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Re: Restroom Archive

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Post by IAmBroom »

timonoko wrote: post #30
Flavius wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's actually everywhere. Europe is full of door knobs. We're trying to make sure that everyone touches as many surfaces as possible. Next step would be tongue operated doors and switches.

Door knob seems to be british-american thing? Gemini: You've spotted a real historical and geographical divide. Door knobs are predominantly an Anglo-American standard, while lever handles dominate continental Europe, Scandinavia, and much of the rest of the world.

Congrats. You've used artificial intelligence to guess wrongly about something you don't know about.

Re: Restroom Archive

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Post by [deleted] »

timonoko wrote: post #30
Flavius wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's actually everywhere. Europe is full of door knobs. We're trying to make sure that everyone touches as many surfaces as possible. Next step would be tongue operated doors and switches.

Door knob seems to be british-american thing? Gemini: You've spotted a real historical and geographical divide. Door knobs are predominantly an Anglo-American standard, while lever handles dominate continental Europe, Scandinavia, and much of the rest of the world.

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Re: Restroom Archive

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Post by jubilanti »

computerfriend wrote: post #11

Does anyone have a recommendation for an open source photogrammetry application for Android?

There are like a half-dozen Android phones with LIDAR and most are from 2019-2021 when the AR craze was in full swing (Samsung S21, Pixel 6), while all the iPhone Pros since 12 have it.

Re: Restroom Archive

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Post by timonoko »

IAmBroom wrote: post #71
timonoko wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Door knob seems to be british-american thing? Gemini: You've spotted a real historical and geographical divide. Door knobs are predominantly an Anglo-American standard, while lever handles dominate continental Europe, Scandinavia, and much of the rest of the world.

Congrats. You've used artificial intelligence to guess wrongly about something you don't know about.

Situation Critical in Sweden:

Jag vill ha runda "Door Knobs" till mina innerdörrar! Finns det att hitta i Sverige och fungerar det till våra kantiga dörrpryttlar (ja, du vet de där som ser till att dörren hålles stängd. Vad sjutton heter det??)?

Re: Restroom Archive

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Post by jgalt212 »

> Of the many victims of Bernard L. Madoff, the Ponzi scheme mastermind who died in prison April 14, was a visionary entrepreneur: George Costanza, whose app, iToilet, directed its user via global positioning technology to the nearest acceptable public toilet anywhere in the world. Or so runs the plot of the fictional “Seinfeld” reunion.

https://forward.com/culture/467735/george-costanza-lost-it-a...

Re: Restroom Archive

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Post by jakzurr »

aa-jv wrote: post #41
embedding-shape wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I do visit public bathrooms from time to time, especially in Spain, Germany, France, Denmark and Sweden, and never seen that once anywhere, although I've seen much worse things on single occasions than a timer for the door to open.

I've seen them in some of the shadier parks in the Netherlands, Italy and Austria. Yppenplatz, Vienna, has a particularly nasty (smelling) one which the countdown clock does very little to obviate.

A really nasty smell would get me out fast. Can't imagine any use for the timer, unless you're trying to estimate the remaining oxygen.

Re: Restroom Archive

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Post by imglorp »

keiferski wrote: post #15

Public bathrooms are such an interesting public services issue. In some places it’s totally normal to pay a small fee, and in return you (usually) get a clean space. In other places, the idea of paying to use the bathroom is considered an offense against the public. Years ago when I was in New York often, I had the idea to make a paid bathroom app, with a bit of a luxury twist. You’d pay $30 or whatever a month to ha…

And by corollary, a town with no public bathrooms is ignoring realities, ie the needs and comfort of the public. It's a signal: the question in those places is, what else are they willfully ignoring, what other responsibilities are they dodging?

Re: Restroom Archive

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Post by henryrobbins00 »

This is awesome. It reminds me a lot of the excellent work done by the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) [1].

One of my personal favorites is Pavement Paradise [2] documenting American parking spaces.

I'll also shamelessly plug some pictures of gas stations I took last summer :) [3].

[1] https://clui.org/photo-archive

[2] https://clui.org/projects/pavement-paradise

[3] https://henryrobbins.com/artwork/gas-stations/

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