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I’ve actually thought about this a little too much. When I take my dog for long walks, there’s literally no where I can use the bathroom. I can’t even go into a
by runawaybottle 6y ago
I’ve actually thought about this a little too much. When I take my dog for long walks, there’s literally no where I can use the bathroom. I can’t even go into a McDonald’s (no dogs). I’m sure homeless people are denied this basic human right everywhere.
Our portable bathrooms don’t self clean well enough. We need to think about how to design a better one. I don’t know if that involves building in air vacuums that force pull in everything to avoid clogs, or if we need more high pressure water, or literal acid that floods the floor after someone leaves (self cleans the whole box, and automatically sprays disinfectant, vacuums down all the shit in 2 minutes, then unlocks the door). Maybe have one time plastic bags that seal up and then get flushed down (all automated). Some kind of hosing down of the whole thing with acid is still high on my list.
There’s got to be some tech we can make that would make rolling these out the most hygienic thing to do as a society.
- benjohnson 6y agoI hate to say it, but universal ID and a deny-list would stop it easily. You let the bathroom verify your ID, and if you leave the place a mess the you no longer have bathroom privileges. It would let you keep great public access, keep toilets simple, and only pass the "costs" of bad-behaviour to those that deserve it. Having ID to take a piss is a bit weird however.
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- MaxBarraclough 6y agoThere are lots of advantages to universal ID cards, but that doesn't erase their considerable problems. [0] Anyway, how would you identify who spoiled the bathroom? [0] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/realid_costs_an.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/realid_costs_...
- benjohnson 6y agoHave the ID scanner and camera be all in one - leaving your ID in it physically blocks the camera.
- leetcrew 6y agoI'd guess the type of person who would trash a public restroom is also pretty likely to just relieve themselves in the street after being banned. not sure what problem this solves.
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- lotsofpulp 6y agoIt solves the problem of excessive costs of cleaning and fixing bathrooms by decreasing the probability of someone destroying the bathroom.
- wyre 6y agoBeing able to use a bathroom should be a right, not a t that could be taken away.
- mindslight 6y agoIf you hate to say it, then don't say it. Sure, it seems like everything would be so much simpler if we could merely sort everybody into two groups of good people and bad people, and punish the bad people. That's the tired old authoritarian fallacy. In reality, you've got an endless supply of people who will make a mess once with your unpopular system and not care, good faith accidents unable to make amends, people that refuse to show IDs and piss on the reader on general principle, people unjustly blamed by your system for someone else's mess with no appeal, fake IDs, and inevitable tie in to other delusional top-down systems that multiply these problems.
- wyre 6y agoCheck out the Portland Loo. My city has one and it’s a very well designed public toilet.