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Paris has automatically self-cleaning public toilets all around and they cost around $200k each to build and install. There’s no way this is a remotely reasonable cost and is clearly a grift.
I would never step foot into a public SF toliet. Last time I went in there the homeless shit all over the floor and toliet and walls. I went in and nearly threw up. A homeless person pointed and laughed at me. Fuck that.
Public toilets aren't really for you, they're for the people who have nowhere else.
This is an incredibly stockholm-syndrome take. If you live in a place that isn't a total failed state, normal people actually can use the public toilets!
One of my jobs is in the public service. This seems like the usual case of public servants doing everything possible to avoid someone being unhappy with them later. Consultations, union workers, tons and tons of approvals, etc. Remember, you can't really win as a government worker. The priority is not to lose. You want every little concern addressed? You want layers and layers of accountability? You want the top conc…
> San Francisco, which is struggling with a troubling homelessness and public-defecation crisis, needs more public toilets. The irony in this statement, given the reasons why this toilet costs so much, is absolutely unreal. I had to check the date on this article to make sure it wasn't an old April's Fools skit or something, but it seems red tape and NIMBYism have escalated to such a degree in SF that (a) securing bu…
Red tape and nimbyism is hard to imagine from what I see of SFO in books, it seems like the most anti-diversity thing you can do. Can anybody from SFO relate their experience? Hard to tell these days what is editorial bias or sensationalism and what is true.
MTV, SFO, MPK and all of this lingo is not familiar to all
I would never step foot into a public SF toliet. Last time I went in there the homeless shit all over the floor and toliet and walls. I went in and nearly threw up. A homeless person pointed and laughed at me. Fuck that.
Public toilets aren't really for you, they're for the people who have nowhere else.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean there is nothing wrong with the whole "built-by-union-workers"-thingy. its more all of the Bureaucracy involved thats stupid.
There is if they were selected for any reason other than offering the cheapest price.
Remember the jokes about the military overspending on toilet seats? It seems like it’s a bipartisan past time to waste taxpayers money on foolishly over expensive pet projects.
It is a bipartisan pass-time (not past-time, you must have been auto-corrected) to accuse the government of wasting money. And then forcing them to waste money by shifting their tasks and priorities followed by blaming them again for the waste. The military overspending was on hammers. And the politician forgot to mention that these were hammers for use in a munitions factory, where it was rather important that the h…
To gain power and direct the spending to your team.
Rinse and repeat.
I would never step foot into a public SF toliet. Last time I went in there the homeless shit all over the floor and toliet and walls. I went in and nearly threw up. A homeless person pointed and laughed at me. Fuck that.
Public toilets aren't really for you, they're for the people who have nowhere else.
It is not true in places with functioning government.
Paris has over 400 public toilets, called sanisettes[0], and they work pretty well when they are in service. I doubt they cost ~$1.7m each. [0] https://europeforvisitors.com/paris/articles/paris-public-to...
It's certainly getting better with time, but we're far from anything decent