[jtdev]

Another symptom of the decline of our formerly high-trust society.

You can’t have public bathrooms in a society filled with criminals and homeless drug addicts.

[greenavocado]

What are the factors that led to the explosion in criminality and homelessness and their drug addiction?

[scoofy]

Probably the proliferation of opiates and, more likely, methamphetamine. Scientific progress that makes these highly addictive and debilitating substances easy to produce can't be undone.

I live in San Francisco, where it now costs over $100,000 per year to operate a single toilet, because without it being under constant guard, people start living in them.

[greenavocado]

A more efficient solution is to have a stainless steel bathroom which rinses itself with bleach every 20 minutes unless an emergency call button is activated. If it is occupied past 20 minutes a hydraulic press ejects the contents of the bathroom to the outside.

[ta988]

In some cities? people that have the means to spend $10 to go pee.

[rangestransform]

Being allergic to enforcing the law post blm