Post #1079853

2026-04-04 07:37 UTC

I love this kind of thread. It always attracts some guy who finds it necessary to point out that in the USSR people had to endure the absolute horrors of having roommates. I think I saw him phrase it as them having “survived” roommates once.

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@SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 10:09

The blocks were built en masse with the exact purpose of escaping communal living that proliferated during rapid urbanization of the 1930s, so that connection is quite a stretch.

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@NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2026-04-04 13:52

I mean, roommates are definitely a form of horror. For every well adjusted person out there, several exist that never learned to clean up after themselves or think of how what they do impacts another person. Hell, there are a lot of people who actually take delight in the suffering of others. Imagine trying to convince your roommate to do the dishes more than once a month and they’re laughing at you.

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@Pman@lemmy.org 2026-04-04 07:52

Its not the roommates that bothers me it is the listening devices and constantly playing propaganda that is illegal to turn off, or forced "vacations" in labor camps for disagreeing with government decisions.

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