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    This is going to be an effective way to tank the Google/Yelp review score of your restaurant. And pay toilets are also stupid in Europe, I say that as a European.

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      Along what others have mentioned, we still have the ‘Old lady sitting in front of the toilet building’. It’s less common these days but there are still some of these around in eastern Europe. She keeps the facilities clean(er) and takes money from entrants. They usually have a little stand or something.

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    Do you want piss everywhere? Because that’s how you end up with piss everywhere.

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      Yup, I’ll gladly piss on the smart lock that controls this bullshit. I almost pissed in a trashcan in high school in front of the whole class when a teacher wouldn’t let me go to the bathroom.

      I almost had my penis out before the teacher realized I wasn’t bluffing.

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        I remember in grade school, my school constructed restrooms in every classroom so students won’t need to leave class. The problem was they were literally just a small concrete cubicle and the walls didn’t even go up to the ceiling. That was when I learned pissing straight into the water wasn’t a good idea. I went out to the entire class staring at me.

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    If a business wanted to charge me to change a baby’s diaper in the bathroom, I’d just do it right on the table or whatever in the middle of everyone. Let’s see how your business does when everyone is seeing and smelling that business. I hope it’s a restaurant.

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      I expect that customers will not blame the business for that. They’ll just think you’re an inconsiderate person, like all the other parents who think a table where people eat is an appropriate place for their child’s faeces…

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        Do like the Romans did: ask for a recliner so you can get on your side to fart and piss freely while being fed by women whom you throw scraps of food to pick up from the floor… /s

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      People do this already and there are bathrooms to use. Saw a mom do this on a McDonald’s table.

      I also rarely eat inside fast food restaurants anymore, coincidentally.

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    Will there be a list of what restaraunts use this so I can avoid them?

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    Just why.

    Seriously why does it seem over the last 15 years public toilets are becoming rarer it’s a mystery to me. Like the world population is growing a lot and we pay more taxes then ever, but it’s harder to relieve yourself in public then ever.

    And now businesses are trying to monetize the few toilets in public we still have.

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      Innovative disruptions in previously non-monetized parts of life are the life fuel of our economy.
      Really excited how to see how this will innovate human interaction in the years to come!
      /hj

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      These are conserted efforts to reduce the presence of “undesirables”, also known as homeless or unhoused, in the areas without public bathrooms.

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        Well the problem with public facilities is they allow people who are not rich enough to take a piss to take a piss, while depriving shareholders and Silicon Valley assholes entrepreneurs of profits. Before you know it you’ve got communism, and then everyone has a place to live and a toilet from which no one gets rich.

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      As rents go up, businesses want to maximize their return on space. So some businesses get rid of toilets, meaning the ones that keep them pay to have toilets available for people that aren’t their customers, making them consider closing them, creating a vicious cycle.

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    bans on pay toilets dating back to the 1970s

    It’s like my grandpa always said, the problem with pay toilets was that without a way for a VC-funded startup to monopolize the market and take a cut of every transaction they just didn’t feel sleazy enough.

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      shoutout to harkening to Airbnb btw:

      “Homelessness is a growing problem, and some providers worry that a homeless person may destroy or soil the bathroom,” she said. “Flush provides a way to access and provide access to a clean, reliable bathroom … Airbnb was so successful because it provides something we all need — a roof over our heads — and Flush is doing the same for bathrooms.”

      yeah man, Airbnb really solved homelessness and the “having a roof over your head” problem huh

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        The not-so-quiet part here is “Homeless or poor people don’t deserve to have their basic need of a toilet met”

        They call it a “need” but proudly talk about how they’re taking it away from the less fortunate.

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        Airbnb was so successful because it provides restricts behind exorbitant price-gouging for something we all need — a roof over our heads — and Flush is doing the same for bathrooms.

        Fixed the quote for them.

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        yeah and that sounds fucking awful, restrooms which are accessible to everyone should be a bare minimum aspect of all public spaces and all businesses

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          Bingo, it’s a basic need and proper sanitation benefits everyone.

          Handle them like public utilities, paid by the taxpayers and available to all. Incentivizes the local businesses by giving them some tax rebate if they open theirnto the general public. Someone taking a dump in an alley is a vector of disease on top of being disgusting and smelly.

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          Europe in general has been moving away from doing it for decades… yet some places have been fluctuating between “oh no, who will pay for the free restrooms!” and “oh no, who will pay to keep the streets clean!” 🤷

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    If I read that article correctly, that was up to $10 to book use of the nearest bathroom?? I’m sorry, when nature calls, I can’t see people trying to reserve a time slot, like you would a hair salon.

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    Fam if I walk into a cafe and I’m about to order and there is a bathroom that costs money I am going to leave. I get why they are doing this (hint it isn’t just the money), but I’ll be fucked if I’m going to tip them and pay to take a piss too.

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    Cool. I’ll just piss along the exterior wall of your building then or on the fence at the back of your parking lot.

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    Coffee shops would do well to charge less than the cheapest item on the menu.

    And building new entrances exclusively for washrooms? Now you have fresh capex.

    All apps like this point to is the lack of public infrastructure, which always has the excuse of “people will fuck it up.” Wonder if that’s a structural societal problem instead of individuals. (/s)

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      Ah yes, the classic “paying nothing to sustain and support a service, then declaring it hopeless because ‘the poors fucked it up’.”