It’s a lot easier to keep your values when you aren’t literally waiting for and counting on the billion dollar check, though.

And who gets to decide the membership of those groups? You?

Isn’t Telegram at least plausibly a tool of Russian surveillance? My understanding was that its attempts to distance itself from the regime were laughable and only made the relationship more obvious.

I think that’s why it’s rarely mentioned.

To be fair, the British invented and innovated that style of tea. You should only look east if you’re interested in the many other styles.

This is like claiming everyone is making coffee wrong and then describing how to make a cappucino with city roast Nigerian dry-process beans.

Yep, cool. That’s a recipe. For one type of preparation. With one type of bean. And one style of roast.

The ignorance of global tea culture in the west, including Britain, is very cringe.

It’s funny to witness many British people being so much into tea, while they mostly drink poor quality tea with bad technique.

A bit like many French people having a shitty failed dark coffee as breakfast every morning.

It depends on the tea you’re brewing, what you want to make with it, and your personal taste. How could there possibly be an objective answer?

Perhaps not, but there are very objective, erm, pathways.

Want to avoid dissolving the more bitter flavor components? Steep at a lower temperature. Solubility curves are quasi-exponential with temperature, and a reduction from 95 to 85 C can spread out the time before tannins are strongly dissolved. You could get the exact same flavor at 95, perhaps, if you used a stopwatch. But objectively, the tea will get much more bitter a few seconds later. Objective lesson: to allow for ease in steeping timing, use a lower temperature. It's especially true for green teas, which (objectively) have more bittering compounds than fermented teas.

But: many Chinese people enjoy their green teas at a saturation (color) that I would call barely-not-water. Many Brits enjoy black breakfast teas brewed to levels I would only use to dye cloth. Plenty of subjectivity.

Brahmin. Brahman both is you and reports to you, as it were.

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

The author encourages people to contribute data and even donate to iNaturalist.

Your wrong assumption has made you look like a reactionary ass.

> I've always fed our observations from Seek into iNaturalist since I though it was the "right" thing to do. Now I'm questioning it.

Why? The author explicitly encourages people to keep using and contributing to iNaturalist, both data and donations. What did you read that made you disagree with them?

Yes, he does. And I will. But he also suggests that users organize and that cessation of data or money or "withdrawing your data would be a reasonable form of protest".