Wow what a show that would be. When was it?

Passage to India was great, I’m sad it moved from Porter to Lechmere because now I can’t walk to it 🥲

Try the Maharaja near Harvard sq.

Surya Indian Kitchen !! (In Cambridgeport)

Nirvana the Taste of India is my go-to

Recently tried Passage to India and while I’m no expert, it was a cut above the rest.

Mulan for Taiwanese foods. I like India Pavilion, though I haven’t found a favorite in Cambridge yet. Shanty is my gf’s favorite, but I like Anmol in Beverly, it’s just too far from the city

Like, hypothetically, you have to get a car - it's not a choice - you only get to choose what kind and you can't wait for things to change or improve?

And, to be clear, if you want to 'reduce emissions' that is going to be something separate from 'rare earth mining and slave labor' - so it will be hard to compare directly.

But you could apply a heuristic that considers the long term consequences of one versus the other. The gas powered vehicle relies on gas industry infrastructure after all, and so buying a gas powered car reinvests in that infrastructure. And EVs, in contrast, do not - the purchase of an EV invests in the development of a non-carbon based energy system. So both have long term consequences, it's kind of a wash.

But ultimately how do you know if reduced emissions would offset the impact of rare earth mining? It's terribly difficult to see how that could even be measured, let alone evaluated. And because of the absence of any obvious choice it would probably just come down to making a personal, subjective, choice.

Like this "logic" is just trying to reason with limited information - and sometimes, as individuals, we must make choices before we have all the information we would like. Like we should definitely do more research, get more information, get better batteries, organize labor, de-colonize the countries being exploited by extraction industries - but those are long term projects that, if you have to buy a car to get to work tomorrow, aren't really going to help.

Atwoods has the most bizarre hours and is just randomly closed sometimes. I really hate that. Love the bar, bartenders, and drinks but really fuck the hours so many places in Boston have.

Thanks for sharing.

It shows that French Press was actually less wasteful than capsule coffee, so not so clear cut as you claimed.

The authors link to the peer-reviewed full study in the article, this is just the readable version https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.12487

This was picked up by major news outlets (WaPo most notably) when it came out.

Never heard of that website?

And it's not peer-reviewed scientific research, just a news article, so not super reliable, right?

good to know!!

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Been going there regularly since 2008. This is devastating.

https://theconversation.com/heres-how-your-cup-of-coffee-contributes-to-climate-change-196648

I think you're the only person I've met unaware of the negative impact of electric cars. https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-co2-emitted-manufacturing-batteries#:~:text=For%20illustration%2C%20the%20Tesla%20Model,kg%20(16%20metric%20tons).

Renewable clean energy is the goal. But there is a reason why companies continue to try to find other options, such as hydrogen, to use instead

Shhhhh, don't tell everyone, this place has the best skyline views by far.

Do you have a link to that study? That doesn't make any sense.

Also, what about the hot water running through the plastic k-cup and contaminating the coffee with endocrine disruptions and nasty flavors?

This study showing lots of endocrine disruptors, including BPA, in plastic capsule coffee is pretty clear:

"Benzophenone was the most frequently detected estrogenic chemical in capsule coffee (mean concentration ± SD: 20.37 ± 47.07 ng/mL, n = 6), followed by bisphenol A (BPA, 0.31 ± 0.71, n = 4), dibutyl phthalate (1.41 ± 3.58, n = 3), 4-nonylphenol (0.67 ± 1.82, n = 3) and bisphenol F (BPF, 0.49 ± 1.54, n = 2). BPA and BPF were each detected in 3 French press coffee samples (0.29 ± 0.58 and 0.85 ± 1.75 ng/mL, respectively).

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7451997/

Not exactly, and it's a much larger problem than just plastic in waterways.

Most plastic waste, such as that from from plastic bottles and bags, is not recycled and is either incinerated like at the huge incinerator up in Saugus, or at 10+ other incinerators across Massachusetts, or put in landfills.

When you burn plastic, its releases all kinds of toxic chemicals into ghe air and water, which have severe health impacts (Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187802961630158X ).

"The hazardous brominated compounds act as carcinogens and mutagens. Dioxins settle on the crops and in our waterways where they eventually enter into our food and hence the body system. These Dioxins are the lethal persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and its worst component, 2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), commonly known as agent orange is a toxic compound which causes cancer and neurological damage, disrupts reproductive, thyroid and respiratory systems."

It seems like this logic would also rule out e.g. current electric vehicles, which cause permanent environmental damage in the name of reducing emissions.

So what about the lack of Climate Change-causing emissions from EV cars? Can you explain how not emitting CO2 is bad for the planet?

And, this criticism of EVs seems like a lot of speculation and lacks sources. Could you provide some valid and reliable source links (e.g., peer-reviewed scientific research) about your points?

What if massive deposits of cadmium and lithium ore are discovered in the future?

Toad's closing?!? Dear god, no! That place was like half of my 20's.

This is so sad that place is awesome

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The wings were dope as was the outdoor space. Cambridge gets more gutted by the day. But hey, more high rise condos with $10 coffee and banks in the ground floor commercial space.