• Operation Condor: right wing dictators in South America repressing leftists with the support of Americans and possibly the French
• Gladio: Post WWII Allied Forces and then NATO intelligence operations to delegitimize and destabilize leftist groups in Eastern Europe from end of WWII through the 1990s
• Ranch Hand: US led effort to destroy the foliage and agricultural land in Vietnam to deprive the Viet Cong of food and places to stage attacks
• PBSuccess: CIA led coup d’état in Guatemala at the request of the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita)
• Phoenix Program: CIA led effort to infiltrate the Viet Cong

That’s an interesting take. I don’t really like the mainline Star Wars films at all. I think the entire skywalker saga is incredibly boring and a massive waste of a fascinating universe.

Rogue One is great because there’s enough exposure to the universe without relying on any prior knowledge.

The characters are well written and the main elements of plot don’t rely on any Star Wars knowledge to really understand what’s going on.

If you like the film, watch more. If you don’t, leave it at an action film that doesn’t explain everything about that dude with a laser sword or why the Empire is bad or what they do afterwards.

Just posted this in a thread about watching the show Andor. Additional context, I’d watch the movies first before you decide to get into any of the shows

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I highly recommend Rogue One as well. It follows Cassian Andor as a spy for the rebellion immediately after the second (and final) season of the show.

Rogue One is a story set immediately before the first movie: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Immediately as in the final scene of Rogue One is the first scene of A New Hope.

Similar to the other commenter, the problem is that Rogue One is by far the best movie of the entire franchise, so you start at the high point.

If you like the movie and want more Star Wars, I recommend this order. I’ll list the title and the “episode” number

1. Rogue One (3.9)
2. A New Hope (4)
3. The Empire Strikes Back (5)
4. The Phantom Menace (1)
5. Attack of the Clones (2)
6. Revenge of the Sith (3)
7. Return of the Jedi (6)

There are three more movies after #6, but there’s almost no point in watching them.

It’s really important to remember that a lot of the Star Wars movies aren’t good but they’re cultural institutions and you kinda have to accept them as they are. The writer/director of the original trilogy spent a lot of time tweaking and editing them after their original releases including adding new scenes digitally created decades after the release.

A bitter shot indicates overextraction as the bitter flavors come from the tail end of the process.

1. Drop your ratio slightly. If your starting point is 18g in/36g out, try to stop at 35g or 34
2. Your shot time should be 25-30s as a baseline. If you’re running faster than that (less than 25s) grind finer. And vice versa if you’re slower than 30s. This is just a baseline though. I typically run a 35-40s shot (20g in/45 out)

https://archive.is/2025.05.10-080733/https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/may/10/are-we-heading-for-another-world-war-or-has-it-already-started

The name Mar-a-Lago means “sea to lake” in Spanish, reflecting the fact that the estate extends from one end of Palm Beach Island to the other, touching the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Lake Worth Lagoon on the west

I think of timing as a proxy for many other factors like grind size, puck prep, tamping, flow rate and pressure.

I don’t think of changing the shot time to get a better result.

I do think of a (bad) shot time as an indicator that something should change

A state level block on protonvpn would be at the IP block level based on known, published exit nodes.

Corporate VPNs are point to point and would not be impacted

Nissan’s shares have shed more than 40 per cent of their value over the past year, and in March, the company’s then-CEO Makoto Uchida said he was stepping down.

Meanwhile ratings agencies have cut Nissan’s credit rating to junk, with Moody’s citing “weak profitability driven by slowing demand for its ageing model portfolio”.

I particularly like the Bonavita 1L Gooseneck. It has a variable temperature thermostat, helpful for teas or coffees that don’t want to be at 100° C.

Generational distinctions are a useful heuristic in assessing an individual’s shared experience, but they are not dispositive. Think of how many subcultures for baby boomers exist.

That group in the US experienced the sexual revolution, second wave feminism, the Cold War, the Vietnam War…

But also Reaganomics, stagflation, the dot com boom, 9/11.

The Individual’s reaction and lived experience shapes their Selves, but it’s still useful to know where they were in their lives during those events.

Yes, it’s tied to year. The folks who are on the borders of generations often find themselves torn between experiences.

I have a lot of friends born in 79/80. They often use the term Xennial instead of X or Millennial. “An analog childhood but a digital adulthood”

The problem with China’s real estate market is that it’s entirely built on false promises and leveraged debt.

The government provides cheap loans to citizens to buy homes they will never live. All in an effort to drive the country’s GDP… but eventually you will either:

1. Run out of capital to fuel this construction
2. Rebase the value of these paper homes and the economy collapses on a scale 10x that of the 2008 housing crisis

This article has nothing to do with unhoused people, nor an overvalued housing market pushing out middle class buyers. The economics of the Chinese market are completely dissimilar from the western (US particularly) markets.

It’s entirely about how the Chinese government has an unsustainable market segment dedicated to building things that people don’t want or need… other than to have wealth on paper.

For what it’s worth, I run a server without a GPU and I don’t have any issue with a single 4K stream.

I’ve had several concurrent mixed streams (720, 1080, 4K) and it didn’t struggle.

I’ve got a single E5-2690v3 CPU (quite old)

Maybe this will help

I loved how Sanderson-as-Hoid was outright mocking their teenage love story and edgelord takes

ProtonVPN, AirVPN and PIA all support port forwarding iirc

Check out libro.fm. For audiobooks at least, you can download the raw files and use them as you please. I’d expect the same for ebooks

Haha that’s almost my setup. I bought the Sette for espresso and I use the virtuoso+ for drip, French press, pour over, etc

With the Bambino, I like to pull a blank shot with the pressurized 1 shot basket (no grounds, just water) to help warm up the machine. I also saw a lot of value in a WDT.

1. Pull a blank shot
2. Weigh 18g
3. Spritz with water to reduce static electricity
4. Grind in the sette
5. WDT to break up clumps
6. Level with a distribution tool
7. Tamp
8. Pull the shot
9. Weigh the output

Make adjustments where you can

What was the weight in and out?

My guess is too coarse and not well distributed or leveled, but it’s hard to tell without other data.

I always adjust the grinder last, so I suggest work on your puck prep. What steps are you using before you attach to the group head?