Zohran is expanding the number of public toilets in NYC and improving how the existing ones are cleaned and maintained.
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@futurebird How is he doing this, logistically speaking? Toilets have to physically sit somewhere, be hooked up to plumbing, lighting, etc. Not the easiest task in a crowded place like NYC.
This is one of the easier parts of doing this for the city. The city has the parks, sidewalks, streets and many buildings and other places that it can use rent free. Likewise there are many existing toilets that are just... closed. Taking up space and no one can use them.
For the plumbing there is a RFP for ideas and some copying of what they are doing in other cities.
My major concern is long term funding.
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Zohran is expanding the number of public toilets in NYC and improving how the existing ones are cleaned and maintained.
If this is a big enough initiative it will have a huge impact on quality of life for new yorkers. I don't know if it is big enough. Nonetheless *this* is the way to address the things that make people feel like the city is a dump. It's also just... civilized. IDK. How do you call it a city and you have no bathrooms?
Anyway welcome to communism.
@futurebird @donaldball Kinda the inverse of “broken windows.”
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This is one of the easier parts of doing this for the city. The city has the parks, sidewalks, streets and many buildings and other places that it can use rent free. Likewise there are many existing toilets that are just... closed. Taking up space and no one can use them.
For the plumbing there is a RFP for ideas and some copying of what they are doing in other cities.
My major concern is long term funding.
@futurebird I hope it succeeds! Seems like a no-brainer... if there is one thing everybody has in common, it's a need to use the toilet.
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Zohran is expanding the number of public toilets in NYC and improving how the existing ones are cleaned and maintained.
If this is a big enough initiative it will have a huge impact on quality of life for new yorkers. I don't know if it is big enough. Nonetheless *this* is the way to address the things that make people feel like the city is a dump. It's also just... civilized. IDK. How do you call it a city and you have no bathrooms?
Anyway welcome to communism.
If we only had this communism thing in Berlin!
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Zohran is expanding the number of public toilets in NYC and improving how the existing ones are cleaned and maintained.
If this is a big enough initiative it will have a huge impact on quality of life for new yorkers. I don't know if it is big enough. Nonetheless *this* is the way to address the things that make people feel like the city is a dump. It's also just... civilized. IDK. How do you call it a city and you have no bathrooms?
Anyway welcome to communism.
@futurebird Visitors too.
You can't see it in all the video and stuff, but the whole downtown area smells like piss. Then it got humid.
That was the one thing that really struck me when I went there for a job interview. The constant sense I was in a bathroom...and not a clean one.
Surprised the rich want to live in that. I guess they're kinda up above it though.
Imagine what it was like in the horse days. Though I do prefer the smell of horse shit to car shit. Healthier too?
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@carrideen @futurebird in Queens, where we have all the big-box retail, it's a little easier. but then you gotta be at big box retail. sigh.
@VCP @carrideen @futurebird an NYC puzzle: posh person on the 4-5-6 or Q with a large water bottle (one of those half-gallon things). What do they do when they drink the water?
A different and more universal puzzle: people with water bottles at the pool.
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@VCP @carrideen @futurebird an NYC puzzle: posh person on the 4-5-6 or Q with a large water bottle (one of those half-gallon things). What do they do when they drink the water?
A different and more universal puzzle: people with water bottles at the pool.
@adardis @VCP @futurebird Conspicuous hydration is such a flex in a toiletless city!
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@adardis @VCP @futurebird Conspicuous hydration is such a flex in a toiletless city!
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Zohran is expanding the number of public toilets in NYC and improving how the existing ones are cleaned and maintained.
If this is a big enough initiative it will have a huge impact on quality of life for new yorkers. I don't know if it is big enough. Nonetheless *this* is the way to address the things that make people feel like the city is a dump. It's also just... civilized. IDK. How do you call it a city and you have no bathrooms?
Anyway welcome to communism.
@futurebird I don’t know having all the shit on the street in New York made it feel more cosmopolitan
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@futurebird And he's gonna force the public schools to teach ARABIC NUMBERS!!!!111
@lemgandi @futurebird no way it’s gonna switch back to Roman numerals
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@futurebird One of the hardest things for my mom when she has tried to visit me in New York has been toilet access. If you are not used to just holding it for hours, which most of us are, the city is totally inaccessible. I showed her that most hotels will not stop you from using a lobby toilet if you look like you know what you are doing, and she was convinced the city has made me insane. And then you visit a place like Tokyo and have a luxury bidet toilet experience in a subway station...
@carrideen @futurebird A *clean* luxury bidet toilet experience.
(Not actually a luxury in Japan. Many/most toilets are like them, I believe).
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Zohran is expanding the number of public toilets in NYC and improving how the existing ones are cleaned and maintained.
If this is a big enough initiative it will have a huge impact on quality of life for new yorkers. I don't know if it is big enough. Nonetheless *this* is the way to address the things that make people feel like the city is a dump. It's also just... civilized. IDK. How do you call it a city and you have no bathrooms?
Anyway welcome to communism.
@futurebird There will always be reasons why a basic idea is not big enough. Cheers to him for doing and moving to the next thing.
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Zohran is expanding the number of public toilets in NYC and improving how the existing ones are cleaned and maintained.
If this is a big enough initiative it will have a huge impact on quality of life for new yorkers. I don't know if it is big enough. Nonetheless *this* is the way to address the things that make people feel like the city is a dump. It's also just... civilized. IDK. How do you call it a city and you have no bathrooms?
Anyway welcome to communism.
@futurebird Ironically, this problem only exists because each of us owns the means of "production".
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@futurebird @Flo_Rian @lemgandi Especially chemistry books.
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@carrideen @futurebird A *clean* luxury bidet toilet experience.
(Not actually a luxury in Japan. Many/most toilets are like them, I believe).
@JonnyT I’ve never had a bidet toilet at home in Japan, only the standard heated seat.
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The homeless and drug users will ruin the new bathrooms. Without addressing that issue first, this is just a waste of time.
@LoseFriendsandAlienatePeople Maybe NYC and other big cities just aren’t for you.
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