How do you gather? You think there isn't many ways to decaffeinate beans or that some of them aren't gross? Or that most ways used to decaffeinate beans doesn't make the coffee taste bad?

These are the very points James makes in the first 2/3rds of the video.

The only point that he and I might delaminate on was that all decaf is blasphemous, and that's a stretch because he never talks about the religious criminality of drinking coffee?

Why do you think I would offer a video to people about decaf that I didn't watch? Hint: I don't hate decaf coffee.

Yikes this is getting drawn out and silly, eh. I'll save us some time.

You win.

But one thing that I couldn't help but chuckle at is your interpretation of the coffee capitol point.

You live in a hockey capitol. That doesn't make you an expert, but I bet if you wanted to buy a hockey stick you would have a number of stores carrying top gear... If you wanted to see a game you probably have a number of hockey teams from pro to amateur you could go watch live.

I have direct access to three of the top 20 roasters in the country. I'm fortunate to have access to some of the best coffee in the world regardless if I'm an expert or not.

And this is sort of the point overall... You added so much of your own arguments to my position that you aren't even arguing with me or the points that I'm making.

I'm not hiding behind subjectivity, I was the one who posted the video "negating" my so called "opinions". You still think I did that as a mistake. Which I think is the second example that shows you are coming to this discussion in bad faith.

It's no wonder you recommend introspection, given you have been arguing only with your interpretation of my opinion.

I'm a huge fan of James Hoffman... I don't think anyone alive understands coffee better than he does.

I live in a US Coffee Capital...

I make brilliant decaf for my pregnant wife.

My preparation is flawless in drip and espresso

You guys really don't understand subjectivity or sarcasm and are filling in a ton of the blanks.

No no, that was the only reasonable part. Everything else wrapping that was absurd though.

That's the funny thing about subjectivity right?

That's some top shelf stretching there.

If you think Israel is randomly bombing buildings you haven't been paying attention.

You do realize that an enormous swath of Israelis are of middle eastern descendency... Not to mention from pretty much every other nation in the world.

So since you Americans love to assign colors to people instead of seeing them as people... What color do you think Israelis are?

I will actually take a moment to explain this to you since I feel bad that most of you have had no exposure to the realities of conflict and American media is hardly reputable.

The truth of war is that there are always collateral deaths. This is probably the most important reason why war should be avoided. Until someone creates a magic bullet that can sort combatants from non combatants this will always remain a truth.

If you care for the people you love, you don't go rape, murder, and behead your neighbor and their children.

The collateral loss of Palestinians is an absolute tragedy. HAMAS combatants fleeing and hiding in civilian populations is the travesty though.

But there are no mental gymnastics here, many islamic groups and Arab nations are on record stating that their absolute goal is the total annihilation of Israel and the genocide of Israelis. Israel has no such message or stance.

If Israel wanted to ensure the genocide of the Palestinians they would have to do nothing more than to expel the Palestinians from their country and to push them to Jordan and Egypt who would shoot every Palestinian at their borders.

Israel is a nuclear power, if it's aim was genocide then this would have been the shortest war in history.

The facts do not support you.

The logic here is so backwards it's laughable. You support organizations that literally claim that the only way to peace is the genocidal destruction of Israel.

HAMAS was the creation of the IRGC... I don't know what cracker Jack box you are getting your facts from but you might want to find a more reliable one.

I provided data specifically to that point to allow anyone to read further... Looks like you skipped that step. You also skipped over the fact that I was specifically talking about the Palestinian leadership of that era, which I purposefully and intentionally differentiate from the Palestinian population as a whole. Most of the general population of Israelis and Palestinians are sick of the conflicts their leadership continuously escalate and in general, both sides would prefer to seek long term peace.

You claim that I'm framing with our context... but it would appear you completely skipped the context provided and reframed critical components of the data that was provided to fit your own bias.