Club-Mate (German pronunciation: [ˈklʊp ˈmaːtə]) is a caffeinated carbonated mate-extract beverage made by the Loscher Brewery (Brauerei Loscher) near Münchsteinach, Germany, which originated in 1924.[1] Club-Mate has 20 mg of caffeine per 100 ml. Club-Mate has a relatively low sugar content of 5 g per 100 ml, and low calories (20 kcal per 100 ml of beverage) compared to other beverages such as cola or most energy drinks.
Club-Mate has developed a following in computer hacker culture and tech start-ups, especially in Europe. Bruce Sterling wrote in Wired magazine that it is the favorite beverage of Germany's Chaos Computer Club[11]. It is also popular at Noisebridge[12] and HOPE[13] in the United States, Electromagnetic Field in the UK and the Hack-Tic events in the Netherlands. Club-Mate appeared in numerous leading media websites like Al-Jazeera,[14] TechCrunch[15] and Vice.[16]
Hacker kid who got out at Freiburg on the 105 to Zurich. was drinking it. I never heard of it before. Interesting history. Filtered heavy water from the German A-bomb works. (snark)
Maybe that's the right thing, to help prevent personal attacks. I can see that knowing ignorers' user names might tempt people to insult them, because they'd figure that the ignorer couldn't see it.
I used to have a page with a table of all the users with various stats about them, but people would get obsessed with how many likes/dislikes they had, etc, which seemed to take away from the point of the site: discussion without politically correct censorship.
Maybe that's the right thing, to help prevent personal attacks.
Not really interested in personal attacks, but I currently have no one on "ignore" and do not want to waste time responding to a comment from a poster who has me on "ignore," and thus will not see the response.
Club-Mate has developed a following in computer hacker culture and tech start-ups, especially in Europe. Bruce Sterling wrote in Wired magazine that it is the favorite beverage of Germany's Chaos Computer Club[11]. It is also popular at Noisebridge[12] and HOPE[13] in the United States, Electromagnetic Field in the UK and the Hack-Tic events in the Netherlands. Club-Mate appeared in numerous leading media websites like Al-Jazeera,[14] TechCrunch[15] and Vice.[16]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club-Mate