Never eat food again? (Soylent)

Fatbat said:
See, this is what I'm talking about.
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heh, I'm here to relieve stress, not conduct business. I was chuckling to myself while I wrote that. Don't you grow weed? Might be time for a joint.

Besides, everything I said is true. Don't you watch the news? Just a little while ago, Indonesian and Fillipino maids were protesting en-masse in HK due to unfair treatment.

In Malaysia just a few years ago, a law was proposed to require that people give maids one day a week off. There was such outrage over it though, it never became law. People don't want their maids conspiring to rob them behind their back, so they're under lock & key 24x7.

You rent a place in a newer housing division in Kuala Lumpur, there will literally be a jail cell in the basement. And obviously it's used by many, because there were maids running all over the complex every day.
 


Kiopa_Matt said:
heh, I'm here to relieve stress, not conduct business. I was chuckling to myself while I wrote that. Don't you grow weed? Might be time for a joint.

Besides, everything I said is true. Don't you watch the news? Just a little while ago, Indonesian and Fillipino maids were protesting en-masse in HK due to unfair treatment.

In Malaysia just a few years ago, a law was proposed to require that people give maids one day a week off. There was such outrage over it though, it never became law. People don't want their maids conspiring to rob them behind their back, so they're under lock & key 24x7.

You rent a place in a newer housing division in Kuala Lumpur, there will literally be a jail cell in the basement. And obviously it's used by many, because there were maids running all over the complex every day.
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Nope, didn't see that. That's pretty outrageous. Lots of people have maids around here and they get treated pretty fairly from what I gather. They have decent accommodations, get paid OK, get time off, etc. Most are from South America. Then lots of people don't have a live in maid, but get a house cleaner to come once or twice a week. They typically get paid €10 an hour.
 
acidie said:
One thing I learnt years ago was never trust a foreigner to accurately explain what the natives are doing.
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Point out my lie then. Please note, I never mentioned Thailand. Only talked about Malaysia and HK.

Everything I said was true. What I mentioned above doesn't exist in Thailand, because the whole Buddhism thing just doesn't allow for it.
 
Kiopa_Matt said:
You really have a live-in maid? Did you buy one from Indonesia, or how did that work?

Do you have a cage you shove her into at night? I know they do that in Kuala Lumpur, so I'm assuming they do it in HK as well. My parents rented a town house, and that was the big attraction of the house tour for all Western guests. There was literally a jail cell in the basement, with bars for the door, and the whole bit. Apparently, you're supposed to shove your maid in there at night, then let her out in the morning when you want some breakfast.
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Mine is from Indonesia and she's treated with respect like any other worker I hire. I appreciate her help, and she knows it. Plus it's not legal in a place like Hong Kong to abuse your maid. Besides if you're a decent human being, you shouldn't abuse another human regardless of what the law says.

In Hong Kong maids have Sunday off. Some employers illegally do make their maids work on Sunday, but again that's against the law.

In fact there's an employer on trial right now for torturing their maid. Trust me, they're going to be sitting in prison for years for doing that. The last person convicted of abusing their maid got 5 years.

The maid's quarters aren't supposed to be a jail cell that you lock your maid in. That's not how it works in HK.

One thing is for certain: You certainly have a ton of dumbass opinions. You think the maids would be better off if they didn't have a job that enabled them to send money home to their families?
 
Also you don't "buy" maids in HK. You have to pay them a salary like any other employee, and you need to prove to the HK immigration department that you have the financial means to support your maid.

Maids in HK cost around 500 USD a month to employ.

I wouldn't mind having my maid make me some Soylent since supposedly the recipe is open source just to try it out, but it's not something I'm going to solely take since I love eating all different kinds of food.
 
>Arguing with the person who thought Ebola was going to become a pandemic in the USA

I'm pretty sure at this point that KM is just adhering to the strategy of saying enough insane shit regarding topics he knows little/nothing about that one day he will eventually be right with one of these remarks and we will bow like peasants to kiss his feet.
 
Soylent is weak bro, be a real motherfucker and live off water and sunlight:

Plants survive on light and water alone, so why can't humans?

A Seattle woman is putting that question to the test in an "experiment" some find inspiring -- though others see it as misguided and dangerous.

British-born Naveena Shine, 65, stopped eating on May 3 in to discover whether she could subsist on water, sunlight and tea, and is documenting her efforts on Facebook and YouTube.

The extreme fast, which she says she intends to try for "at least 40 days" and perhaps four to six months, is apparently tied to Shine's New Age beliefs about the universe. Obscure Yogis called "breatharians" have also attempted the practice, she told Seattle's Fox affiliate, KCPQ.

"Plants live on light, then we eat plants," she wrote on Facebook May 3. "Are we simply not accessing our inherent ability to live on light? ... After hearing of the possibility that this might be true, I received a 'calling' from within, from the Universe, to find out if it is so."

Shine also wonders if food is an addiction.
"Can you imagine, if we did not have to eat, just how free our lives would be?" she writes in an introductory blog post on livingonlight.co.


"A vast amount of time, effort and resources go into merely putting food on the table. If humans did not have to eat, we could turn our planet back into a place of beauty."


This experiment isn't a diet, Shine notes, adding that anyone who attempts it for weight loss would gain the weight back once they start eating again.
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Seattle woman stops eating and goes

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A Seattle woman is to abandon her controversial attempt to
live on light on Wednesday after 47 days of surviving on water and tea.


Naveena Shine, 65, had been attempting to go without food for 100 days. She said the "overt" reason for ending what she described as an "experiment" was financial – she claimed she will lose the trailer she has been staying in on Wednesday – but said she believed her monetary woes were "a simple a message from the universe that it is time to stop".


"After 47 days [the post was written after 44 days] I still feel really good, weight loss is slowing and all seems well. However, I still have no evidence that I am actually living on light and it could well be slow starvation," Shine wrote on her Facebook page.



"Now that I am ending the experiment I will never know."
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http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/18/seattle-woman-naveena-shine-live-on-light
 
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