I mean, he is wrong about there not being things in place to protect prisoners, but he’s not wrong that it’s still dangerous and the conditions aren’t great. Guards have killed inmates before with no real consequences.

If only. If only self scan was the only way this came up in my life I would be so much happier.

You’re probably right. It’s not something I thought about in the moment since I was so insulted by the astroturfing and I’m not a fast enough typer to give them all my thoughts anyway. I mean, I didn’t even get to call them on real money meaning real reviews. If you believe that, I’ve got a (real) bridge to sell you!

Yes, that is the point, Tesla.

You joke, but until about a year ago I thought there was something special about coffee because I’d only ever heard of or seen it come from some specialized contraption. Coffee makers, espresso machines, French press, percolators, Keurig machines, all obscuring the fact that coffee is just like tea; add hot water, you get beverage. This is the fundamental formula, everything else is just a way to do that. I felt so lied to. I only learned because I got curious about why there were so many methods and also seeing in the store what was basically a scoop shaped tea ball intended for coffee. Did you know that coffee bags exist in some places? Like tea bags, but coffee. I didn’t, until I got curious, and now I really don’t understand why all those machines exist.

Anyway, I blame never really getting into coffee (you can blame sorting by all for my presence), how many machines and methods there are, and a difference in how people seem to approach coffee vs tea for my ignorance. Generally tea seems to have more of a focus on the making and coffee on consumption, at least outside of dedicated communities.

Gotta be one of the ten thousand eventually, right?

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

Damn, that’s about six and a half hours of overtime every day for the entire month. That’s a whole extra job and change. This man had no time to do anything for himself unless it ate away at his time to sleep. Doctors already work ridiculously long shifts, so I guarantee he was sleep deprived. I’d kill myself, too. That’s no way to live.

I found it! I found the reddit post, and here is the other picture that was linked. It’s apparently a place called Carr Manor in Cripple Creek.

Edit: Here’s the site for Carr Manor, not sure which suite it is, though.

Another edit: Found it! Second from the bottom, the Governor Ralph Carr Suite. There’s even a third closer angle that confirms there is a door back there, but it doesn’t seem possible to isolate it so I can link to just it. Just follow the Carr Manor link above, scroll down to the suite and you’ll be able to flip through the photos, but it’s basically just the imgur photo taken from the other side of the couch.

Thank you for indirectly leading me to discover the book title “The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England”. Even if I never work my way to finding out anything further about this corner of literature, that title certainly tickled me.

The store I work at had a really good house brand flavour called espresso almond fudge. When the packaging changed, the name did too, and it’s never been on as good a sale again due to a lower price set also being introduced, so I don’t know if it’s the same anymore, but I loved it. It was similar to the Chapman’s cappuccino, but with chocolate covered almonds mixed in. God I hope for a good sale again.

And the infinity symbol is likely related to the analemma, the shape the sun traces out over the course of a year.