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San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code::The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Centered in the square carpet of green plastic turf, a Japanese teenager sat behind a C-shaped console, reading a textbook. The white fiberglass coffins were racked in a framework of industrial scaffolding. Six tiers of coffins, ten coffins on a side. Case nodded in the boy's direction and limped across the plastic grass to the nearest ladder. The compound was roofed with cheap laminated matting that rattled in a strong wind and leaked when it rained, but the coffins were reasonably difficult to open without a key.

The expansion-grate catwalk vibrated with his weight as he edged his way along the third tier to Number 92. The coffins were three meters long, the oval hatches a meter wide and just under a meter and a half tall.

-- William Gibson, Neuromancer

Cyberpunk was supposed to be a dystopian vision.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most dystopian books are now used as a manual for some politicians and rich a**holes.

[–] pthaloblue@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Ready Player One was a dystopia and Zuck was so enamored it became required reading for building the "Metaverse".

Billions of dollars can't buy you the ability to sense irony I guess.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"A big hit" with people who desperately need accommodation that won't bankrupt them.

Yeah i love how every negative was couched within a sentence mentioning how popular and great these pieces of shit are

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Became a big hit with tech workers” lmao that’s fucking stupid. There’s just nowhere to live that’s remotely reasonably priced in SF. This is like one of the only choices if you really don’t want a roommate.

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The header photo suggests at least 4 room mates tho?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry - I mean like a roommate in a college dorm, wherein you share a room. Because there’s approximately zero chance that one could find a private room to rent in SF for $700 or less.