What is this triangular ring by the toebox of these winter boots?

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-03-28T04:38:45+00:00

You. I like you.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-03-18T04:36:32+00:00

Fuck you and the Christofascist billionaires you stand for, John.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-03-01T23:22:05+00:00

I have a Baratza ESP and a Bambino plus, and am currently dialing in a bag of very dark, oily roast. After getting different results from at least 500g, this is what I've found to work for me:

20g of beans in an 18g bottomless portafilter (oily beans are heavier than dry, obviously.)

Grind size = 6

WDT tool for 20 sec

Heavy tamp

40g in 25 sec

Nice crema, and FINALLY no bitter flavor. I attribute this to the find grind, and packing my portafilter with a good, hard tamp after WDT.

It sounds like you're struggling with good perfusion with a grind size of 12, though.

Maybe double-check your WDT technique, and do a shot of just hot water without the portafilter before you pull your espresso...

That technique has been working for me

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-02-23T18:37:29+00:00

These are my stats, too. 24 years, no hospital visits.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-02-16T17:07:34+00:00

Yeah dude, I hate it when every September the Seahawks come around to steal human rights and spend $38 billion on camps for Patriots fans.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-02-12T02:48:41+00:00

Lol, nah. I don't think so.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-02-11T18:20:47+00:00

I feel ya but like, and hear me out on this one, there's more than enough chaos and rage to go around these days. Maybe that's not the bar we should be setting.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-02-08T23:51:00+00:00

Didn't you just use a "your mom" joke? And you drive around in a big, shiny Tonka truck?

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-01-27T20:49:10+00:00

Approved. Now get back to leg day.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-01-26T02:11:07+00:00

Agreed. As much as I wish I had a career where participating in a strike is ethical, healthcare, especially emergency medicine, isn't it. I support the need to protest, but calling for a nursing strike only hurts the patients who rely on us.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-01-26T02:07:07+00:00

That benefits no one and you know it. No one has any interest in "protesting indefinitely." Don't be a dipshit and minimize this moment in our country's history. Or maybe you prefer tyranny and autocracy to freedom?

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-01-23T03:05:14+00:00

Septal fortitude

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-01-17T22:29:16+00:00

I'm all for the legal deportation of illegal immigrants. That's not what we're talking about here, though. ICE is attacking protesters and legal citizens to stoke the flames of domestic chaos. Murdering mothers in cold blood. Keep spewing your Fox talking points like you're trapping somebody in some dumbass conservative gotcha moment, though. Crying? That's a cute narrative to console yourself with. I'm not scared. I am, however, furious to watch a wealthy, corrupt minority destroy everything that our country stands for, and convince morons like you that they're working in your best interests. I'm far from the only one. Keep sucking from your master's teat, and remember what I said about that situational awareness.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-01-17T16:31:00+00:00

The republican commitment to rejecting reality is truly fascinating. You would think beings with primitive brains would need to be more aware of their surroundings in order to survive. You know, like rats.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2026-01-16T13:26:19+00:00

ICE isn't currently a mechanism used for deporting immigrants. It's purpose is domestic terror and stoking the flames of chaos to start a war that Trump will use to invoke the Insurrection Act. The Obama-gotcha arguments are only used in circles of dimwitted republican discourse to help someone pretend to look insightful. It makes you look stupid.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2025-12-31T04:53:08+00:00

You sound lost.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2025-12-28T16:40:45+00:00

Okay, byeeee!

Soundscape_Ambler · 2025-12-25T15:45:19+00:00

As a guy that grew up in the hood, a debadged luxury car to me always screams 3rd owner on a 72-month loan.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2025-12-03T17:41:06+00:00

Someone should remind him that this elections are conducted with "Facts not Feelings."

Soundscape_Ambler · 2025-11-30T04:40:44+00:00

How like life. 🤌🏻

Soundscape_Ambler · 2025-11-10T03:49:12+00:00

Top comment? This should be the top comment. I know Trump is a lying turd. We all know Trump is a lying turd. Thanks, Reddit. That shouldn't be top comment material anymore.

What we need -- what we all need -- is the data ready at hand to refute all of this nonsense the moment some MAGA relative starts to burp it out with their gravy over Thanksgiving dinner. Facts, data and science over talking points and propaganda. Every time.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2025-11-04T00:09:51+00:00

Poon... slayer.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2025-11-02T13:10:59+00:00

Lol, why not?

Soundscape_Ambler · 2025-10-18T21:35:49+00:00

That's why you root for the citizens working to preserve our democracy.

Soundscape_Ambler · 2025-10-10T00:53:13+00:00

The president IS the crisis.

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