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I don't think you're "trying" to do something big, you're "doing" it.

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I suppose using the word "trying" is in keeping with my overall vibe. Perhaps I should thump my chest just a little bit more! 🤣

Thanks, AM :-)

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Absolutely.

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I hear ya, man!

I'm also a caffeine lightweight. I never developed much of a tolerance for it and don't want to build up any such thing at this point. Learned in my indie music days not to drink coffee or alcohol during gigs; one speeds up, and one slows down.

I'm also frequently a psychopath with my (decaf) coffee, taking it "neat" and putting it to work as the receiving end of the pastry dunking.

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Dunking things in your coffee? You psycho.

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I’ve never been fond of coffee. Probably from watching my mom drink coffee and smoke cigarettes. I hate cigarettes and I think I associate them a copy. I need a psychiatrist. Lol! 😂

My first husband didn’t drink coffee either. He woke up drinking Dr Pepper and Mountain Dew and mine was diet Coke. That all changed when I found out the dangers of consuming Diet Coke. I married Randy and he is a coffee drinker, and I hate seeing him drink coffee alone so I join him with a chai tea latte spiked with Kahlúa. Some days I spike a little more than other days. 😵‍💫☕️

I would love to get one of these fancy espresso machines just to make the milk pictures. 🥛

I am happy to hear you’re enjoying Santas gift Christopher! 🎅

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Y'know what's weird—"chai" is the Russian word for tea. So when people say "chai tea," doesn't a Russia just hear "tea tea"?

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Ha! Ha! Ha! 😂 That’s priceless. A Russian Chai House! The first time I had chai tea was served to me by my yoga master Ravi Singh. It was homemade and the most delicious chai I’ve had. Probably East Indians adopted the Russian name for tea! 🍵 🫖

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So now you've gotten me to look it up. From a cursory glance, I think you have it, but maybe the other way around? I think "chai" is Hindi, adopted into Russian, and spiced in the way that Americans expect chai tea to be spiced (cinnamon, cardamom, etc.).

I could look more deeply, but I think that may be it!

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Because my yoga teacher introduced it to me and he is East Indian I thought it was Hindi, with their uses of exotic spices. I can’t wait to find what you discover.

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Milkpics?

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Lechegraphs.

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In the new world, you can drink whatever coffee you like as long as it meets A/i standards. In the new world, A/i will be making your milky way pictures for you. In the new world, A/i is what it is...our new ruler. And like a nun's teaching ruler, it never bends when it strikes your behind. Sprechen sie Chineseian?

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A sense that a pro-human movement is going to develop.

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Milkpictures- Dairagraphs or

Lactographs

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Molokopics.

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I was raised a Mormon and coffee is prohibited so I never developed a taste for it. In later years after I became aware that the church and the teachings of Joseph Smith had been corrupted I tried it, after all it smelled so good, but ugh, bitter, watery, not my thing. Later I found that with enough sugar and cream it wasn't too bad, but decaf except maybe for one cup in the morning. Then I found that with a little organic chocolate, some organic monk fruit powder or extract and some organic half and half with a bit of chaga mushroom powder it made a very nice start to the day. Sometimes I add some organic vanilla or dragon fruit powder. Even better. Coffee purists aside I don't care, I do it my own way. Sigma describes me exactly.

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Nice! What a journey of exploration. It's the little things…

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True!

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Sigmas easily recognize their kind and easily respect them. It takes patients with the others.

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Yeah, that makes sense and must be a part of it. In fact, when I think about my closest friends…yep.

I don't see much discussion of how this all plays out among women. That'd be interesting to look into (though I certainly haven't the time now).

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Life is a flow between these states. Once you’ve killed enough people, you don’t have to stand in the front anymore. After that you spend your life trying to put them back together then you realize you’re just a dog.

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Hmm. I wonder where I am in all of that! 🤣

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Woof

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Ha!

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we just pore in the flat milk foam and let paradolia do the rest. I may have even predicted the events of the day from within my milkpictures like some hippster shaman!!!

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I am over here in GB England. That was a hit indie tune here back in the day. Anyhow I’ve been using the term milkpictures all week. Love it.

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Milkpictures!!

So, any chance you guys might revert to the heptarchy at some point?

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I live in West Sussex which was Sussex in the original 7 kingdoms. It was split in 2 east and west. And to answer your question, I doubt it very much. More like the Globarchy!

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The first three earls of Arran were direct ancestors of mine. Do you think they'll let me have the island and start my own country? 🤣🤣

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If you see any predictions I need to know about, please do let me know!

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🤣🤣

I don't have Spotify but I found it anyway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hamKl-su8PE

Kinda retro British Invasion meets the 80s!

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Milk in coffee? Blasphemy! Like pineapple on pizza, you are next on the deportation plane!

ヽ(⚈‿⚈ )ノ

Nice read, Christopher, very nice. BTW, coffee puts me to sleep, I drink it to ease pain and calm down, I know that prolly makes me some kind of kook, but I couldn't care less as that description of sigma nailed me pretty well... today. However, when I was younger, I was an effing adrenaline junkie and a bit of a jerk, but not "like to fight" guy. I've mellowed a lot, have slowed way down and am more of a gentleman. Being old can change ones character, especially after trauma and loss. Funny how all those male stereotypes are kind of new-age sounding to me. Guess I'm just an old fuddy-duddy. Cheers!

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Ha!

I am drinking it black right now. :-)

I have have heard from a few people who drink coffee before bed. Not sure anyone has said it actually calms them—but paradoxical reactions do happen.

What was your adrenalized activity of choice?

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Thank you for the reply, I know you are busy plotting the emergence of a new, well, everything good! I love reading your work and in a few months I hope to be more financially secure so I can at least tip every once in a while, i.e. buy you an espresso!

(人´∀`)

My thrill seeking started when I was very young, much of which I dare not disclose publicly, but as soon as I could drive, I got ticketed for driving WAAAAAY too fast so many times in the first six months I lost my insurance. I soon learned how to spot the man better and eluded a couple - full throttle - Thrilling! I said I was kind of a jerk, but this was the 70's and they were a bit more tolerant. Had them draw guns on me only a couple times. Later, get married and calmed down a bit. Spent time as a fireman, going in fully involved structures, ocean water rescue and ran a construction biz most my life. Hang gliding for only one day, dammit, but it was fun. Skiing on Oregon mountains will get you going to terminal velocity if you know where to look, but I was never gifted with much physical ability so I got messed up a lot. Hard drinking, rowdy parties, you know, an insane youth, but effing amazing. Was really into girls - lots.

Today, no drink, no dope, just coffee & tobacco pipe, trying to keep working despite the pain of a broken body. Did I mention misspent youth? HEHEHE. Loved motorcycles too. There's more, but you get the idea.

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I do indeed get the idea!

I am always intrigued by questions of nature, nurture, and choice. How much of such choices are truly chosen, vs., say, driven by testosterone levels? I mean, there is an element of choice, yes. But there are also patterns driven by nature. High-T men do different things from low-T men. And the calming down we all do as we get older does happen to coincide with the gradual decline in hormones, etc. I think the explanation for what we are and what we do is a complex combination of free will, biology, and perhaps various spiritual considerations.

But then there is also choice in how we choose to express whatever our biological substrate is driving us towards. So, for example, like any teenage boy, I drove too fast—treating the gas pedal like an on-off switch. But NOTHING like what you did. (Or what one of my son's friends just did—something for which he is headed to court.) And I wasn't much of a fighter. But I did very much like chasing girls. (Later in life, I did some karate and came to understand just how....natural....fighting feels. Weird.)

Plus, guys like the man you were tend to go into jobs like being firemen. And we need that.

Anyways, I'm just blabbering on now. Thanks for your comradeship and support!

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I, too, hope it's possible. I sometimes envy alphas, always distrust betas, avoid omegas. Sigmas sound interesting.

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Interesting. I don't know a ton about this. Why distrust betas? (I mean, I can think of a few reasons, like they can be passive aggressive and so you must second-guess their motives…)

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When someone won't stand up for themself they won't support anyone who does so.

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Oh. Yeah, that is a good point!

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Yea yea milkpics are OK but drawing a Guinness with a foam shamrock atop, that's art! ;-)

I first heard of such from a young Japanese lady who was schooled to do so whilst working at an Irish bar in Tokyo.

She couldn't alas, shamrock my home brewed White Nights Stout, drawing it from the tap on my kegerator. Perhaps because Guinness' nitrogen carbon-dioxide mix rather than the straight CO₂ with which I pressurize makes smaller bubbles in the foam.

OK, now that we've got graffiti vs art out of the way, now about your fear of caffeine and need to Greek alphabetize.....

GRIN!

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Guinness is the only one I know of with that power. But then, I don’t drink much beer, so perhaps there are others.

I am not afraid of caffeine. But you might be afraid if you saw me on caffeine!

And the Greek thing is just a curiosity to me, no more. It makes sense, but it also makes no difference 😁

Perhaps one day I will be in Alaska and I can buy you a Guinness (or you can buy me a whiskey).

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Excellent post Christopher. I am not a psychopath, I am not a ruler, I am what I am. I like it.

I too am a Sigma Man, and yes, you too will be successful. People look up to and give credence to Sigma men. We are leaders in our own right. Alpha males are actually lacking something we possess, which is inner self-confidence. We know who we are, and we don't give a f*#k.

I worked with a guy recently, on my last day as an employee. At the end of the day, he told me he was thankful he got to see me work because I did things my own way, better and more efficient. He said he will be better at his job after watching me work.

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Good stuff, Tony.

I never gave it much thought until I heard people talking about it, but it definitely makes sense.

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Herr Cook

I too discovered coffee later in my life

I now enjoy it most black as I can discern the different flavour hi lights

I love your

Pareidolia of Milk-Pictures

Is this an uncommon form of tea leaf reading to help pundit our futures?

Tusen Takk

Jon

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Maaayyyyybe. :-)

Actually, I was thinking recently that the patterns made by the last dregs of coffee in the bottom of the cup are at least as interesting as bit of tea leaves. Coffee reading instead of tea reading?

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👏👏👏👍

I had to get rid of my espresso machine.. I have no self- restrain when it comes to coffee.. lol

I stopped drinking coke too.. only have it on rare outings when I indulge in other debaucheries like pizza or burgers.

I've noticed that one good choice leads to another and the other way around.. the problem is that the "bad stuff" is always too good!! And this "corruption" seems to go a lot faster one way for me... never the right one.. 😂😂

The barista at my local coffe shop invited me for Christmas ..

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Why not just switch to decaf? That doesn't have much in the way of health risks, does it?

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I tried .. what decaf do you use? I coupln't find

a good replacement .. I may be a coffee- snob... 😂

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At the moment, I have been buying beans from a local roaster in our little town. I don't have that much experience with it, since drinking coffee is a more recent thing for me.

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As long as you are happy with it!! Happy sipping!! :)

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Coca-cola is an anti-fertility agent. Don't mean to be a buzzkill.

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It also cleanses hub caps and dissolves meat .. 👍

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And police officers carry a 2-litre bottle in their trunk to dissolve blood on the road from car accidents.

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Yeah, maybe it's not good to put that substance inside us!

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