wait... 3D printing wine?
I'm not buying it, Captain Picard
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 4 March 2022 00:44 (two years ago) link
lol, it's like Juicero meets Theranos
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 4 March 2022 00:57 (two years ago) link
Juiceranos
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 4 March 2022 01:02 (two years ago) link
Also.. I mean, doesn't good wine have to go with the gravelly soil in the vineyard? Whisky that's been aged in a barrel for many years?
This sounds like a fucking scam
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 4 March 2022 01:03 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYIJzcxZXXo
― DJI, Friday, 4 March 2022 01:57 (two years ago) link
recycles its cartridges for you. it gets up and walks to the curb and barfs out its trash? now i'm intrigued.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 4 March 2022 02:11 (two years ago) link
xps the materials say "a range of wines", nowhere do they claim to be "good"
(probably grape drink with vodka)
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 4 March 2022 02:13 (two years ago) link
probably be handy on the ISS
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 4 March 2022 02:15 (two years ago) link
I mean IN THEORY the barrel aging, the soil, the peat, is all just molecules, so IN THEORY it could replicate all that if it could be measured accurately in the first place. But I doubt it has been or that this is sophisticated enough to do that.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 4 March 2022 02:53 (two years ago) link
Looks completely worthless, thanks for sharing.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 4 March 2022 03:17 (two years ago) link
lol I thought this was the star trek thread at first because the season premiere of the Picard show does have him harvesting grapes and making wine
― mh, Friday, 4 March 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
too bad that's not a Kickstarter, I'd like to see how many dummies are setting $300-700 on fire
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 March 2022 03:29 (two years ago) link
automatic espresso machines aren't even good and all they have to do is grind beans, tamp them and push hot water through, they're not synthesizing Colombian crops
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 March 2022 03:30 (two years ago) link
Itโs not 3d printing anything afaict. Itโs a sodastream.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 4 March 2022 03:43 (two years ago) link
That is connected to the internet and charges per drink.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 4 March 2022 03:44 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/8v8GTM8.mp4
― *hic* (cat), Friday, 4 March 2022 05:48 (two years ago) link
what i am gleaning from this is that cock is welcome, and i think thatโs nice
― *hic* (cat), Friday, 4 March 2022 05:53 (two years ago) link
if this was actually real it would be fuckin cool as hell
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 March 2022 08:58 (two years ago) link
They must be doing a marketing push today, saw a post from Simone Giertz (a usually awesome builder/maker Youtube person) about her role as a seed investor in the company. At least she didn't go down the NFT route.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 March 2022 09:01 (two years ago) link
I drink only NFTs now
― Alba, Friday, 4 March 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link
I find it very hard to believe that isn't an outright scam.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 4 March 2022 18:42 (two years ago) link
"Yeah, it uses, um, molecules"
Like what the fuck is in that cartridge than can make merlot, coffee, lemonade & gin?
"molecules!" gimme a fucking break
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 4 March 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
kinda wanna poll the staff photos but maybe every snake oil startup has a gallery like this, i donโt browse enough of them to know
― *hic* (cat), Friday, 4 March 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
it's a sodastream. there are multiple cartridges.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 4 March 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
each bursting with molecules
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 4 March 2022 19:39 (two years ago) link
It's borderline Ali G. "Everyfing is made o moleules. So wha if me had all the kinds of molecules in one machine, me could make anyfing"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 4 March 2022 19:47 (two years ago) link
I mean, it's not wrong in a sense so broad it's being catcalled by a legion of dudes from Guys and Dolls
xp but I am proud of this terrible joke so I am posting it
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 4 March 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
i got yr drink right hereit's called the musk-ateerand here's a guy that says ...
― sarahell, Sunday, 6 March 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link
she is GETTING that emmy pic.twitter.com/wXo0aL1pte— lucy (@heylucymay) April 8, 2022
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 8 April 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
that felt too uncomfortably real
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 8 April 2022 21:21 (two years ago) link
It was a pretty good series. Waiting on the final episode of Super Pumped on Sunday (well, the final one of this season -- there's going to be a second focused on Facebook, in line with Mike Isaac's forthcoming book on same).
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 April 2022 21:28 (two years ago) link
I have trouble imagining workers actually expressing enthusiasm for having that dude as a boss / leader. I've only seen the first episode of Super Pumped so far and I can understand the workers sitting around fucking off and getting paid, or doing their tasks in the background, but actually enthusiastically cheering for dude's speeches?
― sarahell, Sunday, 10 April 2022 07:36 (two years ago) link
Yet we see it happen. WeWork was notorious for it, the โfuck you Carreyrouโ chant at Theranos occurred, people do buy in. Itโs goofy as hell but there ya go.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 April 2022 13:48 (two years ago) link
Once a company reaches a certain size, you get a number of employees where their role isnโt easily connected to what the company actually sells, and bizarre corporate sloganeering pops up. I think the majority of people at non-startups just kind of passively ignore it, but there are outliers who latch on to that internal marketing to justify their work livesMy impression is that startups, especially ones that donโt turn a profit, push that company culture bit a lot harder because the company doesnโt necessarily do anything yet!
― mh, Sunday, 10 April 2022 15:12 (two years ago) link
i just wonder about the people who buy into it. the followers, as it were. otoh ... idk why i have trouble accepting this since Hitler and Trump but ... sometimes i have to be reminded
― sarahell, Sunday, 10 April 2022 17:15 (two years ago) link
I think the majority of people at non-startups just kind of passively ignore it
yeah, this attitude I understand ... like, clerks at Walgreens don't seem really gung-ho about "Team Walgreens"
― sarahell, Sunday, 10 April 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
Companies regularly place more demands on their workers than even a good, conscientious worker can satisfy. I always figured if I delivered somewhere between 90% and 95% of 'perfection' I was not just earning my pay, but an excellent employee. I totally ignored the motivational hoo-hah and quietly met my own standards.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 10 April 2022 18:36 (two years ago) link
I totally ignored the motivational hoo-hah and quietly met my own standards.
Yup.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 April 2022 18:44 (two years ago) link
Well you're hardly going to get yourself a waffle party with that attitude, are you?
― kinder, Sunday, 10 April 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link
I feel better already.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 April 2022 18:48 (two years ago) link
;) I'm enjoying Severance
― kinder, Sunday, 10 April 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link
Having a couple of times in my life been around cultish professors or bosses and gotten taken in by them (though nothing to those extremes) I found myself kind of willingly suspending disbelief just because (1) it was sort of fun and (2) it can be self-serving to do so, since true believers tend to reap benefits. I always maintained a little bit of psychic distance and had almost a split consciousness about it, but I get it.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 10 April 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
Sucks that the main takeaway from Steve Jobs' story is that everyone thinks you have to be an asshole cult leader to be an effective CEO.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 11 April 2022 02:55 (two years ago) link
Now speaking of cults
Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here. pic.twitter.com/lfrXACavvk— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) April 11, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 April 2022 03:25 (two years ago) link
Perfect.
VC Marc Andreessen has railed against cities like San Francisco for failing to build more housing. But when his own hyper-rich, manicured SF suburb proposed a zoning change to allow a small number of multifamily homes, Andreessen and his wife wrote this. https://t.co/YzqdfSV20q pic.twitter.com/Aq9HhDpKPk— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) August 5, 2022
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 5 August 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
the egg man is bad
― mh, Friday, 5 August 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
This guy on Hacker News is buying up the entire town of Pine Bluff, Arkansas for reasons that seem unclear even to him. Someone please help him go home to his children pic.twitter.com/6wO0JIyxQ1— Brooks Otterlake (@i_zzzzzz) August 15, 2022
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Monday, 15 August 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link
His twitter handle is the same as his username there, it's just post after post of him getting robbed by Pine Bluff tweakers.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 15 August 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
a new wrinkle I didn't see yesterday
oh. pic.twitter.com/TFiddlxQAA— Amy Hoy (@amyhoy) August 15, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 15 August 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link