cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/38101225
Imagine this: you walk into a public restroom in China, but instead of just grabbing toilet paper… you have to scan a QR code and watch an ad first 😅. Only then will the machine dispense a tiny sheet of tissue. Don’t feel like watching? You can also pay 0.5 RMB (about $0.07) for a bit more paper 💸. This system is designed to cut down waste — some people would abuse free paper before. Now, it’s all about “watch an ad or pay a coin.” Would you sit through an ad for free toilet paper, or just drop the 0.5 yuan? 👀 . . .
Source: China Insider on Instagram.
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Just shit right under it on the floor to show your disagreement.
ⓘDear Citizen, you just lost 1000 points, for shitting on the floor.
Surveillance cameras in the bathroom? Not surprised
I do NOT touch my phone after I start wiping.
I guess there would just be shit smeared on the walls of that stall.
This is because of people stealing toilet paper out of public restrooms
https://www.vice.com/en/article/chinas-fighting-toilet-paper-thieves-with-facial-recognition/
Yo first line of that says that many public restrooms don’t have have TP at all and you need to bring your own. What the fuck even is that system to begin with?!
It’s called a system that went fucking hard modernizing leaving large portions of people behind. All these problems are solved with a bidet imo.
This is depressing :(
Watch the black mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits. Your walls are ads unless you pay, can’t even close your eyes.
Oh I definitely know that episode! It’s one of the scariest ones for me. And here we are not that may years after it aired with this already starting to become a reality. :(
We live in a cyberpunk dystopia right now
I’m surprised it doesn’t need a some dubious app.
Lmao if someone tried this shit in the US all the dispensors would be kicked off the walls by the end of the day.
Either that, or I will find something else to wipe my ass on. It’s lose-lose for everybody really.
China is a whole other world than western countries. Having access to toilet paper, even paid access, in a public restroom is not common.
Bring a crowbar. Free the TP!
How is this any different than Germany where oftentimes the entrance itself is behind a paywall?
The entrance being behind a paywall is bad, but if you’re not aware of it before using the toilet this holds you hostage unable to get clean until you pay up, with either your money or your attention. I’d say this is a more evil design, even though both are evil.
You took the words right out of my mouth
Put them back in please
Ain’t nobody stopping you from having dirty cheeks
In Germany you’re paying to access the bathroom, not the “privilege” of wiping your ass
Germany doesn’t get everything right.
Berlin Hbf. They have a single set of toilets about half the size of what you’d get in a shopping center which cost €2 with turnstyle access for a station the size of a cathedral with something like 20 platforms. 🙈
And Austria
They tried pay toilets in the states but people vandalized the shit out of them until they were gone. These days it can be hard to find public restrooms in places though.
Then I’m shitting on the door.
🚽🧻🔫💥
Oh ok flushes baby wipes.
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Yeah, I’d be carrying some kind of tool to rip that fucker open.
lemmy feature request please - lemmy gold.
Alternatively there is !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world
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Awards made Reddit so much shittier, that would be a nightmare.
disagree, they are entirely different operating models. reddit was privately funded and eventually snehittified to become profitable. Lemmy is free, but still needs funds to operate. Might as well make it fun and rewaring to participation rather than just annoying banners whenever things get tight.
I will very happily never read “Thanks for the award, kind stranger!” or a string of cringy award speech edits again. I’m so happy they don’t exist here.
Think about the cheap mother-fuckers who are going to leave with their shit in their pants because they don’t want to watch an ad or pay 7 cents
I’d argue that the people who decided to monetize toilet paper are cheaper
Shittier too
This is why I don’t eat in Restoraunts (besides the fact that I’m always broke).
I don’t know what all the hate is about. This is not in every restroom there, but even so, we don’t really have a lot of “public” restrooms in the US. All over Europe there are 1 euro turnstiles or other barriers to go to the restroom in the first place. Ideally we live in luxury gay space communism, but in the interim at least having access to a restroom is nice. I’d love it to be free everywhere, but it’s not always free in Europe either and at least in this example you can access it for free if you bring your own or are able to watch an ad, and in the US you may not realistically have access to one at all. This also ensures that the people accessing the service are the ones paying for it, so it’s not like someone in a small town with less access to government subsidized resources are being taxed so that these people can have free TP. I don’t love the idea, but it’s not novel or any more dystopian than what we have everywhere else.
Multiple replies in here from people saying they’d wipe their poo on the bathroom fixtures. I don’t think reasoning is going to work.
Yea, I didn’t address that directly but what an insane take. That’s like coming to the US and being upset that tax isn’t integrated into the listed price so refusing to pay it and just stealing, but also worse and grosser because now someone has to clean that up or use it after you. Even if it was the norm over there, which to my understanding it is not, that’s then what you should follow as a guest in a foreign country. I can only imagine/hope these people are not Americans with passports. We get a bad enough reputation as is.
