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

[@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

[@Grievous_Nix]

@@Gloomdrake ...Lead me into Spain

[@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

[@RobertMock-pu9yx]

This whole pod thing needs to stop. It’s stupid. If you want to live at sea, get a houseboat. If you want to live in the forest, there’s Evil Dead-style cabin in the woods. “Spewing liquid s#!t all over the pristine environment.” That had me rolling. Absolute stupidity.

[@danielscott4514]

Houseboats are only for rivers and modest sized lakes - they'd be smashed up, swamped, or even flipped over in open sea, or even in partially smooth waters like the mockup photo of the group of pods in the video. If you want to live at sea (particularly if you're a libertarian escaping government "meddling" and feel the need to be in international waters) then the only two feasible options are: a proper seaworthy boat, or a submarine.

[@RobertMock-pu9yx]

@@danielscott4514 Agreed. It was an oversight on my part about the houseboat+open water thing. But yeah, if you want to live in the middle of nowhere, DON’T DO PODS.

[@PLATINUM12x5]

​@@danielscott4514it worked for McCafee until the fun police got in in Greece

[@Scottzero1998]

That's the weird thing to me about the forest pod. If you're a libertarian who hates the government so much, why would you build an eyesore alien testicle that sticks out from miles away even on foot, instead of just sitting inside an camouflaged hillbilly unabomber cabin that's more advanced on the inside?

[@RobertMock-pu9yx]

@@Scottzero1998 Exactly. You make a very good point.

[@kaiserepsilon4011]

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

[@K0sm]

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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@timurtheterrible4062]

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

[@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.

[@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?

[@G-regTaylor]

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.

[@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

[@johnjones_1501]

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

[@RobMacMusic]

No matter what you've failed at in life, you never sunk 10's of millions of dollars into an idea like this.

[@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

[@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"

[@comradeLucienne]

who would win: - the pinnacle of capitalist engineering, incorporating many new technologies to colonise an area previously impossible for human habitation - a seagull

[@rksnj6797]

The seagull wins every time!

[@Chocoroth]

This thing looks like a prison, where they put criminals in sci-fi movies.

[@potatoreborn7848]

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

[@sytonicflux]

This is probably the end game plan anyway, it'll be known as the pod pull. People and there pod just disappearing in the night and amazingly a new pod becomes available on the market the next day.

[@feakhelek1]

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

[@samsonsoturian6013]

Don't make veiled terror threats

[@nostromza3433]

@@feakhelek1 Somalians

[@sytonicflux]

@@samsonsoturian6013 pray tell, what is this pirate manifesto your implying exists?

[@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.

[@cleeks5549]

Your videos remind me of that scene from old school Simpsons where Principal Skinner is talking about creating a movie that totally duplicates Jurassic Park, except he wants to call it something like "Ricky and the Clone-A-Saurus". Apu proceeds to explode and berate him for the next like half hour (it's edited) explaining exactly how stupid he is being and how dumb the idea is, and how his version is going to be a thousand times stupider and worse than the original. Thank you for capturing that energy.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@francissoto3027]

Maybe the real sea pods were the friends we made along the way

[@catlovingtrio]

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

[@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

[@rfwm]

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

[@user-cw3wm9lx7w]

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"

[@alwaysangry2232]

so arrogant as they are incompetent

[@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.

[@user-cw3wm9lx7w]

@@bc1284 true.

[@nostalgiabender2375]

Techs bros always reminded me of a very apt Jurassic Park Quote: “Your scientists spend all day figuring out if they could, but they never stopped to ask themselves if they should”

[@cjhedrick6418]

Except they didn't check to see if they could, either.

[@Inferno594]

Final pod boss: flying pod house Secret final boss true ending: space pod house

[@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.

[@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!

[@_teker]

This would make a great Cruelty Squad level

[@markkiefer3243]

"Your next assignment is to take out the Squiglim Brothers. For over a decade, they've conned the rich and stupid out of their cash while setting them up in semi-livable, structurally unsound pods at sea. Ordinary, this would be meaningless to us. Unfortunately for them, several government agencies are tired of them getting away with making so much cash without being able to tax a penny of it. Go over there and show them just how life can be without police protection."

[@kyrazz128]

Killing kriptobros on open sea? Yeah, makes sense

[@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.

[@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

[@krakenroll.]

they should also be connected to each other (trains)

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@krakenroll. 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!

[@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.

[@benjaminkoch2380]

Home Invasion 2.0

[@matheussanthiago9685]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@scienceface8884]

The design looks at first glance like it's rooted to a fixed platform under the water. It's like someone drew the design with that in mind and these guys had to remove that aspect in order to make it work in international waters but refused to redesign the whole thing because a boat just didn't look futuristic enough.

[@joebrandon1730]

Bet that's a fun place to be during a hurricane.

[@davidstill7508]

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

[@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.

[@Ashley-lm4nv]

Nope, they were playing Raft.

[@poohbear01x48]

I doubt the side buoys are structural, and are more for stability. In ocean construction, you kinda only have two options: 1) anchor it deep into to the seabed 2) use a ballast/counter-weight system to keep the top of the structure upright regardless of what the water beneath it is doing

[@The_Untitled]

They wanna make the natural disaster survival lobby irl

[@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.

[@chpgmr1372]

They got a shit load of money in the dumbest way possible. obviously they are gonna spend it in the dumbest way possible.

[@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.

[@Richi_Boi]

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

[@masonsmith1668]

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

[@uselessJeff]

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”

[@KontarAlt]

Shoutout to the editor using the rust metal building upgrade sound at 10:26

[@Ian_Moon42]

It's literally the plot of Bioshock 1

[@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.

[@liam3284]

Or a drifting cargo ships hits it, not being on their charts and all...

[@seanmorgan1759]

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

[@Sammy9262]

@@seanmorgan1759 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.

[@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.

[@LeriHunter]

This is the problem with "those" type of movements, there's not much thinking put beyond "the current world is obsolete and we'll build a shinier future." By the end of the day you're still going to need someone to work in a field to make sure everyone has food. You will still need someone working outside in a 40°C heat or -10°C to maintain the power grid or unclog a dung-filled pipe. You'll need some people that are available on a quick call to help you with an urgent medical issue or a security threat. Or you'll have to do that yourself. You'll spend months training and most of your life taking care of a structure that needs even more maintenance than your standard home with a garden, and maybe between fixing your "smart watering" system and cooking a loaf of bread for your family, you will have five or ten minutes a week to enjoy the sight of the world crumbling (or doing just as fine as it usually does) in your absence.

[@elroyscout]

Okay, Thailand may be a military dictatorship, but their navy fucking yoinking the seastaders stupid ocean treehouse, pretty based move. Doesn't make up for everything but like... credit where credit is due.

[@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?

[@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.

[@imacanoli897]

This reminds me of other "big idea" companies and projects. Like. Yeah sure it looks or sounds cool...buuuut there's some, or many, massive risks that they have no robust answer for. Instead the company just kicks the can down the road hoping a solution arises...or ignore it and hope no one notices.

[@Mr._Sherwood]

I think I made something like that in Minecraft once. Only mine was way wider, and had more than one central support, and was practically level with the water. I can't believe that even with no physics to worry about and zero knowledge in anything approaching construction I could still throw together something better than these guys.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@stg-tf4ns]

The principality of Sealand is jut a too attractive idea I guess

[@Setsuraful]

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

[@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.

[@rambodash1338]

I swear they saw a base in Subnautica and thought "bro, what if those were real???!?" Can't wait for the underwater pods in 2026

[@euanstokes6090]

at least these guys had the balls to actually build their idea rather than just CGI models made of renderite.

[@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).

[@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.

[@joearnold6881]

Oh dude I had a Lego pirate ship when I was a kid like the one in this video! I want that thing back

[@contentbot2.9]

Reminds me of a dream I once had around a decade or so ago. It was essentially one of these pods in the middle of the ocean, but significantly bigger (I remember it being some sort of museum). There was a balcony I remember tripping and falling over, and as I was plummeting to the surface of the water I saw this blue whale-sized elephant seal surfacing before crashing into the ocean and waking up. So I’m kind of honored the designers of these pods took inspiration from a dream I had when I would have been no older than 11.

[@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.

[@worldprops333]

@@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*

[@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.

[@RomWatt]

"The slick, futuristic pods would have to be absolutely riddled with solar panels sticking out of it." Ah yes, just like my first base in Subnautica.

[@gregmark1688]

Okay, the Fallout theme suddenly appearing very nearly made me laugh out loud. Keep up the great work, Adam!

[@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.

[@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.

[@BoredInNW6]

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.

[@somanytakennames]

This seems like the kind of thing that would be a fun city builder concept and nothing more.

[@Tkdboy-gk1wk]

The New Vegas theme as the smoke fell on the tropical paradise like the Cloud killed me.

[@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.

[@apawhite]

Libertarians ALWAYS reinvent taxes, and yet almost always remain libertarians afterwards.

[@joebutler7982]

Libertarians are for limited government, that doesnt mean they are against all taxes. Anarcho capitalists on the other hand want anarchism.

[@cevatkokbudak6414]

I wonder why

[@guyman1570]

Almost as if they're lacking vision, to shift paradigm something something, to revisualize taxes not as a burden but as an investment towards their society... 🤔

[@blackm4niac]

because even libertarians can't escape the reality of "you gotta pay someone to keep things running"

[@OriginalUnjustifier]

​@@guyman1570 So THAT'S why I've grown to hate taxes...it's been an absolutely terrible investment for the last 4 years or so.

[@maksims2009]

Your units are wrong. kW is a unit of power, not energy. Power is energy per unit time, kW = kJ/s, kilojoule per second. Batteries cannot be rated in “kW”. Unit of energy is kW x hour, times hour, like that, not divided by hour. kW / day, or kW/hour make no sense, whereas kW times hour gives you energy. Therefore your calculations might be wrong, but I didn’t check.

[@Chrinik]

To be fair those pods could have large pontoons underneath them, acting as both stabelizing mass and boyancy, like an oil rig. I would still build them more like an oil rig in shape...

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

This, but in space. -Elmo Nusk

[@velisvideos6208]

Space pods! To Mars!

[@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!

[@OscarHernandez-xx2je]

All I have to say is watch “Love, Death and Robots”. You’ll see how these pods end up

[@kuruptkyubi5364]

Which episode?

[@kassemir]

Gotta be honest, it's always something special when people like this try and build stuff that looks like something out of The Jetsons :D

[@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.

[@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. .

[@user-qj9en1kp1m]

Ocean Builders: we'll make all your Subnautica dreams come true.

[@hippiegamer112]

I nearly jumped out of my chair when I heard the Heroes of Might and Magic III music. Love it and great video!

[@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

[@gooseloose682]

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

[@captainchaos3667]

That's the problem with almost all of crypto.

[@mack.attack]

Saying that a battery holds 45kW is like saying that the distance from New York to Los Angeles is 3,200mph.

[@velisvideos6208]

Not so. kWh is in the SI (metric) system. mph is some other "system".

[@hairyfro]

@@velisvideos6208 He said "kW" not "kWh"

[@silviuvirgil12]

Thank you, that entire segment was getting on my nerves :))

[@bigkirbyhj666]

Alright it's kinda true, but a battery holds Amp hours, by the amout of volts it can push.

[@PandaInUganda]

​@@bigkirbyhj666Multiply ampere-hour by its voltage and you get watt-hours

[@ArmandsLidigs]

Love your vids man, thank you.

[@robderiche]

as a despicable narcissist with a disdain for shared humanity, this solution appeals to me. it’s just like a boat without all the pesky mobility. sign me up!