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So I ordered some of this stuff a year ago and it finally arrived today. I had long ago given up all hope so I was so happy I nearly tripped running from the UPS truck and impaled myself on a garden gnome. Now while some of you folk might say "good riddance to bad rubbish" I said victory is mine, went inside and made myself some soylent.

For those of you who don't know what soylent is, it's a gimmicky version of Ensure that was supposedly inspired by The Matrix (which is what inspired me to buy it, I love The Matrix, don't care how played out it is at all). Remember that scene in the Nebuchadnezzar where Neo gets served up a bowl of white spaceship jizz and goes wtf, to which Morpheus sagely replies "it has everything the body needs"? This is supposed to be like that stuff.

Only it really isn't. I can't turn my tap on and have soylent pour into my piehole. As obscene as food delivered via the kitchen sink sounds it would be really neat. The guy who developed the product wants to make that reality because he has ambitions for curing world hunger but considering it took them a year to ship me 1 week's worth of powdered food I am not holding my breath. Plus it requires potable water which is also an issue.

The ingredients, I like that there are included some exotic trace minerals not even most nutritionists consider including such as Chromium and Molybdenium and the ingredients are not at all exotic, which probably took a lot of thought in itself as exotic ingredients would defeat the purpose.

The taste is like Ensure, smells like baby food and this is kind of repulsive. If it's all you eat you'll be pooping baby poops too since it is a soupy liquid meant to be consumed like you would a smoothie. Not a fan of this. Would be more interested in some kind of compact food cube like... pokeblocks or something.

HOWEVER once I began slurping it down I could not get enough and had to cut myself off to avoid getting iron poisoning or some other mineral OD. My body smiled and this tells me I must've been missing some essential nutrient, which is really scary. I did some homework, wrote some fiction and played some videogames and it was all remarkably easier to do and this is after having taken a course of nootropics for months with limited effect. I was definitely short on something big time. I am craving the stuff right now.

This ain't a sales pitch, I think it's actually somewhat easy to make your own version of Matrix soup. I've read recipes where people have attempted making their own and most seem decent.

I am excited for the future of food in general though, With all these zero calorie products and supernutrient rich one stop blends I think a future where food is only eaten for fun and excitement because the nutrient part is easy is within our reach unless our genetics change too much due to radiation. Food is serious business and it shouldn't be because it's kind of a downer.

Point taken - sapienti esser nunc sat no sapant (It's been a while)

It's been so long I don't even remember if I knew you man 

There's some recollection but it may be a mental mirage, best not to pursue it or bad things happen.

I am fuuuuuuuuuuucked up.

Is that Esperanto or Latin?

Hi GlompChomp!

I genuinely don't care about whatever language you use, that's all on you!

I just didn't want to participate in something w/ that name, because I choose not to use it, but there was also a good convo kicking up and I wanted to jump in.

So there's all that then!

Cain, I must somewhat sheepishly admit I meant Marvel's Agents of Shield and not The Shield

I'm more surprised you're not upset over the spoiler tbh.

No one invites me to parties.

PS your art and humor is p. rad.

Ah the Millenials. Sociologists love to hate us and so does your grandmother. We are a generation that will never stop believing, even when it is clearly bad for us. No boundary is too uncrossable, no dream too unachievable, no organism too unfuckable.

You know what the problem is with us Y people? We all know that whoever named us Generation Y was trying to imply that our children were going to be born into a post-apocalyptic world in order to sell us bulk camping gear and expensive bunkers for the Paris HIltons yet we all know exactly what we would do in the event of a zombie apocalypse.

We are a generation who pretty much without exception get the big con yet buy into it anyway. For shits and giggles. For the lulz. We know the Baby Boomers took all the good stuff and left us with a gaping anus for a world, yet most of us are employed by them, listening to their full of shit personal development speeches, trying hopelessly to gain their approval on TV networks, which we know are just another one of those played out jokes. Some of us buy iphones to be ironic (and if you have done this may God have mercy on your soul).

Why do we do it? Why, why is everything a big joke to Generation Y? Even our civil rights movements are jokes, our versions of feminism, masculinity, LGBT culture and so on is nothing but a litany of inane tumblr memes spiring into an endless universe of I can out-obscure your special little snowflakeness. There's hardly any cohesiveness, except on the social mores of the Boomers. Those we have all collectively and silently agreed to uphold. As a joke of course. To be ironic. Because we can't be arsed to do anything about it. It's nihilism with a twist of rainbow. Spawned of the kind of world Aldous Huxley dreamed up in such simplistic terms, we willingly call each others Alphas, Betas, Gammas and so on. Well, some of us. To some of us these things are offensive, yet not as offensive as the Boomer's struggles it seems. Nothing to provoke real rage, but slang words to refer to different human races? Something we all know, as members of Generation Y and an integrated global world, we are completely, well past seeing as actual problems?

Our rage is gone. For all the jokes we're capable of, our ineffectiveness is decidedly unfunny.

Yes, though ideally it would also involve implosion, perichoresis, and transmigration, maybe.

Maybe you should change your title tho.  Not because you don't want to be iconoclastic.  Because it's ignorant to assume it confers to you a voice that is to be heard by anyone less presumptuous, verbum sap.

How about now?

The Shield is worth the haul.  It's not quite as good as The Wire, certainly rougher around the edges, but comparing the two is apt and not unfair to either.  And like The Wire, there's more than a level of headlines writing the script, as the series was influenced by the Rampart scandal.  If you can stick with it to season 4, you'll get to see Glenn Close giving a brilliant performance as Captain Rawlings.

With regards to Gotham, I'm just watching it now, and I note Bruno Heller is the writer for the episode, and presumably at least one of the lead writers for the series.  Not gonna lie, that makes me pause.  Heller was one of the writers for HBO's Rome, which was of course a great series.  But he was also a writer for The Mentalist, which was a very formulaic, episodic cop drama, though his episodes were notably better than many of the other writers for the series, dealing as they did with the "Red John" arc.

The Shield is all about faggot cops, I hate pigs, always trying to pork your donuthole in the Arby's parking lot for a "traffic violation".

I'll give you a traffic violation.

But seriously I'm watching The Strain right now. Anytime something has Nazis in it I'm hooked.

The Wire

That show says nigger a lot. My favorite nigger from The Wire is Bodie. He refuses to change who he is even though everything else around him changes.

Wait is that a spolier?

OMAR DIES AT THE END

DUMBLEDORE MARRIES SNAPE.

If only those were the weapons, there would be hardly anything for anybody to worry about.

How does that work LOL

Tri-UNE-cycle, see?

Possible real world application?

DISCLAIMER; I DID NOT REPLY TO UR THREAD BECAUSE OF THAT OTHER THING. THE TITLE CAUGHT MY EYE.

I read the article.

I like this part ;

"Bitch" is about not fitting the mold that women are supposed to fit. It is aimed at women who behave in "male" ways, women who are too ambitious or aggressive, women who are not as nice or as quiet as some people would like them to be."

Is basically true.

HOWEVER I have a question, if a bitch is sitting on my face and while giving me a moment to breath I call her a bitch to spice things up a bit, is that wrong? Like am I going to tumblr hell for that and will she feel degraded after or empowered?

Yeah, +/- 10 years or so and it'll be quite scary.

That said, the NSA and others can pretty much just listen in to any mobile phone at any time, making a call or not. So I'd suspect the main reason to develop the tech further would just be to make parallel construction that little bit easier. Local police get to feel like James Bond and with all the seizure cash kicking around it needs to get spent on something. You can only buy so many tanks.

Don't be concerned about the NSA. Be concerned about the NRO. They can read your mind. Well, within reason.

Here, you fistful of assholes deserve a wakeup call.

Ring ring ring, it's GlompChomp calling from a warzone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj3S4ryAKyE&list=UU5c0DefLjv1VStIbA84yiUQ


Wait that's not the right link.

http://www.electronictorture.com/

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6506148.PN.&OS=PN%2F6506148&RS=PN%2F6506148

http://www.bugsweeps.com/info/electronic_harassment.html

Ah the tricycle, that's silly stuff for kids. I'm an adult.

Only niggers should be allowed to carry and use guns.

Or something.

Fully agreed, arm all porchmonkeys and send them to space. Give the nuclear launch codes only to wetbacks. Mandatory circumcisions for whitey plus a 50% tax on farts.

If only those were the weapons, there would be hardly anything for anybody to worry about.

How does that work LOL

So when people think weapons and guns and the right to have them they think AMERICA FUCK YEAH or AMERICA FUCK NO.

Less people, maybe y'all are a big exception because this is a rosebud of genius, are aware of just how many other countries also put this into their law. Citizens can arm themselves without being viewed as criminals and can in certain situations use those weapons to kill people. Russia of course has this, Switzerland's pretty unique in that their military's a tiny professional force bolstered by mostly civilians with State issued assault rifles (and whatever else they want to buy). Israel's got a bizarre restrictive and permissive environment where a person is only allowed to own one pistol legally but is highly encouraged to do so. Yemen does not care what you want to buy short of missiles and WMDs and if you live there, you probably need something. Plenty of African countries are like this too hence the popular cliche "go to Somalia if you like to do xyz".

What is your opinion on weapon policy? Do you like weapons? Own any? Hate violence and love peace? This is a discussion thread.

In Discordianism generally violence is relegated as something Aneristic. So what does this make gun control? Essentially gun control requires forceful seizure of weapons and a high amount of control to keep weapons out of civilian hands. Is this also Aneristic?

So they found them trying to cross into Canada.

Those don't sound like terrorists, those sound like refugees who don't want to go home.

RUNNING FROM THE GLORIOUS WAR ON TERROR IS TERRORISM CITIZEN. YOUR COWARDICE BOLSTERS THE MORALE OF THE TERRORISTS. YOU'RE EITHER WITH US OR WITH THEM. STAND AND FIGHT.

This is a message from the NRA.

OH MY GOD I HAVE A FAN YES I WILL GIVE YOU MY AUTOGRAPH WHERE DO YOU WANT IT I'M FRESH OUT OF FELT PENS BUT THERE MIGHT BE ONE STUCK UP MY ANUS IF YOU COULD JUST REACH UP THERE THAT'D BE GREAT