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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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NSMutableSet wrote: post #69

>It’s comfortable enough for Lewis, who is 5 foot 9. (Lewis jokes that I should report that he’s an inch taller so that he can boast about it on the dating apps. I do not oblige.) I think something got lost in translation here. In SF online dating app culture, 5'10 is the minimum "not short" height. Note that it's specifically not considered "tall". Why 5'10? I don't know. How do I know this? Way too many overheard c…

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Post by paulryanrogers »

crhulls wrote: post #64

Maybe I’ll sound like the old out of touch rich guy (I’m 40 and won the startup lottery), but isn’t it great there is a way for people who are broke but have hustle to get their chance? When I was an intern at Goldman Sachs me and my roommate rented an apartment in the Tenderloin for $600 a month. I slept in the closet. We stayed at the office 24/7 and focused on work. My former roommate is now a GP at a major growth…

We can still distain worsening living conditions. These folks are paying more for less space than a closet. And starting up in an era of more entrenched incumbents with higher interest rates. So looks like worsening odds for more expensive lottery tickets, at least from the outside looking in.

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Post by kibwen »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #54
trimethylpurine wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Honestly, eating scorpions isn't even as weird as half the things you can buy from a good butcher. Give me a choice between scorpion and rocky mountain oysters, and I'll take the scorpion.

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Post by thehappypm »

crhulls wrote: post #64

Maybe I’ll sound like the old out of touch rich guy (I’m 40 and won the startup lottery), but isn’t it great there is a way for people who are broke but have hustle to get their chance? When I was an intern at Goldman Sachs me and my roommate rented an apartment in the Tenderloin for $600 a month. I slept in the closet. We stayed at the office 24/7 and focused on work. My former roommate is now a GP at a major growth…

Completely agree, the criticisms reek of privilege. At $700/month a minimum wage worker can live here easily, and walk to work.

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Post by userbinator »

ribosometronome wrote: post #68
userbinator wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

For those who were unfamiliar with the meme, it looks like it was popular with COVID truthers and climate change deniers. Probably why I missed that one. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-will-not-eat-the-bugs

It's popular with everyone who is anti-dystopia.

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Post by nodirection »

I’ve actually lived in a coliving space here in LA with a similar coworking and sleeping setup during a transitional period in my life between marriage and separation. The community was great and really supported me but it is definitely a young persons game. 41 is a little old to be sleeping in a pod next to 20 year olds, doing 20 year old things.

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Post by defrost »

userbinator wrote: post #52
TylerE wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you round them out with Mangrove worms and snails and throw in a few Witchetty grubs you've got a tasty smorgasbord - good easy food when you're on the move and the nearest shop is at least a few 100km away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwHRht1bZ2g&t=69s

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Post by TylerE »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #54
trimethylpurine wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

White meat protein is what it is. There's a reason "tastes like chicken" is a thing.

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Post by jbm »

HarryHirsch wrote: post #9
CamperBob2 wrote: post #5

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Doesn't sound like there is any security. He mentions a privacy curtain.

The half-homeless protagonist of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre had at least a cage where he could lock his suitcase in. 2020's San Francisco is objectively worse than 1920's Tampico.

> by German author B. Traven, whose identity remains unknown...

Thank you for sending me down this crazy Wikipedia journey.

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