etc, which impacts everyone.
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I hope we’ll get a part 5 soon😌
That KEKEKEKE caught me off guard.
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