Comment on This app lets restaurants and coffee shops charge to use the bathroom

alyaza@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• alyaza@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  shoutout to harkening to Airbnb btw:

  “Homelessness is a growing problem, and some providers worry that a homeless person may destroy or soil the bathroom,” she said. “Flush provides a way to access and provide access to a clean, reliable bathroom … Airbnb was so successful because it provides something we all need — a roof over our heads — and Flush is doing the same for bathrooms.”

  yeah man, Airbnb really solved homelessness and the “having a roof over your head” problem huh

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  • pokemaster787@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The not-so-quiet part here is “Homeless or poor people don’t deserve to have their basic need of a toilet met”

    They call it a “need” but proudly talk about how they’re taking it away from the less fortunate.

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Airbnb was so successful because it provides restricts behind exorbitant price-gouging for something we all need — a roof over our heads — and Flush is doing the same for bathrooms.

    Fixed the quote for them.

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  • rar@discuss.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The fresh smell of MBA graduates.

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’ve been doing this is Europe for decades

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  • alyaza@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah and that sounds fucking awful, restrooms which are accessible to everyone should be a bare minimum aspect of all public spaces and all businesses

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    • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bingo, it’s a basic need and proper sanitation benefits everyone.

      Handle them like public utilities, paid by the taxpayers and available to all. Someone taking a dump in an alley is a vector of disease on top of being disgusting and smelly.

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    • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Europe has been going away from doing it for decades… yet some places have been fluctuating between “oh no, who will pay for the free restrooms” and "oh no, who willnp

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