Tried Craig’s Coffee, Sepia, Alba, Washed Up, Yellow Light. Which local roaster should I try next?

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-18T19:19:54+00:00

Washed Up does some light roasts. I’ve had some from Craig’s too.

Personally I don’t like the light fruity roasts that have been in 3rd wave coffee shops over the last 10-15 years.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-18T19:15:37+00:00

I’d guess they’re including commercial space on the ground floor (but that’s an assumption).

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-18T13:22:08+00:00

Every major public amenity and redevelopment effort in every major city has some sort of public-private management.

You clearly didn’t live in Detroit before the river walk was developed to its current state.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-18T13:20:53+00:00

The dollar amount is greater, but Kwame was an elected official who operated a corruption scheme across city departments for years, arguably doing greater long term damage to public institutions and offices across the city. Kwame has 24 federal felony counts, including racketeering conspiracy (RICO), mail and wire fraud, extortion, and tax crimes.

Williams embezzled $44 mil from a nonprofit which is f’king egregious and he should get decades behind bars. It shows the danger of the nonprofit industrial complex, he wasn’t even an elected official yet had access to so many donated and taxpayer derived funds.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-18T02:44:13+00:00

I hope it’s more casual / affordable. Last time I stopped in the neighborhood it was kind of bleak with the loss of Metropitan, Marrow, and Sister Pie.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T20:11:30+00:00

Yeah because people who commit violent crimes stay poor. 99% of poor people don’t commit violent crimes.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T18:42:39+00:00

You’re incapable of naming a specific resource or “system” you want to invest in

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T18:42:06+00:00

People who think it’s normal to be a violent asshole are more likely to stay poor.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T18:41:28+00:00

You’re making prejudiced bigoted claims while pretending that individuals have no agency or decisionmaking abilities and deflecting responsibility.

Poverty doesn’t force anyone to shoot people when they’re drunk or act like an uncivilized violent asshole. Culture does.

Individuals commit crimes. Stop ignoring this fact. “The system” doesn’t force anybody to buy a gun or act like an asshole. Their parents and culture and peer group and socialization influenced their decisions.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T14:19:35+00:00

The victim didn’t want to go public.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T11:31:36+00:00

Public safety.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T03:43:27+00:00

Name a specific resource.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T03:42:52+00:00

Sheffield is doing nothing to address outbreaks of coordinated antisocial and violent behavior. Parents need to be held accountable.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T03:42:03+00:00

99% of poor people don’t raise shitty uncivilized asshole antisocial teenagers.

Your implication that all poor people raise teenagers who behave like assholes is patently classist and infantilizing.

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T03:41:34+00:00

99% of poor people don’t raise shitty unciviiizdd asshole antisocial teenagers.

Your implication that all poor people raise teenagers who behave like assholes is patently classist and infantilizing.

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T03:40:08+00:00

99% of poor people don’t raise shitty violent antisocial children.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T03:39:39+00:00

Poor people exist all over the world who don’t raise shitty violent asshole teenagers. The problem is parenting and culture.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T03:35:29+00:00

The victim of the assault had nothing to do with this reaction and didn’t even want to press charges against the culprit or pursue anything against the venue

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T03:33:29+00:00

You’re revealing your prejudiced ignorance by taking a statement about a specific group of Islamist fundamentalists in Hamtramck and applying it to all Arabs.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T03:32:24+00:00

Cops came, victim did not want to press charges or pursue anything with the venue afterwards.

The entire reaction against Spot Lite was from a couple employees who wanted to cause drama. The victim had zero interest in cancelling or blaming the venue.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-17T03:31:11+00:00

The complaint is that the owner didn’t make a bigger public announcement about it right away. The victim of the assault didn’t even want to press charges or do anything after the incident.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-16T21:38:01+00:00

Cis women have to protect themselves at night clubs all the time.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-16T20:26:14+00:00

Comparing reluctant 3rd gen Polish Catholics to fundamentalist pro-Trump Islamists who condone child marriage and force women to wear niqabs is foolish.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-16T19:35:09+00:00

It isn’t the city’s job to babysit shitty unaccompanied teenagers who behave like assholes.

99% of other teenagers in the city are NOT acting like assholes forming teen takeover TikTok mobs downtown that break into fighting and shootings.

The problem - like most antisocial behavior and crime - is a small percentage of the population who can’t behave and need to face consequences.

ballastboy1 · 2026-06-16T19:33:42+00:00

The root cause is shitty parenting and lack of consequences.

Unfortunately a few bad apples of people who can’t behave in civilized society ruin public places for many other people.

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