Because it's really cool and social and I just LOVE the hustle and bustle and diversity of pod life! It's like being in a youth hostel while travelling except you're actually living there. You meet all kinds of cool people and everyone shares everything and we play games and watch harry potter marathons.
I know you just forgot to post the soijack but actually this is what boomers were saying with a straight face about ten years ago. Its only relatively recently they've finally conceded that, actually, young people don't have a weird inexplicable aversion to property, cars, good pension provision and disposable income. But its far too late now.
It's a way of continuing college life, where you can spout off about the benefits of diversity while also having yourself only surrounded by people of similar economic and educational backgrounds as you.
It's be worth it if they were dirt cheap and you could live there while saving a bundle on living costs, and you could be reasonably sure you wouldn't get stabbed or robbed
The issue is that they cost $1500 a month because they're in San Francisco, so you're paying through the nose to live around a bunch of uppity hipsters
This is based >israelite makes you live alone and not know your neighbors >normies lean to the left until they come to the right from the other side and start living in small communities with 0 Black folk (look at the pic there are no apes)
I remember reading this article some years ago, this was just pre-covid >It was full of all these graphic designers and amateur standups from the Midwert trying to "break into the industry" in L.A at 28 years old
These people live in a terminal state of perceptual disconnect
>live in pod >try to get some sleep so you can wake up for wageslavery >woken up by guy tripping over a bong on the way to the bathroom >woken up by some chick arriving piss drunk at 3:00 in the morning >woken up by some guy jacking off on the bunk above you >finish the entire bottle you had underneath your pillow >sleep forever
Such is podlife
How do you even get into this position? Do these guys not save up for their own places? Do people just constantly rent and live with roommates past college ad infinitum? Is the hustle and bustle really that important to them?
this is how you would be able to save up for your own place. most people spend every dollar they make on rent and get nowhere, living in a low cost housing for a year or so is the only way some people can get ahead. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
The one excuse I've found is people with long commutes to a work site. Like let's say your tiling company gets hired to do 250 bathrooms at the marriot hotel that's 8 hours away by car. Then you need accommodation close by and preferably as cheap as possible. But usually this is limited to several weeks or however long the job takes.
I think they're overblown on Cinemaphile, they're just hostels but a bit more moderns, they're not meant to be a lifestyle any more than small students rooms.
Yes, the bottom is much shittier. Come on man, it's fun to idealize, but sailor life was explicitly the realm of the destitute and criminal for a reason
Yes, the bottom is much shittier. Come on man, it's fun to idealize, but sailor life was explicitly the realm of the destitute and criminal for a reason
>20 year old 100k sailboat comes with your own toilet shower, full kitchen (ok propane stove but whatever) and it's literally waterfront views. And its also a boat you can take around the world.
Literally better than podlife.
If you enjoy doing maintenance yourself, yeah, definitely. Although Marina fees are pretty rough, potentially worse than the property tax on a $100k home.
do you NEED to keep it in a marina though? Like just drop the anchor somewhere in the SF bay and you're g2g. take the little dighy boat to and from the marina if you want to go the barcade or go axe-throwing and whatever.
But yeah, the podpeople aren't going to be the home depot demographic lmao.
A lot of the basic resources, like power and water, are only really accessible through a marina. I'm sure there are workarounds, but there is a legitimate boat supply chain and going outside of it just seems like it'll create more pain than the money is worth
Boats can generate their own power, and you can buy water and gas at a marina without docking there.
2 years ago
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Sure, if you want to trade fuel for electricity. And, I mean, none of this covers how you get back to shore and easily traverse the city you're living in. You want to dock with a daily pass every day? And then go home, tool it out of the bay, and try to find somewhere to anchor that won't get fricked if a storm blows through? Oh, and pay to park your car at the marina each night, probably. Marina fees aren't cheap, but they don't offer nothing either
2 years ago
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>anchor at sea >take pic related to the marina or harbor >pay smol boat fees instead of big boat fees >???? >profit
But yeah I looked at some marinas in SF, and not only do they have a waitlist, they specifically prohibit living on the boat lmao
Water maker doesn't handle non-potable water disposal. Again, as I said, I'm sure there are workarounds, but if you've got the money to buy a $100k boat, is it really worth your time and effort to live like a character in Waterworld? It's a hobby for some, I guess
All of this is based on the meme that you absolutely want to live in/close to le big hustling bustling city, and rent/buying a house is just out of the question and pod living is your only option. If 100k would get you a home in SF, I doubt people would willingly live in pods instead of having roommates or renting out their houses instead.
I should note, what you're describing is way more feasible with a house boat, but you have to do lake life, ocean is just a different beast on all levels
A lot of the basic resources, like power and water, are only really accessible through a marina. I'm sure there are workarounds, but there is a legitimate boat supply chain and going outside of it just seems like it'll create more pain than the money is worth
Solar Panels and a water maker should take care of the basics right? Same as you would need your boiler at a real house or need a brita filter changed. But if people go to these podliving situations or putting their RVs on the LAX longterm parking, housing must be ridiculously expensive. And if you actually DO get a job switch from SF to LA, its a nice sailing trip down there to do it all again. and if you get enough cash to finally quit the rat race you can still sell the thing.
2 years ago
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Water maker doesn't handle non-potable water disposal. Again, as I said, I'm sure there are workarounds, but if you've got the money to buy a $100k boat, is it really worth your time and effort to live like a character in Waterworld? It's a hobby for some, I guess
Globohomosexual is not communism because communism was funded upon honest misunderstanding of industry which was still more efficient than ~~*outsourcing*~~ labor.
>mfw 2am, having a cosy sleep in my nice warm pod >drunk b***h mistakenly comes into my pod >”hey, get the frick out of my pod butthole!” >get angry for a second and realise this is what I signed up for, podlife >sorry babe, I was just keeping your pod warm for you. Maybe I can massage you in the pod to help you sleep? >she agrees and I massage her, she passes out while i thumb my nub into her Vagene >now this is podliving! >bang her bagene and all the pods shake and creek >hey butthole, no fricking in the pods! Guy from above is mad >frick you mother fricker, I frick in my pod any time I want >I cum in grill and shove her out of my pod >she breaks her collarbone on the concrete flooR >go back to sleep in my cosy pod >god I love pods >mfw
>6 AM: Sunlight alarm goes off. I'm already up, high intensity interval training on the treadmill, catching up on my podcasts. >7 AM: Shower, aeropress, email, but not before I read my blogs and journal about creativity. >8:30 AM: I'm out the door. Pop into Ground Central, they brew Stumptown. Order the pour-iver, wink at the barista. She doesn't notice. Metro. The Q's running late, so I hop on the 7-9 and do a back-around at the transfer stop on 96th and Fullerton. Shaved three minutes off the commute. I'm walking into the office when I get a notif: Insta. My favorite celeb just went live. Do I risk being late, or do I give up a chance to finally be noticed? Not a prob, load the vid, post the perfect chat message. Right on time, hey boss. >10 AM: Office coffee, protein bar. Dock the MacBook, dongle, Yubikey, I'm on. Time for standup. Back to the desk: trick is, I'm always standing. Gotta install the latest security patches to stay compliant with corporate policy? On it. Check the RobinHood while I'm waiting: all red, just what I thought. >11:30 AM: News blast. Tr*mp. I'm already on Twitter with a hot take. Then it's lunch time. Vegan bolognese. Sit alone. No time for idle chatter. A Moleskine and writing positive affirmations is all I need. >Next thing I know, it's 8:30 PM. Time to call it a day. Back on the 7, this time going uptown. Happy hour, alone. $11 gin & tonic. Another one. Feelin' good. Don't talk to anyone. Check the Insta: 100 likes. Not bad, but I'll have better. City lights have my circadian rhythm screwed up, gotta head home before it gets too bad. >Back in bed. One chapter of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations on the Book. Didn't understand shit. Tweet a quote just as the battery dies for the day: perfect. Time for phase one of my polyphasic sleep cycle. Tomorrow's day 1 of my intermittent fasting routine. All in a day's work.
Nothing beats #PodLiving
I'd rather live in a smaller, Japanese style apartment. All I really own that I want/need is my computer related stuff, my model hobby stuff (so desk + storage + materials + plus tools which could be contained within mostly the rolltop desk I have an some shelves to the side), books, bed (though I'd genuinely be ok with sleeping on a futon and I'm even thinking of it now), dog bed (though I'm sure I could donate that because my dog usually sleeps in my bed), cooking stuff, and some odds and ends I could get rid of. As long as I had a bit of balcony space or could goad people to let me grow vegetables and herbs on the roof, I'd be ok there. I'd also have to get better storage for my three firearms, I think.
There's something appealing about downsizing and living more ascetically. My only concern really is that I do have preparations for potential happenings, but even those could be downsized and I could store things in a storage building or a cabin/land I'd like to eventually have.
Brazil has the pod life spirit
But why would you live like that? This is not an adequate or reasonable solution to being priced out of a city
Because it's really cool and social and I just LOVE the hustle and bustle and diversity of pod life! It's like being in a youth hostel while travelling except you're actually living there. You meet all kinds of cool people and everyone shares everything and we play games and watch harry potter marathons.
I know you just forgot to post the soijack but actually this is what boomers were saying with a straight face about ten years ago. Its only relatively recently they've finally conceded that, actually, young people don't have a weird inexplicable aversion to property, cars, good pension provision and disposable income. But its far too late now.
it's not, 'you could live in the pod'
it's, 'you WILL live in the pod'
The more things change the more they stay the same
I would honestly not mind trading my apartment for a boarding house that only gave you a room but included meals
The Matrix
It's a way of continuing college life, where you can spout off about the benefits of diversity while also having yourself only surrounded by people of similar economic and educational backgrounds as you.
It's not going to be a choice moron.
Those pods are more expensive than renting an appartment. The gimmick is that there are several pod hubs and you can sleep in any of them.
sounds like the fastest way to get monkey pox without being a homosexual
It's be worth it if they were dirt cheap and you could live there while saving a bundle on living costs, and you could be reasonably sure you wouldn't get stabbed or robbed
The issue is that they cost $1500 a month because they're in San Francisco, so you're paying through the nose to live around a bunch of uppity hipsters
Better than being homeless or living in your car.
This is based
>israelite makes you live alone and not know your neighbors
>normies lean to the left until they come to the right from the other side and start living in small communities with 0 Black folk (look at the pic there are no apes)
I remember reading this article some years ago, this was just pre-covid
>It was full of all these graphic designers and amateur standups from the Midwert trying to "break into the industry" in L.A at 28 years old
These people live in a terminal state of perceptual disconnect
This looks terrible. I hate sharing bathrooms with fat people
why? they keep the whole seat nice and warm from their greater thermal mass.
>Suffer from BO
>Have to roomshare with 60 other people
>Get evicted immediately for being medically stinky
Most people would probably be happier if they lived a more communal life and not so isolated from others.
Living shoulder to shoulder with no privacy is not "the communal life"
What a selfish thing to say, comrade.
Now give me half of that square of toilet paper.
Most young people, sure. Communal living is a decent way to get lots of young people together, but when you’re older there is no real romance to it.
Ouland
This is just the same as boarding houses, little room, and even less privacy
Why are they all white?
Black folk are harder to enslave and no I am not being facetious.
They're the only ones dumb enough to do shit like this, also notice a few Asians there too.
This looks amazing. I spent the better part of a year in 2012 living in hostels and it’s cosy
Drink/eat with fellow young people and chat to them all the time about whatever
Make plans with them and converse with them
Frick a grill in your pod… it’s kino
Wake up in middle of night to pee and see a grill the next pod over with her ass on display
Nice
Go to sleep Planning fukkng her inside her pod that week
Mf smiling in my pod with a bonerar
Pre cum in my pod planning on fukking grill
God I love pods
based podman
The pod place in the photo specifically banned fricking and snoring.
>live in pod
>try to get some sleep so you can wake up for wageslavery
>woken up by guy tripping over a bong on the way to the bathroom
>woken up by some chick arriving piss drunk at 3:00 in the morning
>woken up by some guy jacking off on the bunk above you
>finish the entire bottle you had underneath your pillow
>sleep forever
Such is podlife
You fukk grill who comes in drunk at 0300
Gotta sieze opportunity in the pods
What if you want to jerk off or have sex? How does that work with the pod living and whatnot
different pods have different rules
See the post above. I used to love fricking grills in my pod at 3am in a room with 40 persons
Literally not my problem
search "concentration camps" on the internet
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Hey…chud… you awake? I can’t sleep. Mind if I share a pod with you tonight?
Uh sure but I need to get my 8 hours…
How do you even get into this position? Do these guys not save up for their own places? Do people just constantly rent and live with roommates past college ad infinitum? Is the hustle and bustle really that important to them?
Living their BEST LIFE CHUD
If they're moving to a place like San Francisco or Los Angeles it's probably literally the only place they can afford.
Some people are terrified of ever being alone. They need not just others, but an entire group of others in order to feel comfortable.
this is how you would be able to save up for your own place. most people spend every dollar they make on rent and get nowhere, living in a low cost housing for a year or so is the only way some people can get ahead. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
The one excuse I've found is people with long commutes to a work site. Like let's say your tiling company gets hired to do 250 bathrooms at the marriot hotel that's 8 hours away by car. Then you need accommodation close by and preferably as cheap as possible. But usually this is limited to several weeks or however long the job takes.
That makes sense, but that is usually relegated to blue collar guys. The ones in OP probably wouldn't dare breaking a sweat doing manual labor.
I think they're overblown on Cinemaphile, they're just hostels but a bit more moderns, they're not meant to be a lifestyle any more than small students rooms.
Imagine the smell
now this is pod living
>guy jacking off on top bunk.jpg
>still costs about a fricking thousand per month
What's the point then? Why do Californians do this to themselves?
well-off techbros and freelancers can LARP humble living without being close to anyone undesirable
Can you birth-give in a pod?
How punk and rock and roll of them to follow the script given by Disney MacDonalds and NBC.
I guess this one time they're at least against ONE authoritative body, if only by accident
francois looks like he’s about to get his rape on
>Babe, let's take a walk in the park before we go back to podshare from our coworking space!
>globohomo: goes nowhere. makes situation worse for everyone. forces anti-science nonsense.
>piracy: always on the move. seeking riches. using scientific methods to steer ship. huge boons if successful. actual diversity.
There is a world of difference there but I'm sure you know that
Yes, the bottom is much shittier. Come on man, it's fun to idealize, but sailor life was explicitly the realm of the destitute and criminal for a reason
>20 year old 100k sailboat comes with your own toilet shower, full kitchen (ok propane stove but whatever) and it's literally waterfront views. And its also a boat you can take around the world.
Literally better than podlife.
If you enjoy doing maintenance yourself, yeah, definitely. Although Marina fees are pretty rough, potentially worse than the property tax on a $100k home.
do you NEED to keep it in a marina though? Like just drop the anchor somewhere in the SF bay and you're g2g. take the little dighy boat to and from the marina if you want to go the barcade or go axe-throwing and whatever.
But yeah, the podpeople aren't going to be the home depot demographic lmao.
A lot of the basic resources, like power and water, are only really accessible through a marina. I'm sure there are workarounds, but there is a legitimate boat supply chain and going outside of it just seems like it'll create more pain than the money is worth
Boats can generate their own power, and you can buy water and gas at a marina without docking there.
Sure, if you want to trade fuel for electricity. And, I mean, none of this covers how you get back to shore and easily traverse the city you're living in. You want to dock with a daily pass every day? And then go home, tool it out of the bay, and try to find somewhere to anchor that won't get fricked if a storm blows through? Oh, and pay to park your car at the marina each night, probably. Marina fees aren't cheap, but they don't offer nothing either
>anchor at sea
>take pic related to the marina or harbor
>pay smol boat fees instead of big boat fees
>????
>profit
But yeah I looked at some marinas in SF, and not only do they have a waitlist, they specifically prohibit living on the boat lmao
All of this is based on the meme that you absolutely want to live in/close to le big hustling bustling city, and rent/buying a house is just out of the question and pod living is your only option. If 100k would get you a home in SF, I doubt people would willingly live in pods instead of having roommates or renting out their houses instead.
I should note, what you're describing is way more feasible with a house boat, but you have to do lake life, ocean is just a different beast on all levels
Solar Panels and a water maker should take care of the basics right? Same as you would need your boiler at a real house or need a brita filter changed. But if people go to these podliving situations or putting their RVs on the LAX longterm parking, housing must be ridiculously expensive. And if you actually DO get a job switch from SF to LA, its a nice sailing trip down there to do it all again. and if you get enough cash to finally quit the rat race you can still sell the thing.
Water maker doesn't handle non-potable water disposal. Again, as I said, I'm sure there are workarounds, but if you've got the money to buy a $100k boat, is it really worth your time and effort to live like a character in Waterworld? It's a hobby for some, I guess
You would still have to pay rent to dock it
Globohomosexual is not communism because communism was funded upon honest misunderstanding of industry which was still more efficient than ~~*outsourcing*~~ labor.
Z
>mfw 2am, having a cosy sleep in my nice warm pod
>drunk b***h mistakenly comes into my pod
>”hey, get the frick out of my pod butthole!”
>get angry for a second and realise this is what I signed up for, podlife
>sorry babe, I was just keeping your pod warm for you. Maybe I can massage you in the pod to help you sleep?
>she agrees and I massage her, she passes out while i thumb my nub into her Vagene
>now this is podliving!
>bang her bagene and all the pods shake and creek
>hey butthole, no fricking in the pods! Guy from above is mad
>frick you mother fricker, I frick in my pod any time I want
>I cum in grill and shove her out of my pod
>she breaks her collarbone on the concrete flooR
>go back to sleep in my cosy pod
>god I love pods
>mfw
>6 AM: Sunlight alarm goes off. I'm already up, high intensity interval training on the treadmill, catching up on my podcasts.
>7 AM: Shower, aeropress, email, but not before I read my blogs and journal about creativity.
>8:30 AM: I'm out the door. Pop into Ground Central, they brew Stumptown. Order the pour-iver, wink at the barista. She doesn't notice. Metro. The Q's running late, so I hop on the 7-9 and do a back-around at the transfer stop on 96th and Fullerton. Shaved three minutes off the commute. I'm walking into the office when I get a notif: Insta. My favorite celeb just went live. Do I risk being late, or do I give up a chance to finally be noticed? Not a prob, load the vid, post the perfect chat message. Right on time, hey boss.
>10 AM: Office coffee, protein bar. Dock the MacBook, dongle, Yubikey, I'm on. Time for standup. Back to the desk: trick is, I'm always standing. Gotta install the latest security patches to stay compliant with corporate policy? On it. Check the RobinHood while I'm waiting: all red, just what I thought.
>11:30 AM: News blast. Tr*mp. I'm already on Twitter with a hot take. Then it's lunch time. Vegan bolognese. Sit alone. No time for idle chatter. A Moleskine and writing positive affirmations is all I need.
>Next thing I know, it's 8:30 PM. Time to call it a day. Back on the 7, this time going uptown. Happy hour, alone. $11 gin & tonic. Another one. Feelin' good. Don't talk to anyone. Check the Insta: 100 likes. Not bad, but I'll have better. City lights have my circadian rhythm screwed up, gotta head home before it gets too bad.
>Back in bed. One chapter of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations on the Book. Didn't understand shit. Tweet a quote just as the battery dies for the day: perfect. Time for phase one of my polyphasic sleep cycle. Tomorrow's day 1 of my intermittent fasting routine. All in a day's work.
Nothing beats #PodLiving
This sounds like hell and yet I'm strangely content with it
>all that shit
>still destroying your neck and back by looking down at your cuckbook
sad
Looks comfy
This is the type of people that leave ~~*quantum physics*~~ podcast drone on in the background.
Literally me
I'd rather live in a smaller, Japanese style apartment. All I really own that I want/need is my computer related stuff, my model hobby stuff (so desk + storage + materials + plus tools which could be contained within mostly the rolltop desk I have an some shelves to the side), books, bed (though I'd genuinely be ok with sleeping on a futon and I'm even thinking of it now), dog bed (though I'm sure I could donate that because my dog usually sleeps in my bed), cooking stuff, and some odds and ends I could get rid of. As long as I had a bit of balcony space or could goad people to let me grow vegetables and herbs on the roof, I'd be ok there. I'd also have to get better storage for my three firearms, I think.
There's something appealing about downsizing and living more ascetically. My only concern really is that I do have preparations for potential happenings, but even those could be downsized and I could store things in a storage building or a cabin/land I'd like to eventually have.
You'd be surprised by how little you need with a heroin addiction.
WTF I LOVE PODS
What went so horribly wrong?
Rhymes with "chews" and "maybe groomers"
Demoralization thread
Some bot has been posting these threads for weeks
It's really fricking suspicious