What is the appeal of Soylent?
It seems like it would be useful as a non-perishable item to be taken, like, camping or something, or for people who had difficulty eating solid food.
But why have Reddit types seemed to glom onto it?
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i found it in a compilation at a tender young age and thought it sounded like the work of a crotchety old republican political cartoonist so I never read another thing of Vonnegut's
after all, at least Mallard Fillmore has some sex appeal
I thought there was a subreddit for everything
with that restriction, something that is supposedly actually nutritious is a huge improvement
Pretty much this. Aside from his scepticism about abstract art trends of the '60s-'70s (which came from a different place than the typical conservative critique anyway), he was pretty progressive and held no truck with things like trickle-down economics.
it got sorta weird towards the end there
You have this habit of projecting contempt for your life choices on things that you strongly disagree with or don't understand. AU does it, too, and it honestly weirds me out and strikes me as... unhealthy.
i can kinda relate to this part
this part seemed like a fair point:
well i mean, eating is kinda gross when you stop and think about it
i mean soylent actually seems a lot grosser to me than regular food, but still
flavour is the good part about eating things
why would you take away the good part
I can't eat milkshakes without wanting to throw up, so I can't imagine being able to ingest soylent.
but idk if that makes the author of that article contemptuous for pointing that out
it sounds more like for whatever reason they've got stuck on the idea and can't *not* think about that
This is not the best example, but it is certainly not the first. I have no intention of reading you the Riot Act over something that really doesn't affect anyone here, but you're getting mad bitter over someone else's weird hangups.
^ Exactly. I feel kind of bad for them.
like who in their right mind names their product 'soylent'
just, why
you don't joke about something like that and still expect me to ingest your product
just no. NO.
which it does, because that's what it is
not much irony there, it's a plain fact, the product is indeed horrible
so he gave it a name that suggests it's even more horrible, to make it even less appealing
???
but that doesn't make me want to try it