• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    Have you considered eating less?

    Have you considered not taking on all that student debt?

    Have you considered turning the A/C up to 85° during the summer?

    Have you considered getting married for tax purposes?

    Have you considered living in a flop house?

    Hey, why aren’t you having any kids?

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    352 years ago

    Every other month some techbro dipshit solves the housing crises with his new idea that’s been used a thousand times before by other startup dipshits

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    two of these plywood bunkbeds cost more than my house

    baby-matt midwest is best

    Edit: by 2 bunkbeds, I don’t mean 4 beds total, I just mean the 2 beds

    • YouKnowIt [he/him]
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      122 years ago

      Seriously, for what they’re charging I was able to rent a pretty nice 1 bd/br in Cincinnati like half a decade ago. If you look at the shared amenities on the website, it looks like they just shoved 2 bunkbeds into that same amount of space

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    192 years ago

    Lol this state produces hundred million dollar movies that rake in billions of dollars, hundreds of starts ups with absurd amounts of VC funding, several billionaires and millionaires residing in the same neighborhoods, and a significant amount of exports and imports occur there.

    Yet the only way for the people to live is inside a communal pod.

    And this is communism’s fault.

  • MaxOS [he/him]
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    232 years ago

    Building affordable housing porky-scared-flipped
    …but it’s as uncomfortable as possible porky-happy

    • GreatWhiteNope [she/her]
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      92 years ago

      $900/month isn’t even cheap for not having your own room.

      Federal minimum wage is $1160 a month before taxes (assuming 40 hours a week, which is also pretty unlikely for minimum wage jobs).

      I know this is San Fran, and CA minimum wage is bumping up to $16/hr in January, so it’s really only 35% of your gross income for worse accommodations than a college dorm.

  • Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]
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    432 years ago

    So, how can we untangle the “live in pod eat bug” meme from its far-right history? Because I really want to ask how far this is from the nearest insect cafeteria

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      182 years ago

      Today, you’re going to be told that eating bugs is soy and its destroying masculinity.

      Tomorrow, every fucking “get fit in 30 days” self-help Joe Rogan knock off is going to tell you that eating powdered bug meal is the fastest way to maximize your inner potential and hustle harder.

        • DrCrustacean [any]
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          112 years ago

          It’s gross. “You are going to eat beans” isn’t nearly as evocative as “you will eat bugs”. Insect agricultural also gets thrown out there by reddit-logo types as a potential way to reduce carbon emissions, so every once in a while they get a headline to froth at