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$700 a Month for a Bed-Sized “Pod” in Downtown SF? Techies Are Renting Them

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Re: $700 a Month for a Bed-Sized “Pod” in Downtown SF? Techies Are Renting Them

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Post by kibwen »

trimethylpurine wrote: post #34
TylerE wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ever eat Lobster? Shrimp? Both are, scientifically speaking, bugs.

Crustaceans are very distantly related to "bugs," and don't taste remotely similar. While, funny, this correlation is not accurate.

The correlation is very accurate. Lobsters were once considered so low-quality that they had to be force-fed to prisoners. Anyone complaining about "eating bugs" on principle is being foolish. If you don't like bugs for the taste, that's one thing (I've tried crickets before; they're unremarkable). But if anyone thinks that eating bugs is inherently any worse than eating, say, pigs, or octopuses, then that's simply incoherent.

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Post by userbinator »

TylerE wrote: post #18
imgabe wrote: post #13

I will not live in the pod. I will not eat bugs.

Ever eat Lobster? Shrimp? Both are, scientifically speaking, bugs.

I doubt you'd want to eat only lobster or shrimp, or other bugs, which is what the meme is about.

Re: $700 a Month for a Bed-Sized “Pod” in Downtown SF? Techies Are Renting Them

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Post by mixmastamyk »

Sounds like a great way to convert old banks and other unused commercial buildings into sorely needed housing.

I had read that such transformation was costly in the past. Maybe the fact that rooms and water features are separate makes this feasible, where hotel room conversion would cost a fortune.

Re: $700 a Month for a Bed-Sized “Pod” in Downtown SF? Techies Are Renting Them

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

trimethylpurine wrote: post #34
TylerE wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ever eat Lobster? Shrimp? Both are, scientifically speaking, bugs.

Crustaceans are very distantly related to "bugs," and don't taste remotely similar. While, funny, this correlation is not accurate.

How do you know? I was offered fried scorpions and grass hoopers once, but I was too chicken to try. My friends thought they taste normal, it sounds plausible at least.

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Post by kyawzazaw »

avocabros wrote: post #41
tomohelix wrote: post #22

Looking through this thread, it is surprising that there are actually people who consider this "acceptable". Like it is not something out of a dystopian hellscape. Amazing how much a person can be conditioned into accepting a terrible situation. And no, there are ways to fix this, there is just no will to do so, partly because of the people who see nothing wrong with it.

No one is forced to live there? Just because you don't like it doesn't mean others don't.

there is a reason we regulate things like no window-less aparments, no selling of organ transplants

Re: $700 a Month for a Bed-Sized “Pod” in Downtown SF? Techies Are Renting Them

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

unethical_ban wrote: post #19
no_butterscotch wrote: post #10

This doesn't seem like a safe setup. How long before tweakers and others start lighting fires in their pods?

Presumably they only lease to people with credit cards and identity. This doesn't sound like motel 6.

Motel 6 requires credit cards and ID now these days also. It is hard to get a legit place to stay without a CC.

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Post by xkekjrktllss »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #45
kranner wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More than a step, this oversteps the mark by quite a bit. A human being shouldn't have to live in a space that small. I can't imagine it not screwing up anyone's mental health when just looking at a picture of it is giving me an anxiety attack.

> More than a step, this oversteps the mark by quite a bit. A human being shouldn't have to live in a space that small. I can't imagine it not screwing up anyone's mental health when just looking at a picture of it is giving me an anxiety attack. It works well in Tokyo. These are common housing for kids who might only have part time jobs at convenience stores.

> It works well in Tokyo. These are common housing for kids who might only have part time jobs at convenience stores.

By this logic, homeless encampments under freeway underpasses work well in the US. They are common for people who can't afford anything else so why fix what's not broken?

Re: $700 a Month for a Bed-Sized “Pod” in Downtown SF? Techies Are Renting Them

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Post by ribosometronome »

trimethylpurine wrote: post #34
TylerE wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ever eat Lobster? Shrimp? Both are, scientifically speaking, bugs.

Crustaceans are very distantly related to "bugs," and don't taste remotely similar. While, funny, this correlation is not accurate.

>Crustaceans are very distantly related to "bugs,"

How do you figure? What makes them not a bug? Generally the distinction I see is that people consider pretty much all arthopods bugs unless they're big and live in the sea and cognitive dissonance doesn't want them to think about that they like eating bugs. Sure, they're not /insects/ but neither are spiders or centipedes. Heck, I think most people consider "Pill Bugs" to be bugs, it's in the name. Those /are/ crustaceans. Don't know how they taste, though.

Re: $700 a Month for a Bed-Sized “Pod” in Downtown SF? Techies Are Renting Them

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Post by mixmastamyk »

paxys wrote: post #44

The piece seems pretty exaggerated to generate clicks. "Hacker houses" have been a thing in Silicon Valley forever. You share a large house with a bunch of like-minded people and get a tiny space of your own to sleep in. For someone in their early-mid 20s, what's the harm? It's the perfect way to build a community and have a blast.

I’ve seen the same with other demographics… ~ten bunk beds in the garage of a suburban house.
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