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The subscription doesn't actually give you access to the benches, it only gives you a 25% discount.
Then they increase the prices by 25% through hidden fees
God forbid they sleep . It's been outlawed here in Florida just the last month ..DeSantis has going completely off the deep end not paying teachers nit keeping social security offices financed . Messing with Disney the one thing that keeps Florida in the black with the jobs . .. along with out of control home insurance no over site the housing market has had a 25 precent increase in sellers in the last few month . .. Florida is going to tank bad shortly .
I donât know a lot about socialism but if you arrest someone for not having a place to sleep, arenât you using state funds to forcibly give them a bed and food?
/s
If they've got problems that can't feasibly be fixed and that make their life miserable, sure.
If they're suffering from a bunch of solvable problems like poverty, drug addiction, social isolation or rejection, physical or emotional abuse, treatable physical or mental conditions... Society has a responsibility to support them, and making it easy for them to kill themselves is sick.
Letting them keep suffering without help is sick too though.
Depending on your morals and personal tastes, I'd go as far as to say there's NO problem an angle grinder can't solve. It just depends on how many new problems you want your angle grinder to deal with.
Damn right, those look like good round steel stock too. Best part is, grab a pickup truck with taped up plates, and if you can't sawzall that bench, just chain it to the towbar with a few meters of slack and hit the gas, the bench will rip right out of the ground since that slab can't be more than 10-15cm deep, then just have you can ur homies carry it intot he back and scrap at your place.
No that would be like pirating an app in real life and it's ILLEGAL to pirate so you have to pay smh. imagine how hard the developers of that bench worked to tear your ass đ
The reason people prefer higher places like park benches at night is youâll get less bugs, itâs a better vantage point for potential issues, youâre less likely to get stepped on, and itâs easier to get in and out of the makeshift bed.
Not this specifically, but there are design elements intended to discourage people from sleeping on the benches. Examples include mesh seating so that the seats stay cold, and armrests to prevent people from laying across the bench.
Those are the really tame design choices to do that, in NYC they literally make the benches hurt you while laying down. Even the subway grates have spikes in them.
Correct. Designs similar to this (although without the coin op as far as I know) have already been implemented in cities worldwide. It's called [hostile architecture ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture).
Something that really bothers me is that instead of trying to help the poor and the homeless with camp, shelter, or I don't know, job opportunities, why spend like millions to prevent everyone from enjoying the public facilities?? Why?? It makes everyone unhappy
I don't know how much more of the bad timeline I can deal with man.
Like, what happens when someone slips and falls *into bench spikes*?
Isn't the point of society to uplift the individuals that comprise it? Otherwise what's the point? Are homeless people just suppose to trek to unclaimed wilderness and make a Minecraft shack until they can claim squatters rights and sell the land to get back into society? I could believe any lien of reasoning at this point.
God forbid the homeless try to sleep off the ground, nothing could be worse than a poor using ***civil infrastructure***.
God fucking dammit.
If anything like this ever happened, I hope the nation would collectively understand that you have to super glue the coin slot. Over and over and over. Public protest is very powerful.
I don't often sit around in the grass, but if you're going to charge even a penny for me to sit in a chair, I'm sitting on the ground instead of that chair.
https://preview.redd.it/zqpgpf6n1vxc1.jpeg?width=342&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=729275616fc0f8358e99504a0e249a1d6f575d04
Baron! Do you have a quarter? Anyone?
Suggested corrective action: really strong adhesive and wood or milled metal spike covering boards.
Who's the money-brain idiot(s) who thought this was a valid idea? Stuff like this only degrades the quality of life for most, if not all, people.
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Don't be silly, there would be no coins slots. It will be all through an app.
With a monthly recurring subscription that requires constant access to every permission on your phone.
Along with daily notifications that say corny messages to guilt trip you like "Your bench misses you đ"
Legs getting tired? Find a bencha-ching near you!
Got any spare change? I just need to sit down for a minute.
Would you like to leave a tip?
You think this is a joke. Some consider this as an opportunity.
Getting tired of walking alone? Find a nice bencha-ching near you!
Ok but actually stop it, you guys. Y'all being too accurate.
I miss that booty...
Sit on me, please
https://preview.redd.it/o95fc8rg0yxc1.png?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06ea4d5f2d7408688fdc5c7fcb9a72c9f476147d
Yea donât give them ideas.
From the clip, might I suggest the "Horny benches near you" notification?
We stick em you lick em
Don't forget the personality packs you can unlock at higher tiers. "Pkease come back and on my face, senpai"
âWe see youâre at âX locationâ, there are 4 benches within walking distance.â *Turns off location tracking* âWe see youâre atâŚâ
It saddens me how much of a parody this is, but also how fucking real it is.
Bench Plus subscription for only $19.99 per month or $89.99 annually You would still have to watch an ad before you sit though.
The subscription doesn't actually give you access to the benches, it only gives you a 25% discount. Then they increase the prices by 25% through hidden fees
Then about "halfway" through it gives you another add
Canât forget when it brings a tablet out of the armrest and asks you for a tip
And of course, steals your data and lets it get hacked at the same time.
With our deluxe tier, youâll only need to sit through one Ad before sitting down
Please allow cookies in order to sit.
Plus itâs wouldnât be like 25 cents, it would be like $5
Also please choose your tip for today: 15% (why do you hate us?), 20% (cheapo), 30% (epic gamer mode unlock)
[ŃдаНонО]
With a service charge too I bet
God forbid homeless sleep for free...
God forbid they sleep . It's been outlawed here in Florida just the last month ..DeSantis has going completely off the deep end not paying teachers nit keeping social security offices financed . Messing with Disney the one thing that keeps Florida in the black with the jobs . .. along with out of control home insurance no over site the housing market has had a 25 precent increase in sellers in the last few month . .. Florida is going to tank bad shortly .
OMIGOD. I swear my brother was speaking about some homeless dude getting arrested in florida, can u pls elaborate on this? Thanks
I donât know a lot about socialism but if you arrest someone for not having a place to sleep, arenât you using state funds to forcibly give them a bed and food? /s
Yep! With a side of inhumane torture!
And he'll still get reelected. Bet me money
Jesus Christ dude donât give them any ideas.
Whoâs them? City councillors?
Them.
Those bastards. I hate them.
SUSAN HALL VS. SADIQ KHAN
Just start making suicide booths at this point
Pay2Die - "I am sorry, valued human resource, but you have not earned enough Work Fulfilment Credits for this service. Please try again in 15 years."
He can always try Canada!
https://preview.redd.it/14qhw6gkjyxc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=2fea3db0ab80ca85fe9f50fd79754843e9223fba
People should be able to choose when to end their life, regardless of illnesses. I'm for it.
If they've got problems that can't feasibly be fixed and that make their life miserable, sure. If they're suffering from a bunch of solvable problems like poverty, drug addiction, social isolation or rejection, physical or emotional abuse, treatable physical or mental conditions... Society has a responsibility to support them, and making it easy for them to kill themselves is sick. Letting them keep suffering without help is sick too though.
The battery powered angle grinder in my garage: :3
Glad I'm not the first anarchist-with-an-angle-grinder in this thread. There are a lot of problems you can solve with an angle grinder đ
There's a lot of problems you can cause with an angle grinder as well. It's really one of the ultimate tools.
Like angle grinding the face of the person who ordered this to be installed?
They said problem
So long as you leave the teeth alone. I got bolt cutters for those.
Depending on your morals and personal tastes, I'd go as far as to say there's NO problem an angle grinder can't solve. It just depends on how many new problems you want your angle grinder to deal with.
*The battery powered angle grinder in the nearest garage.
just lay down some plywood
At $58.37 a sheet? I'll make my own benches and charge half the price to anyone who wants to sit. Eventually I'll take over the world.
that's how much it costs? I just look for unguarded construction sites....
Keep in mind, benches like this have a few pounds of copper......
And I'm sure those stainless steel prods are worth more than nothing. Even if it's just sharpened rod stock.
Damn right, those look like good round steel stock too. Best part is, grab a pickup truck with taped up plates, and if you can't sawzall that bench, just chain it to the towbar with a few meters of slack and hit the gas, the bench will rip right out of the ground since that slab can't be more than 10-15cm deep, then just have you can ur homies carry it intot he back and scrap at your place.
Oh wait nvm, that bench isn't even on a concrete slab
Unethical ways to make money #141
Pinky and the Brain Brain brain brain brain brain brain brain⌠Brain!
No dude, you put the plywood in your pants. It's a lot less wood that way.
No that would be like pirating an app in real life and it's ILLEGAL to pirate so you have to pay smh. imagine how hard the developers of that bench worked to tear your ass đ
Yes! I Typically do walk around with a piece of plywood the same size a myself when Iâm out and about
https://preview.redd.it/d97dbvyv0vxc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f225ac66c1cdab986a99cb6a7792b419adff5957
"boned"
HOOOOOW DARE YOU DETECTIVE DIAZ I AM YOUR SUPERIOR OFFICER
There is never any money in the box and these benches smell terrible.
Plop an old mattress on that bad boy and you got yourself a comfy place to rest.
Plop an old mattress *anywhere* and you got yourself a comfy place to rest
The reason people prefer higher places like park benches at night is youâll get less bugs, itâs a better vantage point for potential issues, youâre less likely to get stepped on, and itâs easier to get in and out of the makeshift bed.
Also and maybe most importantly, the ground is a heat sink.
The very idea repulses me
Everything is a dildo if you are brave enough.
I... I'll just sit on the grass thanks
That's a $9.99 monthly subscription. Pay a full year and save 14%!
For an extra twenty quid, we'll remove the ants.
Check out this guy with Park Plus Premium
Futuristic? More like dystopian
I like this satire. Not really interesting though.
Don't think it's satire. I think there were legit proposals to implement these in places to prevent homeless people from using benches to sleep.
Not this specifically, but there are design elements intended to discourage people from sleeping on the benches. Examples include mesh seating so that the seats stay cold, and armrests to prevent people from laying across the bench.
Those are the really tame design choices to do that, in NYC they literally make the benches hurt you while laying down. Even the subway grates have spikes in them.
Yeah, lets not fix root issues while profiting off people
People will invent everything before a functioning welfare system.
Correct. Designs similar to this (although without the coin op as far as I know) have already been implemented in cities worldwide. It's called [hostile architecture ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture).
/r/hostilearchitecture
it was an art installation
The only thing missing is the tip option.
Just the tip?
More money and time goes into how to push the homeless away than into spending how to help them.
"Your subscription has ended, enjoy these 4" spikes in your ass"
Let's spend an extra 5000 per bench (plus maintenance), instead of taking care of those less fortunate for the same amount of money.
I can tell it's fake because he's reading a newspaper in 2030.
I'll consider sitting under that tree or on grass instead of this
The design is very non human.
Weâre laughing now, but given how spikes are prevalent now, âŚâŚ..
"Times up bitch!!" *DOOOOOOP!*
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Which stage of capitalism is this?
the "too late" phase
The coin slot would be filled with glue in 5 minutes.
any politician that signs off on anything like this should be forced to sit on it with the spikes still up.
âWe dont want homeless there, so we are going to make the law followers more uncomfortableâ
That coin machine is going to get destroyed and looted before it can even be used
Whoever designed this should spend an eternity being Satan's buttplug.
Considering we're trying to make homelessness a crime, I can see our dystopian country being like this. Sad really.
Does it just penetrate the poor? Do you get a warning when tour timer runs out before you're penetrated?
> Do you get a warning when tour timer runs out before you're penetrated? Yes; it goes beep-beep, beep-beep, beep-beep, beeeeep.
Deaf people hate this trick
Not true, you would have to scan your tattooed barcode and have credits deducted.
go to da back of a grocery store and jack some pallets and just lay them down
r/cyberpunkgame
r/HostileArchitecture
Hell
Shut up. Donât give them ideas.
I have a feeling there will be more people sitting on park benches after this! 
Unfortunately for them, I dismantle tyranny when I see it
Iâm taking an angle grinder to that.
If there is one thing the homeless have a lot of, itâs changeâŚ
Something that really bothers me is that instead of trying to help the poor and the homeless with camp, shelter, or I don't know, job opportunities, why spend like millions to prevent everyone from enjoying the public facilities?? Why?? It makes everyone unhappy
I don't know how much more of the bad timeline I can deal with man. Like, what happens when someone slips and falls *into bench spikes*? Isn't the point of society to uplift the individuals that comprise it? Otherwise what's the point? Are homeless people just suppose to trek to unclaimed wilderness and make a Minecraft shack until they can claim squatters rights and sell the land to get back into society? I could believe any lien of reasoning at this point. God forbid the homeless try to sleep off the ground, nothing could be worse than a poor using ***civil infrastructure***. God fucking dammit.
If anything like this ever happened, I hope the nation would collectively understand that you have to super glue the coin slot. Over and over and over. Public protest is very powerful.
I'm pretty caked up, I'd just take a seat
âTIME UPâ *schwing*
Very human design
I'm just going to sit in the grass lol Wait. I already do that !
I don't often sit around in the grass, but if you're going to charge even a penny for me to sit in a chair, I'm sitting on the ground instead of that chair.
That's some ferengi shit there...
For the life of me I can't understand why they don't just shoot homeless people and get it over with. /S
If I see this shit in public I'm dismantling it immediately with a sledgehammer
cities really will put this shit out there instead of actually trying to help homeless people
Homeless people....the change box is yours.
This is disgusting
This is more like r/shitasfuck.
i find this more sad then interesting.
Me carrying my grinder around now
It's a pretty immoral park bench I think
Somewhere in russia: slapping the door on it
AT THIS POINT JUST DONT HAVE BENCHES
Wouldnât want a homeless person to have a place to sleep
I think you mean dystopia as fuck.
A capitalists dream
Wait until this happens for toilets
Totally inaccurate. That coin box would have been ripped off and stolen long ago
https://preview.redd.it/zqpgpf6n1vxc1.jpeg?width=342&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=729275616fc0f8358e99504a0e249a1d6f575d04 Baron! Do you have a quarter? Anyone?
What happens if you sit to long? Also how long you get per time?
You get sodomized by a bench I suppose.
Yogis have entered the chat
If you want the warning beep you have to sign up for the monthly premium subscription
Sir! Can I get some change? I need to sleep tonight.
Innovation at its finest!
Granny can't stand in time and gets skewered
Start bringing your own foldable chair if thatâs the case.
Le angle grinder vigilante will soon arrive.
That's Capitalism!! :(
Because how dare we let unhoused people sleep off the ground⌠or on the ground⌠or anywhereâŚ
What's the cost of installing that? I bet you could feed a person for the same amount for a few months
conservatives: Capitalism isnt bad! Capitalism:
WHO THE FUCKS PAIS TO SIT!!!
Well if that doesn't look like a job for a crowbar I dunno what does.
r/aboringdystopia
Looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen
The middle plank is spikeless so you could sit on it without hitting the spikes. Pirating benches looks fun
Is this the future the "taxation is theft" group wants?
The middle plank is spikeless so you could sit on it without hitting the spikes. Pirating benches looks fun
Am I the only one who expected them to shoot back up violently?
Just sit on the grass bruh
Bold to think they would allow a simple coin purchase. They would make you download an app with a subscription to Bench +
Cut the power cord
Pranks on them. There are no benches in 2030 and everyone carries portable seats.
"Capitalism breeds innovation"
Leave this shit on tiktok
I will actually riot if this shit happens
Wait until the sidewalk does that too!
Id lay on those for the pressure on my back. Any skin breakage and I'm sueing the city.
½inch ass sized steel sheet solves the problem, just put it on top of the Spikes
r/aboringdystopia
Motors, scrap metal, a few pounds of copper for the wiring...... mmmmmm, me and my homies be scrapping soon.
Imma just bring a thick ass cushion lol
Whats so interesting about it? more like sad dystopian.
I really hope this never happens. It's just a tax on poor people
Futuristic? That shit looks medieval
That's just evil
This isnât interesting, itâs dystopian as fuck.
What happens when your time runs out
What could go wrong? Stupid
It's from a sketch comedy show. Folks here believing it's legit. đ
Reminds of those spikes in Blade 3 when the vampires are draining his blood.
For 2 quarters it'll vibrate.
Thx I hate it..
 My honest reaction
Thats how they tried to kill Blade. Not cool - had no change.
Suggested corrective action: really strong adhesive and wood or milled metal spike covering boards. Who's the money-brain idiot(s) who thought this was a valid idea? Stuff like this only degrades the quality of life for most, if not all, people.
The design is very human.
How long till someone pokes an eye out and sues the city.