Bugs sounding a little tasty tho, ngl
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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.
No noises sound like heaven.
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Endless shrimp destroyed the company. So fuck it, eat the bugs you little pod child, EAT THE BUGS!
the "bug hate" meme is entirely a product of meat industries worried about people actually embracing alternatives.
I can describe cow and chicken meat with equally disgusting terminology, eating living things in any capacity is objectively weird and gross, we're just more used to eating some living things over others.
Sooner or later we're all going to be eating things like cultured meats and processed insects, it's just a matter of how many people are going to resist and struggle against changes to the way we stay alive.
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I would absolutely eat all the bugs if they weren't prohibitively expensive.
I like my bugs fried in coconut batter.
Really, I see a lot of people act absolutely revolted at the idea of eating cricket cakes and the like, but will absolutely destroy fried krill patties and similar dishes.
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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.
Do they not change them over time in the US?
It looks like a new build estate here, but over the decades people redecorate, some might paint them differently or get an extension. Add a driveway, convert garage into a home office, plant a tree or hedge. After several decades the houses start to show their different unique traits. If you look closely (we saw 5 houses in the same area before buying) you can see how each was originally the same but has been changed over years.
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I would absolutely eat all the bugs if they weren't prohibitively expensive.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]The crabs at the beach are free. Sea bugs!
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Ok fine, now when you say endless shrimp - I need an address.
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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.
Even buying new is fine IMO, as long as you get it inspected properly. It also has the benefit of warranties.
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Do they not change them over time in the US?
It looks like a new build estate here, but over the decades people redecorate, some might paint them differently or get an extension. Add a driveway, convert garage into a home office, plant a tree or hedge. After several decades the houses start to show their different unique traits. If you look closely (we saw 5 houses in the same area before buying) you can see how each was originally the same but has been changed over years.
HOAs prevent it with all their micromanagement of how your property should look, and how modifications should be done. Most new build communities come with an HOA now.
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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.
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Imagine calling a house a pod.
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the "bug hate" meme is entirely a product of meat industries worried about people actually embracing alternatives.
I can describe cow and chicken meat with equally disgusting terminology, eating living things in any capacity is objectively weird and gross, we're just more used to eating some living things over others.
Sooner or later we're all going to be eating things like cultured meats and processed insects, it's just a matter of how many people are going to resist and struggle against changes to the way we stay alive.
Resist change is pretty popular nowadays, at least in the US it is.
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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?
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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.
You ever seen Vivarium?
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Imagine calling a house a pod.
Imagine calling one of those pods a "home"
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But where would you put all that grass that needs mowing in the front yard?
In the backyard.
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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.
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!
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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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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.
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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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Imagine calling a house a pod.
Imagine calling a pod a house.
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HOAs prevent it with all their micromanagement of how your property should look, and how modifications should be done. Most new build communities come with an HOA now.
Why are HOA so common? I only read about how annoying and sometimes borderline illegal they act
