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    11 months ago

    This has so much more context needed. Like the dude is getting the land for free as a sorta art piece and doesn’t, or didn’t plan to do it long.

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    11 months ago

    Good for him, I guess, but … I wouldn’t want to live in that POS even if you paid me. These stories are so frustrating because they start to normalize that living in a shoebox is normal. It isn’t. It’s terrible.

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      Well considering the Western world’s comforts are here for us at the cost of poverty everywhere else. Hum idk maybe this should be a start in a moderate society.

      One that has no rich fucks but also doesn’t have poverty

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          For us yes ofc. I mean for the rest of the world wich is where my point fits.

          But then we are entering in something that’s too radical for today, I’ve rarely had support when I point out borders are weird and kinda should disappear

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    11 months ago

    Kinda dystopian and depressing, but honestly some parts of it seem nicer than the houses he’s neighbours with. I like how it’s designed to not interfere with the skip lorry’s cab.

    E: How much is the porta potty rental?

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      How much is the porta potty rental?

      I watched the video through and he says he gets it free and they empty it every week or so. I suppose it’s good advertising for the company.

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    11 months ago

    I never thought watching Sesame Street when I grew up that Oscar the Grouch is the future.

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    It’s not a dumpster it’s a skip they’re different things.

    A dumpster is basically something you put trash in. A skip is what you put building waste in (rubble, bits of drywall), so firstly it’s larger than you’re thinking, if you’re thinking of a dumpster. Seriously if you get in one it’s kind of hard to get back out again without somebody helping you, they go at least five foot up. Secondly he’s doing this to prove a point, and the point he’s trying to prove is that he’s a belligerent idiot, and he’s proving it very well. It’s not that homes in London are expensive, although they are, his “problem” is that what he wants to do isn’t legal (he wants to live in a caravan on that plot of land and it isn’t zoned for that), so he’s doing this instead as a loophole. It isn’t some protest against home prices in London or anything noble like that.

    However the media lap it up and he’s quite happy to make use of it to further his cause of being an annoying pain.

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      It’s an art project.

      Plus if he lived in a caravan, people would just assume he’s a traveller and have the council move him on.

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    11 months ago

    A few years back i remember reading on quora that you can rent a single bedroom apartment for $400 easily there. looks like times have changed

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    11 months ago

    So cool. I’m worried my house will be burgled. Surely he worries his house will be stolen? 😁

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    If he really wants to help out, he should build 3 more of those with 3 more portable toilets and find a better source for water. That plot of land is more than enough to hold more density.

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    It’s so great that our society has declined so much that it’s basically like living in a third world country like, the Bahamas.

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    Imagine collecting and counting those $62 each month. The sense of accomplishment and contribution to society that must confer.

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      The society that put him there in the first place? Yeah, what a debt he owes to that benevolent system. Truly.

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        They are ragging on the landlord who considers this an acceptable way for someone to live. The key word of their post being “collecting”.

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          Do you live in a safe reality secured from the eventualities that the majority of the population exists in, or are you just packing up another bowl of hopium? Shit is fucked, and it’s quickly becoming norm. Step away from the pipe, fellow citizen.

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    Americans pretending other countries don’t have their own currency.

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      .com is a US commercial web domain. It makes sense for currencies to be converted to USD for a primarily US intended audience.

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        No, .com is an international tld and you can convert prices while still listing the original like any other countries news source would do.