Spyke
m_f
midwest.social

The best description I've seen of hotel art is what happens when you go to the store and say "One Art, please"

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They should just get realist landscape paintings. You can't go wrong and they're all actual art.

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lemm.ee

This screenshot is showing its age. Just immerse it in hydrogen peroxide for two minutes, wash it thoroughly, and it should be like new!

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Oh, Gray 5, you mean?

It sounds ridiculous in German, but it's not much better in French, either.

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otterreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

You know way too much about whatever happened to that puckered flag of skin after it was separated from its original owner, it seems.

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This is the same reason why I don’t like staying in hotels. Makes me feel like nothing, dehumanized.

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fjordbasareply
lemmy.world

I think it’s quite interesting we can have such opposite reactions to the same thing. I’m more in line with original author- I rather enjoy it. If I reflect on why this may be, I think it’s because I find human-ing pretty exhausting, so a break from that is rather welcome!

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Frozengyroreply
lemmy.world

It's nice, until you are on constant business trips and stay in hundreds of hotels.

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daddy32reply
lemmy.world

Dunno. I'm in "tens of hotels" bucket now, but hotels are definitely not something I dislike about business trips - flights are, especially night flights.

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I used to love flying at night. Air is cool, dense and smooth, you don't get cooked by the sun as much, and the red cockpit light is pretty cozy.

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and for those using them as emergency shelter, from domestic abuse or homelessness, they are salvation. different strokes, huh.

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love this vibe. and when you get back to the hotel after a long tiring day of adventure, it becomes a welcoming sanctuary. ah I wish I could go on a trip, it's been so long!

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The last sentence alone, taken out of context, would open a mystery novel like few others.

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My pastime is vandalizing the bibles. Criticisms, corrections, changing names, signing it as Jesus, drawing pentagrams and devils, that sort of stuff.

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I disagree, is most essentially 'das Man' what Heidegger supposed to be the opposite of Dasein:

The opposite of this authentic self [Dasein] is everyday and inauthentic Dasein, the forfeiture of one's individual meaning, destiny and lifespan, in favour of an (escapist) immersion in the public everyday [das Man or the They]

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Man, I just got back into reading his stuff and I instantly remember why he's my favourite author. Poor guy, though.

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Feeling like I can fall out of reality and into the backrooms just by taking the wrong corridor or waking up at the wrong hour.

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piefed.social

This is exactly why I hate hotels. They are the same everywhere and tend to be located near the same shit everywhere. I much prefer a short term rental so you get to really experience a neighborhood in the city when you travel.

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Bizzlereply
lemmy.world

Short term rentals fucked up the housing market.

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Short term rentals definitely made things worse, but the housing market was fucked up before short-term rentals became commonplace. They just poured more fuel on the fire. The main problem with the housing market is that homes are used as financial vehicles for investment and speculation.

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Then regulate them, but I think this is pretty overstated tbh. There are no short term rentals near me, because it isn't a tourist district, and the housing market is still ridiculous. Likewise, property values in tourist areas have always been absurd.

In reality, there is definitely some overlap, and short term rentals definitely impact the housing market in some places, but it is far from a primary cause of broader housing scarcity.

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reddthat.com

Have you people never tried to sleep in a hotel?

There is always, always, somebody screaming next door

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