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mawadevlast Friday at 11:40 AM4 repliesview on HN

Why do I feel like I've just read a covert advertisement?


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cons0lelast Friday at 12:25 PM

Sometimes I feel like the people here live on a different planet. I can't imagine what type of upbringing I would have to have, to start thinkinkg that "eating food" is an engineering problem to be solved.

This might be a controversial opinion, but I for one, like to eat food. In fact I even do it 3 times a day.

Don't yall have a culture that's passed down to you through food? Family recipes? Isn't eating food a central aspect of socialization? Isn't socialization the reason people wanted to go to the office in the firt place?

Maybe I'm biased. I love going out to eat, and I love cooking. But its more than that. I garden. I go to the farmers market. I go to food festivals.

Food is such an integral part of the human experience for me, that I can't imagine "cutting it out". And for what? So you can have more time to stare at the screen you already stare at all day? So you can look at 2% more lines of javascript?

When I first saw commercials for that product, I truly thought it was like a medical/therapeutic thing, for people that have trauma with food. I admit, the food equivalent of an i.v. drip does seem useful for people that legitimately can't eat.

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mawadevyesterday at 8:53 AM

Why do I feel like my genuine comment has been overtaken by more bots posting a lot of meaningless text?

anttiharjulast Friday at 2:09 PM

I mean I don't think I'm giving a particularly favorable view of the product

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jennyholzer4last Friday at 12:52 PM

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