Not saying I would buy this but lots of people are missing the primary appeal of this being the ability to say “my noodle maker is an Ivy League former investment banker”.
It is no different than rich people paying 2 and 20 for a hedge fund that underperforms indexes.
Only in SF - people sign up for a 2 year long waitlist to pay $49 for the Laowai noodle kits.
The Laowai founder’s story is peak Bay Area asian:
- Studied at Brown University
- Worked at an investment bank
- Went to China to study hand pulled noodle making
- Was called “laowai” or “foreigner” during his time abroad
- Trained as a Michelin chef in SF (State Bird Provisions, The Progress, Mister Jui’s)
- Transformed the “laowai” insult into his popular noodle brand
This better be the best thing I’ll ever eat in my life
@Informal_Geek01@sergei_am@dpecchia@nopitypolitics We legislate car specs to the point of outlawing window tint past a certain %. If 90% of auto fatalities was caused by one model of car, you can bet your ass that model is getting banned.
No one is advocating for the ban of all dogs.
Either etched is terrible at marketing to technologists or some VCs are going to be deleting some tweets in the future
Probably the first thing but who knows.
Grasping the sheer scale and intensity of the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) - history’s largest and last pre-industrial war - is so hard.
The best analogy I can come up with:
Imagine if Mormon prophet Joseph Smith had stayed on the Erie Canal. His followers, armed mostly with spears and swords, rise up and capture the entire US Midwest, seizing the nation's agricultural breadbasket. They systematically slaughter anyone from New York City and starve out huge towns like Chicago. The war kills 5% to 7.5% of the population, double the actual US Civil War.
Then, right as the Federal government completely collapses, the British Empire sails steam-powered gunboats up the Hudson River. They arm a ruthless mercenary force with state-of-the-art rifles to crush the uprising: not to save the US, but to keep Wall Street and the Atlantic trade routes open.
Meanwhile, in a completely separate conflict(!), official British and French armies sail up the Potomac and loot and burn the Smithsonian, the Capitol and Mount Vernon.
The Taiping Rebellion killed 20 to 30 million people, more than WW1. It was World War China.