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[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 91 points 1 week ago

That's way more than the population of the whole town I live in.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 81 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Why do such monolithic buildings give me such hell-on-earth vibes?

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because that's exactly what we've created.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 92 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's a matter of perspective and use


high density one place means you can have open space somewhere else, for a given amount of land.

I'd much prefer a few large dense housing complexes, surrounded by green space, than suburban sprawl.

[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'd also prefer something denser than suburban sprawl, but I think there's a balance point between that and what the post is showing.

I think that 3-5 story apartments with shops underneath are the best ones, because they aren't too dense while also not wasting space.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Make those with decent construction so every cough and sneeze isn't broadcasted to all of your neighbors with good design so it's disability friendly, and that is the dream right there.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 77 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There's a good chance that apartment building has easy to find organized unit numbers that pizza delivery guy can understand. Building may even have multiple front entrances each with distinct addresses.

[–] Muehe@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Once saw a (German) documentary about this building. They have drop-off places on the ground floor where delivery drivers leave their goods in locked boxes. Payment and and locking/unlocking of the box is done digitally through phone.

P.S.: This one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgVXPEORuA0

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The luxury floors should have automated dumbwaiters, so there's a little rectangle in the wall that's basically a primitive replicator. Trash leaves through the same chute.

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The pizza guy very likely lives in the building too.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Pizza Hut makes a deal with the government to put all the pepperoni customers on the same floors, veggie people on other floors, etc. The lava cake freaks... there's a special floor for them.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yeah, I've delivered pizza in a city of over 100k people. The whole idea of an address is to figure out where the destination is down to the personal residence. Doesn't matter if the people are spread out in a single building or many buildings.

I didn't go knocking on every door any time someone ordered pizza to an apartment. Biggest concern about apartments were if they had a buzzer, if that buzzer worked, and if the code matched the unit number or would be easy to figure out based on the information provided. And if it wasn't, their phone number was part of the information provided.

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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have in-laws living in China, and honestly - it’s a lot easier to navigate those sorts of high rises than you might think.

Most residential buildings I’ve visited have lots of dedicated lifts, so only 2 apartments per floor share one lift. So you would only need to provide something like: Tower 37, Floor 19, Apartment 2.

The Chinese love their delivery apps, too - their drivers (technically scooter riders) are very used to this.

Now the city of Chongqing is a whole seperate matter, that place is an M. C. Escher drawing in real life!

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

how can people stay sane if the numbers go up in a predictable fashion? My American brain cannot comprehend the horrors associated with repeating patterns in housing style and numbering.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

North America, and Americans in particular, love to claim everything big. Big restaurants, big malls, big cars, big highways, big buildings, big country.

Except efficiency is somehow forgotten. So you get 12 lane highways that are constantly clogged with traffic. 100 floor office buildings that have lineups at the elevator between 8-9 and 17-1730. Strip malls that you have to get to by car even if you live next door. And transit that gets you nowhere.

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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

The American brain should be perfectly adapted to this sort of scenario! Just think it like one of those suburban cookie-cutter HOA developments, but vertical!

As for counting with multiple numbers, y’all love to do that already! feet & inches, pounds & ounces etc.

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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Probably not that man for the food deliverer. High density implies having more than 1 order and there are likely many entrances and building numbers.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would be surprised if there weren’t several shops dedicated to the building.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Probably a whole mall on the lower floors and vending machines amd shid

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Any apartment building that size should have a couple floors of retail, especially food - they would make a fortune. If I lived there I would illegally sell teriyaki or something out of my apartment. Better still, run it like a street drug business - pay cooks and delivery people, and have distributors in between - they alone know where the kitchens are. Eventually it's the chicken fingers episode of Community.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Costco recently opened a location in California that is also a high rise apartment building

Imagine, rotisserie chicken every day

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[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (4 children)

We've heard about car brain, this is its cousin, detached house brain.

Tall, wide, building, scary!! OoooOoOooOoOoh

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If you think about it elevators are just vertical trains

[–] s_s@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

passes blunt

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[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

If I search the name, half the articles say 20k, other half 30k. Honestly, I have serious doubts about both figures...

[–] rarWars@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago

Snopes has an article on it, and even they couldn't come up with a solid number.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-apartment-building-residents/

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[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 week ago

So this is what Cyberpunk 2077 based its apartment complexes on

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

This might be better than most apartments I've lived in tbh, so it might work if looking out of the window and having the inescapable trap of modern life hit you in the face isn't a deal breaker for you

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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am the pizza delivery boy.

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[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

I imagine with that many people there are restaurants and services within.

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I found some apartments in that building advertised on some random website for immigrants and those don't look half bad.

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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Food is delivered by pneumatic tubes.

Enjoy your pizza all scrambled and your soda is gonna go through nuclear fission 💥

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[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Am I the only one who worries first about trash collection day than pizza delivery (wildly unpopular in China btw)?

[–] amon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I'd assume the building has a trash collection chute. My old apartment building had one.

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[–] infinite_ass@leminal.space 14 points 1 week ago

Probably has its own Pizza Hut. Delivery guys don't need cars.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

Does it have schools and shops too?

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Kowloon city at home

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

The elevator is broken.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I wonder how may people have multiple lovers in this building, you know people be fucking they neighbors with this many options

[–] BatrickPateman@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now imagine a fire breaking out 😬

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[–] Konstant@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Imagine the condominium meetings

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (8 children)

High precision cannon modified to launch pizza boxes ... then just park it about half a kilometer in front of the building.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 19 points 1 week ago (6 children)
  • Launch a ball of dough against a designated target at the correct speed for it to flatten out on impact
  • Borrow modern artillery targeting systems so that a ball of toppings impacts the same spot a moment afterwards
  • Fire a HESH round to cook it
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