I only got Hulu when they started streaming a shitload of Criterion titles. Slowly making my way through them. That shit is worth it, especially compared to the prices I paid to rent VHS tapes and later DVDs at the local mom n pop foreign film video store. Though if given the choice I’d take the store-I miss that…

I would probably pay up to four times as much for Netflix. The money is one thing, but having a bunch of different apps, I might as well just duct tape the cord back together.

And I don’t see the streaming balkanization getting better anytime soon, unfortunately. I like Hulu, but for the Criterion stuff. I’m not so in love with network shows that I’m gonna pay for CBS separately. Like it’s fun to veg out and watch the blacklist or the show with the tattooed chick I can’t even remember but I…

I don’t see this media balkanization getting better anytime soon. I’ll keep Hulu Plus because I’m working my way through the Criterion stuff they have (and really, so worth the money, I’d blow more a month renting foreign films at my local place a decade ago) and Netflix. Amazon Prime I just have for other reasons not…

Yeah like, I’m all about not having to be all dressy and stodgy all the time. And I like wearing comfy workout stuff. But one of the things I liked about comfy workout clothes was that, I feel like it used to be relatively unpretentious. You could just wear it. And now it’s yet another thing that’s been appropriated…

Ha! Well, I miss the cutoff for Gen X by your standards, which is fine, since I don’t really meet any of the cultural reference points for that generation. I do, however, remember (just barely) a time before the web was invented, before all that shit exploded. I remember (just barely) when Microsoft didn’t have a GUI.…

Not attacking you, but it always seemed silly to me to posit hard divisions in generations. It seems like more of a spectrum. If you were in the first couple years of “millenials” you probably have a lot more in common (at least w/r/t cultural touchstones if not job prospects) with the mid to late Gen Xers than people…

This is a fair rebuttal. But what I will say is that it’s very difficult for someone who is a layperson with respect to a given field to evaluate evidence. I suppose it’s not terribly difficult outside of science. But most people are dogshit at evaluating a scientific paper, haven’t the first clue about experimental…

Wow it’s always weird to see when twins age and slowly start to not resemble each other as much anymore. I don’t know if the one on the right is bloated and overtanned or if the one on the left is just going for the heroin chic thing.

Well Beakman’s a puppeteer. Nye is at least marginally more qualified to talk about basic science, at least for the purposes of elementary school level infotainment, but “expert”?

But there’s also that great Jordan laughing gif! They really are getting the full spectrum of human emotion in one meme!

And for those of us who live in walk-up apartments, without trash chutes, those things are fucking heavy.

I find that they often way underestimate the prep time on the recipes.

It’s an interesting trade off, though-food vs material waste. In my experience, Blue Apron is pretty good about sending you filling meals with pretty much nothing left over (and what is left over is finished very quickly). That said, just because there is reduced food waste on the user end doesn’t mean there isn’t…

I was just thinking, their margins on the food must be nuts. But then again, they have to pay for the boxes, and the shipping, and the labor, and for people to come up with these recipes and determine exactly how much of each different thing you need..

Right I agree. If you try to recreate Blue Apron at home you might well blow your budget. But if you shop smart and buy things like rice in bulk, and aren’t afraid of (gasp) using the same ingredients in more than one meal a week, you can easily feed yourself for an entire week on that much.

If you shop and cook smart, you can definitely spend less than that, but that does take a lot of time and mental energy that a lot of people don’t have.

But it’s still wasteful because it still costs energy to recycle it, right? And I can’t think of how I would reuse something like this.

Yeah I could never understand a wine club-I am very adamant about picking my wine myself. But then I love Blue Bottle-I don’t care about picking my coffee, just send me good shit.

My wife and I used it for a while. I like it-it can be hit or miss in terms of prep time but I only remember one or two dishes over the several months we did it that I straight up didn’t like. There was a messy and time consuming calzone recipe. Sometimes the prep time estimates can be off. But it’s usually good.