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[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 109 points 6 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 6 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 6 months ago

the most wretched of commodities

[-] T34_69@hexbear.net 52 points 6 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 6 months ago

Hey that's a 5g protection for free!

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 44 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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 6 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.

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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 105 points 6 months ago

dedicating 1/3 of extremely limited floorspace to stairs to fit the fucking garage lenin-dont-laugh

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 70 points 6 months ago

Truly brilliant.

Way more sensible than just adding an awning to the side of it for $40 and parking under that.

Shipping container houses are one of those things that seem like a great idea unless you know literally anything about construction or think about it for more than 30 seconds.

Case in point the genius telling me that the internal temperature reaching 125 degrees in "some situations" (the sun being out) doesn't have any effect on living conditions.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 52 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Case in point the genius telling me that the internal temperature reaching 125 degrees in "some situations" (the sun being out) doesn't have any effect on living conditions.

You're just acclimatizing yourself to the future average day time temperatures. free-real-estate

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago

It comes with all the cost saving of not adding a second pair of legs to the container for the low low price of adding 3 sets of staircases to a 40ft container

[-] D61@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

For like... 700$ US you can get a "car port" and just bolt the metal supports to the concrete pad.

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[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 67 points 6 months ago

No kitchen

Minimal storage

Liable to crush your car with you inside

Love the idea!

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[-] spacecadet@hexbear.net 52 points 6 months ago

Unhinged car brain on display here

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[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 45 points 6 months ago

All these attempts to make inexpensive, affordable housing like this completely ignore the fact that it's not the house itself that's so expensive. It's the land.

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

these require much less land than a detached single family home....

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what do you mean "apartment block"?

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[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What is the point of putting this thing on an angle

[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 57 points 6 months ago

you can fit way more stairs this way

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 49 points 6 months ago

To make it wheelchair inaccessible

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

car go under

[-] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 6 months ago

To shield your summer home from the elements.

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[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Start with a 3600 cu ft container
Immediately shave off 25% of that with stairs
You will probably hit your head going to bed because that's like a 6 foot ceiling in the bedroom now
Put the bathroom right over the car
Sewer hookups? Don't need 'em. Use your composting toilet to fertilize your tree on your massive empty lot
Room for a dorm-sized fridge and maybe a hot plate right next to your midcentury modern easy chair: support for a nutritious froot-loop and canned-soup-based diet
Just wash your dish in your bathroom sink
Also yourself, everyone loves a sponge bath and there's no way we're cramming a shower in this puppy. No sewer hookups, remember?
Window (singular)
Lamp (singular)
Creeping sense of having been entombed alive (free with purchase)

[-] macabrett@lemmy.ml 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Uhhh all you naysayers are forgetting one important thing: the text says "suitable home design" right there. So, whatever negative things you have to say, maybe learn to read first. It's clearly suitable.

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

Tankies stay losing

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

This just reduces floor space inside the container for no appreciable reason. Park the car on that strip of ground outside.

[-] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

love that someone living in a shipping container would drive a beamer

[-] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago

What if it's icy and your car slides into one of those tiny supports when you come in to park under your box, thus destroying your car, your home, most of your possessions, and possibly killing you?

[-] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago
[-] Guamer@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

At the foot of your bed, and then let the downward momentum roll it down the stairs like a slinky and out your (open) front door.

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

Know someone that lived in a shipping container in the woods with his wife and teenage daughter. They used an outhouse and the shower was in the same area as the kitchen.

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[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 30 points 6 months ago

Old people killer 9000, now with different spacing between flights of stairs to better catch them off guard

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

The shipping container home thing is similar to making furniture out of shipping pallets. Not functional, not aesthetically pleasing, and probably dangerous (chemically treated wood vs hot metal box that takes too much work to be livable).

If Amazon was a competent company that was better than its predecessors, then it would have kit-homes like the Sears catalog used to, and no one would bother with this container BS. But instead it's oops-all-dropshipping.

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[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

suitable

Voted Most Likely to Pancake Your Car

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

Honey, the house smashed our cybertruck again!

Love the house though

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

Oh my God we actually have a shipping container defender logging on

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

It’s cute that they think people will get a large, personal lot for a container and not just a cube like in Japan

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[-] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 22 points 6 months ago
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[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

why did we need a cutaway view of the car

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