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Re:Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe by qwerpy on Saturday July 20, 2024 @06:42PM (#41020693)
I was wondering how far I would have to go to see King County come up. Not very far!

We simply can't have nice things here. At least not in the Seattle city core. Everyone says "just have free bathrooms bro" but no one saying that actually has had to pay for and maintain a free bathroom in downtown Seattle. Discussing exactly why this is the case tends cause a flamewar, but the fact that we can't be honest about the cause means we'll never have the nice things.

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Re:Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe by seanmcdirmid on Sunday July 21, 2024 @01:47AM (#41022713)
I’ve lived in lots of cities, I don’t think the dynamics are very different. Yes, crappy people mean we can’t have nice things, but that is as true in Lausanne. The problem is the way Seattle/King county mis identify or lie about the problem and then give a fake shocked pikachu face when their fixes for the wrong problem don’t work.
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