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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As someone who lived in China for 7 years, the alternative is that the next best person who enters the bathroom takes all available paper home.
In my entire time there, I can count the number of times where paper was available on a single hand, with spare fingers.
Naturally, everybody carries a box of tissues at all times.
Lmao if someone tried this shit in the US all the dispensors would be kicked off the walls by the end of the day.
If their goal is to convince people to not wipe at all, this method will have some non-zero percent of success.
Oh ok flushes baby wipes.
how “capitalistic” of the “communists” lol.
He who does not work, shall not wipe.
- Владимир Ленин
How do you figure? In what way does this imply concentration of wealth?
I swear some of y’all think simply selling something is capitalist. Astounding how successful they’ve been at producing undereducated people in the west.
Advertisement predominantly exists to encourage consumption, this is primarily a means to increase wealth
This is depressing :(
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.
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
This is a whole new level of enshitification.
lemmy feature request please - lemmy gold.
Alternatively there is !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world
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.
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We live in a cyberpunk dystopia right now
Basically almost a literal shitpost.
I don’t like the ewaste tho.
How is this any different than Germany where oftentimes the entrance itself is behind a paywall?
Then I’m shitting on the door.
If you’re not fat you can just go through the side of the turn thingy sanifair uses for free
I guess you could also just go underneath but that seems even less dignified
Hop it like the NYC subway.
Dropping in a coin vs what seems to be downloading some sort of an app or at least opening some shady websites on your fucking phone over your fucking mobile data is where I see it. Even if you used the payment option, you’d have to disclose your online payment information to the provider. Privacy nightmare.
Or simply imagine you just took your most violent shit of the century and then have an ad for hot mexican food or something.
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.
Ain’t nobody stopping you from having dirty cheeks
You took the words right out of my mouth
Put them back in please
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
It sets precedent. You could extend that on anything. Doesn’t make the German pay or piss yourself thing any better though.
Boring dystopia
Or scrape my ass across their damned dispenser.
Fuck that noise.
Bring your own toilet paper?
Also China public bathrooms smell like absolute crap I have no idea why. I had to pee in China and walked into a public bathroom on the side of the road. I almost puked
Yeah, most people in china already bring their own. The only time I’ve ever seen it offered for free was in a crazy high end shopping mall.
Many are just ‘squatty potties’ - is a hole in the floor and a tank below.
And yah, tourists are told to bring TP already since some bathrooms don’t have any.
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People kept stealing the toilet paper rolls. Poor elderly are notorious for this from what I heard
Ha! :) I never heard that before but that does make sense. I remember my American grandma hoarded supplies like this her whole life, long after the lean depression-era years she lived through. Every single pencil was used down to the nub. We got a serious talking-to if we tossed a milk bottle with more than a drop left in it.
What do you mean by a tank below? For flushing or…?
All the squatty potties I encountered in Asia were plumbed the way a toilet in the US would be plumbed so the poop gets flushed elsewhere.
I hope the ones in China weren’t basically permanent porta potties….
It really varies. I just did a big tour of China in June and we saw many fancy, futuristic toilets in malls and hotels. We saw somewhat stinky but otherwise clean public toilets at parks and such. And we came across a couple of holes in the floor with a septic tank below ground, exposed to the air - and no TP provided. Those are rare now, from what I saw. (Septic tank was the word I couldn’t think of before) I’m no plumber though so I may be getting that word wrong still.
Septic tanks are a bit more specific, you appear to be referring to a pit latrine which most commonly will have a cesspit.
