Just going to leave this here ref the jocular notes that it could monitor/restrict salt intake and snitch on you to your doctor
The great thing about numerical precision is that it is pretty much indistinguishable from accuracy to the careless observer.
For the reasons you note, the results will be worthless garbage; but they’ll be very precise worthless garbage, potentially tied to a bunch of colorful and space-wasting visualizations; and what higher calling is there for data?
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Actually, that element was a real disappointment. There appears to be no mention of a ‘compatible’ partner-brand salt; much less cryptographically verified salt-refill-cartridges-as-a-service(with a deceptively priced and hard to cancel subscription, obviously); which seems like a wasted opportunity.
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Yep, that’s my dad in the kitchen.
Years ago, at a community corn roast my dad brought his own saltshaker - just in case there wasn’t enough salt there.
Actually, he went to the china cabinet and got my mums crystal saltshaker and brought it to the beach with him. The grandkids freaked out when he took it out of his pocket “if nannie sees that she’s going to kill you!”.
He just smiled, and dumped half the saltshaker on a piece of corn.
Dad’s 91 this year, and still carries a salt shaker with him. Legend.
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I have family members who like some seriously salty food, but I think your dad has them all beat. He’s made it to 91, though, so more power to him.
My dad just likes the spiciest food possible. I remember watching him bite into an habanero pepper once, and then ask me if I wanted one.
This is great, but does it also measure my daily intake of microplastics?
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I think I actually do remember that. Which is probably why I never expected to hear it said seriously.
Yeah, it’s ridiculous. I think the vision that was presented (which was also ridiculous) was that there would be this constellation of smart objects that would track all sorts of things (e.g. bar code scanner that records the food items you buy) that would collectively put together a picture of your food intake. But as you say, there are big enough holes in that, however it’s done, that it’s still meaningless.
Nope. Bored of the Rings and Doon are both great. Like Cliff Notes, but funny.
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