I wonder if :melon-musk: will have an extra bad sundowning day in his midlife crisis and announce something actually named Torment Nexus to get ahead of the curve.

  • wantonviolins [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    soylent's actually not that bad. like it's just a protein shake with an edgy name. the guy who made it is an absolute dingus though.

    • notceps [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      No soylent is pretty bad, they started out as a meal replacement shake that couldn't cover all the bases you'd need in a meal replacement shake and costed 2-3 times what normal boring meal replacement stuff costed. And they tried the protein shake angle but it's hilariously expensive compared to any other protein powder. And I'm not even talking about the excessive amounts of lead and other heavy metals in the whole thing.

      • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        "meal replacement shake" is already a dystopian enough concept as it is, only it's a boring dystopia where you work so much you don't have the time or energy to cook your own food anymore

        • notceps [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          They were invented for a good use mostly for people that couldn't chew or otherwise couldn't take solid foods it's just fucking tech-bros dehumanizing themselves willingly for concepts like 'bio-hacking'

        • wantonviolins [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          only it’s a boring dystopia where you work so much you don’t have the time or energy to cook your own food anymore

          so the regular world we already live in

      • wantonviolins [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        excessive amounts of lead and other heavy metals

        I've followed a lot of criticism of soylent and this is the first I've ever heard of heavy metal contamination. Got a source?