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Thursday, March 14, 2013 3:18 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:You know what's an irreversible waste of time, money and effort? Eating food you take pleasure in eating. I mean, wouldn't you rather just ingest a tasteless form of sustenance for the rest of your life and never have to go through that tedious rigmarole of opening and eating a pre-made sandwich or enjoying a huge hungover fry-up ever again? Rob Rhinehart – a 24-year-old software engineer from Atlanta and, presumably, an impossibly busy man – thinks so. Rob found himself resenting the inordinate amount time it takes to fry an egg in the morning and decided something had to be done. Simplifying food as "nutrients required by the body to function" (which sounds totally bulimic, I know, but I promise it's not), Rob has come up with an odourless, beige cocktail that he calls Soylent. I wasn't sure if he was trolling at first, because "soylent" is the name of a wafer made out of human flesh and fed to the overpopulated masses in the seminal 1973 sci-fi film Soylent Green, but then I read the extensive post on Rob's blog about how he came to make the stuff and started to believe him. Soylent contains all of the nutritive components of a balanced diet, but with just a third of the calories and none of the toxins or cancer-causing stuff you'd usually find waiting to kill you in your lunch. Despite the fact it looks a bit like vomit, Soylent supposedly has the potential to change the entire world's relationship with food, so I spoke to Rob to find out how.
Thursday, March 14, 2013 3:40 AM
BYTEMITE
Thursday, March 14, 2013 6:25 AM
MAL4PREZ
Quote:Originally posted by BYTEMITE: So I usually just end up eat a serving of candy for each meal until I feel sick, then I eat a salad. Healthiest diet ever. At least I don't really really eat a whole lot.
Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:04 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:47 AM
Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:06 AM
JONGSSTRAW
Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:44 AM
Thursday, March 14, 2013 1:31 PM
RIONAEIRE
Beir bua agus beannacht
Thursday, March 14, 2013 1:43 PM
FIVVER
Quote:Originally posted by BYTEMITE: Fact: Benjamin Franklin invented the Theory of Butter Superiority - a 1770s diet plan that consisted of dunking everything in melted butter to overcome parasitic drain on nutrients from syphilis. He was his own best costumer, and died of a combination of complications from a massive heart attack, gout, and obesity.
Thursday, March 14, 2013 4:02 PM
Friday, March 15, 2013 4:43 AM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Friday, March 15, 2013 5:50 AM
Friday, March 15, 2013 6:00 AM
Quote:Originally posted by BYTEMITE: Supposedly humans taste like pork. But there are some differences. The blood is really the big flavour adder, plus the meat becomes nauseatingly greasy and smelly when you cook it. So, definitely eat humans raw.
Friday, March 15, 2013 11:46 AM
Quote: Man I hate looking for a job. I miss the days when I was high 24/7 outside of work and made a good living and was still fun at parties.... :(
Friday, March 15, 2013 1:16 PM
Friday, March 15, 2013 1:56 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: For years I kidded myself that the reason that I don't get bit by mosquitoes was because of good karma because I let spiders out of my house/work instead of killing them like everyone else. I'm sure the real reason is that they land on my skin thinking I'm food, they sniff around a bit, and then they realize that the blood inside me is just as dead as my soul.
Friday, March 15, 2013 2:52 PM
Saturday, March 16, 2013 6:33 PM
FREMDFIRMA
Monday, March 18, 2013 9:28 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: For years I kidded myself that the reason that I don't get bit by mosquitoes was because of good karma because I let spiders out of my house/work instead of killing them like everyone else. I'm sure the real reason is that they land on my skin thinking I'm food, they sniff around a bit, and then they realize that the blood inside me is just as dead as my soul.
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