Local Canadian Man Autopsies A Skookum As Frig Juicero [AvE] - General

[video=youtube;_Cp-BGQfpHQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ[/video] His box opening methods are becoming more [sp]unwieldly[/sp]

I can barely understand what he's saying but I can tell it's good :v:

[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;52259325]I can barely understand what he's saying but I can tell it's good :v:[/QUOTE] You get used to [URL="https://www.avespeak.com/index.php?title=Main_Page"]Canuckistani[/URL] after awhile.

I want to like the Juicero, but I dislike it on principle. People blather on about how it's making healthy shit more accessible. It's really not. Do you think families who already can't afford to eat healthy things, non-processed food especially, can afford this? Some reviews I've read seem to think this machine and its subscription program (great ideas but horribly overpriced) are the solution to every health problem. But instead of shaming low-income people and accusing them of "not wanting to spend a few bucks to take of themselves," the actual solution isn't an IoT, overdesigned gimmick, it's local grocery stores and community gardens. This is for rich people who want an easy way to eat healthy. Let's not pretend otherwise.

That wiki says he claims to be from BC. As someone born and raised in BC, I can say that this guy is definitely one of ours. I also find myself having no problem understanding what he's saying/meaning, even if he uses a term I've never heard before. :v: In Canada, basically nobody uses the word "skookum" unless they're from BC. [I]skookum[/I] comes from [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon"]Chinook Jargon[/URL], which is a mostly-forgotten trade pidgin that was popularly in use in the Pacific Northwest until around the turn of the 20th century. The word means "mighty" or "strong" or "good", basically a fuckin' great attribute to attach to something. The word [I]skookumchuck[/I], or "mighty water", is [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skookumchuck"]a term for whitewater rapids[/URL], and one of the most famous rapids to be named for it is [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skookumchuck_Narrows"]the Skookumchuck Narrows at the head of the Sechelt Inlet[/URL]. There, the water can get going as fast as 17 knots (32mph or 52km/h) and the tide can have as much as a 2-meter height difference. [t]http://i.imgur.com/VXVy0ef.png[/t] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jeeqnAe.png[/IMG] [URL="https://plus.google.com/photos/photo/108042377948828082578/6357060987214664914"](source)[/URL] The word is so quintessentially BC it hurts. The only way it could be more pure is if it was made of marijuana and black bean sauce. All this to say, yes, this man is 100% genuine BC stock. [IMG]https://fi.somethingawful.com/images/smilies/emot-canada.gif[/IMG]

[QUOTE=Penultimate;52259409]I want to like the Juicero, but I dislike it on principle. People blather on about how it's making healthy shit more accessible. It's really not. Do you think families who already can't afford to eat healthy things, non-processed food especially, can afford this? Some reviews I've read seem to think this machine and its subscription program (great ideas but horribly overpriced) are the solution to every health problem. But instead of shaming low-income people and accusing them of "not wanting to spend a few bucks to take of themselves," the actual solution isn't an IoT, overdesigned gimmick, it's local grocery stores and community gardens. This is for rich people who want an easy way to eat healthy. Let's not pretend otherwise.[/QUOTE] "Can't afford to eat healthy things".... really? Do you [B]really[/B] believe there is such a thing?

[QUOTE=cartman300;52259575]"Can't afford to eat healthy things".... really? Do you [B]really[/B] believe there is such a thing?[/QUOTE] It's not necessarily "I can't afford the apple on sale for thirty cents." It's more "do I have time to constantly make home-cooked meals with meat and vegetables feeding a ton of people?" My reaction to the Juicero isn't really a reaction towards the product, but the attitude certain people (just dumb articles I've read because I'm bored) have when it comes to this and eating healthier. "What? You don't want to spend thousands of dollars on juice??? You don't care about your body!" The dumbest article I read about it was about how a person might've eaten fried chicken and a pack of cigarettes for lunch, but since they had a packet of juice they were [I]~healthy~.[/I] Honestly, it's a fantastic idea that falls short because not many people can spend $600 on a juicer.

Juicero is stupid because even the packs are overpriced. $5 for a single serving? You can get a liter of juice for that much - the overpriced non-GMO organic free-trade bullshit stuff, even. You're paying extra money for a machine that lets you pay extra money for a less convenient product. I really feel like this is a tech-bubble product. Nobody responsible ever thought critically about price margins - the machine is stupidly overbuilt and has preposterous features, the packets are obscenely overpriced and still not as convenient as just keeping a liter of store-bought juice in the fridge. You can't make people buy an expensive machine just to opt in to an overpriced marketplace. I'm pretty sure Apple has a patent on that.

"This is like Netflix for juice!" Holy fuck I lost it. I almost didn't believe that subscription thing, everything about this juicer is just bizarre.

His tone totally changes when he opens the thing up, and with good reason. All of that machined aluminum reminds me of old server-grade hardware. And it just keeps going and going.

holy shit the investors really gambled with the subscription income : they lose so much god damn money making and selling these.

I eagerly await the hacks he finds for the innards of this thing, and I wonder if he will try to measure the clamping force this thing exerts. [QUOTE=cartman300;52259575]"Can't afford to eat healthy things".... really? Do you [B]really[/B] believe there is such a thing?[/QUOTE] Having lived it, yes. The costs associated with using fresh ingredients...factor in the frequent trips to tue store to purchase them due to short shelf lives...and the lack of time and energy present when someone's scraping by on the skin of their teeth...yeah, yeah there is. Two six packs of GV boxed mac and cheese cost about seven dollars or so and will feed a family of three all week with minimal time and energy investment to prep. You cant beat that with fresh. It may not be the healthiest way to eat but its cheap as shit.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;52259613]Juicero is stupid because even the packs are overpriced. $5 for a single serving? You can get a liter of juice for that much - the overpriced non-GMO organic free-trade bullshit stuff, even. You're paying extra money for a machine that lets you pay extra money for a less convenient product. I really feel like this is a tech-bubble product. Nobody responsible ever thought critically about price margins - the machine is stupidly overbuilt and has preposterous features, the packets are obscenely overpriced and still not as convenient as just keeping a liter of store-bought juice in the fridge. You can't make people buy an expensive machine just to opt in to an overpriced marketplace. I'm pretty sure Apple has a patent on that.[/QUOTE] I think the concept is ok but they went overboard on the machines features (online only, trying to DRM the packets) and the price of the packets and having a subscription is insane Nespresso is a similar concept, probably where they got the idea from but people generally do t have a problem with nespresso, it's more expensive than grinding your own beans but it sells on convenience and they don't try to lock out third party pods

I had heard people talking shit about this thing and I thought it was just a normal juicer (i.e. you can put fruits/vegetables in it and it blends them into juice) that required wifi and had a camera and stuff and that's why people said it was dumb. The fact that it literally just squeezes a bag is astounding to me. It also makes no sense, why bother putting so much quality engineering cost into a dumb ol' squeezy box? I would say it sounds like money laundering except wasn't it a kickstarter at some point too?

theres a follow up video, i havnt had time to watch it yet [video=youtube;hlVmppyflS0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVmppyflS0[/video]

I love how he "talks funny" and how he blows up in amusement when stuff is well built or done with good materials. Really informative and interesting.

I wish we had crazy dialects like this in Alberta. The best you'll get here is the occasional "eh", and then it's usually people from Newfoundland

That was a long watch, but I honestly found it so damn interesting. I wonder what kind of background he has to be able to talk about every single little capacitor and identify it by eye like that.

[QUOTE=jiggu;52278163]That was a long watch, but I honestly found it so damn interesting. I wonder what kind of background he has to be able to talk about every single little capacitor and identify it by eye like that.[/QUOTE] IIRC he has a degree in either mechanical engineering or materials engineering (some engineering degree), and then a bunch of snooping around the web for knowledge.