So, in other words:
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I liked it better when it was a supervillain that squeezed juice from people.
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A garbage masher for small bots?
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If you think about it, technically that’s probably “trickle up”. They take what little savings I can make into a pension, give it to invest it in some VCs who give itinvest it with some start-up, whose principals bank what they can while they can, and a few people make some money out of nothing for a short while before moving to the next mark opportunity, while my pension fund takes the hit. Yep - definitely trickling up not down. If these guys had achieved all the same but with a monorail (with an app) and not a juicer… THEN would it look like a scam?
Depends on which country one is in and how hot the water is.
Is that second one a Heron?
But it did not produce golden eggs (or juice)
It is a Blue Jay. Very similar size and shape to the Heron. But Herons are apparently designed to be home built, kits and plans. The Blue Jay class can be but it was usually manufactured. Some quick googling says the Blue Jay is basically Americas equivalent to the Heron in Europe.
It was the standard training dingy when I was a kid. The next step after the sunfish. But both seem to have been replaced by things like Hobie Cats and molded fiberglass dingies at this point. But Blue Jay is still a racing class (for kids though). I kind of want one. They’re fast fun little boats that can carry surprising loads and stupid easy to operate. But they are incredibly prone to sinking. Not “oh my god you’re all dead sinking”. More like “oops, my boat is now hovering 2 feet below the surface” sinking.
I’ve heard its larger for adults equivalent. The Lightning. Doesn’t have that issue.
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All USA high-speed rail projects will wind up looking like (Juicero x (50 to 200)) by the time they finally fold.
An old friend of mine, built in the 1950’s:
As you say; easy to swamp but hard to truly sink. The original design had the bare minimum amount of sealed flotation; recent updates to the class rules have improved that a bit.
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Blue Jays aren’t so much easy to swamp. As they’re hard to keep from swamping. Slipping below the water seems to be their default maneuver. Fun as they were I’ve always wondered who the fuck though it was wise to pile 6 kids into the damn thing and let them knock around open water unsupervised. I’m not surprised they’re getting phased out.
All part of the fun. The need for balance tickles my motorcyclist’s instincts. 
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There’s another twist: a standars exists, http://www.eseconsortium.com/ ESE that is shared between cooffe machine manufacturests and coffee brands and if you have an espresso machine that uses ground coffe you could usually find an adapter for the ESE pot.
The ESE pot in 100% recyclable because is made by coffe and rice paper.
I have one of these and the big advandage is that the single dose coffe is sealed, so you don’t risk to have the coffe in the jar to become stale.
Yachts were Dutch in origin, designed to deal with the shallow waters around the Netherlands. They were actually ideal for piracy because ships sent out to deal with them couldn’t follow them into the shallow channels. As a result, for years the Dutch were able to raid England without difficulty, going up the Thames. The failure to deal with piracy was one of the things that brought down the Republican government.
King Charles II was actually trained as a naval architect and had studied in Holland. When he was brought back to be king, it was partly because he had designed “yachts” suitable for dealing with the Dutch. The result was a standoff between the two countries which was only finally fixed when Charles’s incompetent successor was removed in a revolution which united the English and Dutch royal families. If you’re interested in industrial history, the draining of the Fens and the creation of the Dutch dykes were closely related. But don’t tell Brexiters; they don’t want to know that the complete separation of the UK from mainland Europe was mainly the fault of Napoleon.
Nothing to do with fake juicers though.
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I can’t help but think that if they had named it Juiceroo, or, Juicerooo…!
“Get me marketing!”
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Not to be pedantic but…
Juicero, the machine that squeezed juice from packets of j̶u̶i̶c̶e̶ roughly pulped fruit.
It was a ridiculously over-engineered, overpriced, over-complex solution for something extremely simple, but the packets weren’t just bags of juice. They were chunks of fruit that the machine pressed through a little filter in the bag.
There are plenty of videos and pictures out there of cut open packs. They are indeed full of pulp/masticated pieces of produce. But that’s all leaking juice. And the fact that Bloomberg was able to squeeze out nearly the full portion of juice by hand indicates that it goes a bit further than being pieces of fruit that still need to be juiced. Effectively what it looks like is you were buying bags of pre-juiced fruit with all the rough pulp still in it. And they just needed a bit of pressure and a filter to separate the two.
The juicero machine seems to have been little more than an over engineered strainer.
My understanding is the word itself was derived from the Dutch for “hunt” and was first applied to ships from the Dutch navy intended to hunt pirates smugglers and raiders.
That said the model for the boats (as well as other light craft of different derivation used for the same purpose) was in fact derived from boats used by those same water based criminals. We tend to think of the stereotypical “pirate ship” as a large multi masted affair outfited for combat.
But the usual approach relied on much smaller, faster boats with light armorments. The idea being to zip in on un or lightly armed merchant vessels before they could respond. Intimidate them. Then escape through shallows where large military ships couldn’t operate or maneuver well. Just as you describe. The authorities began adopting the same ships to police those actions out of necessity. Often just capturing and refiting the actual boats themselves. Acquiring the same fishing boats, pleasure boats, and fast short distance trade ships favored by the pirates and smugglers. And refitting smaller sized military vessels that were suited to the roll.
Which later lead to more specialised purpose built boats purpose made for the military roll. And specialised names for the various classes they represented.
Yes, exactly. This is what’s inside a packet: pre-pulped fruits and vegetables. The machine was nothing more than a big press to squeeze the packets through a strainer. It’s a very silly machine that’s ridiculously over-complex, but the packets weren’t just full of juice, like Capri Sun containers.
how many ways has spidey killed the goblin?!?
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