You know that Rome was a big amazing city was because of it's water infrastructure.
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You know that Rome was a big amazing city was because of it's water infrastructure. Public baths, toilets, fountains. This is how you do "civilization" without it getting stinky.
Likewise, 70 percent of what your average subway rider is upset about re: "the homeless" would be solved by more clean public toilets.
It is very sad that working parents feel like they need to buy a $7 cupcake to use a changing table in Flatbush.
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You know that Rome was a big amazing city was because of it's water infrastructure. Public baths, toilets, fountains. This is how you do "civilization" without it getting stinky.
Likewise, 70 percent of what your average subway rider is upset about re: "the homeless" would be solved by more clean public toilets.
It is very sad that working parents feel like they need to buy a $7 cupcake to use a changing table in Flatbush.
You want "quality of life" ?
Make it so people don't feel like going to the bathroom is a puzzle.
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You know that Rome was a big amazing city was because of it's water infrastructure. Public baths, toilets, fountains. This is how you do "civilization" without it getting stinky.
Likewise, 70 percent of what your average subway rider is upset about re: "the homeless" would be solved by more clean public toilets.
It is very sad that working parents feel like they need to buy a $7 cupcake to use a changing table in Flatbush.
Nobody really wants the $7 cupcake.
It's a terrible system.
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Nobody really wants the $7 cupcake.
It's a terrible system.
@futurebird idk I've had a pretty good $7 cupcake once or twice at an airport from one of the cupcake vending machines... But subway cupcake? Pause given.
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@futurebird idk I've had a pretty good $7 cupcake once or twice at an airport from one of the cupcake vending machines... But subway cupcake? Pause given.
@futurebird it is a bad system. Just let people go to the bathroom.
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@futurebird it is a bad system. Just let people go to the bathroom.
@amy @futurebird Unfortunately, some people just want to destroy things. Unhoused people are usually blamed for abusing public bathrooms, but that's often wrong.
I once nearly got into a fist fight with a man who had covered a toilet seat with pee. I requested that he clean up after himself and he disrespectfully refused. It was an office bathroom. He was a coworker.
subsequent hr interactions were a high stakes game of AITA.
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Nobody really wants the $7 cupcake.
It's a terrible system.
@futurebird for most of my life, it seemed only gas stations and fast food places that enforced "bathroom is for customers only" rules. Most other kinds of stores usually didn't even have such a sign, although many enforced "merchandise not allowed in bathrooms" rules, which had an almost opposite effect; you had to use the bathroom before you started buying things.
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You know that Rome was a big amazing city was because of it's water infrastructure. Public baths, toilets, fountains. This is how you do "civilization" without it getting stinky.
Likewise, 70 percent of what your average subway rider is upset about re: "the homeless" would be solved by more clean public toilets.
It is very sad that working parents feel like they need to buy a $7 cupcake to use a changing table in Flatbush.
@futurebird At the far end of the urbanization spectrum, I did field work in the Scottish Highlands, very rural places, where the locals had bought out bad landlords and were taking over things themselves.
When I asked about the most important projects that the community trusts had taken on, a truly stunning number of responses involved public toilets. Like they're building housing, wind farms, restoring forests, opening shops. . . . but, toilets.
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@amy @futurebird Unfortunately, some people just want to destroy things. Unhoused people are usually blamed for abusing public bathrooms, but that's often wrong.
I once nearly got into a fist fight with a man who had covered a toilet seat with pee. I requested that he clean up after himself and he disrespectfully refused. It was an office bathroom. He was a coworker.
subsequent hr interactions were a high stakes game of AITA.
I had a homeless student. (Guy from Ghana taking my Calc 3) when I still taught community college. Amazing young man. There is a difference between some kid at a 4 year college who ends up sleeping in the lounge and when that happens to a guy who is paying for his own community college degree in the foreign country called "America" Anyway we were good friends. HE was the reason the bathroom in the math wing was clean. He cleaned it.
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I had a homeless student. (Guy from Ghana taking my Calc 3) when I still taught community college. Amazing young man. There is a difference between some kid at a 4 year college who ends up sleeping in the lounge and when that happens to a guy who is paying for his own community college degree in the foreign country called "America" Anyway we were good friends. HE was the reason the bathroom in the math wing was clean. He cleaned it.
He felt terrible about "abusing the lounge"
I pointed out that it was so horrible I didn't see how it could possibly be abused.
I don't think that many people think through what THEY would do if in such a situation.
When someone destroys a bathroom it's often because they are very sick. Though not always.
Annoying people do exist.
