IronpigsWizard

Yeah, I love looking at homes or lots of land for sale (rarely, for is depressing, ha), find something appealing (though generally still unaffordable), proceed to search for the address and wham-o! - HOA with monthly to annual fee. Plus bonus stipulations of what you can/cannot do to both the interior/exterior.

All valid points. Thanks for mentioning, "mortgage poor". It's amazing how many people think that's the solution to rent....when you're typically agreeing to pay, essentially rent, for 30 years.

An everyone who gets a mortgage, with rare exception, OF COURSE, believes it will be paid off well before they are anywhere near 30 years. Seemingly forgetting that health issues, social issues, weather events, etc are likely going to stop that from happening.

This post just keeps getting more bleak, lol....

Yeah, I feel like these individuals (and likely as you said, their parents) would probably call someone a, "f*ggot" or some other awful slur for being in therapy.

I grew up around plenty of those types, indoctrinating their children to be as shitty as they are.

Is this from Neuromancer per chance? I own the book and never read it.

I do not want to acknowledge how long I have owned it though, lol. It is crazy how things can end up backlogged.

It's really sad that someone had the thought process of, "I bet we can convince people to live in these fucking things". An despite this small bump in the road, it is seemingly working.

It's disgusting how many people will leverage housing costs (especially in San Francisco) against their fellow (hu)man.

I remember reading about, "pod hotels" in Akiharbara, "Electric Town", Japan in the late 90s or early 2000s. I recall them being marketed as a cheap way to see the neighborhood. Even back then, Akiharbara was the global epicenter of anime/manga, retro gaming, arcades, computer stores and repair shops.

Glad to see the concept has now evolved to, "dystopian hell" some 20 years later.

My System 76 laptop I bought a few years back is still alive and well. Ubuntu MATE or Manjaro I typically run now. Sometimes it makes me feel like a sellout running those distros. I know that's a goofy thought. Is underdog syndome a thing? Ha.

We're, "Glorified indentured servants", 1800s USA Irish immigrant style.

....An I think that is the best case scenario.

Definitely a maturity issue here. So many of these people have used childhood/young adult experiences to justify adult behavior.

Did not Sigmund Freud or someone say that you tend to stay locked into the mindset of a certain age when abuse/extreme abuse happened to you?

Some theorist believed that, an I am pretty sure it has been strongly discredited. I'm just not so sure if it should have been in light of these many...individuals.

Though, eh, I suppose the argument could be made that they are all sociopaths', have borderline personality disorder, etc.

A nonreligious Amen to that.

I have ran GNU/Linux since the early 1990s. Practically since it first existed. Distributions like MuLinux, Yellowdog Linux, Slackware, Debian, etc. This generally has lead to multiple difficulties. Sometimes I had to dual boot to get around said difficulties. Around 2010, I got good enough with WINE, software work arounds and alternatives that I didn't need to dual boot anymore. I did like to play various games still back then, but around 2010 Valve's GNU/Linux support was improving (unless my memory deceives me)

This post has made me feel that for the first time, all that struggle was worth it, heh.

On a side note, there's some sort of dark irony with personal ownership dying under capitalism. I feel like the majority of us hate all these subscriptions models, but we keep playing along .vs. becoming cave hermits.

That is a really neat idea. I initially thought it was some form of rhythm game controller, when I first glanced at the photo of it.