Portland buys 100 new tiny home pods at a cost of $16,000 each
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ABC News Local ^
| February 26, 2024 | by Shelby Slaughter
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Some of the city-sanctioned homeless camps are getting an upgrade. The
city of Portland has purchased 100 new tiny home pods for the unsheltered at the Multnomah Safe Rest Village. Each one came with a $16,510 price tag. While the cost is a steep one, Savannah Eadens, a public information officer for the Temporary Alternative Shelter Sites, said the units come with everything a resident will need inside. This includes a bed, bedding, and a heater. The pods at Multnomah Village were paid for by federal American Rescue Plan (ARPA) money and Metro’s Supportive Housing funds.
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NYC may ban detergent pods, some laundry sheets in latest ‘green’ crackdown — with fines up to $1,200 for selling them
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NY Post ^
| 02/12/2024 | Craig McCarthy
New York City could soon ban detergent pods across the five boroughs in the latest “green” push from lawmakers. The
“Pods are Plastic Bill,” introduced by City Councilman James Gennaro last week, would make it illegal to sell any pods and laundry sheets if they’re made with polyvinyl alcohol. Fines for selling the pods would start at $400, double for a second violation and top off at $1,200 for flouting the rules more than twice, if the bill becomes law. The bill would also require education and outreach to businesses on the ban for the first year. The law wouldn’t...
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San Francisco paying $12,000 per month for homeless RVs while tech workers sleep in $700 ‘pods’
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NY Post ^
| 10/10/2023 | Marjorie Hernandez
San Francisco is pouring millions of dollars into an RV park for the homeless, while young people trying to get a break in their careers are reduced to living in 4-feet high by 3.5-feet wide “pod” spaces for $700 a month. The
city opened a “safe parking site” at Candlestick Point in January 2022, which is home to 30 RVs — each of which cost the city $12,000 a month to keep there, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The site, named the Bayview Vehicle Triage Center, has been recommended to be opened for another two years, which will cost...
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San Francisco paying $12,000 per month for homeless RVs while tech workers sleep in $700 ‘pods’
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New York Post ^
| 10/10/2023 | Marjorie Hernandez
San Francisco is pouring $12,000 a month into an RV park for the homeless, while young people trying to get a break in their careers are reduced to living in 4-feet high by 3.5-feet wide “pod” spaces for $700 a month.
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Bay Area housing startup offers sleeping pods for $800 a month
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Cbsnews ^
| 05/06/2022 | IRINA IVANOVA
In the latest sign that the U.S. housing shortage is reaching crisis levels, a Bay Area startup is offering bunk-bed style pods at $800 a month for up to 14 people to live in a single home. Brownstone
Shared Housing, an eight-month-old startup, bills itself as a short-term solution for students or people working on temporary jobs.
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Switzerland Okays Futuristic ‘Suicide Pods’ to End Life Without Psychiatric Screening
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LifeSite News ^
| 12/7/21
The inventor hopes eventually to replace human psychiatrists with artificial intelligence to review applicants' soundness of mind.Sarco' death pod on display in Venice (exitinternational.net) (LifeSiteNews) — Medical authorities in Switzerland have authorized a disturbing new method of assisted suicide that employs personal “suicide pods” to further reduce oversight of the decision to
end one’s life. Unveiled years ago, Sarco Suicide Pod is a portable, 3D-printed, one-man capsule which can be flooded with nitrogen from inside, after the user answers one survey to be told the pod’s location, then another set of questions to confirm his or her intent to die....
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Facebook Introduces New Virtual Reality Pods To Plug You Into Metaverse
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The Babylon Bee ^
| October 29, 2021 | The Babylon Bee
MENLO PARK, CA—Genius billionaire and totally human Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced he is building a brand new virtual reality world for everyone to live in, which he calls the "Metaverse." To help everyone plug in and get completely immersed in the virtual world, Facebook Meta has introduced high-tech virtual reality
pods. "Our Meta-Pods are state of the art," said Zuckerberg in his classic warm and fully-human way. "You will submerge yourself in this gooey clear jelly for maximum comfort, and simply plug this giant cable into your head! And the pods are very energy efficient since they use...
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Dodgers Announce Changes At Stadium In Preparation For Reopening: Reduced Parking, No Backpacks, Fans Seated in Small Pods
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Deadline ^
| March 24, 2021 | Tom Tapp
From cash-less concessions to advance-purchase of parking, the experience at Dodger Stadium will be decidedly different under guidelines announced by the team today as it prepares to welcome back fans during the Covid-19 pandemic. Thanks
to revised state guidelines, fans will be permitted to attend outdoor sporting events in California beginning April 1, just in time for baseball season. The Dodger home opener is scheduled for April 9. Los Angeles County is currently in the Red tier of the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy, which sets rules for businesses and activities during the pandemic. In the red tier, Dodger...
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German City Installs Ulmer Nests, Sleeping Pods For Homeless People
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India Times ^
| 1-22-21 | Shreya Chauhan
The pods, which are made from wood and steel, were put in parks and other places, a spokesman for the city said. To
shield the homeless from the wind and cold, the beds have been equipped with thermal insulation. They are also big enough for use by two individuals. There are no cameras, and when they are in use, sensors are triggered. Those behind the project, amid some delays, announced that they had eventually been rolled out just as the weather began to take a turn for the worse.
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Parents and Teachers Starting 'Learning Pods' Are Done Waiting for Permission
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Intellectual Takeout ^
| 8/4 | Kerry McDonald
These learning pods, or in-home microschools, involve small groups of families coming together to take turns facilitating a curriculum for their children in their homes, or pooling resources to hire a teacher or college student to lead instruction. They
are a creative, spontaneous response to uncertain or undesirable school reopening plans that make at-home learning easier, more practical, and more enjoyable for more families. These pods are also a prime example of what Adam Thierer calls “permissionless innovation,” where new solutions and discoveries are born without explicit regulatory blessings. In his book, Thierer explains: “The best solutions to complex social...
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'Learning pods' threaten to widen the privilege gap in Bay Area schooling
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San Francisco Chronicle ^
| July 28, 2020 | Andrew Chamings
"This is the worst." "Our kids won't ever catch up." "What
do we do?" Parents' text threads and mom's groups blew up as soon as the news was made official. After months of speculation and worry, Oakland families received confirmation on July 10 that the 2020-21 school year would not be a normal year. The 40,000 students under the school district's jurisdiction would not be returning to in-class learning at the start of the coming semester.
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The Media Wants To Guilt-Trip Parents Over School 'Pods'
Worried about how the latest COVID-19 workaround might exacerbate inequality? Maybe open the damned elementary schools instead.
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Reason ^
| July 24, 2020 | Matt Welch
Even before the recent unpleasantness, I have long read The New York Times, at least in part, as an exercise in making upper-middle-class liberals feel guilty about their consumer choices. Those
convenient Amazon deliveries? Packaged by exploited laborers. Those cheap manicures? Given by nearly indentured immigrants. (Except not.) So it does not surprise me that the Times is reacting to the latest creative workaround to dysfunctional governmental coronavirus response—parent-organized teaching pools, or "pods," whereby a small group of kids can receive instruction and supervision for the many days this fall that schools are not in session—with a triple helping of...
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The Latest in School Segregation: Private Pandemic ‘Pods’.
If they become the norm, less privileged kids will suffer. (NYT alert)
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New York Times ^
| July 23, 2020 | Clara Totenberg Green
As school districts across the nation announce that their buildings will remain closed in the fall, parents are quickly organizing “learning pods” or “pandemic pods” — small groupings of children who gather every day and learn in a shared space, often participating in the online instruction provided by their schools. Pods
are supervised either by a hired private teacher or other adult, or with parents taking turns. At face value, learning pods seem a necessary solution to the current crisis. But in practice, they will exacerbate inequities, racial segregation and the opportunity gap within schools. Children whose parents have the...
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Parents turn to private “pods” to school children
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Marketplace ^
| July 21, 2020 | Meghan McCarty Carino
Working parents are in a tough spot these days — juggling child care, home schooling and full-time work. The
situation has become critical as many school districts have announced they will not fully resume in-person classes this fall as coronavirus cases continue to surge. So parents are getting creative, forming “pods” with other families to share the cost and burden of home schooling. Former math teacher and tutor Jeffrey Hahn is advertising his services as a pod teacher on his Brooklyn neighborhood forum. His base rate for pod-teaching is $250 a session, and he said he’s already getting interest. “It...
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Your bubble is ready: plastic pods offer solution for COVID dining
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https://www.reuters.com/ ^
| May 20, 2020. | Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - A romantic dinner for two. The
wine is excellent, the food delicious. It’s almost like the good old days. Except for the giant, see-through lampshades on your heads. For restaurant owners worrying how they can welcome back customers but keep them safe from COVID-19, a French designer has created a cylinder of transparent plastic that hangs from a cable on the ceiling, much like a lampshade. A scoop cut out of the back allows diner to sit and stand up without having to bend over double. Christophe Gernigon, who invented the device, called the Plex’Eat, said the...
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How renters in LA and San Francisco are opting to live in communal pods [tr]
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UK Daily Mail ^
| October 31, 2019 | Lauren Freun
It's the latest trend in affordable housing - renters shelling out $1200 a month to live in communal pods in Los Angeles or San Francisco, where sex is banned and residents brand themselves with matching tattoos. PodShare,
founded in in 2012, provides co-ed bunkbeds in six locations across California which it rents for between $50 and $60 a night, amounting to between $1,000 and $1400 a month. Everyone gets a bed that turns into a desk, individual power outlets, a locker, a shelf and a personal TV and tenants are known as 'pod-estrians'. The company uses the term 'co-living' for...
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‘Alcoholic Tide Pods’: Everyone is very confused about the newest way to drink whisky
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Washington Post ^
| 10/07/2019 | Teo Armus
They’re wrapped in seaweed. They’re filled with whisky. And
they’re drawing a collective groan from the Internet, thanks to their suspicious resemblance to a laundry detergent pack turned meme turned public health hazard. That’s right: They’re alcoholic Tide Pods. Well, sort of. In what is either a highly successful marketing scheme or an inadvertent attempt to launch itself into millennial relevancy, a 195-year-old single-malt Scotch whisky distillery has rolled out three kinds of limited-edition “glass-less cocktails,” available through Sunday at a posh London bar. These alcoholic amuse-bouche pouches provide “the perfect flavour-explosion experience,” the Glenlivet claims. But, as hundreds of...
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Seaweed Pods to Replace Single-Use Cups at London Marathon
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Runner's World ^
| April 27, 2019 | Jordan Smith
After the athletes cross the finish and excitement of any marathon has died down, what’s left is an aftermath of waste. Bottles
and cups litter the course, raising questions about the environmental impact of the bottles and cups used for hydration and left tossed to the side. This year, London Marathon officials are implementing measures to cut down on this waste—something they hope to expand upon in the future. They have a goal of zero waste by 2020, so a lot of changes will be made. And it will start with runners eating their water bottles. Yep, eating their water...
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Video: NEVER Pay Full Price for Tide Pods
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YouTube ^
| February 3, 2019 | DUmmie FUnnies
VIDEO Perhaps the easiest products to get a great deal on are Tide Pods. Why? Because they are frequently on sale and because they frequently have high value coupons available which are often online which you can print out. In
this demonstration, I show how I combined a sale with a coupon that I printed out. I made this purchase on Friday evening but the next morning I repeated the same process again the next day to get a second bag of Tide Pods at the same price which came to about 75% off the original retail price.
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Greeley King Soopers moves Tide Pods away from candy aisle following concern
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Greeley Tribune ^
| December 3, 2018 | Adam Poulisse
The King Soopers on 35th Avenue near Greeley West High School will no longer stock its Tide Pods near the colorful candy following recent concern. Store
management on Sunday removed an aisle end cap stocked with the bright, aromatic detergent packs and other laundry items that was connected to an aisle filled with popcorn, chocolate bars, M&M’s, Reese’s and other delicious goodies — which Tide Pods are not supposed to be. Similar household products are a couple aisles away from the sweets. Earlier this year the “Tide Pod challenge,” where teens filmed themselves biting into the plastic bubbles filled with...
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