Libertarian Sea Pods: A Hilarious Aquatic Disaster

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[@NapoleanBlown-aparte]

Nej, tak!

[@elizabethdavis1696]

Please consider doing a video on the lifeboat foundation and lifeboat ethics!!!

[@huben_1337]

Lil bro you cant even tell the difference between kW and kWh. You always talk smart but are not any better then the weird randomscam start ups no one cares about.

[@itchylol742]

no. grats on getting that bag tho

[@Nin5egAta]

Why did they make their company name sound so ominous? I can't take them seriously

[@anschelsc]

From the makers of "trains but worse", "buses but worse", and "bikes but worse", we bring you: boats but worse

[@KerbalFacile]

These pods are basically solitary confinement cells that you pay to have built around you and towed.

[@NeutralDrow]

I was thinking more "oil rigs, but worse and useless," but yours is more succinct.

[@PeachysMom]

And a pickup truck, buy MUCH worse.

[@Moonstone-Redux]

Also "camper van but worse". Like, I just saw multiple stores in the middle of shopping malls in Tokyo just selling camper vans. This idea already exists and is very popular.

[@OsirisLord]

Totally on brand for these guys that their boats can't move.

[@mm-qq7bb]

The best solution is obviously connecting the pods together and making ocean trains™.

[@Gloomdrake]

Ocean train Take me by the brain

[@BaronBytes]

Thus saving Water 7

[@superstarcop52]

We have already that, they are called boats.

[@Kickiusz]

​@@Gloomdrakelead me to the crane That will lift my strain

[@HatTrex]

Trains are outdated, something like an hyper aquatic underwater loop should do the trick

[@masonm600]

Society runs so well that we have the luxury of forgetting how much it does for us. Little details like: where does our poop go? How does fresh water and electricity come out of our walls? How inconvenient are errands really?

[@juliusfucik4011]

No Lobertarian denies that. It is a straw man argument. But for.most everything else government is highly inefficient. Where does inflation come from exactly? Have you ever taken a good look at the banking system? How can a government borrow money and then have to pay interest on it? It does not make sense.

[@willyeeton4390]

​@@juliusfucik4011See they also do this thing where they whinge about the world bank and government debt when you ask them how they'll eat or deal with sewage in Libertarian Heaven

[@sprinkle61]

@@willyeeton4390 Humans grow food and build sewage plants, you don't need a government for these functions. So, tell me how great for us the last few years with 30 % inflation was...

[@screamingcactus1753]

@@juliusfucik4011 I mean, the people who proposed the pods this video is about didn't seem to put much consideration into those things

[@mbuck253]

They can just order Uber Eats! Oh, wait.. They can just order Dominos 24/7 once they implement their drone delivery. If they ever get sick of pizza and want to switch it up, they can order dominos pastaTM

[@athatcher9367]

Okay, but what if we made some kind of anarchocapitalist libertarian super pod city UNDER the sea?!

[@eric2500]

SEND EM! 😁

[@JounLord1]

Ooh thats a good idea bro. Make it a paradise free from the masses where a person is entitled to the perspiration of their head. We can call itself something neat like Pleasure or Ecstasy.

[@juliangauld7331]

That's basically the scenario of Bioshock (great game, by the way).

[@athatcher9367]

@@juliangauld7331 I agree, it's an awesome game, this post was meant to reference it as a joke since it most definitely didn't go very well

[@obscene1349]

Andrew Ryan? Is that you??

[@Liminal_Simulacre]

Billionaires wanting to live like lighthouse keepers is just so hilarious imo

[@greebj]

or worse. I propose they call the AI assistant "Wilson"

[@iller3]

or worse is right, Everytime I see libertarians talking about international waters, I'm reminded that Epstein Island _was a thing_

[@LoserHands]

up in the lighthouse, jorkinnit like pattinson

[@davidc8982]

Thats why they want their libertarian dream. To do whatever they want with no consequences. ​@@iller3

[@Jokoko2828]

Lighthouse keepers have it better honestly.

[@phaikia13]

1 strong wave later, the plumbing gets wrecked and shit backflows into the pod.

[@mukkah]

Shit was already linvin' in the pod XD

[@Ar1AnX1x]

headline: Multi-Millionaire drowns in his own stored shit

[@yoni-in-BHAM]

😆😆😆

[@4Gehe2]

Not really. There is actually off the shelf components meant to things like this. The system they are pretending is original or new, is neither. We are really good at making floating structures like that. Basically most of the engineering issues been solved - and it is expensive thing to do safely and properly. We have beacons, sea marks, and lighthouses operating all around in places like the baltic sea made to float like this and the last for decades. Then we have these things called oil rigs and work platforms that are regularly used in all sorts of places. And when it comes to sewage, we have actually solved that issue also. Finnish archipelago and coasts are filled with offshore waste pumping platforms - to prevent leisure boats from dumping it in to the waters. And waste water can be compacted by removing water with a system like vacuum drying (basically you make the tank low pressure so water evaporates at lower temperature, leaving back solids. It's surprisingly effective system.) However. I am 100% confident that if these were going to be built, they sure as hell wouldn't take any of the already perfectly solid and well engineered things which are already available. They will try to "innovate" their way through the problems so they can pretend to be tech startup. Just in my city here in Finland I think there is every company, fabrication capacity, and part supplier you'd need to pull this off (because we have a big ass shipyard, so that stuff gravitates here).

[@dasaggropop1244]

assuming they even thought of plumbing. utilities and such minor details are often not accounted for in these kind of projects because in society they are magically taken care of. they always forget the garbage and waste disposal in the privat ecity planning

[@Fusilier7]

I use to be a sailor in the Navy, and if there's one thing I learned after going out to sea - it's _very_ dangerous. Humans are land animals, so we have evolved to live on terra firma, our lives are based on the land, unfortunately, landlubbers with no maritime experience think it's going to be easy, until you experience your first gale. Foul weather at sea is vastly more dangerous than weather on the land, because you will have to bailout in stormy seas, but even if you make it, the sea will corrode any metal not suitable for the task. At sea, you will have to be your own fire fighter, doctor, repairman, and marine, don't expect help to come to bail you out, and don't expect there to be a crew to back you up, but leave it up to the libertarian-techbros put their fate into liquid assets. Addendum: I forgot to mention the dangers of sea currents, such as rip currents, building anything near a shore prone to rip currents is suicidal, the structure runs the risk of fatigue and falling into the current, if that happens, you will either be trapped in the pod with the rip current, or having to bail out as the current carries you out to open sea, either way you meet Davy Jones. Every coast has different currents, and they shift throughout the year, which is why it's foolish to think these seapods are a viable dwelling, on something as unforgiving as the sea, but as I learned during my service, the second you don't respect the sea - it kills you.

[@matthewiskra771]

This humble former sea scout, who only left SF Bay under supervision, concurs. Sudden gale came up in the bay and I'm a kid in 8' punt? Yah, the motor boat came out and towed us back in right quick.

[@matthewcaldwell8100]

That was a magnificent pun at the end there. Well done, sir.

[@nights6635]

"At sea, you will have to be your own fire fighter, doctor, repairman, and marine," But what if they invent drones that can do all that for you? /s

[@rodneysmith873]

Thank you for your service. I'm interested in being a Sailor too, what was your rate?

[@Fusilier7]

@@rodneysmith873 I was a E-4 Hospital Corpsman Third Class.

[@reagansido5823]

"Yeah screw you Thailand!" Thailand: gets up from chair "Oh shi-"

[@ThePaceMaker127]

Prayuth didn't fuck around 😂

[@IluminousOne-9.7.2]

"Let's show'em why we're called goverment"

[@Tech-zy3fj]

lol’d

[@ZKP314]

That Prostitution money makes dividends.

[@artsyscrub3226]

@@IluminousOne-9.7.2 Thwy ain't called military for nothin that's for sure

[@j.y.8054]

Rich people: We'll escape to the sea to avoid the problems of land My Somali pirate ass: I will be there no matter what

[@pizzasharkguy3807]

“Look at me, I am the Cap-ie-tan now” 🏴‍☠️

[@DiegoMorales-wn1jp]

They told us opposition to evil would come looking like capitan america or superman. Instead it came in the form of a somali pirate.

[@justalurker3489]

Honestly, I would love if like old Somali pirates ran like a piracy school once climate change makes piracy a marketable skill.

[@juniormanican8707]

"There's no law in the ocean"

[@realdragon]

No rules means i can steal whatever without consequences

[@Roxor128]

When I first saw it I thought "Oh, it must have a big counterweight or several floors underneath." I gave these people WAY too much credit!

[@BrickNewton]

As soon as I saw those water tanks I instantly thought why wouldn't you put them at the bottom for stability, but then remembered I wasn't designing a scam.

[@knightofficer]

Yeah I was expecting it to be structured like the flip ship, coolest boat ever made But nope, can't even do 12 minutes of research to even dress the scam up that deep

[@j.g.3293]

Thought they were going the oil rig route where there’s crazy ballasts and counterweights deep under it but nah, bro really went with “pods On-A-Stick™️”

[@stainlesssteelfox1]

Also flying buttress struts to the outrigger pods. Can you say single point of failure? Power would need to come from an onboard source, solar or wind on the upper surface of the pod, though maybe you could configure the outrigger pods to collect power from wave motion? You would probably have to have a small diesel gnerator to act as a back-up. Also, apart from lighting and air-conditioning, any spare power would get pumped into a desalination unit that might also reprocess brown water. There's no really good answer to black water short of a septic tank, but with proper processing of other water, that might be kept to a manageable size.

[@salam-peace5519]

This idea could have been much better if they just made the pod float on the water directly instead of being on a stalk like this. ;aybe make it pyramid-shaped with a second floor if you want a better view but still make it stable enough. And like put it in a place where its actually allowed.

[@rfwm]

"Two guys coming from the world of Crypto Currency." Ok, so these two gentlemen have no idea what they're doing, gotcha.

[@SeanHartnett-t8c]

That is a walking red flag.

[@Spiritnick]

The instant I heard that phrase, I was immediately thinking "This has the word 'failure' written on the wall in neon red already"

[@bc1284]

This is why everyone knew that stupid rabbit thing was doomed for failure the moment they realized its creator was the same person behind that stupid GAMA Metaverse game that included a dumbass proposal for a carbon negative crypto. The moment you see a project is helmed by techbros you should immediately know it’s doomed to failure.

[@SeanHartnett-t8c]

@@bc1284 true.

[@mikehunt3688]

Proof that you don't need to be smart to have a lot of money

[@ScottLaceyMN]

When I was a teenager, I dreamt of building a personal spacecraft that i could explore space with. Then I grew up. These people need to grow up.

[@noahthompson95]

I'm grown up too, and I still dream of it! I've just also recognized that any major construction like this is a logistical fucking *nightmare* and I don't understand how in the world engineers survive day-to-day.

[@tasseratee]

Libertarianism stands from emotional immaturity.

[@anracc5302]

your dreams were crushed by reality. the same doesnt have to happen to everyone else. dream of something absurd and unrealistic, you never know what the world will look like in 50 years.

[@Josh-99]

As someone who was in the Navy and has seen first-hand the wrath of mother nature when my ship got trapped between land and a hurricane, force us to steam directly into the storm, let me assure you: living on the sea is NOT within the bounds of our engineering capacity at the moment. Oil rigs can exist at sea because they are built for stability and durability, NOT comfort. They are difficult to reside upon, and crews are rotated out frequently. Even then, occasionally Mother Nature gets a wild hair and obliterates the blight on her oceans with a massive storm or tidal wave. But, if you want to take all of these Libertarian crypto-bros and put them all into unstable seaborne structures that are just about guaranteed to kill them but which will, at a minimum, sequester them away from the rest of us... off you go. Hell, that can't happen soon enough.

[@kezia8027]

"oh that's okay, you built it so you should get the first home! I'll wait for the next round of homes!" just convince them all to start building illegal homes off the thai coast lmao

[@NayrAnur]

By all means, they can stay in the ocean. I'm sure they'll have their utopian dream in Davy Jones' Locker.

[@PashaandDrosha]

For someone in the Navy you're very grounded.

[@MollyHJohns]

​@@PashaandDrosha *ba dum tsssss*

[@benjaminmooday9537]

I remember reading how settlers on the American Great Plains would suffer from prairie madness and get depressed and violent from the isolation. Can’t imagine it be much better in the middle of the ocean.

[@bluestealth7559]

Panamanian here, I knew that structure looked familiar. It was all over the news when it sank. No wonder I had never seen it anywhere else. Great video man!

[@beeble2003]

OK, but their prototype was in Thailand, as described towards the end of the video.

[@comradeLucienne]

@@beeble2003 nono, they're talking about the other demonstration model which sank immediately. you're thinking of the one that was deemed a threat to national sovereignty and then raided by the thai navy.

[@beeble2003]

@@comradeLucienne "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built one all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up." -- _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_

[@InquisitiveBible]

@@beeble2003 Pretty sure that was Blackadder, not Monty Python.

[@beeble2003]

@@InquisitiveBible No, it's _Monty Python and the Holy Grail._ The scene where the father (Michael Palin), who owns the castle, is telling his son Prince Herbert (Eric Idle) that it's his inheritance, but the son just wants to sing and doesn't want to marry Princess Lucky, then the guards get confused about keepin Herbert in the room.

[@ds_has_several_cats]

I live in Canberra. Our magpies provide more effective air defence than any Air Force.

[@baronvonschnellenstein2811]

Also: At ground level, don't forget... AIF: 0 | Emus: 2

[@zarasbazaar]

Yeah, your magpies are on steroids. We have magpies here and they're pretty chill.

[@Tommmmmmmmmmmm]

@@zarasbazaarjust wait till Spring

[@tiborpalmai2653]

The housing prices will ward off any invader anyway

[@thatkidwiththehoodie]

@@baronvonschnellenstein2811and don’t even get me started on the cassowaries…

[@MeboDotExe]

the poles are what really get me. like, logistical and resource issues are inherent to the basic concept of a seapod, but the pole just adds so many structual problems for literally no reason

[@Al-cf9qi]

Wild mebo comment real??

[@redbirb]

Sure it may “look modern” but OSHA would absolutely kill you if they saw that

[@Robin1996ify]

Sea pods for the rich: *exists* Average Somali Pirate: "Look at me, im the tenant now"

[@NightmareRex6]

hopefully bill gates and all the elite fks will buy them, or maby the pirates should raid there islands do you know what esoteric tech is down there!!?!?!

[@cideltacommand7169]

Ahh yes let me hire a personal pt boat as protection

[@ernestoa.jimenez3206]

Don't worry. There are no longer pirates off the coast of Panama. Dangerous cartels transporting tons of cocaine who don't want any witnesses, though... 😉

[@sammyk702]

That's a squatting pirate😮

[@eh9618]

Nah, those pirates would be smart enough to not live there. More like "Look at me, I'm the landlord/sealord now"

[@potatoreborn7848]

I see tech bros getting raided by pirates as an absolute win

[@feakhelek1]

@@sytonicflux Tech Bro Culling? Who's behind it?

[@samsonsoturian6013]

Don't make veiled terror threats

[@nostromza3433]

@@feakhelek1 Somalians

[@feakhelek1]

@@nostromza3433 Somalians? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of Thailand? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

[@witmoreluke]

Tech bro vs virtual pirate has been a thing for years, wild that the tech bros have decided to take it irl

[@leyrua]

It's always funny how futuristic stuff is always depicted with smooth curves and unbroken straight lines. A round house would be absolute hell to furnish. Heck, I lived in an apartment that was designed by someone more concerned with a sleek outside than a functional inside, and that was a MINOR example of a house with some annoying problems. You had to stand in the rain while you unlocked the door to enter, because there was no overhang shielding you. There was nowhere to hang your coat when you entered, and no closets on the first floor, so you would have to either stick a coat rack in the middle of your living room, or go into the bathroom or all the way up to the bedroom closet on the carpeted top floor. Neither option is ideal if you are dripping water from standing in the rain as you unlocked the front door. And then of course, I found out that he cut some corners when it came to building materials. The apartment was not exactly up to code, structurally speaking. All in all, it was an interesting experience, and was novel enough that I would consider renting it as an Airbnb, but I never want to live long-term in a building like that again.

[@TheGreatestJediOfAllTime]

Its so easy to build an overhang. Come on. You don’t even have to build one, you can buy a snap on type deal. You just never tried to solve that problem lmao

[@leyrua]

@@TheGreatestJediOfAllTime I was not the owner, so modifying the building might have landed me in some pretty hot water, especially given that the siding was made of a material that would have been incredibly difficult to patch after I put holes in it. Half the thing was covered in large shiny metal "scales", and the other half was made out of some kind of strange plastic-like paneling.

[@golddragonette7795]

That sounds pretty unpleasant to live in, so frustrating! I like weird materials, but they need to be practical

[@JustSomeDude42]

Has no one mentioned how it looks like the tech bros just played Subnautica and thought the game physics would translate?

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

Not to mention the character in Subnautica has access to futuristic Scifi 3D printing tech that can turn raw materials the player finds just lying around on the seabed into new materials within seconds and then 3D print complex electronics and gadgets and entire bulkheads. Oh, and the magical molecular realignment device that lets you repair fractures in your underwater home in seconds as if you're holding a welding apparatus except you don't need any training, just aim it at the fracture and press a button.

[@Chopchopok]

Even in Subnautica, you need to anchor your base to solid ground.

[@Sammy9262]

@@Chopchopok And you need something more powerful than a single solar cell if you want to do anything with your pod.

[@Marc83Aus]

Only problem is when your pod starts having issues you cant just deconstruct and rebuild stuff randomly and restart a few times to fix the bugs.

[@SillyhAsH]

Nope, they were playing Raft.

[@Alias_Anybody]

So they went from reinventing the train to reinventing the house-boat? Imagine if that libertarian fever dream actually took off, we'd also get pirates 4.0!

[@LordDarthHarry]

Literal porch pirates

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

Every poor person on panama: "Its free real estate"

[@taiidaniblues7792]

I think at this rate they are going to try to sell us a water bed, but as a pod in a vacuum tube.

[@bactrosaurus]

Home Invasion 2.0

[@matheussanthiago9685]

Yargh hargh fealla dee dee BEING a pirate IS ALRIGHT TO ME

[@XShaneX19]

A drunk buddy of mine once tried to explain to me how the Avengers air carrier is totally possible. His drunken ramblings made 100 times more sense than this.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Bespin Cloud City, ☁️ from Star Wars has 35000-60000 separate repulsior lifts. I don't recall the exact number. These jets keep Bespin in the sky.

[@MitchellTF]

"The tesseract provided the power, Tony Stark helped with the rest."

[@chukwudiilozue9171]

The issue here isn't building one: it's the idea you can build hundreds.

[@Davie-jx4rh]

To be fair, we have attempted planes launched and docked in air. So yea, we have done an aircraft carrying aircraft.

[@etherealceleste]

@@Davie-jx4rh For the curious, search the Zveno project.

[@Arnþor]

I like how just by looking at the thumbnail it reminded me of one of the first houses I built in Subnautica and in order to get it enough power in a semi realistic yet still fictional video game, I had to align the top of the home with this embarrassingly large quantity of solar panels just to be able to live, craft resources, and also have enough power to charge batteries. It looked just like 9:54 and I find that hilarious

[@ericb.4313]

I've played enough Subnautica to know where this is going... EDIT: The idea of "Anarcho-Capitalism at sea" is now also reminding me of BioShock. Of course I know AnCaps *LOVE* Rapture while clearly showing they missed the point.

[@SkipTheKip]

Wait can you build above sea level in Subnautica?

[@iacodino]

​@@SkipTheKipYea you can build on the 2 islands or even just build up from underwater

[@BartlomiejDys]

​@@SkipTheKip Ye

[@BartlomiejDys]

Me to friend, me to

[@ericb.4313]

​​@@SkipTheKip I take it back, I may *not* have played enough Subnautica, because every base I've built has been less of a dumpster fire than everything in the video so far.

[@andeve3]

The Sea Pod is the ultimate libertarian utopia: No ecosystem, no society, just the individual in a bubble that's also a literal island.

[@MichaelGeneSullivan]

Only without any natural resources.

[@DukasFiguliras]

And the bubble will inevitably burst

[@bificommander7472]

And it's so top heavy and unstable that it'll crash and sink as soon as it faces any headwind.

[@lenas6246]

yeah except everyone who insures they get power and get their shit shipped away is already a society. Ancap, libertarianism etc. are a code for "I never took a sociology class". Only religious hermits are probably close to those ideas, but thats def not what tech bros are striving for. They strive to live off of the work of others and pretend to be outside of society

[@-Subtle-]

I wonder how many of your upvotes are libertarians agreeing with you.

[@catlovingtrio]

Libertian sea pods... Where have I heard that before... Oh, right, Bioshock.

[@0g0dn0]

Compared to this Rapture looks ingenious, these pod bros won’t even make it to the psychotic bunny stage.

[@darkraiking680]

To be fair, it makes more sense to have them attached to the sea bed

[@makaylat.7005]

my FIRST thought was “if youre living in this tiny apartment on the water, how are you going to see or visit anyone?”. its kinda sad that guys like this dont seem to have any real friends or any interest in community....people will always need other people

[@marinary1326]

In TechBroLandia, there are no governmemt restrictions or protections, no physics, infinite electricity, and nobody poops.

[@etienne8110]

They live of liquid food or food pills (fuel and co). So no pooping 😅

[@Aderon]

And every one ranches frictionless spherical cows.

[@7d_renoakilah485]

So Gmod?

[@qlxmaosldk3576]

even a tiny ass tamagochi handheld pet simulator has pooping feature 💩 come on techbros

[@mollusckscramp4124]

@@qlxmaosldk3576 LMAO!

[@koteghe7600]

I didn't watch video to the end, but here is my solution: - get them at sea level - make them more stable shape - make them able to move wait no, that's just boat houses

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@nokedili Making into large floating hotel with supplies for few weeks...wait a damn second, that is just cruise ship.

[@Tindog81476]

No "Cyberboat" it's a new idea!

[@kensmith5694]

You mean "house boat". A "boat house" is a place to store boats.

[@svenblubber5448]

It is debatable wther that is actually an instable shape! depending on how big the buoyancy-pods under water are, this could be an implementation of the SWATH concept (having a small water area with all the voulume eitherr well above or below the water surface, thereby being far less affected by waves)... we have floating offshore wind farms with far heavyer weights on longer stalks doing just fine! I still agree it's a stupid idea, but not due to strength or stability, but due to all the other reasons!

[@nerdjournal]

If you didn't watch it to the end, you missed the irony of building a libertarian within a dictatorship. You disservice yourself and the creator.

[@siamsasean]

"governments don't own the ocean." How do you be a world traveling adult without knowing about national vs international waters?

[@noahraab2429]

It’s rather easy. You just don’t. Does that answer your question?

[@LaChartre]

what?

[@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180]

​@@noahraab2429then that guy didn't travel the world that much, or at least was horribly not curious about it.

[@noahraab2429]

@@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180 I never had to deal with it either. If you mostly fly, you don’t deal with that question.

[@erueka6]

Technically it's big enough they reasonably can't cover all regions what you can and can't get away with is up to luck and incompetence.

[@BigK13372]

Have nobody learned ANYTHING from Bioshock? Livertarians + Ocean = Bad Time

[@DoomsdayR3sistance]

I love how the supporting pole in some images appears hollow with a spiral staircase... meaning literally the weight of the pod has to be supported by the outer wall of the "pole". Guessing they are making it out of unobtainium.

[@nunyabiznes7446]

Good ol' Renderite. Never fails

[@Pretermit_Sound]

That’s Renderite™️

[@traildoggy]

It is made with Imaginarium and Wing and a Prayer Alloy

[@Pretermit_Sound]

@@traildoggy one of the lightest weight alloys, but not much in terms of tensile strength of course 😉

[@CleverAccountName303]

Aren't most huge cylindrical support poles hollow?

[@julien2983]

They're techbros, so the goal isn't to make any actual feasible product. The goal is to separate fools from their money and scarper with it.

[@Briselance]

So... tech bros are just conmen, aye?

[@enricorosina852]

​@@Briselance Are, were, and always will be.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

these two in particular come from the crypto scene, so they already have experience with rug pulls.

[@martinholt8168]

Off the coast of Gibraltar, juvenile orcas are playfully attacking yachts by tearing off the rudders or even sinking them. Now imagine them finding one of these. You may giggle. I did.

[@theenigmascribe]

For a second I thought I wouldn't Then I did It would certainly be a headline though.

[@matanui232]

@@theenigmascribe Its fucked how well this describes my thought process

[@apolux359]

So, Orca soup?

[@iguanobro9925]

A pod to destroy a pod

[@psychomantis2485]

Thanks for allowing me to giggle.

[@allenqueen]

0:52 All I need to know🤣

[@owenr-m4619]

I'm convinced that this entire concept started with these two messing around with building in Subnautica, looking at what they had just constructed and saying "What if we did this but in real life," and then they both congratulate themselves on their genius.

[@ChloeDaVoir]

It's somewhat excusable in Subnautica since when you're underwater, you generally care less about weight On the flipside, pressure is much greater concern

[@Infinite_Archive]

​@@ChloeDaVoirAlso it's excuseable in Subnautica considering it's a sci-fi game with giant lasers and spaceship(s), so I think we've got a bit of time before we hit that level of technology.

[@marley7868]

@@Infinite_Archive and the main character has the problem forced on them and they kinda have to make due

[@B.L.U.S]

​@@marley7868also in story the character would had stayed there for at max a month because of covid 0.5 You get it? 0.5 because it came earlier

[@coalopalatticus6964]

​@@ChloeDaVoir❤ by

[@johnjones_1501]

These people are seriously underestimating how high ocean waves can get during a storm

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Yeah, all I see is a pod that's lower than a cruise ship. Which makes it's a prime target for waves.

[@whogavehimafork]

I'm reminded of the Ocean Ranger oil platform disaster.

[@DONT_BE_SHEEPLE]

I just watched a documentary about the Ocean Ranger, which was a semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit that sank in Canadian waters on 15 February 1982. Said to be unsinkable..

[@dreadstranding]

With every alternative living situation that I consider, I think about how quickly help would arrive in case of a medical emergency. I use the test, "If something cut me really deeply, what's the chance EMTs would arrive soon enough to stop me from bleeding out, even in bad weather?" In this case, they'd be completely and utterly screwed.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

I have seen several crisises like that in fiction and it is bound to happen for real as well. Actually I am sure real events inspired the writers.

[@renanfelipedossantos5913]

​@@michaelpettersson4919No need to refer to fiction. Ask anyone living in the countryside far away from hospitals and emergency services.

[@aimeem]

Libertarians don't believe in EMTs. They want to be self-sufficient, let them be self-sufficient.

[@johnladuke6475]

This doesn't negate your premise, but it makes food for thought. One can be screwed in that way even living a conventional life within range of a grocery store. In rural areas, emergency medical or any of the 911-type response can take quite a while. I lived in such a town, and there was a fellow who hurt his foot quite badly with an axe clearing brush. Cell service is laughably bad, someone had to travel to a landline to call for help. Then it took 40 minutes for an ambulance to drive to his location, and another 20 to drive him to a suitable spot for an air ambulance to do an emergency pickup, and another 20 in the air to reach a hospital with a landing pad.

[@FacebookAunt]

@@michaelpettersson4919 Of course real events inspired the writers -- that's just life in rural areas. My grandpa used to talk about the time "his heart exploded" while he was checking his trapline and he had to crawl 5 miles back to his truck. I'm sure he was exaggerating, but still. There are plenty of places in "first world" countries where if you call an ambulance it will always take more than half an hour to arrive, and then another half hour back to the hospital, because you live half an hour from the nearest hospital. And living half an hour from a hospital is still in civilization with electricity and running water, not crazy mountain man isolation. Towns and cities provide incredible amenities you never even think about if you've lived in them all your life.

[@liamaldensmith1779]

I love watching you basically propose a completely realistic version of what they were trying to do within 30 seconds at the end of the video. "I can't believe these people couldn't figure this out on their own." Hella subbed. Your videos are great.

[@ziopera9601]

"I WON'T EAT THE BUGS! I WON'T LIVE IN THE POD!" *Eats Tesla cyberbugs and lives in the Liberty Freedompod*

[@incomingincoming1133]

The economy will crash and cash will be worth nothing. Only those with gold will survive. Therefore give us your cash and we will give you our gold (certificates).

[@manboy4720]

"this is the police! it's time to eat your bugs!"

[@manboy4720]

@@incomingincoming1133 bury your gold in a forest. and then make really cryptic messages for someone to figure out to find your gold (it makes the gold more valuable if there's a mystery).

[@a.p.2356]

**Literally the only people inventing pods to live in**

[@scipioafricanus5871]

Sounds like something Shoe On Head said.

[@harya7517]

"They don't have monopoly on the sea" Pirate: "Ayyy!!"

[@johnladuke6475]

Ahem. _Arrrr._

[@NoidoDev]

Rich people vs poor pirates. Guess who would have the better weapons.

[@kiwi_2_official]

@@NoidoDev pirates

[@DeadKraken]

@@NoidoDev Considering even the american genocide-lover army got pissy pants from small groups of anorexic somali pirates in flip flops sailing in Temu-quality slops, I'd say the pirates.

[@collinmclaren6608]

Straight up sounds like the plot to a shitty Blumhouse horror movie. "The most ADVANCED floating house on Earth! COMPLETELY cut off from the mainland! Nothing but you and the ocean!" *ominous music sting* *speedboat skids across ocean in the dead of night* *speedboat is full of emotionless masked killers*

[@jonathanraithel1025]

Somehow according to libertarians, the 15 minute city (which my great-grandparents called "a city") is a dystopia for having small apartments with access to public transportation, services, and shops. But a 600 sq ft residential unit in a difficult to reach location is a utopian solution. Don't let the Grafton bears attack you.

[@BadJellyman100]

Pretty strange how backwards their thinking is. Almost like libertarianism is incompatible with civilization huh?

[@GerhardTreibheit]

I'm literally living that "dystopia" in germany lol

[@gamechip06]

Sounds like a small farm but without the fields

[@MaskedDeath_]

I don't exactly live in a 15 minute city, but in apartment block in a good location. It's so dystopian I can barely stand it, I can get anywhere I need on foot (up to 30 minutes) or even faster with public transport, I have a store literally a 1 minute walk away, I have a couple of friends living nearby, I don't even need a car to go to work... I wish I could afford living on a sea pylon in bumfuck nowhere so that I had to spend 2 hours, risk my life to buy basic groceries, and probably spend a few k monthly just on fuel.

[@mariobadia4553]

But here's the thing.The governments want the fifteen minute cities to have no vehicles. I don't know about you But I want the ability to be able to leave The 15th minute city whenever I please In a vehicle that I own.. Plus the government's like the u k want to make it so you get charged money for leaving the city and you could only leave Going designated times set by the government. That's why Most people do not like the ideas of a 15 minute city because a corrupt government

[@LucasProgeny]

As a former live-aboard boat owner, I can confirm every issue you mentioned is 100% accurate. This whole idea is an utter joke.

[@velisvideos6208]

These guys almost make Elon Musk look sensible. Almost.

[@jimj2683]

Have you heard of SWATH hulls?

[@keithb6717]

Giant Oil rigs of similar design have existed for 20-30 years. Your experience is the equivalent of living in an apartment.

[@user-eg6fl6lr7e]

@keithb6717 good thing they're building giant oil rigs and not apartments

[@kimweaver1252]

@@keithb6717 The operative word is GIANT. Where your "apartment" is 30 meters above the surface. Or more. And you have a helipad to provide access to and from your apartment. And enough people to interact with that you have some human contact that you can get away from when they become highly annoying. Not many swells are going to slap you on your bottom at that height. But, at ten meters? And there is no reason to suppose that the impacts on the hull of the apartment will be evenly distributed.... those whacks will almost certainly be on one side... inducing lateral thrust and loading the stem unevenly. Those "pods" better be able to be explosively disconnected and be able to float free like a life boat.

[@RamadaArtist]

Ah yes, an apartment in the middle of the ocean with full surround windows. My nocturnal mountain-loving ass couldn't come up with a more perfect nightmare.

[@SanchoPanza-wg5xf]

Well for goodness sake. The butler inhabits the structure full time. We only visit when conditions are favourable. (spoken as if I were a rich man)

[@RamadaArtist]

@@SanchoPanza-wg5xf Yeah the problem is that I like nighttime, and being in the ocean, with nothing blocking the horizon, with windows on all sides of the structure, means that it's only actually going to be dark in there like, maybe 6 hours of the day. I'd much rather have a cabin in the woods, any day.

[@oldylad]

@@SanchoPanza-wg5xfrich people do dumb shit (ie steam powered wagons? What the heck so dumb smfh) so that eventually everyone else can do the same safely. All of the nice things you have now is because a or multiple rich dudes had an idea and failed a few times lmao

[@yesec9]

I renovate houses. I just started on a new jobsite at the Jersey shore. The wind and the salty water and ocean spray is something that causes a lot of corrosion on buildings. For example: materials that would last 30 years or more in Philadelphia last 10 years tops in Atlantic City. I made a random guess and said that the electrical service at the house looks to be 10-15 years old. In reality it was only 3 years old! The rusted gas pipes were something that I could have sworn were 50 years old, yet they were installed in the late 00s. The copper pipes, far from being the oldest I've seen, were the most corroded I have ever seen. Hurricane Sandy was very expensive for NJ. Nearly every property that experienced flooding needed (or still needs) some kind of renovation work. There's a reason a lot of materials, compounds, sealants, and lubricants have to be "marine rated" for use at oceanfront properties, let alone for use on boats. I don't think these fever-dream projects will be getting many investors like my employer, people who are familiar with owning and maintaining shore properties!

[@patanouketgersiflet9486]

Meh, why bother with reality?

[@gapsule2326]

Libertarians dont let reality get in their way.

[@maxwellsdemon10]

I see you reality and raise you my delusional phantasy. In the game of poker that is life I put it all on black and got a homerun baby. Checkmate all you doubters spreading FUD.

[@Arnþor]

And, that is kind of always the point. These people are not going to convince people who actually thoroughly know the ins and outs of everything that you're describing or even know just enough to remove the plausibility. They just need to get a few people with way too much money to burn that are a little too easily excitable and idealistic enough that they are more than willing to put money towards it without much thought. That's why a lot of these con artists will offer an artificial sense of scarcity or timeliness as a requirement for involving yourself in this. Grifters and con artists HATE people like you because you have the ability to very casually, politely, teach and remind people that the things they take for granted cannot exist in a vacuum and you really have to take every part that leads to your existence into account. Thank you

[@eric2500]

Like shore property - only WORSE!

[@cherrypopscile3385]

"Hey guys. You know how oil rigs are notorious awful places to work on, and we have to pay people possible life changing money just to stay on there for a few months? Well what if we did something similar, but with a studio apartment!"

[@greebj]

and the life changing money is what you pay (instead of get paid) for this?

[@kerngezond6953]

Well, the only remote possibility I can see this work out is if you go for the assumption that oil rig workers are generally ordinary people with an average social life and tech-billionaires are generally sociopaths who don’t mind living cut off from the rest of the world. Keep in mind that oil rigs are places to get work done, not places of leisure, so they are built accordingly. I think the whole idea of such a remote home is not that crazy, the pod-like design as discussed is just designed insanely bad.

[@GeorgeMonet]

@@kerngezond6953 I would love to live cut off from the rest of the world but it isn't feasible because I don't want to be a poor subsistence farmer.

[@davidc8982]

I work on oil rigs. They are fine to work on but wouldnt want to live on one full time. But I'll add these comments on what they have not considered. It is a constant battle against corrosion on rigs because they cant go into a dry dock for repairs. So their idea of living in a bubble better involve regular visits from grit blasters, scaffolders, painters, etc. And thats before considering repairs to all the equipment onboard. Choppers are regularly cancelled due to bad weather. Boats for bringing supplies out are regularly delayed. So you better make sure you have plenty of food stored. The smaller rigs I've worked on that dont have large crews walking around doing their jobs tend to end up becoming seagull colonies and are covered in birdshit. So more corrosion damage. An oil rig tends to be large enough that you do a fair amount of walking around will doing your job. Doesnt look like much of an option with these.

[@Mephitinae]

@@kerngezond6953 You're kind of implying that there's something wrong with people who want to live alone. Every time there's a video about some dude building a cabin in the woods, he gets millions of fans. Personally, typing comments about various topics and then imagining people reading them is all the "social life" I need on an average day. I don't even read replies.

[@derflopdrachi8454]

"They have a monopoly on land, but they dont have monopoly on sea." its all fun and games until a destroyer/frigate pulls up next to your pod.

[@LaMarcheFutilé101]

"In international waters, we can do anything we want!" *someone else does anything they want to the seapodder* *surprised pikachu face*

[@Sammy9262]

@@LaMarcheFutilé101 Me showing up with my bros and a couple of guns:

[@gavinjames8749]

​@@liam3284Would have thought a drifting cargo ship would have at least lookouts,you know,so they don't crash into things not on their charts.Other boats,perhaps.Cargo ships would be loading/unloading at docks,anchored or travelling the route to their destination.Not sure how many devote time to drifting around,maybe on their holidays.

[@blub5117]

​​​@@gavinjames8749cargo ships have like 7 people on it that have to f.e. cook and do maintenance. They rely on radar and pre know routes. They have lookouts in problematic areas like harbors, but for the majority of the time they drive blind.😉 You could put a signal transmitter on those pots to avoid collisions, but than: A. Everyone (including pirates) knows it and B. That's an other part that could fail and require maintenance.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Now I have flashbacks to the Let's Game It Out video with Buoyancy, where Josh just built a huge windscreen wiper of a raft, and kept ramming it into other settlements.

[@paulaldo9413]

I did a job on an offshore oil platform once, which is basically what these seapods are, minus the oil lifting part. It was alright. But that kind of living situation isn't anything remotely fun, let alone a holiday destination.

[@dhammanunthd.4387]

As a thai, I had to look up on when the hell did this happened and how the heck did I missed it 😅. Turns out it was from five years ago, right off the coast of Phuket and right under Prayut's reign no less. And yes, his action could easily warranted a Seal raid or at least several rounds from a deck gun should he value his ideology more than his life. Considering the media here phrase their narrative as "rogue farang tried to establish his own free state in our territorial waters" most thai people wouldn't even have any sympathies for him either (leftists here only preach downfall of dictatorship, most people don't know what the hell libertarianism is, thai people's struggles are with finding the right kind of government, not getting rid of it). For anyone wondering why would we react with such force, please remember that dictatorship or not, Thailand is smack dab in the middle of Balkan of Asia, bordering four nations that we at most have a lukewarm relationship with. We have to deal with drug smugglers penetrating through the north, insurgency doing hit and run attack and disappearing across the border down south, and potential political crisis with the remnant of an ancient empire in the east. Not to mention the huge influx of foreign workers we allow in from those countries each year. We take border integrity VERY seriously, even ahead of economic growth. So, for anyone who's looking for a good time here, please play nice and we'll be the best hosts as we can be. The taboos and social norms here are very easy to avoid, you have to really be looking for trouble to get yourself into one like this guy. (for anyone wondering, in 16:16 the RTN reason is that not only it is unauthorized, but the structure also poses an obstacle and a hazard to maritime navigation, as it has no warning signals of any kind that would broadcast its existence apart from some dim interior lightings. I don't know anything about seamanship, just thought that it would be interesting.)

[@ap0llo.0ne51]

ฝรั่งบางคนมันก็แบบนั้นอะนะ 💀

[@punnboat9817]

I remember the news that navy have to go rescue them after the house starts sinking. And people think it's waste of country resorce to go save their life from their stupidity. Which, as a Thai tax payer, I completely agreed. Except if you get news from Nation or Top News. If you are American, they are Thai's Fox news.

[@penginlord9396]

Oh gods a large cargo ship would absolutely demolish one of these pods, probably without even realizing it. Expessially if it happens at night

[@fedorustimenko3057]

Okay, so you are telling me that those guys thought to establish their libertarian utopia within borders of country that has border conflicts fucking constantly? Bruh, shame they were not apperhanded by Thai authorities

[@petrkinkal1509]

@@fedorustimenko3057You should be thankful to them they just wanted to help train the navy. I mean they did generously build target practice for naval guns for FREE. (even providing live targets).

[@Azakamak2401]

To paraphrase a particular dock master: "The ocean is made out of liquid hate that hate's metal and man-made things in particular." The only thought that went through these people's heads was "I want to live on a boat, but, like, waaay cooler." Everything else was tertiary at best.

[@rafidsadman]

Shit, that line goes hard af

[@TeleportingBread161]

8:56 To say this respectfully: You struggle with units. Assuming a desalination unit uses 0.3kW. If its runs for the entire day, its still consuming 0.3Kw of *Power*, but 7.2 kWh (Kilowatthours) of Energy. To get to your energy bill you add Kilowatthours. 7.2kWh + 1kWh + 1kWh + 12kWh = 21kWh. If you use 21kWh/day, you get ~2 Days out of your battery. Also you happen to use 0.875 Kwh/h or simply 0.875 kW on average. Result is correct, units are wrong

[@Welgeldiguniekalias]

Something something reply. Something something move comment up the page.

[@DaraelDraconis]

Adam's continuing the error from his source video, which talks about the batteries providing 45kW as though it's a capacity rather than an output rate. This is not an excuse but it is an explanation. Plus, mentioning will help raise the comment.

[@nanoblast5748]

Something something pin it

[@W0Ndr3y]

As someone who works in energy industry, this segment made my head hurt.

[@raptor909]

yeah you are right

[@masked_majora6475]

5:05, skip the add

[@bushhawk5460]

At first i assumed that most of the height of the structure was underwater with a tank at the bottom to control stability and buoyancy. Turns out i was giving them too much credit.

[@TheNewBorkTimes]

This is the comment I was looking for. Having the main shaft continue a similar distance to a similarly sized (though MUCH heavier) ballast pod would make this concept almost work… on a calm inland lake.

[@TalesOfWar]

At the very least they should have the "machine room" with all the heavy stuff in the middle floating, so it lowers the centre of gravity. But nope. Put it all up high. Genius.

[@SheeplessNW6]

They could use poop as ballast... eventually

[@isaacdoggart4879]

Same, there are actual research ships that do exactly that so they can do research at depth with access to the surface

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

@@TheNewBorkTimesonly on a calm inland lake or extremely calm sea like the Caspian Sea or now nonexistent Aral Sea though. Not in places as notoriously rough and dangerous as the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The Pacific Ocean, despite what the name implies, is not peaceful at all. Just imagine this thing in the Drake Passage.

[@KatR264]

That awkward moment when you’re ill at sea, but your libertarian encampment doesn’t have a doctor, nurse, or hospital.

[@erikgilson1687]

Turns out basing your utopian society around fairly useless skills isn't the best idea

[@noalowenstein6741]

don't worry I'm a cryptobro and I watched a couple episodes of Scrubs (at least before it got WOKE) and I'm pretty sure I can manage an appendectomy

[@ace448]

Or that Doctor is present but charges you all your wealth to get treatment. Supply and demand after all

[@erikgilson1687]

@@ace448 free medical treatment if you're willing to give up a kidney or lung

[@TeflonTrout]

Libertarians are like house cats, they’re convinced of their fierce independence while dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand

[@davidbates3057]

The prototype sank at unveiling? Lmao! That's incredible. Absolutely incredible.

[@GabrielPettier]

And yet entirely unsurprising! 😆

[@RocketboyX]

It's like poetry.

[@Noblesse_Sapphire]

It's like tesla 2.0 all over again 😂

[@aribantala]

Even the pod itself disagreed with this insane idea and conspired with Nature to sink itself

[@Irondrone4]

And the original proof of concept got impounded as an illegal structure, leaving the builders as wanted fugitives in Thailand.

[@Mobius_118]

"Governments don't have a monopoly on the sea." US Navy: It's funny to me that you think that.

[@jamesgibson3582]

Literally any Navy, everywhere...

[@redbirb]

@@jamesgibson3582yeah but to be fair, the US navy was known to be one of the most powerful for quite a while, and still maybe today

[@jamesgibson3582]

@redbirbI read somewhere that the US navy is larger than the next 5 NATO nations combined but China I think was ramping up to over take that stat.

[@Stefanius058]

​@@jamesgibson3582 yeah but chinese ships would prbably be able to outnumber them, but the quality would be shoddy at best. They are a paper tiger with no modern warfare experience.

[@bradeurich5183]

I never thought about birds going after drones before, but that is hilarious! Orcas, it's time to up your game.

[@fishnutter5219]

I fly my drone round the local port fairly regularly, and as soon as it goes up, the seagulls are vectoring in on it. Thankfully they'll leave it alone once it gets up to 50m, but taking off and landing they keep trying to divebomb it. Can't fly the drone at home during the day or hawks start shadowing it. Birds are everywhere, and even little sparrows will try to chase a drone away!

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

Well, they can’t jump THAT high!

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

@@gorillaguerillaDK but they can pull the pod into the middle of nowhere. Or worse, active volcano.

[@allenmercant8]

Yeah Adam really thinks these things through. I never thought about the pirate issue. So obvious

[@Sir_Bucket]

Oh orcas are already ahead. They play with seals they found on isolated floating ice. One of them makes a huge wave to topple the ice, an other stand on the other side and chomp on the falling seal. Now, say you have a tall, floating, unstable pod...

[@brokenrecord3095]

"libertarian sea pods" was already done decades ago, the very very bizarre "principality of Sealand" built on a derelict WWII-era offshore platform in the North Sea.

[@yellowgreen5229]

Yes but those were built by the government and are still standing!

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@yellowgreen5229 Not just build, but actually participated in a war and survived, these things were even attacked from air.

[@wilfstor3078]

I was thinking about Sealand the minute the guy giving a middle finger to the Thai government was mentioned, and also the idea of living on a platform to avoid taxes.

[@Spearca]

Unlike Sealand, these pod apartments seem to always be depicted near land, presumably within the territory of a sovereign taxing authority.

[@alandpost]

Note also that sealand actually was attacked by pirates. We've done this experiment.

[@chrisjohnston4400]

People don’t realize solar cells in the grand scheme of things don’t create much power. You need big power for heating and A/C and especially desalination. For an idea of what it takes a big motor yacht is a good example. Most have a large day generator and a smaller night generator. So some generator is running 24/7. Since covering all available out door space with solar cells wouldn’t even come close to what I they need they don’t even bother with them. There is no way these pods would exist providing the advertised amenities with out full time diesel generators.

[@bendranski6882]

If you are on a ocen near the equator, you will still need much area for solar panels.

[@kerngezond6953]

Well, it could work, but not if you just dump some solar panels on a random spot on a roof as an afterthought. Solar panels will work if you integrate them into the design from conception. You need a combination of energy efficiency and a large surface area. I did some calculations and rudimentary designing last year and my conclusion is that they could work on a yacht. What you end up with is a catamaran-like design with the big surface area in between the dual hulls primarily being used for solar panels. It is not simple as it would require a radically different design approach and thus would be very expensive, but physically it is certainly possible. The most fundamental problem is that solar panel usefulness declines at higher latitudes. A yacht in the tropics would work fine, but would be useless on the arctic circle. Then again, these things are usually used on lower latitudes so that problem would be surmountable. A similar approach for a floating house would be far easier as you don’t need any serious propulsion which is always the biggest power hog. The podlike design as discussed in this video is of course the most dumb idea ever but if you make a more conservative design of a floating home in the center with some floating solar panel systems in a cloverleaf-like arrangement it will certainly work. You can burn through as much energy as you please since those solar panels don’t have to go anywhere and space on an ocean is not really at a premium so you can place as much solar panels as you want. Especially in the tropics solar panels provide a steady supply of electricity as you only have to save it in batteries for the night.

[@shacktime]

… yet. As more money is invested in solar the technology keeps improving. Imagine what solar could achieve if it received even a quarter of the subsidies that fossil fuels and nuclear have been gifted.

[@Tyranitar.]

@@shacktime”They’ll fix it later” is basically a get out of jail free card for every flaw.

[@zaco-km3su]

Solar sells aren't the only way to collect solar power.

[@Phlebas]

That actually gave me a great idea for a sort of cyberpunk sci-fi thriller. A bunch of entitled tech bros create a seastead neighbourhood on the open ocean, which promptly gets attacked by pirates. As the story progresses, you begin to realize that the tech bros are absolute monsters and you start rooting for the pirates, who are mostly just desperate people trying to survive in the environmental apocalypse and societal collapse created by the selfish actions of the seasteading class.

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

There _are_ a few" ecological tree house apartments" in some forest I-forgot-where (saw it in a documentary here in Germany). The thing is, those cozy tree houses, their outer structure built entirely from wood, built into the branches of sturdy large trees and connected by plank bridges, are high-price HOTEL APARTMENTS. You stay there for a few days or a week. You get food delivered and have hotel cleaning staff that visits regularly. Electricity, water and sewage is taken care of. And they're not in the middle of nowhere. I suspect some techbro saw that documentary, or stayed in one of those treehouses as a tourists, and then thought building a "forest-pod" that as a high-tech cabin of your own in the middle of some wilderness without pesky "regulations" will be just like living in such a forest hotel.

[@Tindog81476]

Why is everyones view of the future always white and round? You picked the one color thats shows all the dirt, and you picked the single hardest shape to build.

[@InksplatOops]

They look like a 1960’s vision of the future to me. Or a cartoon.

[@marcinf6324]

​@@InksplatOopsLike Jetsons everything is round and on a poll.

[@Barakon]

To flex on your abilities & how “advanced” you are.

[@vlexonkol8466]

Apple, because of Apple white silver color trend

[@VonFreklstein]

Cause thats a visualisation of their body.

[@chibiktsn3]

The 1 grocery store will hike the prices so high, it'll make rural Alaska look cheap.

[@paytonburrows2325]

Ya know…all your ideas and picking apart these pods gave me an idea for sone dieselpunk location that’s just a putrid island chain with dozens of these smoke belching, sewage spilling pods…and the residents that are either pissed that they were “scammed” with these luxury houses or delusionally clinging to sunk cost fallacy.

[@xSuperFryx]

Okay the seapod actually collapsing during its premier took me off guard. Can’t make this stuff up 😂

[@IBeforeAExceptAfterK]

It's like that old Swedish warship the _Vasa_ except it doesn't have the excuse of being built in 1628.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@IBeforeAExceptAfterK Not even like that, because ship actually survived the demonstration and sunk on next day after it in harbor (which is why it was so intact and easy to recover in the first place).

[@RAFMnBgaming]

@@IBeforeAExceptAfterK I've seen it in person, it's still in better nick than the seapod.

[@masonsmith1668]

"Governments own the land, but they don't own the sea" -ten-million ton aircraft carrier sails up- "A-HEM"

[@Жефрі83]

Finally, maritime law will finally make sense

[@marcosorduno9203]

The open sea everything close to shore they do

[@fabovondestory]

Freedom of navigation intensifies

[@MrXispas]

Really?

[@mbuck253]

“Sails”

[@LIETUVIS10STUDIO1]

I love how at the end Adam just straight up describes a traditional floating village found all over South East Asia.

[@JindraAG]

Its almost like people who have had to trial an error this have worked out the most workable solutions.

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

The thing is, those boat-villages in SE-Asia float on freshwater _lakes,_ not on the deep ocean. Or at best in river estuaries and swamps, next to the coast. Somewhere protected from storms, and with freshwater access and fishing opportunities and nearby agriculture areas. Not out to sea beyond the 200 mile zone in "international waters" where the Libertarians want to be "free of laws".

[@kylegonewild]

@@TF2CrunchyFrog Yeah these little villages wouldn't survive a 175ft monster rogue wave bashing it during a turbulent storm.

[@desertegle40cal]

It really does look like someone looked at an oil rig station and said “Lets take off all the pylons except for one!! That’ll do it!!” 😂

[@bobbybooshay5388]

This isn't even the first time the An Caps tech bros have tried to build at sea. It's called sea steading. It's failed everytime because they never have a sense of basic logistics.

[@Jesse_359]

Anyone with the faintest ability to comprehend logistics isn't a libertarian.... for some reason or other. ;)

[@_jpg]

Wait, I thought Sea Steading was a made-up joke from Love, Death and Robots?

[@UpperCumberlandGamers]

​@@Jesse_359Libertarian Supply Chains...

[@JimmyM1975]

When money comes marching home 🤑💰💸

[@MrJimheeren]

@@_jpgnope, that joke is based on real life dumb ideas. Behind the bastards has a nice podcast about it

[@jonathanfaber3291]

the guy saying “your business will grow because you’re in a system where there’s smart…” is accidentally making a truly incredible Freudian slip/revelation into the mind of a techbro. Because yeah, that’s a mis-speak, but it’s also 100% how far they got into the idea before going to for lunch

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

For the engineers who design such “smart systems” the smartest thing in their house is their microwave.

[@nitrohedgehog]

That guy killed my brain cells. How are rich people this dumb? I thought they had access to better education....

[@Lunaryx]

@@nitrohedgehog When you can quite literally afford not to learn any of life's lessons or common sense, well. .

[@kaiserepsilon4011]

"They have a monopoly on land, but they don't have a monopoly on sea." The U.S Navy:

[@candle_eatist]

The *insert any country* Navy to be more accurate. You can park that shit off the shore of Antarctica and the Orcas would come get it.

[@stash_of_g]

dope comment ! XD but its all international waters, so anyone can go there

[@coryzilligen790]

@@stash_of_g Yeah, but the other thing about international waters is, there isn't a lot of recourse if, say, a military ship plows through your libertarian raft house, or a pirate boards your houseboat and steals everything. Lack of law is a double-edged sword, which is a concept that perpetually seems to escape these anarchocapitalist libertarians.

[@jasonrhtx]

@@stash_of_gexcept in the South China Sea…

[@stash_of_g]

@@jasonrhtx I'm going to assume that you are being serious about what you said. There is absolutely no shred of truth to that comment; a Google search can tell you that you are mistaken. It's all still international water and anyone can go there.

[@Crusader1089]

The hilarious thing to me about all of these sea pods is that we already have them. They're called oil rigs and nobody particularly enjoys living on them.

[@Farhan-rk1mt]

Ironically, Thailand (really southeast Asia in general) has had houses on the sea for centuries. And not just boat houses, but full-on stilt houses. I'm pretty sure lots of other countries have them too.

[@Brasswatchman]

There's also the British Maunsell Forts of WWII. I understand those had their downsides too, however...

[@kristoffersonaribal1573]

and they're near the shore because logistics.

[@chrisblake4198]

Yes, they support small populations that work almost constantly to harvest enough food and maintain their houses and boats. Most of them live without regular electricity and modern amenities. They also abandon their homes and sail away or move inland whenever a storm approaches, because guess what? Houses on stilts aren't meant to survive storms. Techbros on the other hand know little or nothing of the required skills to maintain a highly engineered structure at sea, have expectations of constant supplies and services like electricity and communications, food and water. They also expect their homes to survive major storms. Just because some people found a way to make life work in a difficult situation with major compromises, doesn't mean another group should be able to buy their way to a life of leisure under the same conditions with all the bells and whistles.

[@Brasswatchman]

@@chrisblake4198 I mean, they *can,* maybe. But in this case they probably *shouldn't.*

[@Farhan-rk1mt]

It's ironic because this techbro BS idea tried to reinvent something that has already existed and give it a "modern" twist, all while making their design actually shittier than the original 😂

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

I'm so happy you finally addressed how stupid seasteading and sea pods are, between weather, logistics, infrastructure such as water, electricity and sewage, as well as environmental and national sovereignty concerns. There are some sea peoples who live much of their lives on boats on the sea, but there's no way a bunch of fat, spoiled, well-fed ancap tech bros are going to be able to live their lifestyle for more than a day. They work all day from sun up to sun down, diving for fish, seaweed and shellfish, weaving baskets, repairing boats and nets. And when they're not hunting and gathering, they're trading in ports for supplies they can't make or gather such as rice or clothes. Plus they live communally, a family/several families and relatives on a single boat, traveling in groups of boats for safety, a basic common sense survival strategy these tech bros would decry as 'communism'.

[@mk1st]

Also see the experiences of "colonizing" the old abandoned sea forts off the coast of England.

[@childofcascadia]

@Sorcerers_Apprentice Yeah. I actually know someone who grew up in a modern travelling sailboat community. Its hard work. You have to be able to repair your sailboat on your own, know basic mechanics to fix the generators if theres an issue, fish, dive, put into port to buy supplies you cant make yourself so you have to either have a skill you can trade, stuff to sell, or money from somewhere, make and fix simple objects (something important breaks, you cant just buy a new one when youre weeks from anywhere), operate a radio to stay in contact with other boats in your community and get reports of weather and pirate activity and so on. Its a full on lifestyle. The person I knew chose to live on land once she was in her early 20s. And she was...odd socially. Kind of like someone extremely homeschooled. But she spoke 5 languages. She spent her entire childhood/young adulthood around the same 30 people who were the people of her sailboat community. She decided to move to the city where her grandparents were from (my city) to meet more people her own age, find a bf, etc. I highly doubt these libertarians are going to be willing to live the kind of hard life living at sea full time really is.

[@Jonathan.D]

With all the bobbing up and down, they could use the motion to generate electricity. The only issue is that the person would need to have a cast-iron stomach. Another issue is corrosion. It's a huge problem with anything exposed to the salt air. I don't see tech bros wanting to do all the maintenance that will be required.

[@petersmythe6462]

I think the goal of these people is less hunter gatherers of the sea and more digital nomads of the sea, with the most important sectors being financial services, information services, scientific research, and other easily globalized tertiary sector. Any domestic primary or secondary sector industries would be purely opportunistic or because there isn't another viable option (e.g. local water desalination would be an absolute must).

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

@@petersmythe6462 You can be a digital nomad without building your own buoy out in the middle of the ocean. You just have to pay taxes wherever you go, but some countries are now offering reduced taxes to digital nomads who settle into smaller cities. These chuds would just rather spend millions building their own pod in the middle of the ocean that will topple/corrode/catch fire/get wrecked by a storm/attacked by pirates to avoid paying even that and then expect the nearest government to swoop in to their rescue.

[@dhebert111]

I'm a red seal pipefitter, and I've laid thousands of KM's of pipelines of all types and sizes. I agree with this video's depiction of pipelines.

[@shadowcween7890]

I am one of the thousands of KM's pipelines. I agree with this video's depiction of pipelines of all types and sizes.

[@giwake]

i am a fish who saw this guy lay the pipelines. yeah

[@kiwi_2_official]

ive never been a pipeline or been near one. this is what pipelines look like

[@raultrashlord4404]

layin' pipe 🍷🗿

[@hraefn1821]

"I have a brilliant idea! We build a house...at sea..." "That's called a houseboat, moron" "But mine will be on a stick!" "...sure buddy...sure...I'm leaving now."

[@Sinastyr]

Libertarians are Lovecraftian entities, constantly called to the ocean

[@spaceacepl4636]

good thing they didn't try making an underwater settlement yet that would just be bioshock all over again

[@Briselance]

Lovecraftian entities are kind of intelligent and articulate. This whole Sea Pod charade is the exact opposite.

[@johncronk8867]

The whole point about Lovecraft entities is that we are but ants to them. These are the kind of people who make the comparison accurate.

[@dekopuma]

@@johncronk8867 They are like the people of Innsmouth, humans without humanity.

[@kingsuperbobboy]

​@johncronk8867 Not every lovecraftian entity is a all-knowing intelligent being. The main theme of the works of Lovecraft are things beyond understanding we never should have touched an amazing example is the color from outer space or the cats of Ulthar.

[@B777LR]

I grew up in a household with a sailing yacht. Not massive, just a 30 ft glassfibre yacht, took it out of the water every winter. It was great fun, but the sheer amount of maintenance required to keep it sailworthy was just... No way I will ever own anything that is permanently stuck in the water. The ocean just breaks down stuff in no time at all. You will be spending your entire time doing repairs and maintenance.

[@velisvideos6208]

Hey, man. That's just a bonus. Something to do on the frigging pod, at least.

[@crazyth1ngs600]

I read "Librarian Sea Pods" first and expected underwater library fantasy vibes. Needless to say I was extremely disappointed but also not surprised.

[@matthewcaldwell8100]

Aw, man, now I'm sad, too.

[@crazyth1ngs600]

@@matthewcaldwell8100 Oh no, my apologies for co-disappointing you then

[@UpperCumberlandGamers]

Underwater Library!

[@bificommander7472]

These will be underwater pretty quickly, if that helps.

[@crazyth1ngs600]

@@bificommander7472lmao that's a good point. Although... well, I'm not trying to bookshame, but I somehow doubt those tech bros would read literature that would make for a good fancy library.

[@aarona1895]

I love when he says, "We can call this process... taxation."

[@spherefriendyellow8872]

as a polish person this video is a very hard watch, because the moment i hear homm3 music, my brain instantly focuses on it like i'm a sleeper agent

[@tomaszgora4353]

Same xd

[@HForHawk]

Oh god, I thought only I heard that XD

[@BenSmith-qw4kd]

Same, but with New Vegas and AoE2.

[@radosawpiwowarski8277]

there was also music from HOMM 4! The water theme!

[@Barakon]

Same, I guess if you got Slavic blood that game runs within you.

[@TweenkPL]

9:05 There's a big mistake here. Kilowatts are a unit of power (energy per time). Kilowatt-hours are a unit of energy. "Kilowatts per hour" are a unit of rate of change in power and could be used to describe how fast a power plant can increase or decrease its output. This section should clearly use kilowatt-hours and kilowatts, not kilowatts and kilowatts per hour. 1 kWh per day for water heating may be possible with some kind of super efficient heat pump water heater, but it would be tough. My conventional water heater (for 1 person) uses 5-6 kWh per day.

[@hiddenshadow2105]

Underrrated comment, I think.

[@alexanderschwemmer8751]

@@hiddenshadow2105indeed.

[@ToadalChaos]

+1 Drives me nuts how people keep getting this stuff wrong

[@prophetgab]

>My conventional water heater (for 1 person) uses 5-6 kWh per day. Just say 200W..

[@mymo_in_Bb]

"hours per day"

[@colibri224]

Me : This reminds me of Subnautica Adam : It'll need TONS of solar panels to function. Me : This reminds me SO MUCH of Subnautica

[@GriseoFalco]

Alternate title: Two dudes try to reinvent boats, but fail miserably.

[@Isuckatgames2too]

The Sewage Problem will be fixed by having your poop chutes next to your water pumps and having a city skylines moment

[@heavyhauler426]

Did that once to boost power through my hydro dam. A few minutes later, I was dealing with a public health crisis.

[@petrkinkal1509]

@@heavyhauler426 Did the health crisis involve diarrhea? INFINITE POWER!

[@blueodum]

There have been plenty of people who avoid taxes by spending most of their time at sea via a very clever contraption called a "ship".

[@calcutt4]

nah they wouldn't have heard of those, theyre so modern, after all they were only invented before recorded history itself

[@mikemcaulay9507]

There have been plenty of unscrupulous people who have used the double Irish with a Dutch sandwich approach to avoiding taxes without even leaving dry land.

[@mikemcaulay9507]

@@calcutt4you just know someone on a super yacht thought, “we should make a version of this as our home!” As I noted elsewhere, these ideas come from people who, through their wealth, have been completely disconnected from the reality that supports their mode of existence. So the only “real” issue they see is those pesky governments “stealing” their money.

[@TheDemonOfSemen]

Bro played Subnautica ONCE and decided to make an entire house based off it 😭

[@orionbarnes1733]

They played Subnautica and thought Alterra was the good guys 💀

[@mandrac2]

even subnautica bases look more stable and safe.

[@Purplebruh]

Subnautica bases are built underwater and they have very good foundation

[@Hiljaa_]

Subnautica AT LEAST requieres foundations 😭😭😭😭😭 were evolving backwards

[@alanzimmer999]

Your missing the point. Let them go through with this. Not because its a good idea, but because its a terrible idea. The people who would buy these are the same people most of us don't want to deal with. So if they all move into these pods and start earning Darwin Awards, there's no great loss for the rest of us.

[@meeb_consumer]

A sea house is actually a kind of interesting concept, but you would have to make it more like a livable submarine than whatever this is so that it didn't get annihilated by the weather and that if you got some sort of hurricane alert you could leave first. Wait oops that's a houseboat 💀 Also, the reason they could scrape a business together is that they aren't the scam-ee, but the scammer. This super futuristic-looking concept takes advantage of people who don't know how physics works (a scary amount of the population) to make as much money as possible.

[@Year_of_the_Dell]

House boats are pretty cool

[@robertbeisert3315]

If you could build it around reef depths in the kind of areas where reefs thrive, you could be sure of relatively stable conditions with enough sunlight to get a lot of value from it. You'd almost certainly also have to damage the reefs to make it happen, though.

[@LordZero666]

A livable submarine is a way better idea.

[@LordZero666]

A livable submarine is a way better idea.

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

If the last decade or so of people like Elon Musk have proven almost any project can scam people out of money if you have enough futuristic looking CGI to back it up.

[@thedootguy4444]

can we all agree these "pods" are literally just a futuristic looking box with [insert mode of transport here] attached to them but it takes all the advantages of the old box and somehow is worse in every way.

[@leonardpearlman4017]

The Trailer Park of the Sea!

[@LoneWolf343]

I think techbros only care about the aesthetics of old futurism magazines and never show any interest in learning about the mechanics of such devices and why they never came to be. They think the only reason why we don't like in that world the futurism imagined is because society is stupid and lazy and isn't because that vision of the future is based on a lot of assumptions based on outdated ideas of not only science but society itself.

[@timurtheterrible4062]

Ancaps got bored of reinventing trains but worse, so they got to work reinventing ships but worse.

[@Pixelpirate66]

Okay this is actually a great idea because it gets an caps away from regular people witch is worth it no matter the cost

[@dopamining7621]

The biggest threat (after drowning, electrocution, smoke inhalation, and E.coli infection) would be mold. You'd have to run air conditioners pretty much nonstop.

[@bramvanduijn8086]

With that massive glass/wall ratio you're going to have to run air conditioners nonstop anyway. Glass makes rooms warm when the sun is shining (and hard to keep warmth in during dark days in winter). Well known fact discoverd by Alan Greenhouse, who greenhouses are named after.

[@_bibi_s]

honestly in that sense i think it would be corrosion. like, even living in a house like 2 kilometers from the sea means all your stuff gets wrecked pretty fast

[@bartz0rt928]

We have boats, I'm sure that's a solvable problem

[@kurojester4513]

@@bartz0rt928Boats aren’t permanently out at sea and take A LOT of maintenance.

[@BlazeMakesGames]

Also like, isn't he just becoming the thing he hates? If his problem is that the government has a monopoly on land, but he's the one building and selling these sea pod things. Then he's just shifting the monopoly to himself. Like with most libertarians, his problem isn't actually the various concepts related to government. It's the idea that he isn't the one in charge. Every time you hear about these kinds of utopias, they always imagine themselves as the guys in charge at the top. It's never about imagining themselves as just a random joe schmoe who has to work 16 hours a day just to be able to afford the countless different rents and fees imposed on them by their local monpolistic megacorps because the only alternative is getting kicked out of the city for another warlord to kidnap and force into slavery.

[@chungbunger7331]

Because that's capitalism baby, 'surely the reason people aren't building affordable housing and social communities on the ocean isn't because it is technologically and logistically impossible, its just because noone has ever had ideas as good as I have'. People think just having an idea will make them the next Steve jobs

[@birdgamerman]

no, you dont get it. If he is in power things will be different!!!?!

[@captainchaos3667]

That's the problem with almost all of crypto.

[@DeathlordMiopic]

They did this in italy back in the day. Made basically an oil rig at sea for people to live on/illegally gamble on. They just boated out oil for generators which is a massive waste. The government arrested them and tore it down because no you can't just go out a little bit to sea and start a country.

[@lordomacron3719]

Google Sealand It has been done exactly once. Not for illegal gambling just wanted to live by their own rules. And since it was an eccentric Englishman the UK government basically just ignored him and left to his own devices.

[@DeathlordMiopic]

@@lordomacron3719 Sealand was an abandoned military base a guy moved to. The Italy one was basically what the tech company is attempting

[@MukiBlalock]

This dude is so on-point and hilarious! I can't even believe it! Seriously! I haven't heard something so funny in years! And his accent and tempo just add to his intelligent analysis!!!😂😂😂

[@DarthObscurity]

This is what literally every libertarian idea boils down to. Every time. "The roads, omigosh, the roads" Then they all giggle and laugh and mock the mocking with other little buzzwords and terms............ But when you press them on 'the roads', the system that's detailed INEVITABLY ends up describing what we already have.

[@vdinh143]

Just a small point of correction: the unit for "amount of electricity usage" is kWh (kilowatt-hour). Kilowatt is a measure of how fast you use electricity.

[@Setsuraful]

Rich people when they see a trailer home: 🧐🤮😡 Rich people when they see a 'residential pod': 😍🤑🤤

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Just disguise one for the other. Tell them your pod is also a car!