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It seems at least tangentially relevant to the discussion more so than most, doesn't it? Memories of human waste in the streets is the first thing I thought ab
by sgtnoodle 5y ago
It seems at least tangentially relevant to the discussion more so than most, doesn't it?
Memories of human waste in the streets is the first thing I thought about after reading this article. I usually see at least one pile when I go into SF and walk around. I've also seen people actively relieving themselves and worse, and I've only wandered around SF maybe a dozen times.
Designing custom trash cans to optimize for esthetics in this context seems analogous to polishing a turd. It sounds like the bigger issue, ignoring potential corruption, is that they expect telemetry and sliding mechanisms in what notionally should just be some bent sheet metal, and assumed the stuff on the market was overpriced.
- ryan_lane 5y agoI lived in SF for a decade and saw poop on the street maybe once a year. I saw a needle maybe twice total. You're a tourist and you go to tourist places and most of those areas suck. They also tend to have more homeless people than average because tourists give more money to them than locals. Tourist areas in most cities are also where most crime and homelessness live.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> I lived in SF for a decade and saw poop on the street maybe once a year. I lived in San Francisco for less than one year and saw people in the act of defecating in public more often than that. This was strictly a matter of walking between my apartment and my job.
- sgtnoodle 5y agoTo an extent sure, but on the other hand I have been a tourist in many cities and the only one I've regularly encountered human waste in is SF.