SOMIPODS: Sleeping Capsules
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We are helping Landlords like you thrive in this new Gig Economy. Split up your spare room with high end Japanese-style hotel capsules in order to improve the quality of your tenants and increase monthly revenue.

I saw these and I thought they were so cute, like I genuinely wanted one for myself because it looked like something out of Subnautica. Then I go to the website and lo- it's made for fucking landlords.

They even have a calculator that calculates rent for the pods.

They'll never regulate this shit, you'll have an absolute frothingfash putting like 10 in a house and charging every head full rent.

He was right mao-aggro-shining

  • culpritus [any]
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    3 months ago

    seen-this-one

    spoiler

    so-true C Y B E R P U N K free-real-estate

    from Neuromancer (1984) book:

    Cheap Hotel was the name of a hotel in Night City that had rentable coffins, white fiberglass capsules that were three meters long and had oval hatches that were a meter wide and just under a meter and a half tall. The coffins were racked in a framework of industrial scaffolding, organized in six tiers with ten coffins on a side. The hotel was able to be reached through an alley off Baiitsu and had an unlit neon sign near the entrance that simply said "CHEAP HOTEL."

    https://neuromancer.fandom.com/wiki/Cheap_Hotel

    • TRexBear
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      3 months ago

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      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Neuromancer was written thirty or forty years ago. Japan was expected to become economically dominant on a high tech manufacturing economy and many cyberpunk writers looked to high tech urban Japan to divine the outlines of the horrors of the near future.

      • Sons_of_Ferrix
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        3 months ago

        They're already very real in Japan.

        FYI they're kind of a novelty, most hotels in Japan are normal hotels. From what I understand they're mostly a thing tourists in Tokyo do for shits and giggles.

        Closer reality to this crappy motels that people actually use as cheap apartments which have been a thing for a long while.

        • TRexBear
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          3 months ago

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