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Re:Employees must wash hands before returning to work by ralph84 on Saturday October 04, 2025 @02:23AM (#45470996)
Replacing it isn’t the problem, buying it is. Yes I’m sure you can find showerheads with illegal flow rates available online, but reputable stores won’t sell anything over 2.5 gpm anywhere in the US, and over 2.0 or 1.8 in the states that have those limits. Amazon won’t ship the higher flow rates into a lower flow rate state.
Re:Employees must wash hands before returning to work by eurleif on Saturday October 04, 2025 @04:13AM (#45471628)
Amazon does, however, ship showerheads that come with an instruction sheet for how to remove the flow restrictor. (One must only do this to compensate for one's home having low water pressure, of course.)
Re:Employees must wash hands before returning to work by keanb on Saturday October 04, 2025 @04:03AM (#45471577)
I didn't know "illegal showerheads" existed. I thought the Seinfeld episode was a joke.
Re:Employees must wash hands before returning to work by mindslight on Saturday October 04, 2025 @12:09PM (#45474347)
Note that a restriction on commercial sales still does not make an item itself "illegal".

I'm not trying to ignore the existing of the activation energy of having to spec/get/install your own showerhead rather than automatically having a default you like. But it's clear that amount of market friction here is much less than say, the outright digital authoritarianism currently going on with phone apps. And it's important to keep this perspective, lest memes about "illegal showerheads" morph into groupthink that supports different authoritarian movements.