Experiments in Insanity

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
shetheycock
flareongirlfloof

have you ever tried making coffee with red wine instead of water? it's got a very powerful aroma and i was tasting it for weeks

threshergirltail

what. tell me more

flareongirlfloof

well, first of all the actual ethanol in the wine boils off at like 70C so you're using a low temperature (because obviously the goal is to make alcoholic coffee and you don't want to boil it away)

which means the coffee is HORRIBLY underextracted which normally makes your cup taste like the absolute worst decaf you've ever had

but, see, it's warm, and warm makes things smell more. so you've got this EXTREMELY powerful red wine smell, with pure ethanol vapor entering your nose, and some god-awful underextracted almost-coffee smell all mixing together

you bring that cup to your mouth and the smell is just. it's the first wall you have to get through

flareongirlfloof

actually the second wall. the first wall is realizing that this is probably a bad idea, but doing it anyway

threshergirltail

I am fascinated by every word here

flareongirlfloof

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@shedog because i read about an old roman person who used to make their coffee with champagne and was talking to a friend like "that doesn't sound like the worst thing in the world, but i don't like white wine at all" so it goes "yeah that makes sense" and i continue with "but i do like red wine, we should try to make it this weekend" so i went over to its house and we went out and bought the cheapest (non-boxed) red wine we could find (i do have standards) and it tried to convince me not to but we did it anyway

shedog

fine. that makes sense. but now i gotta try it too

flareongirlfloof

a word of warning

if you push through the smell and manage to actually imbibe some of this curséd brew, there will be a voice

in the back of your head

saying

"oh huh this actually doesn't taste that bad"

and the voice is RIGHT, but only temporarily

you have two options, really. let it sit for a bit and really savor that surprisingly nice flavor before swallowing (MISTAKE) or understand that that voice will lead to naught but despair and choke it down before the tonic turns on you because it WILL oh my god it will.

that's not even considering the aftertaste

dragongirlteeth

Hey, safety concern: what you're doing is kind of weird distilling maybe. Alcohol vapor is dangerous, but for one or two cups this probably isn't that bad, but, be aware that you're probably spilling alcohol vapor into your kitchen space and creating a potentially explosive fuel-air mixture

flareongirlfloof

oh yeah definitely. my friend and i are both like, scientists, so we knew the risks and didnt use too much wine and no open flames but this is absolutely worth mentioning, thank you

zanmor

Why not brew coffee normally and then mix some with red wine?

flareongirlfloof

that's quitter talk

sevengummisharks

This concoction is so viscerally embedded in my mind. it would make a furiously potent ritual component.

I'm glad we tried. but please, never again. for both our sakes.

darknessandterrorandkittens
systlin

But seriously, when we got our property, it was all just…grass. A sterile grass moonscape, like a billion other yards. With two big old maple trees. Just grass and maples, that was it. 

But then I got my grubby little paws on it, and I immediately stopped fertilizing, spraying, and bagging up grass clippings and leaves. I ripped up sod and put in flowers and vegetables. I put down nice thick blankets of mulch around the flowers and vegetables. 

When I first was sweating my way through stripping sod, I saw a grand total of 1 worm and 0 ladybugs. The ground was compacted into something that would bend shovel blades. 

Now, six years later, I can’t dig a planting hole without turning up fourteen earthworms, and there are so many ladybugs here. Not the invasive asian lady beetles; native ladybugs. They winter over in the mulch and in the brush pile. I see thousands of them. 

The soil is soft and rich. There are birds that come to eat, and bees of many sorts.

Like this is something that you, yourself, can absolutely change. This is something that you, personally, can make a difference in.

systlin

Like, last year I watched no fewer than twenty-nine monarch caterpillars grow up on my milkweed and fly away as butterflies. I watched swallowtails and moths grow. There are hummingbirds fighting over flowers now.

I did that. Me. You can do the same.

flamingbluepanda

Is this post about making a garden or beating depression

systlin

As someone with clinically diagnosed anxiety and depression;

Yes.

the-stray-liger
somerandomdudelmao:
“daftpatience:
“daftpatience:
“ i see a convo w a character ai and i keep scrolling
”
listen im seeing tags about people agreeing that ai bots can be really inaccurate and i want to point out that this is NOT about that. the ai...
daftpatience

i see a convo w a character ai and i keep scrolling

daftpatience

listen im seeing tags about people agreeing that ai bots can be really inaccurate and i want to point out that this is NOT about that. the ai bot can be as accurate as you want it to be i still get mad at em.

its not about how good they do at emulating a character, its about that they aren’t a person making creative choices and i hate that. i want to enjoy my characters with other people. hold my hand and tell me all about why you think your blorbo is autistic or likes your favourite shitty band. i love you. if a bot randomly shuffles those opinions out idc if theyre even the same ones im exploding it with my mind.

somerandomdudelmao

What’s the point of loving content if I know there isn’t someone as obsessively fucked up as me sitting on the other side of the internet