Pup Biru

i don’t know what to tell you mate, but i have, and do this regularly: i travel to berlin yearly and drink multiple coffees per day when im there… they have them labelled as their size names, but they are 8oz-12oz sizes: what they call them is irrelevant; it’s the standard when buying the cups, so they are 8oz etc sizes

it’s also kinda irrelevant what a shot of espresso is: they come in 4oz cups… this is the standard that a cafe will give… a shot of espresso is a shot of espresso; the volume of liquid doesn’t really change, and you wouldn’t pay more for a larger amount without extra coffee anyway

for flat whites etc, the standard GLOBALLY is an 8oz cup with a single shot (or sometimes 2 depending on the bean - really that can vary depending on the cafe and how mild their beans are) full to the top with steamed milk… that’s it - there’s no ifs buts or maybes… it’s the same in germany, it’s the same in france, it’s the same in belgium, it’s the same in australia, and yes it’s the same even in the US

even starbucks behind their ridiculous names for their cups use standard cup sizes: a short is 8oz, a tall is 12oz, a grande is 16oz

yet again the US does weird af stuff:

The cup currently used in the United States for nutrition labelling is defined in United States law as 240 ml

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and some other members of the Commonwealth of Nations, being former British colonies that have since metricated, employ a “metric cup” of 250 millilitres

Canada now usually employs the metric cup of 250 ml

Similar units in other languages and cultures are sometimes translated “cup”, usually with various values around 1⁄5 to 1⁄4 of a litre.

so let’s not base anything metric on what the US does

and as for cup sizes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_cup

Cafes use various sizes of coffee cups to serve mocha, lattes, and other coffee drinks. They are typically 225, 336, 460, and sometimes 570 ml

225ml = 7.61oz

336ml = 11.36oz

460ml = 15.55oz

which pretty much exactly matches up to the 8, 12, and 16oz standard cup sizes as i mentioned

if you walk into pretty much any cafe in the world that has a barista and not just a machine, you’ll be able to ask for an 8oz flat white and you’ll get roughly the same amount of beverage in the same sized cup

these are cup sizes… you typically get a shot of espresso, ristretto, etc in a 4oz cup

like these: https://foodpackagingonline.com.au/products/cups/paper-coffee-cups/single-wall-coffee-cups/ccswwh04

similarly you get things like a magic (3/4 cup double ristretto flat white served in a tulip cup - a tulip cup is ~180ml - same as 6oz) in a 6 or 8oz (depending on the cafe) just not entirety full

also, regular that i put in the comment is 8oz, which is ~256ml - not 500ml; 250ml is a metric cup, so it’s a pretty reasonable regular size even in roughly metric terms

as much as I love SI units, coffee sizes for decent cafes are already pretty standard across the globe:

4oz (shots) 6oz (small) 8oz (regular) 12oz (large) 16oz (iced, etc)

there are at least a couple of democrats that do keep raising an amendment!

if it’s a “genuine mistake” while on their way somewhere else then the narrative is this: they saw a latino driving and decided to pull her over by smashing into her car, getting out in full combat gear and masks, pointing automatic weapons at her, dragging her out of the car by her hair, kneeling on her back, and forming an armed blockade between her and the public

there’s no genuine mistake here that doesn’t paint them as racially profiling her

even if she were an undocumented armed gang member this is not the way law enforcement should behave

mandatory minimum warranties are also not relatively minimal effort and yet we have laws that require those… most consumer protection standards aren’t minimal effort: that doesn’t mean we don’t make laws to ensure consumers get what they are expecting when they hand over money

why shouldn’t handing over source code to a game that’s being shut down (and apparently that nobody finds any value in since it wasn’t even bought in bankruptcy auction) be mandated as a last resort?

literally what STG is about

and the law is able to make license conditions illegal/unenforceable (like non-compete clauses in employment contracts)

usually in bankruptcy the game gets sold in order to help pay debts… whoever buys the game assumes the responsibility of contributing to run the online services, or provide options for others to… in the case that nobody buys the game (im not entirely sure what happens to the IP in that case) but it’s relatively minimal effort to release server source code or documentation OR even just remove the online parts that’s usually just for DRM which is now pretty irrelevant because you’re shutting it down anyway so why would anyone care if someone pirates it?!

not to mention whose recent valuations have basically been about selling their data to train models which will be used to make AI slop

A group of conscripted cooks took down a helicopter of landing marines

kinda reminds me of this: https://www.theage.com.au/national/collins-sub-shines-in-us-war-game-20021013-gduomk.html

during war games one of australia’s collins class submarines (diesel electric, quite dated at this point) managed to “kill” a los angeles class nuclear submarine (several times over?) when the US sub was also aided by 2 destroyers

Navigating that level healthcare access is a privilege.

absolutely!

and it’s so rare that i would argue it’s not even a little bit of a problem

like, afaik you have to convince psychologists to sign off on things… pay enough and you can find a medical practitioner to sign off on anything: bogus religious exemptions to vaccines, adhd diagnosis so you can get amphetamines, opioids, …

there are public STUN servers: just like DNS, STUN is a fairly critical part of modern infrastructure

peer to peer real time video is a fairly solved problem. the fact that we have google/amazon/zoom/etc in the middle isn’t because it’s necessary

that having been said, STUN servers are also incredibly cheap to run… i wouldn’t consider it exactly off the cards for a company that’s selling products to support a public STUN server indefinitely… it’s not quite as simple as them having to pay tens of thousands /mo in infrastructure costs to keep the lights on: it’s more like $100/mo, which at numbers that small you’d make back in just interest on the sales you made… but i reckon it could go something like “support for 10 years” and then they release an update that lets you set your own STUN server; perhaps defaulting to a public, free one

mental health is one of the most important things to people picking themselves up, dusting themselves off, and getting back on their feet

entertainment - as much as “we” deride people spending “our tax money” on fun - is, imo, a human right in the category of “life, liberty and happiness”

had to search for that :p yeah aye - we had the same in aus (called jobkeeper)… our conservatives introduced it, and it was hugely successful at keeping people employed but also massively abused by big companies

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2021/09/03/jobkeeper-rorts

i think this quote pretty accurately describes it

JobKeeper is both the largest rort in Australian history and the most successful job saver

overall there were some reports written about it after the fact: lessons learned etc, but i think people don’t really blame the conservatives for the abuse… it was a programme that was quickly conceived of, and implemented very fast and it achieved a very important purpose. was it wasteful? sure… was it or something like it necessary? also very much yes

i mean, they literally use DEI as an argument for cutting this stuff… they say that LGBTQ orgs are discriminating against heterosexuals, and that support orgs for specific racial issues are discriminatory against whites

so it’s equally the devil and also the weapon they’re using

Working for an organization is not a protected class. It’s not LGBTQ+ people, it’s people who work for those organizations

targeting support organisations is targeting that protected class

medically transition children

sounds a whole lot like the language that trump etc used here:

child abuse, including the chemical and surgical castration or mutilation of children or the trafficking of children to so-called transgender sanctuary States for purposes of emancipation from their lawful parents, in violation of applicable law.

which is absolute shit… surgical intervention is the last in a very long list of steps that is only really offered to adults

first up is simply counselling and psychological support to rule out temporary issues that could be clouding their judgement

then puberty blockers (which are entirely reversible: if you stop them, you go through puberty as normal)

then gender-affirming hormones

THEN surgery, in adulthood

these things all add up very slowly from completely reversible options over many years

yeah… very much public health attitude

i think people are much worse drivers than you think they are… you just hear about every self driving accident because it’s newsworthy right now

apparently

Self-driving cars are more than twice as likely to be involved in an accident compared to human-driven cars, but some studies suggest they are considerably less injurious (and fatal) than human-operated vehicle crashes.

https://financebuzz.com/self-driving-car-statistics-2025

not a primary source, but their data seems to be from the NHSTA