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[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 109 points 5 months ago

What is it with their obsession with trying to use shipping containers as houses.

Why do none of them realize that something that was designed to the bare minimum standard of not destroying products would be a good thing to live in.

There like, actual materials designed to be used to build homes, maybe fucking try using some of them instead of trying to recreate what was supposed to be a crazy dystopian example of housing.

This is like the dumbasses that keep reinventing a train.

Take a shipping container, but you have to ventilate it and have heating and cooling.

Oh and you're going to have to have some kind of plumbing sos you'll need some internal walls and some penetrations

Wow I just had a great idea you could actually put some wheels on it and you could easily move it to any available lot.

Annddd it's an rv or a mobile home.

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 62 points 5 months ago

Why do none of them realize that something that was designed to the bare minimum standard of not destroying products would be a good thing to live in.

Under capitalism, laborers are a product.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago

the most wretched of commodities

[-] T34_69@hexbear.net 52 points 5 months ago

Also they act like a Faraday cage so you can't use wireless devices in them without connecting to a router inside

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 5 months ago

Hey that's a 5g protection for free!

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I used to love the idea of living in a container house for the price and the ecological impact of it, but after some research I found out that to make them livable they had to be modified so much that are just as "bad" as a normal house.

[-] GenXen@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago

Additionally, you can't repurpose a used shipping container since it's nearly impossible to determine if and/or what hazardous materials have been shipped in one over the course of it's life. So all of these concepts rely on net new containers, which completely nullifies the whole point.

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

There are a lot of shipping containers that have been used only once, due to US/China exports imbalance. These are available at a good price, or at least were when I looked at this like seven years ago.

(Still plenty of other problems though.)

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago

It's like those idiots who try to turn a pre-fab storage shed into a house but worse.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

the capitalist's final dream is to (re)commodify labor.

[-] HeyGreg@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

You have to insulate it too, there’s no getting around that. So the inside becomes smaller or you build a shell around the outside. More practical to just build a regular wooden house.

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