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Kreepy Kaptain Ketamine.

Huh. This is what the consequences of my actions taste like.

That's what Kaptain Ketamine should be saying, but won't.

I must confess to requiring assistance here.

Oh, I'd drop them in a heartbeat if their quality dropped or their pricing increased to stupid levels. I don't do brand loyalty. I do brand identity as shortcut: currently Sinloy is a top-notch coffee provider and it's just easier to keep buying from them as long as they meet my needs.

I'd be down for that. Having pretty between all the goons would be a relief.

… What is that?

Not just this brand but this specific product and indeed this specific roast.

Sinloy was the first company in China to take coffee culture seriously, almost single-handedly creating the entire Yunnan coffee industry. They're primarily known for sourcing the local beans, obviously, but also do some importing of coffees from as far afield as Ethiopia and everywhere in between. Their quality control is very high, their roasters are top-notch, and yet their price remains very reasonable.

I buy 250g of this specific coffee (Yunnan "Red Wine" sun-dried SOE coffee) every two weeks and if I miss a purchase, that's a few days of suffering as I wait for them to roast and ship it. (They small-batch roast to demand.)

Can't kick up shit in an old school forum without an account, though. I mean count the guys commenting just in this message. They saw a message that specifically said "no guys commenting" and ... commented. This is because the whole way Lemmy works means everybody can see posts, even if they're not members. They can go to the local or all feed.

In a non-federated forum of the aulde skoole variety they'd have to go hunting for a forum for women, then make an account and pass muster, and only then can they start kicking up a fuss like a toddler. Some will, but I suspect way fewer than the drive-by randos here in Lemmy.

I wish I had a "white list" instead of a "black list" for federation. Right now if I see too many stupid opinions from a single place (lemmy.world I'm looking at you here!) I can block it. But given this intrinsically misogynistic environment on Lemmy it might be nicer to have lists of servers I want to see things from instead of ones I don't want.

'Cause I get this feeling that the former is a smaller list than the latter.

I think the only way to have a non-misogynistic place is to go to an old-school forum without "federation". That way you don't have the drive-by randos popping in to spout bullshit about how it's "misandry" to say "please guys, this is just our space, you can go literally anywhere else".

I actually think that the prompt is, in fact, protected by copyright if it's a non-trivial prompt. I mean "anime chick, big bewbs" won't be protected by copyright, but a long sequence of detailed instructions would be.

What's not protected by copyright (in any sane legal milieu) is the output.

It feels like even progressive men here (not all, but many) aren’t willing to listen, while making it all about them.

I mentioned this in past messages that got deleted (not by the mods here).

But basically this is what women's groups in uni were like for me when they tried inviting "allies" from among male students. These well-intentioned (I have to stress this, they were not being jerks deliberately!) men would come to meetings and by the end it was only the men talking.

It's just in the nature.

This is why we went back to "women-only" groups with occasional "open house"-style gatherings which were just social events.

There's two kinds of boosters of the LLMbecile grift: the grifters and the patsies.

Which one of the two are you?