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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

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[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 60 points 6 months ago

We are helping Landlords like you thrive in this new Gig Economy.

No way this is real. Somebody from here has to have written this as a bit. It's another one of these things where it sounds like it's tailor-made to drive Hexbear users insane. The only thing that's missing here is an AI assistant inside the pod, watching you sleep.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago

It implies that landlords even need help. It's never been a better time to be a landlord.

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

I read the whole website trying to figure out if it was a joke and I'm still not sure

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

The only thing that's missing here is an AI assistant inside the pod, watching you sleep.

Omg delete this before the lathe hears you!

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You got a good theory going on, this whole website was pure agony-deep for me.

Whoever wrote this please show yourself and tell us it's a fucking joke.

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 51 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is so fucked

Their FB page is filled with obviously botted reviews

I really hope this is an elaborate bit, I watched one of their landleech "testimonial" vids and it didn't seem obviously generated by AI, he was boasting about increasing his monthly yield of blood by 80% using some of these

Edit, addendum:

Website is extremely sus imo

Filled with stock photos/photos ripped from other places and the videos they have of people "reviewing" their pods look like carefully edited-down reviews people have made of capsule hotels, this shit is definitely a scam

Although actually maybe they're just reselling/"dropshipping" capsule hotel pods to landlords tbh, I saw some similar photos on Alibaba product listings

Landleech dropshipping scheme lmao, what an incredible variety of parasites our society has produced

We even have have parasites that feed on other parasites

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

If it isn't real now, it will be soon.

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago
[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think you’re right. It’s either a drop shipping service or a scammer trying to profit from landlords by using renters and online users to spread the website in the hopes it attracts landlords.

The site was created recently, and every post about this only came into existence today. The catalysts seem to be supposed landlords asking innocuous questions on forums about whether they should implement more of these pods in their units and getting a ton of backlash.

This is either a bit or a grift using people like us as their pawns.

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is either a bit or a grift using people like us as their pawns.

Yeah :(

It's definitely some kind of scam/grift. 2 of the new/recently resurrected accts on reddit posting about this were also posting about another shopify slop vendor selling paint kits or some shit like a month ago

Dead internet ~~theory~~

This is seriously making me reconsider how much "discussion" on reddit is entirely artificial

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[-] PaX@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Okay, okay, maybe I'm looking into this too deeply but

Also, the only people talking about this online are either people making fun of it or accts that are either new or were inactive for years suddenly posting about it

Example, this reddit-logo user who was inactive for 6 years and then suddenly is posting about these fucking pods and arguing with people:

https://old.reddit.com/user/KingZednem/

Very sus

A lot of it might just be outrage bait for more engagement tbh, or maybe just trolls idk

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[-] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

It might also be an ARG/ad campaign for an upcoming TV show or game

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[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 48 points 6 months ago

How do you even rehabilitate these people???

You don't. landlord-sus

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 46 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is how they are rehabilitated

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

Vietnam put them in camps for years until they were confident the fuckers understood economics, or were at least so beaten down as to be neutralized.

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What a waste of resources. That food could have gone to people who deserve to live.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 39 points 6 months ago

Neuromancer featured capsule hotels 40 years ago, and I guess they were a thing in Japan even then.

Techbros carefully studying "don't build the torment nexus" and re-inventing flophouses.

[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago

They are a thing in Japan at present day. The bizarre thing to me about them is that they aren't any cheaper than an airbnb. I've even seen some standard private hotels that are similar in price. I would have imagined that the entire appeal to a capsule hotel would be that they would necessarily have to be dirt cheap

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

I was under the impression that they've endured only as a novelty, so they're not really competing with conventional hotels.

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[-] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I assume they are located in highly desirable locations so the draw is being able to crash right in the middle of the most exciting part of the city. An Airbnb or hotel room can increase by hundreds of dollars depending on which neighborhood its on. But a landlord with a suburban house trying to rent out these pods? lol

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago

Rehabilitate? how-compelling

[-] booty@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago

How do you even rehabilitate these people

Rehabilitate? chairman-meow

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago

His unit started attracting white-collar professionals and international students

Imagine studying to be an accountant or programmer or whatever and then having to live in one of these things. I bet a "depressing commie block" doesn't look so bad from the inside of a pod.

Average San Francisco new grad experience tbh

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[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago

rehabilitate? gui-better

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago

Rehabilitate? stalin-gun-1 stalin-gun-2

[-] puff@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

I don't trust this thing not to build up dangerous levels of carbon dioxide while you sleep. Do you really think they thought hard about breathability while making it 'soundproof'?

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

One of those claims is a lie. They say they have a fan in the unit, but if they do then it wouldn't be soundproof.

Also the absolute mustiness and BO that would accumulate in one of those units. People won't sleep in a unit that smells like feet and BO.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

Landlords really are the scum of the earth

Hell, scum is more pleasant than these assholes

[-] darkmode@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

live in the pod. <----- you are here

eat the bugs

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

Bugs aren't even bad, lots of cultures eat and cook with them (chirpy chip cookies made with crickets in the US) but you know it will be the most cursed insect that's used in the US.

It will be roaches, I already know it.

[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

snowpiercer was a documentary

Death to America

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[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

Rehabilitate? barbara-pit

[-] TeddyKila@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

Rehabilitate? the-doohickey

[-] context@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

rehabilitate? knifecat

[-] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

Ok hear me out: just have like, tenements, but with modernist design aesthetics. The poors will eat it up.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Those are pretty popular in cyberpunk genre, but always gets portrayed as significant part of why it is dystopia.

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[-] neo@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

OK but what if this were just my new product to fleece credulous and stupid landlords?

Kidding aside, I would like to find ways to entrap landlords into crippling debt for their sins.

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

They need to be studied, they're living proof that a sociopath can be made instead of only born.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

twisted Subscription model.

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[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Is this real? The language of the site almost seems like a joke. And the only content related to SomiPods were all posted today and primarily on Reddit.

I see one landlord forum post of some guy supposedly meeting the sales rep at Costco lol. Another landlord chimes in and says it’s already here in the UK. But even then, these posts were also only posted today. Seems a bit strange that these things are already implemented yet even landlords seem to have found out about it today, alongside the rest of us. The account who created the thread also only created their account today.

Their testimonial section also includes news articles… about pods, in general. Not their brand. In fact some are even advertising other brands lol

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

3 bedroom 1 bath is now 12 occupants, shared shower.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

You misspelled "wall"

[-] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

how do you rehabilitate these people

The rehabilitation center

barbara-pit

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