To your point, Ukraine lacks resources for both Ice cream and bbbrrrrrtttt.

They are fighting for their freedom.

If the USAF doesn’t want to deal with the A-10s supply chain, there’s a good chance Ukraine doesn’t either.

The only thing that keeps the A-10 flying is Congressional mandates from a few jobs-oriented congressmen.

Billie is no Jenna Coleman, but she’s still cute.

Malta, then *poof*

Carls Jr Microsoft Windows. Fuck you, I’m eating!

Su-34s are practically target practice at this point.

Mass slavery doesn’t sound very charitable.

What percentage of people living in Saudi Arabia are allowed to be citizens?

~55% I think.

The rest might as well be dirt.

In the 40s and 50s they all agreed on kicking those same Jews out of their counties, though.

Plenty of independent coffee shops sell Lotus energy drinks for this exact reason.

To add to all this, if most of your customers are seriously there to taste their flavored syrups and milk of their favorite drink, you wouldn’t want to alter or even ruin that with unexpected, unique coffee flavors.

He just means “feature phone”

Dark Roasted coffee is the only way Starbucks can be Starbucks.

Lighter-roasted coffee emphasizes origin flavors and i agree with you --generally tastes better and is more interesting.

But you can’t sell coffee like that in tens of thousands of coffee shops and have it remotely consistent.

Coffee growing from the same plot but on one side of a hill will taste different from the other side due to getting different quantities of sunlight. Complex origin flavors will always be the domain of small specialty coffee shops.

Starbucks has McDonalds-like consistency serving millions of customers a day and that’s only because they emphasize the flavors they can get consistently–roast flavors.

TL;DR The bigger the chain, the darker you have to roast. That’s just how coffee works.

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