can someone explain soylent to me?

1. 2018-02-26 at 6:01 AM UTC

   #1
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Soylent. What is it?
   
   I have encountered this beverage in the wild twice now. Both times were while working. Both times I was moving computer nerds, and they had boxes and boxes of it. If hindus have you move 10-time reused boxes that are falling apart and overloaded with rice, then computer nerds have you move half a trucks worth of soylent, along with 1 or 2 pieces of furniture and like 5 computers and monitors.
   
   THe soylent drinkers never lived alone, they always lived in an unkempt den along with other computer nerds. Most were fat and ugly, definitely virgins. In one of the two times, the computer nerds were playing magic cards while we loaded up their soylent and computers into the truck.
   
   I asked one of the MORALLY SUPERIOR BEINGs what soylent was, and they all chimed in explaining. They said its an easy way to supplement nutrition or that its a good way to eat healthy or something like that. They were all either too skinny or too fat.
   
   Now I see 4chan took soylent and ran with it.
   
   What the fuck is soylent and why do computer nerds drink it?
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   • A College Professor
2. 2018-02-26 at 6:02 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Soylent green is blah blah blah
3. 2018-02-26 at 6:04 AM UTC

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   A College Professor victim of incest [your moreover breastless limestone]
   I think its like
   
   .. protein powder but for people that don't work out
   .. 'ensure' for people that aren't advanced age
   
   whats it made out of anyway, ground-up cricket meat?
4. 2018-02-26 at 6:04 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by 哈哈你看不懂中文 Soylent green is blah blah blah

   
   what?
5. 2018-02-26 at 6:07 AM UTC

   #5
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by A College Professor I think its like
   
   .. protein powder but for people that don't work out
   .. 'ensure' for people that aren't advanced age
   
   whats it made out of anyway, ground-up cricket meat?

   
   I'd assume its made out of soy.
   
   in both times, the apartment had one room that was full of empty soylent bottles and trash.
   
   When I first approach you, I will interrogate you about what exactly you want me to move. THis includes me going form room to room before I have you sign paperwork.
   
   In both times, the nerds told me "nothing in that (trash) room goes. Its all trash.".... I'm gonna go ahead and write down an extra charge on the contract just for that. One of the rooms literally had a pallets worth of empty boxes of soylent bottles stacked neatly like a monument.
6. 2018-02-26 at 6:09 AM UTC

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   infinityshock Black Hole
   it's PEOPLE1!1!11!!!
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   • Lanny
7. 2018-02-26 at 6:10 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   WHY DO NERDS DRINK THIS SHIT?
   
   WHY DO NERDS LIVE IN A MESS?
   
   WHY ARE NERDS VIRGINS?
   
   I cannot make sense of this. I have better time making sense of HINDU thinking, and working with hindus is ALWAYS fucked up. There is ALWAYS some fucked up shit happening.
8. 2018-02-26 at 6:12 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   I cannot drive anywhere within a 50 mile radius without seeing apartment buildings and houses where I worked. I moved this WHOLE fucking city and all the surrounding cities too. I have also moved stuff in and out of the microsoft campus for them to make concept art of a motorcycle and VR or something.
   
   
   But only times that I have seen soylent was in disgusting nerds homes.
9. 2018-02-26 at 6:41 AM UTC

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   benny vader YELLOW GHOST

   Originally posted by BRiCK I cannot drive anywhere within a 50 mile radius without seeing apartment buildings and houses where I worked. I moved this WHOLE fucking city and all the surrounding cities too. I have also moved stuff in and out of the microsoft campus for them to make concept art of a motorcycle and VR or something.
   
   
   But only times that I have seen soylent was in disgusting nerds homes.

   
   thats the prerequisite for being a good serial killer,
   
   an encyclopedic knowledge of the city. level up by noticing and remembering the location of CCTVs.
10. 2018-02-26 at 6:52 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by benny vader thats the prerequisite for being a good serial killer,
    
    an encyclopedic knowledge of the city. level up by noticing and remembering the location of CCTVs.

    
    I wrote a lengthy post about this somewhere, maybe zoklet or rdfrm.
    
    Yes, this is a perquisite.
11. 2018-02-26 at 6:56 AM UTC

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    Lanny Bird of Courage

    Originally posted by BRiCK WHY DO NERDS DRINK THIS SHIT?

    
    Cheap, healthy, and requires no prep.
    
    

    WHY DO NERDS LIVE IN A MESS?

    
    When most of what commands your attention (hobbies, entertainment, work) is constantly in your home it probably takes more willpower to do housework. Also not brining girls home reduces incentive to clean. Also the culture encourages it to a degree
    
    

    WHY ARE NERDS VIRGINS?

    
    Obsessive hobbies and competing demands for time/attention (becoming a "nerd" is large time investment) means romance sometimes takes a backseat. The culture also tends to attract the socially inept.
    
    I'm not actually sold on the idea there's any particularly strong "nerd"/soylent correlation though, around here it's considered more of a hipster thing, which is a distinct group from "nerds" although there's definitely overlap.
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    • The Self Taught Man
12. 2018-02-26 at 7:14 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    Their website suggests that this drink has %20 percent daily nutrition with 20g protein.
    
    Who sets these values? They're based on a bullshit 2000Cal diet, which is not nearly enough. This is starvation diet for a working person.
    
    So it seems, if I'm not mistaken, that the nerds are simply deceived by "convenient nutrition". If they can have "100%" of all that "they need", in a few bottles, that they wont have to ditch their hobbies, or even leave the room.
    
    BUt this is bullshit. This is not what nerds are supposed to be, they're supposed to be smart.
13. 2018-02-26 at 7:24 AM UTC

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    Lanny Bird of Courage

    Originally posted by BRiCK Their website suggests that this drink has %20 percent daily nutrition with 20g protein.
    
    Who sets these values? They're based on a bullshit 2000Cal diet, which is not nearly enough. This is starvation diet for a working person.

    
    Well it sounds like you're a professional mover yeah? Things are different when your job and hobbies are sedentary. A 2000 calorie diet is pretty stable for me, sans additional exercise I can't lose weight on 2k calories.
    
    

    So it seems, if I'm not mistaken, that the nerds are simply deceived by "convenient nutrition". If they can have "100%" of all that "they need", in a few bottles, that they wont have to ditch their hobbies, or even leave the room.
    
    BUt this is bullshit. This is not what nerds are supposed to be, they're supposed to be smart.

    
    Yeah, pretty much. What's wrong with that? I mean it's not strictly about not having to leave your room, not many people go on a pure soylent diet. Like I usually drink it in the morning because I never have time to make breakfast and you can drink it on a bus or train or whatever. There's also the fact that it's pretty cheap per calorie, even if you want to eat more or less than the 2000 figure.
14. 2018-02-26 at 7:41 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    nothing wrong with it per say, but it is somewhat strange why I've only ever seen one group of people drink it.
    
    Plus the whole "prepackaged %dv rations" seem like a slippery slope to tyranny.
15. 2018-02-26 at 7:43 AM UTC

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    Lanny Bird of Courage
    lol, well you can get the powder in whatever volume you want and it's like half the cost.
    
    It's kinda like "meal prep sunday", it requires a certain kind of low-grade OCD but the economics of the thing work out.