To me it feels more like someone has gone out of their way wayyyy further to involve bureaucracy and make it official when just saying “I would rather not” would do.

Because of the taste? While it’s not common to brew a drink with other beans, we eat them all the time, and it’s pretty obvious in doing so that they aren’t flavors that lend themselves to a beverage.

Coffee beans are actually the seed of a more traditional “fruit” (ie, sweet and acidic) rather than a legume like other beans (also technically seeds, but vegetal in flavor, with an entirely different taste and texture). You’re basically just going to get a weak broth from traditional beans.

Similarly, people have tried steeping every type of leaf, plant, and fruit out there in water, but it’s a pretty limited list that remains popularly used for tea, as it’s a pretty limited list (relative to the incredible diversity of plant life) that actually tastes good that way.

People use mushrooms, various roots (like chicory), other fruity seeds, and more to create coffee-like drinks, and/so with the number of people and cultures out there with their own tastes and traditions, it’s a relatively safe bet that if people aren’t drinking it anywhere in the world, it’s because they’ve tried it and it just doesn’t taste good.

And I say a plant community is a group of ostensibly indie, bootstrapped musicians who are actually propped up by major labels to sell the image of individuality and independence while having the entire music industry machine behind them.

What else starts with m?

Interesting, so North America was just the US and Canada to you?

Central America is in North America

Finally

So true lol

Having private, nice qualities in addition to those above in no way minimizes any of those above. “That’s a deal breaker” -Liz Lemon

Lol you are not a smart person. Goodbye.

I mean she married a roadkill-collecting, brain-worm-eaten, anti-vax, anti-Semitic, conspiracy theorizing, generally bigoted lunatic. Like the type of person “lunatic” was coined for. I have a feeling that thoughtfulness and true romance were not at the heart of that decision, as a failing actress now tethered to someone with the last name “Kennedy.” Either conniving and uncaring or a top-tier loon herself.

Lol it’s pretty shocking. Thank you for confirming there’s at least one person on Lemmy who also goes outside.

Lol never said you were right, but if you’re as observant and thoughtful as you clearly think you are, you’ll find clues in my above comments. Enjoy your angst-riddled yet superiorly enlightened existence. I’ll just have to get by with my inferior, happy, social, fulfilling, question-filled life. Good to know someone out there knows everything though, including where I live I guess.

You have a pretty thin skin and unrealistic expectations about the real world, so I just guess you come from the Internet.

Well enjoy experiencing life that way. I deeply enjoy my own and have a feeling that people in your camp feel differently. If no one ever talked to strangers in real life, it would be a pretty sad, cultureless existence.

Well then consider me even further evidence that it’s gonna happen either way. You might get a bloody nose for telling someone to bugger off in those same countries, so take your chances or learn to live with it.

You’re not gonna control how others act, so you might as well try to control how you do.

Perhaps counterintuitively, getting out of the house more often may make experiences like this less aggravating. Choosing isolation makes interacting with non-internet strangers much more difficult the few times you do it. Being exposed often to the many non-weirdos out there who want to hear your bad jokes and stories and/or share their own makes being in public and having interactions much easier, and reduces the apparent size/significance of a relatively minor interaction like this one.

You go in public, people are going to talk to you, and they’ll do it about whatever is on their minds. That’s sorta something you gotta accept and find a way to deal with if you’re not going to become a complete hermit, which it sounds like this guy is well on his way to doing if this was his only trip out of the house in a week. That’s not healthy.

Images stitched together in order capture the amount of time that passed, yeah. They’re just not from the right years for that.

Yes, trust AI, that’s what Ryan Gosling looked like 14 years ago.