Upside down US flag signalling that the country is in trouble has been used at times.

It will be great if this reaches the Moto G series. I’m sure the Fairphone is nice but it’s 4x as expensive–no thanks.

Why would ICE look for missing people in a dormitory? That’s NYPD’s job if it’s anyone’s.

1st paragraph:

One unseasonably warm afternoon in February 2023, in a very brown New York City courtroom, Rovier Carrington did the inconceivable: he admitted to a lie. On that day, the aspiring screenwriter told a federal judge that he had altered evidence to support his legal claim of being systematically raped and blacklisted by a bevy of Hollywood powerbrokers.

Again 4chan was ahead of its time.

https://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan

He is getting used to it I guess. “Sir” is a pretty big demotion from “your royal highness”.

Ah thanks, I had no idea that there was a circuit split or that “derivative sovereign immunity” wasn’t something pulled out of the company’s butt just for the case at hand.

Hmm thanks, but still wonder why SCOTUS took the case in the first place. Also wonder whether the ruling will apply to Trump since ICE etc. have been ignoring orders from lower courts while appeals are in progress.

How did this even get to SCOTUS?

Spend a few weeks in Mexico if you can get away for that long. Or consider taking a class (in person, not online) if you don’t mind the issues that entails.

Sesame Street in Spanish is a thing too: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sesame+street+in+spanish

I had always heard eyes evolved on multiple separate occasions. An octopus eye is anatomically fairly similar to a human one, but its evolution was on a completely separate path.

I thought you said you had refurbished a dozen Encores. Why did they need refurbishing if they weren’t broken? As mentioned, I’ve broken two. On the second one, the plastic burr collar broke and Baratza told me it was a common failure. It would surprise me if that happens with the Forte, at least for light duty home users like me. I don’t remember what went wrong with the first one. I emailed Baratza and they sent me a replacement Encore under warranty. Their warranty service is definitely good.

Most of what I know about the Forte comes from IRC and forums. I’ve seen them in use but have never disassembled one or anything like that.

There is one for sale near me for $300 if you want one. I’m very slightly tempted but nah:

https://www.home-barista.com/buysell/baratza-forte-grinder-w-bg-burrs-san-francisco-t102725.html

Is OP still around? I haven’t used my Encore in a while, so if you want to buy it, PM me. I’d call it an ok entry level grinder. I wouldn’t call it BIFL.

It occurs to me, there are some manual grinders in the $100 range that are possibly BIFL. Some people like 1zpresso though I haven’t tried one myself. Manual grinding is too tedious for me in the morning when I haven’t had any coffee yet. That’s another reason to not do home espresso as well.

Because they use the same internals. Same exact motor. Just has a different shape on the output shaft.

Erm, going from “The two grinders share a particular component” (even if it’s the motor) to “same internals” is quite a stretch of logic. Though I guess you could go further and reach from “they use the same power cord” to “they are the same grinder”. Try to do better. E.g.: check the gear train. I’ve never looked at a Forte closely but the plastic gears in the Encore are unimpressive. Also the burr holder and shaft, etc. Basically all the mechanical stuff. Or just lift them. Per web search, Encore=7 lbs, Forte=13 lbs, might indicate something.

I wonder if the Forte breaks as easily as the Encore?

Well you’ve had to fix a dozen Encores. How many broken Fortes have you fixed?

That said, I’m personally not that interested in the Forte. Someone recommended it when I saw a used Vario advertised cheap, but I didn’t pursue either.

This is a very sad local incident, but some explanation of what makes it worldwide news would be appreciated. We already know that viral infections have follow-on effects. Main takeaway that I see is get vaccinated, wear a mask, and avoid infectious places.

They are smarter than I am. I could never properly conjugate “Romans go home”.

https://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html :

Q20: Are Social Security numbers reused after a person dies?

A: No. We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder’s death. Even though we have issued over 453 million SSNs so far, and we assign about 5 and one-half million new numbers a year, the current numbering system will provide us with enough new numbers for several generations into the future with no changes in the numbering system.

If this is US social security numbers, they only have 9 digits so there can’t be billions of them.

The encore has 40 grind size levels. It is literally an espresso grinder.

Um lol no, it doesn’t work like that. Doing 40 or 400 or for that matter stepless is mechanically trivial in a grinder. If that was all it took, nobody would buy Kafateks.

best entry level brand at this price. You will only be disappointed by comparing it to machines multiple times the cost

That doesn’t sound BIFL to me, if you buy it today and then upgrade to a better one when you can afford to. While not being absolutist, BIFL to me means that you have a reasonable expectation that it is the last one that you are ever going to buy. So the gear has durable enough to last that long, and good enough that you feel that it will always meet your standards.

Do you know what the difference is? Between a general purpose grinder and an espresso grinder?

Yes, OP didn’t ask about espresso at all. Espresso is a huge money sucking rabbit hole that I wisely(?) avoided entering back when I was into this kind of thing. It’s a permanent upgrade treadmill. I have several aquaintances with Kafateks, Lyn Webers, machines of the week, lab instrumentation, microscope photos of coffee grounds, etc. I decided not to care. Once in a while I go to the local cafe and have a Slayer shot and I’m satisfied. I don’t have to be able to do that at home.

As for the Encore, well, you’ve had a dozen broken ones in your shop. I’m not an abusive or especially heavy user and I’ve broken two of them myself. It’s an ok grinder but BIFL doesn’t come into it, it just doesn’t. It’s nice that you can get repair parts from them today but do you really expect the company to exist (and not be absorbed into some evil conglomerate) through your entire lifetime? The Forte (Baratza’s semi-commercial model at around $800 new) might be a plausible BIFL grinder for the average person. Basically you want a grinder made for commercial or industrial duty, so its service interval (however many thousand pounds of coffee it is supposed to grind before needing major repairs) is larger than a home user is likely to use in their lifetime. If I had unlimited funds I’d probably want a Kafatek, but mostly because I think they are cool.

Baratza was founded in 1999. Do they still sell repair parts for the grinders they were making in those early years? The part that failed on my second Encore was the burr collar, a weird shaped piece of plastic that probably can’t be gotten anywhere else. Maybe I could 3D print one but that’s beyond the call of duty.

Also don’t forget that lots of Encore users like to upgrade the burr to the one sold in the next higher (Virtuoso) model. I never bothered doing that with mine.

The OP was asking for a BIFL grinder with a maximum budget of $100.

Yes and I’m asking for a flying pony. I think it’s best to give a realistic answer, which is that what they are asking for does not exist. That happens in every area of life and adults are supposed to be used to it and not get upset. There’s a Bunn G2 on Craigslist right now for $275 and that’s totally BIFL after a mod or two. There’s also a G9 for under $200 but my coffee nerd buddies advised against that model. We don’t have to be like AI chatbots who tell hapless humans what they want to hear even if it’s nonsense.

It’s not completely impossible to keep it under $100 if you see something that is being thrown out from a restaurant or whatever. But that’s a matter of luck.

Wikipedia was using archive.today to link to off-wiki articles such as news articles, where the links had stopped working. Similar to how it also uses the archive.org Wayback machine for the same purpose.