Thread 106509823

Post tech scams

it never sounded plausible, what the fuck were people thinking
were they just too pussy to say a woman was full of shit?

>>106509823 (OP)
tf am I seeing?

>>106509823 (OP)

Is it a scam? As far as I'm aware the price was high because it was beautifully overengineered.

>>106509901
You could just squeeze the (expensive) bag with your hands.

>>106509896
fruit juice has been a long running health food scam in the US for a long time, coming and going in cycles, this product was a VC money dumpster fire selling overpriced packs of fruit juice pulp that would get fresh squeezed by the machine.
The machine itself was sold at a massive loss despite costing $500 because it was heavily overengineered for the task of pressing against a plastic bag of juice.
It also required wifi connectivity so it could scan the bags as a form of DRM (they claimed it was to enforce expiration dates)
It later turned out the bags could be squeezed by hand, and also that there was no pulp, the juice was already extracted, the bags contained only juice.

>>106509823 (OP)
Ai.

>>106509844
qrd? Looks fascinating and attractive.
>>106509947
Luddite

>>106509910
Why is his hand so small and red?

>>106510061
TWO MORE WEEKS

>>106510022
I'm always amused when people who don't know anything about data structures, search engines and compilers nor do they know anything about how hardware works try to sound like they know anything about AI.

>>106509901
>Expensive machine that literally just squeezes the pack.
>Expensive, proprietary juice packs.
>Obviously because it's pre-packaged juice, it's nowhere to be fresh and you can't guarantee that producers were not adding some crap to it.
>Must be connected 24/7 to the Internet or will literally not work. Obviously data about when and what kind of juice you consume will be collected by Jews or some shit.
>"NOOOO, YOUR JUICERO JUICE IS EXPIRED BY HALF A DAY! WE CANNOT SQUEEZE IT, PLEASE BUY NEW JUICE!"

It was basically your typical Smart Shit but with multiple additional levels of idiocy on top of it. Obviously it failed because finding enough genuine lobotomites to sell them this product was not possible.

Mars colony

>>106510124
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2e1x5IaO7k Worth noting that it's like the entire niche of shitty products that are directed directly to the most retarded of consumers. Because obviously I need a piece of shit connected to the Internet 24/7 for fuck know what to tell me how much salt I am allowed to use.

>>106510146
"Women safety" app as a selling point is the most Indian shit

>>106510022
A luddite is a "machine breaker", not someone who dislikes muh hecking AI

Zoom away now

>>106510363
You are a potential machine breaker in-making, though. Wish I could pre-emptively imprison you under the Frame-Breaking Act of 1812.

>>106510183
I genuinely can not tell if that is a parody or not

>>106510133
Is that a rendering? Otherwise glad to see they cleaned it up a bit. Doesn't look like a trashcan anymore.

>>106509901
The device was sold below cost because the goal was always to make money with subscriptions for their weird DRMd fruit satchels.

>>106509823 (OP)
Just everything about SpaceX is a pile of dunk.

>>106509893
Rich people can be simps too.

>>106510558

Just like Playstation and Xbox.

>>106509917
Yeah, but you can say that about any juicer.

>>106510707
juicers generally take real fruit and extract real juice from the shredded pulp remains

>>106510146
QRD, anon?

>>106510648
Mr. President?

>>106510951
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_251

>>106509917
>squeeze the (expensive) bag
you could just squeeze the fruit? you dont even need a bag. you could just go to the store and buy fruit.
the idea that it failed from the expose sepcifically showing squeezing the bag was retarded. maybe it did, but if it did then the people who were into it were even more retarded.

This scam Mac Mini hub doesn’t support SAT SSD cards. They tried to hide the facts but were caught: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255968990?sortBy=rank

They didn’t protect the fans from dust, no external power so you wasting process on it. Limited slots for USB-A.

>>106510707
That's not how a juicer works.
That's how the juice dispenser at your college lunch hall works, but that's not a juicer. A juicer grinds fruit and vegetables to extract juice and pulp.

Parental controls.

>>106509844

I forgot about that little shit! Must have never been released?

>>106511579
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1m7ucvm/the_flux_keyboard_is_finally_shipping_i_cancelled/

>>106511560
sudo apt remove malcontent

behold the greatest tech scam since the dot com bubble

>>106512585
>anon mad that he doesn't know how to make money with fartcoins

>>106512554
>uninstalls half of gnome libs and makes it unbootable

>>106510133
>>106510648
I wish they’d stop pushing for ship reuse so hard this early in the program. Get a mvp of the ship going first. drop the header tanks, heat shielding, and flaps, add a lightweight fairing and you’ve got a Saturn V with a reusable booster.
but no they have to keep redesigning it because the perfect is the enemy of the good.

>>106510329
Japan literally has woman only train carriages and restaurant seating etc

>>106512615
Works on my machine™

>>106512620
As does India

>>106510183
>directed directly

>>106509893
what's this?

>>106510648
why does spacex cause yuropoor to seethe so much? Seriously I don't understand

>>106515065
Lady claimed her company invented some magical bio chip that could detect hundreds of diseases from a drop of blood.
Investors poured billions into her company but it was all a scam.
I think she ended up in jail.

>>106509894
>>106510133
>>106510557
>>106510604
>>106510648
It's fucking insane that Musk isn't in jail. Literally a lifelong scammer yet the richest man in the world. All jewish systems must collapse.

>>106515093
Where is the mars base?

>>106515093
Because all of that was made by Asian and Indian immigrants. So stop taking credit, whitey,

I don't know if this count as tech or is audio wiccan shit

>>106509823 (OP)
That's not a scam, a jew made a lot of good money with that. You expect the søyim to do their own squeezing?

>>106515187
I think that's more a troll than a scam.
Making audiophiles put turds on their overpriced equipment, it's pretty funny.

>>106515131
The law doesn't apply to fraudsters as long as line goes up.
When line goes down, Musk will be found guilty of dozens of accounts of securities fraud, accounting fraud etc.

>>106509823 (OP)

> Over $9m in debt
> less than $20k revenue after 7 years
> executive team has lavish "company retreats" to Hawaii on their social media page
> all their money comes from "investment" on WeFunder where they've scammed retards out of over $6m where they offer SAFEs in return (not even real equity)
> they partnered with a radio show host who was notoriously off the air half the week due to being a chronic drunk ( and a 0.35 BAC arrest on record). All the guy did was shill the app
> they're now partnered with some scam artist in Sacramento who is a known con artist being investigated by the DOJ
> SEC filings of this app have the government calling them retarded, I government terms
> If you say anything that isn't outright praise about them on Reddit on their radio hosts or their subreddit, their staff will cyberstalk you and send you a threatening letter from their lawyer for "defaming" them.

>>106510077
>you will never be a golden pulp fiction classic hero adventuring the skies with your merry band

It's. Just. Not. Fair.

>>106510183
Sometimes I feel ill from cringe
This is one of them

>>106515187
Audiophiles are about as smart as women

>>106515145
on mars
duh silly

>>106515336
>The Social Recommendations App Designed To Destroy Yelp!
>Designed To Destroy Yelp!
Just the phrasing alone tells me these are schizos

>>106509901
retard nigger

>>106510363
>A luddite is a "machine breaker"
a luddite is a protosyndicalist
>>106515093
the only good part of all the starship program.
tom muellers legacy, the real man behind spacex, retired before the startship shitshow

>>106515093
You’re wasting fuel to hover around, that fuel could have been used for something else. Why are you Americans so stupid.

>>106515093
Awesome, you can strap them to your mobility scooters and take a trip to the moon (no oxygen)

>>106510077
Damn anyone else wanna fuck that hybrid blimp in the ass?

Biggest German tech scam in recent history. They wanted to become paypal 2.0 but basically their finances were completely made up.
The founder is now wanted and currently hiding in Russia disguised as an orthodox priest (I'm not making this up)

>>106509823 (OP)
How did this fail yet shit like this succeeded?
Are coffeebros just fine with being scammed?
Well I guess given Starschmucks is so popular, the answer would be Yes.

>>106516019
It takes much more effort to create specific coffee types like latte macchiatos

>>106509823 (OP)
Who the fuck even drinks pureed vegetables like a fucking baby fr

>>106510046
His human skin needs to be changed every couple of weeks or his scales start to show through

>>106509910
Whoa cool it with the antisemitism, bro

>>106510061
Are we gonna drop dead yet, Alenka?

>>106515187
I feel like posting audiophile stuff is cheating, those freaks are completely gone.

>>106515605
The CEO is a known schizoposter on Reddit. All his inane ramblings get down voted to oblivion and they even had to private one of the subreddits after he sperged out too hard.
https://www.reddit.com/user/Sirclesapp/

>>106515187
Audiophile Rocks is from Patrick82 of the early Head-Fi days. He’s been trolling the community for at least 20 years and I hope he never stops. Pic related.

>>106515336
>they're now partnered with some scam artist in Sacramento who is a known con artist being investigated by the DOJ
I went to highschool with this guy. I always thought Zayn Silmi was going to go into comedy, that what he did at school talent shows and always told people he wanted to do. Ended up opening a coffee shop soon after hs and I lost touch with him

Reading the Reddit threads on him, I guess he achieved his dream. People are laughing at him

>>106516685
Oh shit you know that guy? I don't know him but I do know some do of the other people involved.

Apparently he's just a con artist. He made some business called "The People of Sacramento" that won some city grant to make a video which never produced. City can't get their money back. Ran a clothing store by the same name which looked like he robbed a Goodwill and did a 3x on prices. That went under due to terrible customer service.
He apparently rented some preferred parking spot at a mall and parked a car there, faking a giveaway to harvest data. It alluded the mall was involved. They had no idea about it.
He ran an unauthorized animal shelter non profit that the DOJ is apparently investigating him for.

Last I knew he's shitting up Sacramento with this Sircles thing. He's upset that some woman is doing an expose on him and he's filed a restraining order but also has apparently inappropriately texted her children and fucks around outside of her husband's work and has alluded that if they try something, he "has a ccw permit".

The guy is a fucking loon and it says a lot that these Sircles faggots partner with him. Especially the Sircles CEO guy, who has a lot of alleged eccentric and possibly illegal behavior.

>>106516019
K-cups are inexpensive in comparison and don't require Internet access.
The convenience of getting hot coffee is far more appealing than getting cold pressed wellness juices.
The real comparison would be if Keurig machines were just squishing bags full of stale ass brewed coffee that you could squeeze yourself.

>>106509893
Rich people who stole their money got scammed.
Give this chick a medal.

>>106510077
Send it over China an see how many femtoseconds it takes them to annihilate it when it’s within distant early warning radar range

>>106511596

THEN THERE IS HOPE

ONE DAY

ONE DAY

>>106509893
She almost ended Walgreens whole career on a promise and a fake voice. Everyone wanted a 19 year old female Steve Jobs to storm Silicon Valley and they all got burned. She also got pregnant to try to avoid jail time. I hope she dies soon

>>106515096
She's in Club Fed with Ghislaine Maxwell

>>106516784
Yeah I know him.
In high school he was pretty funny and wanted to be a comedian. He always did this skit about 9/11 because his name was Hussein and it was still a big thing at that time (mid 2000s)
Used to go to his house and play Halo 1. On his Xbox. I remember his parents were pretty loaded. At some point after high school he bought a coffee shop in elk Grove But I guess now he's claiming he founded it. But I totally remember it was there already and it was kind of the local high school hangout spot

>>106516784
I actually saw the clothing shop that apparently this dude owns and embezzles money from last time I was in Sacramento. I had no idea it was his, it doesn't even look like a charity. It looks like some sort of trendy secondhand clothing shop or something in a nice area of midtown

>>106515718
Oh I remember reading about this. Crazy shit.

>>106515131
In jail for what? Delivering 90% of a product?
>>106515145
He’s launching and catching the largest rocket ever built and that’s not good enough for you either? You were a falcon 9 doubter weren’t you?

>>106515065
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes#

>>106517383
Good. The bitch was a psychopath.

>>106509823 (OP)
if they marketed it as a juice subscription with an optional dispenser, people probably would have ate it up.

>>106517479
Zuckerberg looking (l)ass

>>106517437
Musks probably going down in the history books as the 21st century Edison.
People are just salty

>>106515693
lol go shut down your coal plants to end up quadrupling the price of energy eurocuck. keep saving the planet while mohamed fucks your daughter

>>106517510
Actually, yes. Do away with the overengineered presser, sell the juice packets.
Like juice boxes or Capri Sun for the health conscious people. Easy profit.

>>106517396
The only way that clothing shop made sense is if he was embezzling.
That wasn't the non-profit/charity that I understand. The animal shelter was something else I think.
Either way, guy seems like either a retard or just a bad spirited conman.
>>106517389
>At some point after high school he bought a coffee shop in elk Grove But I guess now he's claiming he founded it.
He claims he founded Sircles too. He wasn't a part of it early on at all. He's apparently just a "social media manager"

>>106517837
Posting from chinkstores is just cheating.

>>106515189
nobody made any money off it lmao. They massively overengineered their hardware, sold them at a loss (but still well above what they should have cost), which were ultimately rendered useless when the company went out of business.

>>106510183
>directed directly to
Were you trying to say "directly marketed to..."?

>>106509893
God I want her to rape me while she tells me how much I disgust her with her unnaturally low voice.

>>106517799
But then how would they suck up the VC money selling an IoT device?
That's the only reason this piece of shit got built.

>>106510183
There's just no way this was a real thing.

>>106510998
Phoneposting should be a bannable offense on all boards.

>>106515713
yes me, i do.

>>106512617
Anon, the reusability is the only thing that makes it potentially viable as a Mars-capable spacecraft. After sending one up into orbit, you need to gas it up with like 85 more launches for it to have enough fuel for a Mars mission, or nearly 300 to top it off.

>>106516019
There's a difference between brewing a cup of coffee and squeezing juice out of a bag of juice.

>>106515158
white americans allowing immigrants to make them money is as american as apple pie and still american anon

>>106509869
arent they driving around right now?

>>106515273
The worst he will ever face is public humiliation. 4 trillion dollars even cut by 99% is enough for him to never be harmed by consequences

>>106515336
Damn, I heard these guys on the radio telling ordinary people in town to invest in shares, multiple rounds even.
Insane that it's 20k revenue when I'm pretty sure that's how much they were charging as a minimum investment.

>>106509823 (OP)
no wonder numales have no fucking jawline

>>106518397
The Sircles CEO is a egomaniacal schizo. It's not clear to me that he actually knows he's scamming people but he's a massive retard. Secondhand info I've gotten suggests that he apparently has never had a business plan. When he was asked once about a business plan, he pointed to some kid in the office and said "he's good with computers" and that's the closest thing he's ever had.
Same guy apparently has a tendency to threaten employees.

All the same people who do Sircles are also Tech2U owners. Apparently Tech2U is morally bankrupt as a company. Another ex employee told me once they had him do the same service call to a dementia patient like 6 times because the guy couldn't remember and kept calling. When he spoke up about it, they told him it wasn't his place to have an opinion

>>106518397
Oh also. Same CEO allegedly would bring suspiciously young girls into the office on rotation. Like changed on a weekly basis type thing. Same guy was accused of having a coke addiction. There's something super suspicious about that whole sect.

>>106515187
ok. now hear me out...

Gamer Girl Obscurum.

>>106510954
Just buy my phone and fuck off.

>>106510077
If I ever win a Money Lottery or the internet Fame Lottery or just end up having a lot of money somehow, someday, I'm going to build my own Akron or Macron or Hindenburg or Graf Zeppelin or whatever the fuck and I'll just live on the airship and drive it around to wherever I please, and obviously it will be operating with helium rather than hydrogen.
More realistically, perhaps someday I'll be able to create a smaller version that produces just enough lift that I can fly myself around in it, perhaps with little electric motors to run the props... like an Airship version of those small trains that you can ride and they function like real trains.

>>106519256
This was literally the fourth post in the thread.

>>106517378
>She also got pregnant to try to avoid jail time
don't tell me you wouldn't impregnate her too

>>106514511
>>106517987

Sorry, I have a bad flu and my brain is shitting itself. Either way, have one more to collection. This time from Dough Evans, the same faggot that tried to sell people Juicero: https://youtu.be/d7aOwLWuzH4

>>106519619
Doug*
Fuck, kill me!

>>106519619
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI-Ye8SP708 sorry for Vice video but here's more from this faggot. This guy is a veteran of scams targeting low-IQ retards.

I'm impressed they've been able to keep the hype going for well over a decade.

>>106519643
Also I cannot find it right now, but I think it's the same Doug Evans that got fined and jailed for some minority contracting fraud and was involved in some landscaping bullshit that also ended with almost million of dollars in fines for him.
How the fuck someone can be such a failure and still have seemingly bottomless pockets full of cash?

>>106517383
would

>>106519256
He's selling a bible now apparently.

>>106519660
Eco fags are some of the biggest suckers out there.

>>106516019
See all these replies to you >>106516031 >>106517265 >>106518326
Consumers are fucking retarded.

>>106515189
It did not made jack shit, CEO was begging people to stop squeezing Juicero packs and 6 months later the entire business quietly went down.
As someone above already mentioned tho - Doug Evans is just that retarded to attempt this kind of shit over and over again. Juicero, Cleanyst, Raw Water, some seed sprouting thing... the lolcow of entrepreneurship.

>>106518145
What are you going to do about it, computer boy?

>>106517898
>They massively overengineered their hardware
It was gorgeous machined out of a single block

>>106519660
looks better than the cybertruck

>>106518290
what is preventing engineers from adding moar thrusters and fuel, other than lack of infinite funding?

>>106517713
Edison does have a reputation for being a scumbag who stole most of his ideas, so you're probably correct.

>>106519093
that's a dude

>>106520143
>Raw Water
What, is that just distilled water?

>>106521021
no, worse. untreated water

>>106521021
Unfiltered/untreated water drawn from natural springs or streams. Touted for the minerals and "healthy" microbes in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjJJeFDk8Ok

>>106515131
It's not like Musk is doing anything different from all other rich "entrepreneurs", he is just the most successful. These days almost every new business venture is a fucking scam.

Wind and solar as main power source. In most of the places on Earth it can be a decent auxiliary power source, but greens think that using it as most of your power grid with batteries as a backup is a good idea for some reason. As a result we still rely on natural gas or coal, while we could be building nuclear.

>>106517813
Small world. Never expected to hop on /g/ and find out a high school acquaintance was a con man

>>106509823 (OP)
How did this bullshit even get investors? It's a FaaS (fruits as a service) juice squeezer. You couldn't even squeeze your own fruit.

>>106510146
>the first $4 smartphone
>just $12 per unit

>>106521423
The fat cats of investing and venture capital are knuckle heads with more money than common sense that operate solely on FOMO. Make a well dressed promise and theyll throw money at it even if just thinking about it and using common sense would tell its a dumb idea.
Other case in point, remember when just a few years ago tons of rich people began buying fucking monkey pictures because they thought it'd be the new bitcoin that would go to the moon? Same principle, more money than brains, falling for FOMO.

>>106515093
>AIEEEEEEEE THE CAP HAS A RETENTION LANYARD IM BEING GENOCIDED
yup, we're sending ordinance now

>>106510998
The fuck was their problem, the phone was too cheap? So fucking what?

>>106521553
the most hilarious part of NFTs is most of the NFT money came from crypto scamming in the first place. the only people who bought them who werent cryptobros were celebrities essentially paying for advertising among cryptobros, and generally the more "how do you do fellow kids" older artists from the 00s like snoop and eminem

>>106519660
I like 3-wheel small cars.
But then again I refuse to preorder anything so I never contribute to this shit either

>>106521673
Amerilards fall for this shit because they dont know 3 wheeled cars already exist (and are bad)

>>106521684
>reliant robin
Unlike retarded brits we at least put the wheels in the right orientation so it doesnt fall over

>>106522067
Didn't an amerilard 3 wheeled car get recalled some years ago because it was a death machine on three wheels?

Why are AIndians so volatile?

>>106517837
lol. Can't wait to write 16TB of data at 300kb/s

>>106522155
Probably, there have been a handful of them based on motorcycles that had issues. I think they were canadian though (can-am) or some such

Idk, cars should have 4 wheels imo, a radical concept I know

>>106521349
wind and solar are variable energy sources so unless storage technology advances it will always be supplementary to a main source which for most countries will still be coal, natural gas or petroleum.
>nuclear
lolno

>>106522194
The Clive Five wasn't a scam. It was self delusion.

>>106522745
>demonize nuclear power for decades
>protest every approved project
>install infinite meme panels and fans
>the only dependable source of energy are the few remaining nuclear sites
>surprised_pikachu.jpg when prices rise because everyone competes for dependable power

>>106522921
>schizobabble
>>>/pol/

>>106515093
You should've replaced both flags with the german one

>>106522947
To be fair, nuclear might be over regulated in some places, judging by the fact that cost differs wildly by country.

>>106523117
There is also a complete lack of production for building new plants, regulations or not, so the economies of scale are completely gone. The DoE also has refused to put any of the newer, cheaper and more efficient recent generation designs into certification for new plants so that also causes issues. Shocker, they are safer, cheaper, and more efficient but thats anathema because a handful of incidents 40 years ago.

>>106522745
>solar price crashed
>nuclear is the most valuable

>>106523117
It isn't the red tape, almost every NPP cost blows out to 150% around the world and timeline extended by up to a decade.

>>106522654
It was an EV, but I don't recall if the recall and shut down of sales was because the car tended to explode out of nowhere or because it tended to roll around, because I saw some americans buy one and they literally almost rolled around every time a truck passed by or there was strong winds in the highway.

>>106522654
>>106523260
3 wheeled "cars" can work, retards just put the 3rd wheel in the wrong spot or otherwise fuck up the weight distribution/steering and allow insane rollovers

front engine and steering, single wheel rear, front or all wheel drive is perfectly adequate and stable. people just hate it because this sort of trike is a total boomermobile and only retarded olds (currently) buy and ride them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4CQrIKxwI
Any day now, this will be released, and it will knock your socks off!

>>106523291
Yeah, you see the occasional trike around here, they're always open summer-only vehicles and are treated like a retard's motorcycle (a hobby/sportist vehicle).
When you make something designed for city speeds (40+ kmh), a normie's going to go for a regular car.

>>106523429
well *I* think they're cool and if I'm ever in the market for an ATV just for funsies and not actual work, I'd probably get a trike and throw dirt tires on it.

also while trying to find a picture of such a thing I found this from The Globe and Mail, i guess canuck newspapers really love Chris Redfield

>>106523596
I feel like that is more prone to rolling over in an ATV type use than an actual ATV, and those are already death traps

>>106523613
I think it would be fine, since under hard cornering it's mostly the front suspension that compresses and otherwise flexes, under a well tuned suspension setup you want the front softer than the rear afaik. so most of the force that would cause you to roll is getting bled off by the front suspension crunching down, and the tail is free to swing where it pleases but won't swing more since there's no force actively moving it, it's just being dragged by the front.

also a lot of ATV accidents are from retards gunning it too hard and flipping or losing traction, but that's harder to do on a front wheel drive vehicle. instead of crazy oversteer and the front wheels lifting off under power, all contributing to to a roll, you would have severe understeer under power and less pitching up under power

>>106521395
Go figure. Reenforces that I'm not crazy and these guys are all fucking nuts

>>106519589
atleast it's a rubycon one lol

>>106523165
>We just need to cut the red ta-ACK

>>106510133
crazy that anyone thought that this was ever happening, like how gullible can you be

louis reviewed couple of really stupid ones, like an auto cat toilet that will strangle your cats and fuses that will blow at 4x the power they are rated for

>>106523680
SOLAR FREAKIN' ROADWAYS

>>106525256
>implying the "rubycon" is not just an empty shell with an even smaller capacitor inside (nesting doll style)

>>106523680
It can work but YOU AMERICANS HATE FREE STUFF.

>>106510604
1. Find some retard-tier, obsolete, futuristic idea
2. Blow your undeserved money on it
3. Find out it doesn't work, just like the people from 70 years ago who first came up with it
4. Deliver absolute retardation in its place.

>>106516019
these things do what they say: make coffee very quickly.
my issue with them is the coffee just doesn't taste very good and all the single-use, disposable plastic for each cup. not that it's a scam, it's just demonstrably worse than brewing coffee the normal way. and if you're only brewing one cup rather than a whole pot, a regular coffee maker is fairly quick anyway.

>>106525988
5. Thunderf00t makes pedant video demolishing you and sucking his own dick over how smart he is

>>106525990
iirc the original "use case" for these things was small shops that often sell coffee, but didnt like brewing an entire pot for the ONE(1) guy who bothers buying any that hour or two, and offices that similarly have just that ONE weirdo who NEEDS a cup of coffee at 4pm and either doesnt want to make a whole pot or ends up wasting nearly a whole pot.

unfortunately it came out just as the practice of every convenience store offering coffee was dying anyway because of the rise of energy drinks, but suburban tech mongers love their single servings and plastic trash so they adopted it. afaik the "inventor" of the keurig went on record saying that he regrets making it and that how things went and where the device was popular was not what he envisioned at all. or maybe it was the tassimo guy. idk

at least these days you can get re-usable pods so it basically just becomes a janky espresso machine, and a lot of manufacturers have switched to using a teabag like material instead of plastic for everything but the top, which is basically just thick aluminum foil

>>106510022
>Only 600 billion dollarinos and you too can get 13% accuracy!
>Only 25 years before you start seeing profit! What's the matter, goy? You don't wanna lose "the race" to China, right?
It's a scam, bud.

>>106509823 (OP)
these 10$ gilette 3-4 pack razors for specific handles, who even buys these when electric razors and regular razorblades exist and cost like 1/15 the price

>>106515096
She did and got emergency pregnant to try to avoid it. There's no greater crime in America than making an oligarch uncomfortable, so it didn't work.

Not really a scam, just dont seem like that great of a deal in practice.

>>106525256
>rubycon
Is that a play on Rubicon, as in "crossing the Rubicon"?

>>106525838
>>106525931
I don't understand why this is disliked

>>106526114
I want to believe.

>>106516019
>Are coffeebros just fine with being scammed?
yes

>>106526114
It really destroys itself with the subscription to have more than 50 recipes.

>>106526134
solar roadways present a lot of potential maintenance issues and the existence of cars on the road would occlude the panels.

>>106525931
>>106526134
Because asphalt:
>incredibly cheap
>lasts a very long time
>can be fully recycled
>can be painted on easily
>will expand and contract when the temperature changes
versus solar panels:
>are very expensive
>are fragile and need to be replaced anyways after solar panels lose efficiency year over year
>not easily recycled due to components and rare metals
>cannot be painted on and no, LED lights are a horrible idea especially if you're trying to generate power from a bright and sunny day
>will become fucked when the temperature changes dramatically

Another way to put it, instead of putting solar panels in a parking lot that get driven over every day until they break you could just build them over the parking lot and it would make the solar panels last far longer and provide shade for people and cars as a bonus.

>>106509823 (OP)
Are vaporware scams?

>>106516019
>Are coffeebros just fine with being scammed?
Those things aren't used by "coffeebros".
They are used by normies who think making filter coffee is too much work and just want to get caffeinated.

>>106517265
>The real comparison would be if Keurig machines were just squishing bags full of stale ass brewed coffee that you could squeeze yourself.
It's instant coffee so there really isn't much difference.
Squeeze it from a capsule or just scoop it from a jar.

>>106515093
A good refactor is so sexy

>>106526264
it has been over a decade since any of these boomerisms have been true. solar panels are cheap as fuck, are nearly 100% recyclable, and have a near 30 year life cycle to begin with. everything you said was solar panels in their first year. i know boomers think the world is static but the reality is, technology improves over time

>>106525723
That was just a marginal design from the get go. Modern designs from proper countries are all far far safer than that ever was, even when not operated by midwits
>>106526344
>solar panels are cheap as fuck, are nearly 100% recyclable, and have a near 30 year life cycle to begin with. everything you said was solar panels in their first year. i know boomers think the world is static but the reality is, technology improves over time
Yes, the solar panels that have to support thousands and thousands of pounds of vehicle + road abrasion on the glass that severely degrades their efficiency, ignoring the million other problems with a solar road, are going to be cheap and never lose efficiency and last 30 years /s

>>106523680
>>106526134
Why do techbros try to revive this concept every few years? Did it appear in some normieflick from the 80s years ago so now they HAVE to make it real because lol nerd cred? Was it in an old Cyberpunk novel or some shit?

>>106526344
the real issue is
>put solar panels in the road where they will get driven over, even with perfect maintenance and magic forever panels impervious to damage there's still a fucking car blocking it
vs
>put solar panels ABOVE the road, where they can be free of obstruction and even create shade/rain shelter for pedestrians
but i guess because that makes sense and makes the place livable and marginally more walkable the car-brained yanqui seethes and dilates about it

>>106526344
And I'm sure it will keep improving but as long as its job is to replace asphalt it will never stand a chance. You're replacing something that already works and is *literally* dirt cheap, because it's just cement. Any situation where a road could be solar panel tiles is a situation where a road could be asphalt with solar panels to the side, or above it. The road and the solar array will last longer and do their individual functions better.

>>106522745
They’re lying to you. Nuclear has obvious waste issues meanwhile wind and solar waste is just superficially buried or thrown in the ocean

>>106526134
it's such a stupid fucking idea
pavement receives such incredible amounts of abuse you're gonna start a silica lung epidemic if all roads were made of glass slowly being pulverized to dust, why not put the solar panels over the ROADWAY or the SIDEWALKS, or parking lots or ROOFTOPS??
So much empty space and you choose to put it on the one place that has tires rolling on it 24/7

>>106526344
>have a near 30 year life cycle
Not when you drive over it lol.

But even more importantly it will be slippery as fuck.
You can't just make roads from random materials, it has to be grippy to be safe.
Making roads that are safe in almost all weather conditions and that last more than a couple of years before needing resurfacing is already a challenge.

>>106526073
most men do, they don't know DE razors exist, they were phased out of living memory over decades after the patents expired, it's purely EDC redditors keeping DE razors alive, since they haven't been produced in decades and all DE razor blades are new old stock from long since bankrupt factories.

>>106526134
You can't put any nontrivial weight on solar panels or else they get extremely scratched, shatter, and stop working altogether. And I don't mean trucks or cars – people are too heavy to walk on any kind of solar panel.
Then the angle is wrong – you'd only get power from horizontal panels in summer and then almost nothing for the rest of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpwx-8s1M38
The solar roads he discusses were unceremoniously ripped out since then.

all i learned today was that we should unironically build more solar panel shade structures in parking lots and other places people and cars stay put on sunny days

>>106526425
>Nuclear has obvious waste issues
No it doesn't.
The amount of high level waste is absolutely minuscule and can easily be buried inside a mountain.

>, but, but but....what if future lizard men dig it up 5 million years from now?
How is that even a concern?
But even so they'll lean "spicy rock bad" soon enough.

>>106526489
And they’ll get stolen like copper wire and plumbing

>>106526523
who's stealing plumbing?

>>106526510
Where does the extreme cost of nuclear energy come from when it was touted as energy so cheap it could be considered free back in the 50s

>>106526465
surely you jest and i'm not gonna suddenly not be able to buy them10 years down the line

>>106526536
The same people that steal everything else

>>106526523
We'll have to figure out some other kind of technology to deal with low trust societies. I live in a high trust society so this isn't my problem

>>106526465
Cartridge razors are objectively better.
You just have to buy some cheap no-brand cartridges to avoid having to pay for advertising.

>>106526556
I think it was mentioned in a Soprano’s episode once

>>106526541
china has your back dont worry

>>106526571
they go dull after 4-5 uses and you start pressing harder and harder to shave, DE blades go dull too, you don't have to think about swapping them out, they only cost a few cents

>>106526510
>bro just bury this radioactive waste into the dirt, what could go wrong?
the water tables in northern california are still fucked with arsenic 150 years after gold mining
ive never heard a convincing argument for nuclear to begin with when all the other actually safe alternatives do just fine
you are still going to get scammed by the power company regardless of what they use

>>106526539
>Where does the extreme cost of nuclear energy come from
All the ridiculous legislation created by "environmentalists" (really big coal).
Nuclear is plenty cheap in China and Russia.
All the plants France build before hippies took over their government were also cheap.

>>106526439
but brooooo its so scifi its such a good idea solar panels r so robust!!!!

>>106526489
unironically there are solar panels all over the fucking place these days. look up once in a while, the street lights have em, more and more private homes have em, bus and smoking shelters have em, theyre everywhere THATS APPROPRIATE and thats beautiful

>>106526510
>, but, but but....what if future lizard men dig it up 5 million years from now
they dont have to the rain already does that. zoomers need to pay more attention in school

>>106526539
nuclear plants are really expensive to build and get certified, so it makes line go down for a few years while money is being spent. boomers would much rather maintain 100 year old coal plants because it's "cheaper" by being a recurring cost for all eternity

>>106526510
>>106526630
Oh you touched a rock and now you feel bad? That sounds like a issYOU not an issME

>>106510077
>>106515713
>>106518171

>>106526571
dunno man, they still cost couple of bucks you can buy a 100 of these little shits for 10$ from ali. Yes, they will go dull after like 3 uses max, but who cares when they are this cheap.

>>106526465
>>106526571
i just have an electric clipper and one of those big bags of 30 single blade disposables for like 4$. the clipper is close enough for everyday use and i only use the bic disposables if i need a really close shave for some reason (which basically never comes up anymore anyway)

>>106526610
Nuclear is perfectly safe, you just got brainwashed sorry.

>But Chernobyl.
Carbon moderated reactor with positive void coefficient - we never build those in the west, only reactors with a negative void coefficient for obvious safety.

>But Fukushima
1 death (high estimate).
Way more people die every week trying to install solar panels on their roof, slipping and breaking their neck.

>>106526665
They last way longer than DE razors.
More blades = longer life.

If you only get 3 uses you don't know how to shave.
Like did you know you have to soak your beard for at least 10 minutes before shaving?
Yeah if you go in bone dry your blades will go dull almost instantly.

>>106526610
>ameicans fucked up basic caveman tier mining, therefore modern nuclear BAD

ameicans also fucked up public transit, taxes, fiat money, and guns. i guess all those things are bad too

>>106526689
no retard, you got brainwashed. there are many more than just two measly fucking meltdowns to count.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents
and every single one of them has left water undrinkable and land unarable for millions of acres total. people dying isnt the only consequence to be concerned of you insufferable dipshit.

>>106526724
I used both and they didn't last that much longer.
I always shave after bath when the skin is moist, who the hell shaves with dry skin, you're just tearing out your hair.

>>106526740
>m.
of course the anti-science /pol/ack is a fucking phonepoter.

>>106526731
cant even do that right but we'll handle nuclear no problem. thanks for making my point for me, retard

>>106526740
>land unarable for millions of acres total
Yey!!! let's make up bullshit!

>>106509823 (OP)
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>>106526746
>>106526724
i use single blade disposables and just lather up with warm water and its always gone fine. but i also rest my razor in a mug of boiled water

>>106526751
im fine with america not having reactors. every other country will do it just fine (but shouldnt because the true GOAT is hydroelectric/tidal, nuclear is for plebs in the praries and swamps with no access to moving water)

>>106526539
Over regulation.
It's being pulled back now.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ordering-the-reform-of-the-nuclear-regulatory-commission/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/deploying-advanced-nuclear-reactor-technologies-for-national-security/

>>106526773
>just lather up with warm water and its always gone fine.
You then have to leave it there for 10 minutes before shaving.

To explain: hair is the same material as fingernails.
Notice how much easier it is to cut your fingernails after taking a long bath?
That's because nails and hairs are porous and (slowly) soak up water making them thicker and a lot softer.
Fathers don't teach their sons this anymore causing their sons to buy vintage razors and troon out.

>>106526827
I have to see before I believe it.
Trump is in bed with the coal industry and they have everything to lose if America really embraces nuclear.

>>106526830
>if you dont use a Gillette™ 61 blade razor you must be a tranny
obsessed.

>>106526830
>vintage
i'm not sure about 2$ plastic razor from aliexpress being that vintage, lmao

Uber and uber eats has to be up there with the most insidious tech industry scams, they pay as little as possible to their drivers, some states now force them to make up the difference to 1.2x minimum wage + mileage as a weekly lump sum).

They take a nice 35% cut from restaurants for having faciltated the transaction so stores just raise their prices 35% to break even, customers pay these increased fees plus delivery fees PLUS express surcharges if you want your delivery direct to your door and not tacked to the start of a massive 5 restaurant batched order where your shit will be tepid cold when it gets to you.
They even manage to rob their own shareholders by cooking their accounting books so they never turn a reportable profit despite all this skimming off the top.

>>106519619
holy shit, that guy has an autistic fixation on using machines to squeeze things out of bags vertically.

>>106526905
another perfect example of The American Way
>do high tech thing wrong on purpose to "prove" that the established low tech boomer corp should stay in operation and get constantly bailed out

>>106526945
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail
incredibly likely but also most techbros have one Shower Thought and try to make it a "revolution"

see also: elon musk and tubes/calling things "X", zucc sinking billions into "metaverse" shit to this day, NFT idiots and the concept of taking "digital property" from platform to platform, literally everything about Palantir (literally named for the LOTR item and said in multiple interviews to be named that because alex karp is obsessed with elfs(he is going in the fucking book))

[spoiler]squishing stuff flat is also a common boomer fetish from people who touched themselves watching looney tunes whilst huffing lead fumes[/spoiler]

>>106526880
>They take a nice 35% cut from restaurants for having faciltated the transaction so stores just raise their prices 35% to break even

That will just give Uber even more money.

>>106519619
>Comments are turned off

>>106518111
it was some kickstarter garbage, dumbasses on that platform funded anything

>>106510183
I vaguely remember this making the rounds on /ck/ to get laughed at but never hearing of it outside of internet circles making fun of it. did they even sell very many? i bet subrurban wine moms bought a few but i dont remember it getting juicero level coverage

>>106526978
>people who touched themselves watching looney tunes
How could you not, drag Bugs is irresistible

>>106527032
I don't think it got into production

>>106527127
go back >>>/lgbt/

>>106527127
>>106527139
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDCto6Rzbqk

>>106512613
so are you retards finally accepting this was always a way to make money (by others joining) and never about a currency?

>>106526556
romanians

>>106526830
>Notice how much easier it is to cut your fingernails after taking a long bath?
No because I trim my nails randomly whenever they need it (usually after something split because of labor I was doing), never specifically after a bath.

>>106509920
>the juice was already extracted, the bags contained only juice.
I don't know why this made me laugh so much. Imagine the feeling of betrayal.

>>106527319
AvE has some hilarious videos going over the machine and the bags DRM:

https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ
https://youtu.be/hlVmppyflS0

>>106526366
>but i guess because that makes sense and makes the place livable and marginally more walkable the car-brained yanqui seethes and dilates about it
No, it's just not patentable so any company doing it has to compete with many others copying it. Solar roadways is dumb enough that nobody else had the patents, so you could sew up the retard market then convince politicians to let you siphon of massive amounts of tax money to make you stonkingly rich. They didn't quite manage that last part. They tried though. There's a bunch of tiny little solar road installations.

>>106509920
how do you overengeneer a pack squeezer, it's like a blade to open a bag and a piston to squeeze it. Like what can you even put in there for it to cost more than 500

Literally anything that is nuclear fusion related

>>106527385
even if the reactor worked, tritium is wayyy to expensive and dangerous to ever use for energy production.

nuclear fusion tests are just a replacement for nuke tests

>>106527376
>muh patents
i forgot that its impossible to make money in the US unless you "disrupt the market"

far be it for a techbro to just put the panels up and sell the electricity

"patent pending" in advertising copy did untold damage to the american psyche

>>106509901
You are both right and the engineering team will be proud forever.

https://blog.bolt.io/juicero/

>>106509920
>>106509823 (OP)
was there "maker" cringe involved in the juicero? i remember lots of retards overengineering really simple stuff to be 3d printed in that era and i feel like the juicero is the ultimate evolution of that

but i dont remember if it was so directly linked with maker cringe or just typical then-modern techbro lunacy on its own

The toaster seemed to have been a perfect challenge: an everyday object most people use regularly without a single thought given to its inherent ingenuity and utility. For Thwaites, the first step in the process was acquiring the toaster he had in mind and breaking it down for parts. He needed to understand exactly what he was trying to re-create. After completely disassembling and laying out the nearly 400 components built from roughly 100 different materials, he quickly realized the enormity of his endeavor. I knew exactly how he felt. I had run into a similar quandary. With the vague goal of re-skilling myself, I quickly ran up against the enormity of my quest: What did I actually want to make? What tool or tool family should I start with? Should I practice my woodworking skills or spend time learning about 3D printing?

Thwaites wisely opted to redefine the scope of his project, and decided he would recreate just the main operating system of the toaster, or in Thwaites’ words,
>“the bare minimum from which I think I can make a toaster that retains the essence of toasterness. These are: steel, mica, copper, plastic, and nickel.”
Even after he scaled down his goal to recreating only 5 of the nearly 100 materials, Thwaites still had an enormous challenge on his hands. He had no idea where to get the materials, or even where to start looking.

His initial, simple question had evolved into an exposition of how unthinkably hard it is to make anything, let alone do it by yourself.

Tesla, unironically

even before musk most of its money was made off of selling carbon credits to other companies, and they sold their early cars at a loss. musk's biggest mistake was buying it thinking it was a car company and not a greenwashing shell corp and VC hype train and it only got worse from there

>>106511560
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>106527378
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ

Basically they splurged by CNC machining the internal chassis out of solid aluminum and steel, the gearbox is CNC'd too, the motor and piston are massively overkill for the application and the outer case is seamless injection molded plastic, a mechanical roller would have done the same thing and cost 50x less.

>>106527540
knowing that some hick made this bodykit by himself makes this sick as fuck though and 1500 bucks for an atv that starts at all is a miracle of a deal, them shits are 10k new easy

>>106515131
He created the boring company for classified DUMBs. Hyperloop is an obvious front.