Bugs sounding a little tasty tho, ngl
-
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.
-
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
If you play/hang out in the front area as a sort of almost communal space, it could make sense.
-
This post did not contain any content.
-
This post did not contain any content.
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?"
-
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?"
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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
-
If you play/hang out in the front area as a sort of almost communal space, it could make sense.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Except you'll get shot if you step on someone else's property.
-
I will live in a pod
I will eat the bugs
Stop spending all your money on microtransactions!
-
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?"
Aren't crickets predators? They can be really good. I'm sure they weren't great to your mom though, sorry.
-
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
Yes, the tiny backyard compared to the big front yard doesn't make sense to me
-
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
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
️ -
This post did not contain any content.
Endless shrimp destroyed the company. So fuck it, eat the bugs you little pod child, EAT THE BUGS!
-
This post did not contain any content.
Friend, do you have a moment to hear the good news of beans?
-
Stop spending all your money on microtransactions!
wwWwwWWWOOoooOOOoooooOOoo
-
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.
-
Yes, the tiny backyard compared to the big front yard doesn't make sense to me
Curb appeal. ?
-
This post did not contain any content.
The pod is probably not so bad. I mean, you have to live somewhere.
-
This post did not contain any content.
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.
-
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).
-
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]Even in the deepest suburbs it's not that hard to form community and connection with your neighbors. Hold a few yard sales, make small talk, greet people walking their dogs, get to know who lives where. That's literally all it takes, that and actually going out.
We complain endlessly, particularly on sites like Lemmy, about the US's lack of "walkable cities" and other systemic obstacles to having better sense of community and social contact, but we hardly ever see people doing something about it.
I get that it's less "fun" to go out and make friends if you don't got a riverwalk and cafes, but the most important ingredient is still there, which is other people you just need to step up and make things happen.
-
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.
