Also, the image of “a cup of coffee” shows a teabag tag hanging from the cup, along with a coffee-bean graphic apparently intended to be a design on the cup.
An (apparently unintentional but) apt metaphor for the chaotic contradictions of Twitter these days.
I feel dirty, but will vaguely defend Twitter, in that tea-bag style one cup coffee steeping options are indeed a thing.
The one I linked is an upscale version, to make it vaguely close to the price point listed. 14.95/8 being 1.86US is admittedly on the higher side, but makes it at least close to the absurd example used. I’ll point out though, I could turn the damn example around on him, and use Folgers Single Serve Coffee bags, if I buy in bulk (better comparison to Musk’s own pay for a year at a time) I can get
Which is a supply of 228 total bags, at only $0.27 a cup! And that’s without shopping around, so yeah, just wanted to prove that (as usual for Musk) it’s all about how you want to play with the numbers.
And the cup of coffee illustration is of a cup of tea.
Agile graphics!
ETA: Somehow I ain’t buying the single-serve coffee thing. The conventional graphic for a cuppa joe just doesn’t normally include a tag hanging out.
Hey, like I said, I feel dirty for defending the insanity in any way, even if I also did a takedown on his stupid game. Just had to point out that among my techie friends, in the pre-K-cup office, the single serves were really popular when they were working off-hours, where the usual communal coffee wasn’t brewed. Apparently it’s a lifesaver if you got called in at 2am because XY or Z crashed (or all 3!).
Okay, but with the advent of the K cup and ubiquity of Keurig machines, can you really see people still using such an antiquated technology?
Yes/no? I mean, they’re still sold, and have the advantage that they can be made in any office with hot water or even H20 plus microwave. Plus tech bros, like other flavors of geeks, often hold onto memes (and often objects/habits) long after they’re obsolete.
But most of my friends in that field that don’t have access to K-cups (or refuse to bring their own personal machines to the office) have switched to Via or other high quality instants. Which, even on Amazon, are under $1 US each for a 50 pack, and I’m sure I could do cheaper with a bit of effort, much less buying a cheaper brand equivalent.
Back to my point though, yeah, I can Force the example to work, even without Kenobi-isms, but like almost all “only $x per day” “pennies per day” other scams, it’s bullshit. You can sell nearly anything if you make the payments look low enough, so that people don’t look at the actual VALUE of what they’re buying. Especially for Twitter, where I could with as much mathematical accuracy say:
“You know, for Twitter Blue, you’re paying thousands of times more for verification than you were before Musk!”
After all, 1000 x 0 < 8.
Same damn cheap trick.
I’ve been in the industry for two decades and, while I have no doubt single-serve coffee in that format exists and has uses, I haven’t seen it that way even once.
The icon isn’t meant to be a picture of a cup of coffee as prepared in a particular way. It is meant to be an image that unambiguously represents “a cup of coffee”. I doubt a graphic designer given that task would think that the “single instant coffee packet” form was so ubiquitous that it needed to be included in the icon, especially since it can so easily be mistaken for a teabag.
Maybe it’s not a brewing bag, maybe it’s a tampon string. You never know how Elmo likes his coffee.
(makes sure in Pit)
Okay, I admit @Atamasama’s comment made me laugh, even if it’s the kinda joke that feels waaaay too much like I’m in the locker-room. But again, I don’t really think there’s a level of insanity that Eloon Musk won’t develop, so, yeah.
But to end the discussion on a better note, and one much more worthy than a blue check or various flavors / costs of coffee, may I share:
So (as if most of us would even think of getting a check) - let’s convince those who are wasting cash on the check spend it on keeping the world out from under the boots of dictators.
In what universe is coffee less than 2 dollars?
For the longest time a medium drip coffee at Starbucks was $1.90. I haven’t ordered one in a while and now I see that it’s $2.95 at the store near my house. This makes me sad.
But at Dunkin it’s still a buck 89. Probably similar at Sheetz or Wawa. So… most universes, as long as the person filling the cup from the drip machine isn’t being paid barista wages.
If you make your own, it’s waaay less than $2.
$13* for a pound of ground coffee. I use about 3 tablespoons to make a pot of 12 cups** of drip coffee. Google tells me there’s 64 tablespoons in a pound of ground coffee, so I can make 21 pots of coffee or 201 10 oz cups of coffee for 13 dollars, or $.065 per cup***
* as low as $8 on sale.
** drip ‘cups’ marked on the pot are 8 oz, so I corrected to 10 oz above. Still cheap as dirt.
*** And Starbucks sells it to you for $3. Jesus, wake up sheeple.
Welcome to Speedway!
I’m old enough that I remember when “Can you believe Starbucks is charging $2 for a cup of coffee?” was a standard joke for standup comedians.
And - I might add - I believe chances of Ukraine still existing by end of next year are way higher than Twitter’s chances
Elmo’s treatment of his former employees in Africa makes his treatment of US former employees look positively benevolent.
Agile racism?
Are you making coffee there, or coffee-flavored water? 
Seriously, though, that is light on the coffee. Typical suggestions are 1-2 tablespoons per 6 oz water, depending on if you like it light or strong. For a standard 12-cup coffeepot, I use nearly a cup of coffee, or 16 tablespoons. (I used to work at an independent coffee shop about 25 years ago, and those are about the ratios we used for drip, and that’s the ratio I use at home for my pour-overs.)
Still cheap, but I’m not always at home to make coffee, nor do I always feel like it, so take-out coffee is fine, and I think priced fairly enough. (I’m not sure about the $1.89 coffee at Dunkin Donuts, at least here in Chicago. I could swear it’s closer to $3 a cup.)
I’m using a Braun scooper I’ve used for many years that appears to be about 25% larger than a tablespoon. I eyeballed the size by putting a tablespoon of water from the tablespoon into the scooper.
I use two heaping scoops, so I rounded up to 3 tablespoons. At worst it’s 4 Tbps.
EDIT: I just now measured – two heaping Brauns is 4 level teaspoons.
I put that into a coffee maker (Cuisinart) that takes #4 cone filters.
My understanding is that cone filter coffee makers require less coffee than common flat-bottom “Mr Coffee” Joe DiMaggio brewers. That may account for our difference in use of grounds. In any case, I use 2 heaping + French or Italian dark ground coffee, and my coffee comes out plenty strong.
Also: all coffee is coffee flavored water.
I use cone filters for my pour-over, and that’s what we used at the cafe, as well, for drip. I wish I had your efficiency for the style of coffee I like. One tablespoon per six ounces is about as light as I like it–two is more my speed and what I’m used to from coffeeshops. Make it how you like it, of course!
And most Starbucks drinks aren’t just plain coffee, anyway. So many people are getting all that sugared, syruped, creamed gunk that’s maybe got some faint memory of the taste of coffee.