$120 million for "juice as a platform" https://t.co/y2ntS2bTFp
— Christopher Mims (@mims) March 31, 2016
When the ancient appetite for hummingbird-tongue pie and pearls dissolved in vinegar filters through childhood memories of Captain Picard demanding “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.”… From the NYTimes article:
… Is it a juice-ordering app? Is it just another kitchen-counter contraption? Or is it a 111,000-square-foot food processing factory, staffed by dozens of hourly workers, washing and slicing up fruits and vegetables in Los Angeles?
It is all of these things. “It’s the most complicated business that I’ve ever funded,” said David Krane, a partner at GV, formerly Google Ventures. “It’s software. It’s consumer electronics. It’s produce and packaging.”
Many of the tycoons who inhabit Silicon Valley are obsessed with health and longevity while harboring the conviction that technology can improve anything, even one of nature’s most elementary foodstuffs — in this case, juice. And they believe that niche trends, if properly disrupted, can become billion-dollar markets. Juicero is the latest expression of these techno-utopian impulses…
The machine itself is a white plastic slab roughly the size of a food processor. To get some juice, you insert a pouch that resembles an IV bag and press a button. A couple of minutes later, a thin stream of vividly colored liquid squirts into a glass.
For health nuts willing to pay a premium, Juicero promises the platonic ideal of juice. Plus, the machine never needs to be cleaned.
But getting from farm to glass involves a daunting mix of hardware, code and food processing. The arrangement relies on a smartphone app, always-on Wi-Fi, QR codes, high-tech packaging and an army of workers slicing fruits and vegetables in very particular ways…
How long after it hits the market will it take for some tv comedian to bait C-list celebrities with a fake Juicero dispensing doses of V8?
For that matter, how long before Ronco comes out with a $19.95 ‘Youceroo’ that sits on your kitchen counter and dispenses V8, Welsh grape juice, or Motts from ‘convenient storage paks’?
Iowa Old Lady
On the topic of odd food stuff, why is Panera Bread advertising clean food? Was it dirty before? The phrase “clean food” creeps me out.
Gin & Tonic
As always, I should have waited five more minutes to post, because my comment about tomorrow’s 17th annual headcheese competition in Grandview, Manitoba looks much more apt here. Headcheese is almost like the Platonic opposite of a $700 WiFi-enabled juicer.
Phylllis
I’ll just leave this here.
JGabriel
NYTimes:
So … basically it’s a Keurig K-Cup for juice instead of coffee? And they’re going to charge $700 per unit rather than the $150-$225 most Keurig K-Cup machines run?
I don’t see this being a big success, at least not at that price point. Even the guys who put together Soylent kept in mind that they had to price it in the same ballpark as Ensure and Boost to be competitive. I can’t think of anyone outside of Megan McCardle types who will pay $700 for a juicer – which is maybe enough people for a marginally profitable niche product, but it sure as hell won’t be disrupting any markets.
Ruviana
Those tech bros are crazy! Remember the Soylent dude? He didn’t like the effort of cooking and all the icky germs that could be on food.
Joulupukki5000
This reads like an early April Fool’s Joke.
From the NYT article
“He approached Ms. Mari and some of the original backers of Organic Avenue, who invested enough money for him to keep going. “Then, I got an introduction to a partner at Kleiner Perkins through a vegan fashion designer who knew someone at the Humane Society who knew them,” said Mr. Evans.”
Bill
If you want fresh juice why wouldn’t you go to your local Target and buy a juicer for a hell of a lot less than $700?
ruemara
It’s a mite early for April Fools.
redshirt
It’s also a floor waxer.
shortribs
> How do you measure life force? How do you measure chi?
You don’t. Now, give me $700.
Besides, someone already cornered the tech-healthy-food-in-a-glass market with that Soylent stuff that came out a year or so ago.
chopper
can i stick a bass in it?
Major Major Major Major
But I heard in a TED talk that the Internet Of Things is the next Internet!
MattF
So, the Wi-Fi… does what, exactly? Besides recording and preserving your juice preferences for eternity. Does it mean that when you switch from orange juice to grapefruit juice, all your pop-up browser ads will also switch from goes-with-orange to goes-with-grapefruit? And for only $700…
Tracy Ratcliff
Haven’t looked at the article yet, since it’s still too early to start drinking, but /requires/ wifi /and/ a smart-phone app? Having just left a tier-1 ISP tech support job, I can tell you that there are not a lot of consumers competent to get the thing set up. Good lord.
Ken
OOOO. Will I be able to make my own mix of flavors, like with those new soda machines with thousands of options?
Linnaeus
I’ve never had Welsh grape juice. Is it good?
Peale
@JGabriel: Not really. It’s more like a keurig for Cool-aid and Crystal Light. Powder does not make juice. It makes colored liquid.
MattF
@Linnaeus: You do know that ‘grape juice’ is sugared water, right?
Thoroughly Pizzled
The tech bubble is one that I would like to see pop.
Linnaeus
@MattF:
Maybe they do it differently in Wales. :)
JGabriel
@Linnaeus:
Tastes a lot like Night Train or Thunderbird.
Anoniminous
Somebody misspelled “effin’ stupid”
MikeJake
See also Kuvée, the “smart” wine bottle with a 6 hour charge.
http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/28/kuvee-raises-6-million-for-smart-wine-bottles/
The future is dumb.
Anne Laurie
@Tracy Ratcliff:
I suspect that being technologically skilled enough to set the system up — or rich enough to pay someone to do it for you — is part of the Juicero cachet.
Anybody with a fiver can score some cold-press organic juice from the Kwikee Mart cooler, but only the elite can make their $700 juicer send a record of their preferences to The Cloud…
boatboy_srq
@Iowa Old Lady: Well, the last few Panera outlets I’ve visited have been pig sties, so “clean food” may be to offset the dirty restaurants. IYAM it sounds like whitewashing for what goes into their product.
Pogonip
Is Welsh grape juice better than English grape juice?
I can’t stand Earl Grey tea.
boatboy_srq
@Linnaeus: I’ve had grape juice in Wales…. but IIRC grapes disappeared from Britain for about 1000 years or so, and only recently returned, and Wales isn’t exactly ideal to grow them….
Andrey
@Peale: To be fair, this isn’t powder in water, it’s actual juice – the packs are actual fruits and vegetables that are actually pressed to produce the juice. Still a $700 juicer, though.
Roger Moore
@JGabriel:
You haven’t looked at the market for high-end juicers.
Aimai
May sll these entrepreneurs die in a kelp fire.
Iowa Old Lady
Sweet cartwheeling Jesus. One of my two appalling senators apparently more or less said he’s okay with guns in the R convention.
The Secret Service must be chugging malox.
Roger Moore
@Peale:
It sounds as if they aren’t using powder. They’re actually putting fruits and vegetables in the packs, and the machine presses them to create the juice. The reason they “need” the WiFi connection is so they can check the packs against a centralized database and reject ones that are past expiration or recalled due to contamination.
boatboy_srq
@MikeJake: the future is a calcium-deficient rotund blob in a hoverchair slurping down a cupcake-in-a-cup.
It’s not the technology necessarily. It’s the occupants of the future that are dumb: making work longer and more pervasive/intrusive, while demanding leisure that’s both passive and on-demand.
Roger Moore
@Iowa Old Lady:
Nah. They’re used to telling people, even powerful people, no.
MattF
@Iowa Old Lady: When I hear stories on this theme, there’s a voice in the back of my head that says “Well, we’re hearing the voice of the people. If it’s what they want, then it’s what they should get.”
Iowa Old Lady
@MattF: LOL. You are evil.
Brachiator
@Pogonip:
And why is there no Cornish grape juice?
Could you have Welsh grape juice with Yorkshire pudding?
Peale
Someone kicked off April Fool’s Day a day early.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Aimai: What did kelp ever do to you?
All of this (juice/juicer/price thereof) for my money, ignores an important piece of information. Juice, freshly squeezed being the ideal, is a pleasant (generally) beverage. It is a wasteful and less than entirely healthy way to consume fruits and vegetables; they contain fiber for a reason. Removing and discarding it completely changes the physical response to consumption. And that’s before you get to the waste – that’s a lot of edible material heading to your compost pile.
I’ll just note that and duck.
IANAMD, but I do have strong opinions.
Peale
Now, I need to decide whether this was another April Fool’s Article. It seems so real. So True.
Peale
@Brachiator: The problem with Welsh juice is that once you buy it in the store and get the can home, it turns out to be empty. The company promised that it would give you juice, but decided at the last minute that it wanted to go double or nothing.
MomSense
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
I agree. Waste of good fruits and vegetables.
RSR
This sounds worse than the “Mr. Coffee of Beer.”
All the packaging and processing can’t be particularly green, either.
MattF
@Peale: But it’s dated March 31, and it’s on the Internet. So it must be true.
piratedan
@Peale: it’s just extra pulpy with consonants…..
redshirt
Juice in general has too many carbs. Ban it.
dp
Unless I’m missing something, that is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard of anyone investing money in.
eclare
@srv: Hahahaha….give it time.
Mike J
@boatboy_srq:
The Slitscan audience.
Wait, were we talking food or politics?
Roger Moore
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
There are some strong counter-arguments about the advantages of juicing. One of the disadvantages of eating fruits and vegetables raw and whole is that all the fiber interferes with your ability to absorb the nutrients they contain. This isn’t some hippy-dippy idea; nutritionists will tell you that many vegetables are healthier cooked than raw despite the loss/destruction of some vitamins and minerals because the cooking makes the remaining nutrients easier to absorb. Juicing gives many of the same benefits in digestibility without the cooking step to destroy nutrients, and a juicer with a really powerful press- which the one being discussed here certainly has- is able to squeeze the fruits and vegetables hard enough so that the remaining pulp is pretty much pure fiber. I won’t argue, as some juice fanatics do, that you should consume nothing but juice, but it’s actually a pretty good way to supplement your diet with extra fruits and vegetables.
Iowa Old Lady
We are about to go out and sample what can be done with grape juice that has been well treated. We will also have tapas.
Chip Daniels
And of course, on the back end of this, there is a small army of minimum wage immigrants working in sweatshop conditions, none of whom could ever dream of being able to blow 700 bucks on something so stupid.
chopper
@MikeJake:
it’s like homer eating ‘virtual fudge’.
chopper
@Pogonip:
it kinda tastes like taffy.
redshirt
@chopper: Mmmm, virtual fudge.
Felonius Monk
Maybe it’s already been said here, but the only good juice is Balloon Juice.
PurpleGirl
@Chip Daniels: I was thinking that too. The whole idea is such conspicuous consumption, perfect for people with more money than they can use in a lifetime unlike the rest of us.
Felonius Monk
@Brachiator: Is Irish Grape Juice made from green grapes?
Benw
We’re tantalizingly close to the Nutri-matic drink synthesizer here, people!
debbie
@Iowa Old Lady:
I’m almost ashamed to tell you how long it took me to realize that slow food was local, not crock-potted. Why did they stop naming things what they are???
Villago Delenda Est
Meanwhile, kids are starving not only in Africa, but in this country, but high-tech fuckwits can’t be bothered to care about that.
? Martin
@JGabriel: Kitchen Aid has sold a fuckton of mixers at $500 a pop. That’s what mine cost 25 years ago when I got married. If I were a juice person, I’d use it every day rather than once a week.
I will also point out that many of us are older and our value calculations are getting fucked up a bit. There’s a HUGE number of people out there that are spending $10-$20 a day on stuff like this – from fancy coffee to hipster donuts and all that. If you get a $5 juice daily, that $700 juicer probably pays off within a year. Yeah, it’s not a low-income indulgence but it’s solidly middle class for people that put health relatively high in their discretionary budget.
$700 used to be a fairly significant purchase but it’s not so much any longer. Hell, even in China $700 isn’t an exorbitant price for a consumer good.
Villago Delenda Est
@Iowa Old Lady: I’ll bet it’s the crazy lady who cuts off the nuts of hogs, right?
? Martin
@Chip Daniels:
Apple is selling nearly 50 million $700 iPhones in China every year. One in 3 US adults owns a $700 smartphone.
Of course there are people who can’t afford a $700 gadget like that. Does that mean we should banish the sale of $700 gadgets simply because the majority but not the entirety of the population can afford them?
boatboy_srq
@Felonius Monk: Well, yes…. except for the orange stuff.
Mai.naem.mobile
@Iowa Old Lady: it’s to highlight the problems of Chipotle.
I was at a shopping center the other day and stepped into a juice bar. I used to go to Jamba Juice once in a while but haven’t been in one in a few years. This place had their juice choices and the prices along with the sizes. Keep in mind,this is Arizona,not NY or SF but the prices were $6,$8,$10 – 16oz,24oz,32oz. These were regular juices not anything exotic. Seriously, WTF? Who pays $10 for a large juice. Jamba Juice prices used to be ~ 3.50/4.50 for a reg/lg. I’m not tight with the money I spend on food, but I’m not spending $10 on a large juice. Not in AZ anyhow.
boatboy_srq
@? Martin: Key difference: it’s a lot easier to justify a smartphone if it replaces cable, internet and land-line. It’s a tool – and in a world where a home bundle goes for north of $300 a month to serve maybe $5000 worth of electronics, a $700 device with a $40/month service you can take anywhere is comparatively cheap.
dedc79
So George Mason Law School is being renamed The Antonin Scalia School of Law (ASSLaw for short):
boatboy_srq
@Mike J: I was thinking of the humans in WALL-E, but your inspiration works too.
? Martin
@Villago Delenda Est:
You sure about that?
So free trade and technology (mostly coming from those same high-tech fuckwits) are two of the leading candidates for reducing poverty. There are untold accounts of how poor individuals, by being able to connect through smartphones and apps and services, are able to create economic opportunities for themselves when the usual corporate gatekeepers are unwilling to do so. For example, Uber has been in Africa for 4 years and operates in 400 cities. Google has been laying fiber all over Africa.
Not everything is about donating to Feed the Children.
Villago Delenda Est
@dedc79: Well, those sources are all you need to know. People who are outright enemies of the Constitution.
gogol's wife
@Gin & Tonic:
It’s a Slavic thang. My Slovak father loved it. The rest of the family used to leave the house while he ate it, alone at the dining room table.
Villago Delenda Est
@? Martin: It would be helpful if the 1% didn’t behave the way they do, basically pissing on all of us and telling us it’s raining.
redshirt
@boatboy_srq: Tell me how to spend only 40$ a month to replace a cable bill.
? Martin
@boatboy_srq: You can justify these things in any number of ways. The point is that people do justify them, and we shouldn’t be the arbiters of whether that justification is valid or not.
I just lost 40 lbs. It was hard. Go ask Mayhew if a $700 appliance that if used regularly but would improve health outcomes is a good macroeconomic trade against the cost of treating a comparable number of cases of diabetes or heart disease or whatever. If $700 made me a healthier person, it’d be pretty fucking cheap against most of the alternatives.
redshirt
@? Martin: So how did you lose 40 lbs?
WaterGirl
@Iowa Old Lady: I have been wondering the same thing! It’s like the old fast food place that was called “Hot and Now” – I always figured if that was the best you could say about your food, you were in trouble.
? Martin
@Villago Delenda Est:
Very, very fair point. But I don’t see a lot of that from the tech community. If anything they are yanking California further left, not right. The traditional industrialists are the more likely targets here.
? Martin
@redshirt: Big change in diet and walking/running 40 miles a week. Took about a year across the 3 attempts. Each time I made progress and then the whole plan fell apart in a heap, and a few months later cobbled it back together again. It’s currently in a very big unpleasant heap. If $700 would get me back on track, I’d spend it today, but the problems are a lot bigger than that at the moment.
WaterGirl
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Bella, could we talk off-line?
redshirt
@? Martin: Cut out carbs. It’s like magic for not just weight loss, but keeping it off.
Amaranthine RBG
It’s funny, thread below was filled with folks femmesplaining why its totes reasonable and not at all extravagant for Hillary Clinton to spend $1,200 on a haircut.
In comparison to that, a $700 juice machine is a bargain.
redshirt
@Amaranthine RBG: Feel the Bern!
SteveA
Can we just lock this guy in a cell and give him the choice of blood sausage or starvation?
? Martin
@redshirt: That was a component of the diet change. But also just cutting calories, shifting to a more vegetarianish diet, and a few other things. Each one was pretty simple in itself but they all reinforced each other. It worked really well overall.
Mnemosyne
@boatboy_srq:
I saw that movie. It’s called WALL-E.
Calouste
@dedc79: That’s an April Fool’s joke, right? Right?!? Right?!?!?!?
redshirt
@? Martin: Do you wear a Fitbit or similar device? They are extremely useful in tracking your activity.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Felonius Monk: hops, barley and malt. You can float a grape in it if you want, on a hot summer day.
Counts as a serving of fruit that way.
ETA: I had a Breville juicer for a while, cost about $200. I gave up on it because it was just as much work to wash and cut up the vegetables for eating, and a lot more work to clean up after, and the whole fiber thing.
? Martin
@redshirt: My phone does that pretty well. I didn’t really keep specific daily goals (I don’t need any additional commitments in my life) but I’m good at managing the overarching direction and had a good sense if I was doing well or not. Most days I’d rack up about 6 miles walking and about 3 5K runs per week. I’d use it more for making sure I wasn’t overdoing it on the runs than anything else.
redshirt
@? Martin: Also, a low carb high protein diet with exercise will burn fat off your body. If you want to lose weight, that’s how you do it.
Mnemosyne
@Amaranthine RBG:
Sorry, I couldn’t hear you over the roar of your totally practical $50K pickup truck.
But I’m not surprised that you still don’t get the point that “boy toys” like a high-tech juicer get way more automatic respect than “girl toys” like a cut, color and highlights.
Chip Daniels
@? Martin:
I’m not sure what your point was.
I didn’t say we should ban expensive and silly gadgets.
What needs to be repeatedly pointed out, is that we live in a winner-take-all economy, a casino where a tiny few get fabulously wealthy with minimum effort, while an enormous majority labor extremely hard for very little.
The tech gizmos are not intrinsically evil, but the tech industry is an extremely winner-take-all sort of place, where certain things become viral sensations while others die a quiet death.
And worse, the public face of the tech industry- new, shiny, wonderfully egalitarian- belies the old fashioned sweatshop foundation upon which it is built.
Behind every Iphone there are overworked and underpaid retail clerks, minimum wage warehouse workers toiling in appalling conditions, sweatshop Chinese workers in dormitories outfitted with suicide screens, and African children slaving away in backbreaking labor to mine the precious metals.
Again, this isn’t unique to Apple, smart phones, or even high technology. Its endemic to the worldwide global system of trade, whose rules are written not by the workers who produce the value, but the rentier class and their captive politicians.
So yeah, it always seems unfair to pick on some inventor of some shiny new bauble, but they are part of a massive system that is trying very, very hard to get us to ignore the slavery supporting cheap stuff.
redshirt
@? Martin: Get a Fitbit. It tracks your pulse so when you give it your weight, height, and age, it calculates your calorie burn along with plenty of other stats. You can download it into a database if you want. It’s your data, your literal sleep and waking periods and everything contained within.
karen marie
@Phylllis: Thank you! So much hilarity!
Amaranthine RBG
@Mnemosyne: The fact that you think a juicer is a manly accoutrement speaks volumes.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@WaterGirl: Absolutely. flsgreen at the google post office product place.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
even with all the stiff competition, I would say you’re solidly in the running for both Most Obnoxious Bernista, and Flat Out Weirdest Bernista.
? Martin
@Amaranthine RBG: Just suggests that she lives near a city. I would agree with her – a juicer is far more likely to be bought by men in my area than women.
Origuy
@Calouste: I clicked the link to check.It’s dated today,so no. It’s for real.
boatboy_srq
@redshirt: Boost Mobile. Or MetroPCS. $40/mo, unlimited talk/text, 3 GB data before throttling (unlimited quantity but reduced bandwidth after). No contracts. From there hulu/netflix/whatever direct-to-smartphone. Best with a Samsung Note or similar large-format device.
Gin & Tonic
@redshirt:
Bullshit. It’s their data. Read the TOS.
Goblue72
Clinton loses shit when called out on her donations from Big Oil lobbyists.
Amaranthine RBG
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Bernista? Give me a break.
You need for “othering” is regressive.
Roger Moore
@? Martin:
Probably not in this case, because that $700 juicer doesn’t make juice from produce you buy at the farmers’ market. It makes juice from $4-$10 packets of pre-processed produce that they have to ship using expensive shipping so they don’t spoil before you can press them. What you’d want if you were trying to save money is a juicer that will let you use your own produce, like a $350 Beville Juice Fountain, or, if you really want a high-end juicer, a $2500 triturating juicer.
SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer
@ruemara:
It’s already April Fool’s Day in some parts of the world. This could be an international juicer jape.
Amaranthine RBG
@Roger Moore: Hell, as I look out my window now I see a juice kiosk in San Francisco that charges, no joke, $11 for 8 ounces of juice. And there is a line several times a day. Not even fresh squeezed or just made – they prepare it somewhere off site and deliver the bottles in the morning and the customers can pay extra for a “boost” or a “shot” of this or that faddish mumbojumbo to turn that $11 juice into a $16 juice if they want.
I’ll have to check tomorrow to see how many lumberjacks and hunky fireman stand in line so I can see if juice is this new manly obsession …
SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer
@Iowa Old Lady:
… And since one of your appalling senators is a She, that’s not too hard to narrow down.
SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer
I hate April 1st. Have to wake up remembering to say “rabbit rabbit rabbit” before uttering any other word. Have to remember to pay the rent. Have to remind self to disbelieve everything I see online or hear on air.
It is always a day fraught with challenges.
redshirt
@Gin & Tonic: Oh sure yeah, I meant in terms of numbers for a scientific weight loss program. By measuring how many calories you burn you can customize a weight loss plan.
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer: I like (although am a bit frightened of) the new nym.
SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer
@chopper:
Well played, sir or madam. Well played indeed.
WaterGirl
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Just sent you a message.
redshirt
@SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer: A good day for a hike in the woods. No Fools out there.
SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer
@Gin & Tonic:
Someone on a thread last night suggested that I was a tough, take-no-prisoners mob enforcer, so I decided to try it out for a little while. But in actuality I am such a polite, shy, self-effacing, and completely non-confrontational person that I may abandon it before long.
debbie
@Goblue72:
Kind of a Trumpean reaction, no?
Gin & Tonic
@redshirt: By measuring how many calories you burn and sharing that data with their partner companies and affiliates.
I like the part in their TOS when they say “if we are going to share your data we will do our best to notify you.” Hey, thanks, that’s great. I’m delighted you will “do your best”. How about letting me own my own data and deciding what to do with it? Oh, sorry, can’t do that, it hinders our ability to make a buck.
Fuck them.
SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer
@Felonius Monk:
Is Trump Grape Juice made from white grapes?
dedc79
@Calouste: Alas, no. My first thought was to check and see if it was an Onion link.
boatboy_srq
@SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer: I like it. Adds edge and depth (not that you need either, but they can be useful). Besides, we all knew that sweet, understated demeanor was all an act anyway…
Luv ya, SD [[hug]]
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer: Yeah, I was in that thread. I guess I’ll have to ask efgoldman if you were packing heat when you came up here.
Roger Moore
@SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer:
I think Republican Grape juice is made from the finest whine making grapes.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@debbie: Huh, I thought the most “Trumpian” moment for a Dem candidate was St Bernard saying he didn’t know if he would fundraise for downtick races– ETA, you could almost hear the implied “if I’m treated fairly”. But they are both narcissists. Saying Obama should withdraw his nominee if St Bernard is the nominee was pretty Trumpian, too. Maybe more McConnellist, agreeing that Obama’s presidency expires when he, Bernie, says so.
redshirt
@Gin & Tonic: Who cares? How does this harm me?
Amir Khalid
@Roger Moore:
Put a clock/calendar and a reader for the label on the fruit/veg pack in the juicer, and you don’t need the WiFi connection anymore.
Gin & Tonic
@redshirt: You want someone to sell your data while you get nothing in return, that’s your call.
SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer
@boatboy_srq:
Thx, bbsrq, luv ya 2. I’d hug you back, but you know us mob enforcers can easily break bones if we hug someone just a little too hard.
SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer
@Gin & Tonic:
He’ll never tell. I made sure of that.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Except that it’s dishonest to blame it all on Sanders. I have issues with her accepting money from Goldman Sachs et al, as well as her ties to Wall Street in general, and I didn’t get either from listening to Sanders.
redshirt
@Gin & Tonic: Meh. How much do you think your data is worth?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@debbie: But your cool with Bernie! blowing off down ticket races? The one man revolution works for you?
You agree that abortion is not an important issue, because Bernie! says so?
You think the Republicans are right about Obama and the Court, because now Bernie! says they are?
Gin & Tonic
@redshirt: We’ll never know, will we, because they won’t tell you how much they’re making off yours, and I won’t give them mine.
Also why I don’t use “free” e-mail.
redshirt
@Gin & Tonic: If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear!
Gin & Tonic
@redshirt: Fuck you.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer: I adore (and slightly envy) your new nym.
redshirt
@Gin & Tonic: So what do you have to hide?
Pogonip
@redshirt: My father low-carbed his way off insulin at age 86. The home-health-care nurse tried to enlist him to go around and speak to diabetes classes, but he’s too shy. He’s now 89 and still off insulin.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer: Did I mention how much I enjoy the addition to your nym. It makes me want to add “badass” to mine, but it’s already too long.
Pogonip
@Mnemosyne: It’s a juicer AND a highlighter!
Anne Laurie
@dedc79: ASSLaw?
How the hell is April Fools Day supposed to outdo that?
Anne Laurie
@SiubhanDuinne, Mob Enforcer:
Or as I call it, a day ending in -y.
Mnemosyne
@Amaranthine RBG:
You realize that every tech nerd who looks in the mirror sees a manly Creator straight out of an Ayn Rand novel, right?
EBT
A 700 dollar sugar water dispenser isn’t helping anyone lose weight.
J R in WV
@Gin & Tonic:
Have to agree with you about FitBit, and most other hi-tech gadgets. I bought an Android gadget, had to set up a Google account, which I have never signed into ever. Google is a nice search engine, has good mapping tech, etc. But if I want to search and keep my data to myself, DuckDuckGo is better. Because there is no data sharing.
Cleos
No surprise here. If people will actually pay $20-$28 a pound for single-serve coffee pods, they can be talked into buying anything.
Katdip
Late to the thread, but despite the flimsy organic fig leaf, this is an environmental disaster. Let’s count the eco-fails here: need to ship packaged fruits and veggies by air, to be used in equipment that needs significant energy and resources to make and is eventually e-waste, and then encasing the food waste in non-compostable, non recyclable multilayer packaging. If they included the embedded carbon cost of this product it would be twice as expensive!
boatboy_srq
@Katdip: In other words, perfect for the conspicuous consumption Elect types who still want to look like they’re health and nature freaks.