I will live in a pod
I will eat the bugs
this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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There's something deeply unsettling about American suburbs, rows of identical houses, and not a human being in sight, no noises, just this artifical maze, my Uber took a detour though one once and I looked up from my phone and saw that I didn't realize where I am and it all looked so identical it was disorienting and I freaked out a bit, had to open Google maps to realize where I was. The movie Vivarium captures this feeling well. Why don't y'all get out and go for a walk and talk to your neighbors.
The suburbs are bad enough but what really gets me when play Geoguessr type games is how much of towns are just a highway with a strip mall and parking lots. Gives me a weird dread-like feeling, kinda like being inside a dying mall right before it's closing.
Yeah separating commercial and residential zones so much creates such dead zones, and a huge car dependency. Where I grew up everything I needed was in walking distance, from the optometrist to the bodega, never needed a car and my neighborhood felt so lively.
I am an American, and I once found myself far from home traveling through what I later learned was a ‘bedroom community’ in New Jersey just trying to find a place where we could all pull over and eat something, but apparently “restaurants” were just supremely exotic anywhere within in those, Idk, 300 sq miles.
It was EXTREMELY unsettling… even for an American!
No noises sound like heaven.
the aetheric monotonous nightmare of commie blocks, with absolutely zero advantages, high cost, and HOA control
talk to your neighbors
That shit is WOKE.
You ever seen Vivarium?
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It's weird how the setback is so large that the houses are further away from the ones across the street than the ones on their back
Need space to park all those ridiculous cars
You could do a 4-wide parking area instead though. Instead of having to have people move their cars just for someone to leave. That wouldn't help with RVs though.
But where would you put all that grass that needs mowing in the front yard?
In the backyard.
Yes, the tiny backyard compared to the big front yard doesn't make sense to me
Curb appeal. ?
I can only speak for the Southern US but, developers want to build front-loaded units in subdivisions because they are more profitable. A rear-loaded garage costs a shit ton more in materials and labor, not to mention getting into impervious surface maximums vs lot size etc. I work in permitting/zoning, it's always money, always. Heads up, y'all, don't buy a D.R. Horton house if you can possibly avoid it, the more you know✨️
Heads up, y'all, don't buy a D.R. Horton house if you can possibly avoid it, the more you know✨️
Not for nothing, but every home "builder" in America subs out to (multiple) General Contractors who sub out to their contractors work that gets inspected by the local municipality in stages. When people warn against particular builders, I always feel obliged to temper this by saying "they're all actually pretty equally shit." Residential building is complicated field work done pretty much by randos with varying levels of addictions, it's not like a factory building cars. There's only so much that can be expected.
Instead of avoiding particular builders, I would recommend buying a house that's around 10 years old or so and which has been thoroughly inspected by someone who has been inspecting for more than 10 years (and who has been recommended to you by someone you know if possible). It will have had time to do any bad shit it's gonna do (generally speaking). New houses are always a roll of the dice to some extent.
Appreciate the nuance! Also fully agree on the risk all new builds carry. I'm just salty because I spent all week arguing with them about the definition of the word façade lol
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If you play/hang out in the front area as a sort of almost communal space, it could make sense.
I would absolutely eat all the bugs if they weren't prohibitively expensive.
Well you are in luck, in this case they are literally endless.
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My mom's childhood was partly spent in a war-torn country where they had no choice but to eat crickets for protein. Years later, I showed her an article about how some gourmet restaurants are experimenting with cricket preparations. She looked pensive, and said "They should harvest them from the rice fields. I think the rice-fed ones taste best?"
But there are a lot of places in the world where crickets are just part of the cuisine even when they have other food available
Aren't crickets predators? They can be really good. I'm sure they weren't great to your mom though, sorry.
Endless shrimp destroyed the company. So fuck it, eat the bugs you little pod child, EAT THE BUGS!
No, the Red Lobster insolvency was driven by declining sales and increasing debt, amid some shady corporate shenanigans with their finances. When they filed, they were about $30 million in the hole (even assuming their high valuations for their intangible assets).
Private equity owners (Golden Gate) made them sell off the land they owned, only to lease it back at above market rates. Then sold the chain to its biggest seafood supplier (Thai Union), who used the restaurant as an outlet for their wholesale seafood rather than as a standalone profitable business (which resulted in huge quality drop off and declining sales).
They were headed in the wrong direction, and the $11 million they lost on endless shrimp didn't make a big difference. It was circling the drain anyway, based on big strategic errors (or just plain old private equity fuckery).
I mean yeah, of course thats very true, but it's funnier to blame ot on the funny sea bugs.
The pod is probably not so bad. I mean, you have to live somewhere.
Friend, do you have a moment to hear the good news of beans?
Ok fine, now when you say endless shrimp - I need an address.
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