Post AxAgIXGY8Ma0b99aJk by MichaelTBacon@social.coop
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 (DIR) Post #AxAdnGBjNXWwkNrIkC by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-08-14T19:49:41Z
       
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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.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxAds5H3NuRsLTeH3I by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-08-14T19:50:33Z
       
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       You want "quality of life" ?Make it so people don't feel like going to the bathroom is a puzzle.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxAe0cLyHRhlFv1Af2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-08-14T19:52:05Z
       
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       Nobody really wants the $7 cupcake. It's a terrible system.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxAeFTNvuHW3mi1F5M by MisuseCase@twit.social
       2025-08-14T19:54:44Z
       
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       @futurebird At the risk of going on a tangent: this is also why trans-hostile bathroom-related laws are bad! Not having access to bathroom facilities makes it harder to exist in public.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxAfckrVC5bybRW0h6 by llewelly@sauropods.win
       2025-08-14T20:10:09Z
       
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       @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.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxAgIXGY8Ma0b99aJk by MichaelTBacon@social.coop
       2025-08-14T20:17:37Z
       
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       @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.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxAjpcjb7fb2yeD4t6 by rlstone4dems@mastodon.social
       2025-08-14T20:57:17Z
       
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       @futurebird myrmepropagandist: 😂😭😁
       
 (DIR) Post #AxAtb4biD1iAcZDpB2 by jmjm@mstdn.social
       2025-08-14T20:06:43Z
       
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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.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxAtb5dsMT2JpZF4Bk by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-08-14T22:46:41Z
       
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       @jmjm @amy 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 they 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.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxAtovKjUBX3uestTE by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-08-14T22:49:15Z
       
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       @jmjm @amy 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.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxB61W0SA4okZpAYxk by mikej@mastodon.online
       2025-08-15T01:05:55Z
       
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       @futurebird The assistant manager of Applebee's shouldn't be allowed to force teeneagers to strip for his pleasure.