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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 8 minutes ago

Is this in China? At least this time, providing loo roll in a public bathroom is an improvement....

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 23 hours ago

This is too dystopian for even Black Mirror. I propose we refer to this as, Brown Mirror.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 53 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'd shit on the floor and break the screen.

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] mhague@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Fable's morality system was actually realistic if you assume it's depicting what it's like to be rich and privileged.

The -1 score made me think of how it wouldn't matter if you could just donate money to get it back.

[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

better idea, bring a small pry bar in your purse

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Never go anywhere without the means to disassemble and break things.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Get Schwifty is back! Too good for a Grammy!

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Just the screen? I'd have that entire thing in pieces before I left.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But someone, totally not me, shat on the floor. You'd have to smell that for a while.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

It's extreme but so is the situation

I'll allow it

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The expanded form of this sentence:

Toilet won't give you loo roll unless you visit an arbitrary web page on your personal device and allow people to possibly extract personal information about you, along with implicit knowledge of when and where you might have used a toilet.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 23 hours ago

We, as a civilisation, have finally made the FlushMe app real. Well done.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Apparently it's unwise to forget your handy 12" pry bar when shitting in China? Those TP dispensers aren't exactly Fort Knox to begin with, just try withholding it from me after I take a massive dump.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 8 minutes ago

In China people carry about their own toilet paper. Many public toilets don't provide it at all.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Too loud, it should make no noise whatsoever. Bathroom noises are pissing and farts, the Dremel is too conspicuous.

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Time to get creative

[–] markz@suppo.fi 4 points 1 day ago
[–] nialv7@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

How's this news? Are paid toilets a novel concept to people?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

Well I feel like public toilets should be free anyway. But in this one you might not even notice the issue before you sit down and poop and need to wipe already. Normal paid toilets have you pay first. And you can use coins or sometimes card which means your phone being empty is no issue

[–] Link@feddit.nl 1 points 1 hour ago

Paid toilets not, but this is

[–] GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

That sounds awfully capitalistic

They're illegal in the US.