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This app lets restaurants and coffee shops charge to use the bathroom (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] frog@beehaw.org 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nope, I think they would still be right. No matter what, a baby's shit-covered arse doesn't belong on a table in a restaurant. That's just gross.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Exactly right, it doesn’t.

Which is why the owners are responsible for providing the safe clean place for them.

[–] frog@beehaw.org 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Making the other customers suffer, and potentially get ill, isn't a reasonable response to a business doing something shitty. Just don't go to restaurants that don't provide baby-changing facilities. Don't expose innocent people to your baby's shit.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I disagree, that is the appropriate response.

[–] frog@beehaw.org 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nope, inflicting excrement on innocent people is never an appropriate response.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Collateral damage in a just war. Don't patronize restaurants that charge for the restroom and you're in the clear there, while also being on the morally correct side of history.

[–] frog@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't patronise restaurants that charge for toilet use. But that doesn't put me on the side of parents who put their baby's shitty arse on tables where people eat. Both sides of this "war" are shitty people that I want nothing to do with.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For their customers, or for anyone who walks off the street?

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Practically for their customers.

Ideologically and wistfully for everyone.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My local authority in East London pays local cafes a small amount if they make their toilets available to the general public and display a sign on the door. This feels like a good pragmatic solution to me.

[–] frog@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, that is definitely a nice, pragmatic solution. I imagine it's cheaper for the local council than running public toilets themselves, too.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Ooh yeah that's not bad at all!