Huel = human fuel. Same idea as Soylent.
(Autocorrect suggested 'heil' and 'shouldn't' in place of the two brand names there...)
I find it an interesting idea but have never tried it.
― koogs, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:12 (four years ago) link
huel is one letter away from hurl
irl lol
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link
did anyone not get that it was meant to be “human fuel”, really?
it’s obvious what they intended but all of the associations and close homophones make it a godawful name
like why not call it pood for people food
― mh, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:35 (four years ago) link
can't believe you're giving that startup idea away for free
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:53 (four years ago) link
I was thinking Huel was like Nahuel (the half vampire/half human from Twilight).
― Yerac, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 12:33 (four years ago) link
huel howser
― Non stop chantar (crüt), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
huel in the pool
― mh, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
Same idea as Soylent.
Soylent = Soy (i.e. you are a soy boy) + Lent (i.e. you are giving up tasty food)
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
i got banned from huel's facebook page after one of their ads popped up on my timeline and i kept commenting to ask whether their stupid fucking product contained also dangerous levels of cadmium and lead just like soylent
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
should have asked if it contains essential trace nutrients lead and cadmium
― mh, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
lol I have a weird compulsion to heckle facebook ads and huel was definitely one of my main targets
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
silicon valley's efforts to turn eating disorders into products is disgusting tbh
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
glad to hear there are still people engaging with #brands
― mh, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/marketing-expert-scott-galloway-on-wework-and-adam-neumann.html
― mh, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
we've seen that link twice in the Shitbin thread already
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
whoop
― mh, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
Sure, same naming scheme as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufu
― mick signals, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, October 2, 2019 9:38 AM (nine minutes ago)
I haven't seen it before, so thanks!
― sarahell, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
Galloway to WeWork: Dude, you have no IPO.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
dude, where's my underwriter
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
intensified public offense
― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
i'm reading super pumped. it's good so far! anyone else?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
sounds like a good audiobook-from-library choice…but either there's no audiobook yet or SPL doesn't have it yet…darn.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
I got it from LAPL but it looks like a brand new copy
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
In 2015, Neumann chastised a group of employees for not Googling a job applicant after finding out that WeWork had hired the Hipster Grifter, a Brooklynite who had become briefly famous several years earlier for scamming her way into jobs and cheating people out of money.
― sarahell, Saturday, 5 October 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
eh, it’s a little on the nose... oh wait this is nonfiction?
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 October 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
the first time I ever heard about throwing hot dogs down a hallway was the hipster grifter.
― Yerac, Saturday, 5 October 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
Hot dogs thrown down the narrow hallways of WeWork buildings
― sarahell, Saturday, 5 October 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
When hallways are tight, it might be gross
― sarahell, Saturday, 5 October 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
imo wework could have learned a lot from small-time grifting. The long-time grift of being a tech company posing as a real estate company (or vice versatile) could use that personal touch
― mh, Saturday, 5 October 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
lol I meant vice verse, but am pondering the autocorrect neologism
― mh, Saturday, 5 October 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
I have gone down a rabbit hole on Peloton's apparel business, which sells $68 t-shirts but somehow had negative gross margins in the last fiscal year. ("Other" is mostly boutique and apparel sales.) https://t.co/MOW3B9cEG7 pic.twitter.com/BuzCFZp7oH— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) October 7, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 October 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
i just finished super pumped, the uber book. it's a solidly executed "and then what happened was. and then what happened was." business book. it's not as wild a story as bad blood, but somehow more appalling for being more archetypical of SV. and while i remembered all the stories (apart from a couple of things from new reporting it's not new news), i somehow hadn't realized that 90% of it happened in the space of about 2 months in early 2017.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 04:22 (four years ago) link
V cool -- my girlfriend's got a copy and she's looking forward to it.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 04:30 (four years ago) link
A fun discovery about the lil' workspaces I've been using
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/wework-phone-booths-to-be-removed-due-to-formaldehyde
― Simon H., Tuesday, 15 October 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
this is going to rule
hi im really excited for this@briankoppelman and @DavidLevien are singular talents and i can’t believe i get to work with them and @Showtime to make SUPER PUMPED a show! pic.twitter.com/I9sjaBWnBK— rat king (@MikeIsaac) October 16, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
things are gonna get interesting!
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/California-s-AB5-will-kill-the-gig-economy-14536962.php
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
I stopped at "whereas Prop 13 is a force for good..."
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
hahah -- yeah. But AB5 in general ...
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
Today in business models:"Some prospective investors who met with Lime recently concluded that the current lifespan and costs such as charging and repair mean that the company loses almost all the money it sinks into purchasing each scooter." https://t.co/hyGk5HA9HK— Eliot Brown (@eliotwb) October 21, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 21 October 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
cool
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 21 October 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
So we've basically fucked up every bicycle lane in the country so that a few liars can get rich off free credit. Cool cool.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 07:37 (four years ago) link
lol no our bicycle lanes are fine it's our sidewalks that are fucked
― j., Tuesday, 22 October 2019 08:04 (four years ago) link
I enjoy taking these scooters in cities with bike lanes and I think they do a good job filling a void for short distance trips. I hope one of the companies develops a sustainable business model.
― iatee, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 12:08 (four years ago) link
What's wrong with rental bicycles?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
You can’t turn them into litter whenever you’re done
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 12:45 (four years ago) link
the electric scooters aren't currently legal on paths* or on the roads here in the uk, so we don't get to hire them, only bikes. people do still sell them and use them - there's one parked by the photocopier - but they can be confiscated if you're caught.
(tries to avoid the word 'pavement' because, like 'pants', you've chosen to use the word for something slighty different)
― koogs, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
I not only see these scooters now clogging bike lanes -- which are in short supply as it is -- in Cleveland, I saw a person the other day riding one ****on the freeway shoulder****.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
What's really cool is when they block ramps and other means of accessibility
― rob, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
hi, iatee!
― mh, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link