This seems like a waste of the ticketing paper.
The ubiquity of the cell phone in society is quickly showing itself to have been a mistake.
I get it, nobody wants to use a dirty toilet. But "tech-ing" our way out of it with vaguely authoritarian measures won't really solve the problem. Shit, just put a removable cap on a portapotty and every so often send someone around with a truck and a hose with some cleaning agent mixed with water and spray that sucker down real quick. A drain that leads to a slightly larger tank and voila.
No problem about the downvotes. I think some people just hate the homeless but like unnecessary bureaucracy? Silly.
That isn't any better though? All this entire thing is is replacing a simple solution with a system of control and I don't get why people think that is a good idea.
Unaccountable folks smearing shit is always going to happen. It will probably happen in this thing too. You can't just buy nicer more exclusive toilets to keep people from doing random stuff.
And before anyone suggests they just put regular portapotties next to these things... If traditional portapotties were put in place so random people can smear shit in those and not mess up this nicer one it would just be a clear and out demonstration of class divisions. Honestly it is something I would totally expect from Ann Arbor.
You scan a QR code and send a pre populated text (says that on their website)
So you still need a smartphone or to be given a free key card. My point stands that it creates a barrier to entry that currently doesn't exist with simple toilets. What if you forget your phone, and don't have a card? What if your phone stops working all of a sudden and you don't have a card? People who have their stuff stolen? Add homelessness to every example and the problem is even worse.
From this article: https://www.wxyz.com/news/ann-arbor-installing-several-portable-public-restrooms-throughout-the-city-this-week
For those without cell phones, bathroom access cards will be available at Larcom City Hall - 301 E. Huron St. or the Delonis Center - 312 W. Huron St. during regular business hours.
You have to make a trip to one of these two places just to get a backup keycard if for any reason in the future your phone isn't there or isn't working. It is a toilet and we have a simple solution to this that doesn't require an expensive answer.
I can't fathom why they would demolish it unless they were replacing it with a new one?
You have to have an app or a keycard to use the toilet, so it isn't friendly for everyone to use. I hope someone breaks the door to it within the first week it is out there so anyone can use it just like every other portapotty.
It looks like it is air conditioned, so it is wasting energy.
It is likely more expensive than a similar portapotty, and wasteful in general.
There are lots of ways to die, for humans and turtles and everything else.
Think of it this way, would you consider it an altruistic and worthwhile way to die if you stopped to help a toddler that was crossing the road alone and got hit by a car in the process?
The turtle is the toddler, and we all ride this planet together.
In straight wall cartridge limited hunting zones, this is the main difference between 350 and 450 IMO. 350 FMJ is relatively reasonably priced and fun to shoot whenever. 450 not so much.
Hello. Lowly peon showing up for a sanity check in a thread full of people making more money than they are worth.
Even if they are it sounds like people have been able to warranty replace them with the new ones from Vortex?
Both Crooked Lakes near Pinckney and Chelsea have fishing piers. While I haven't caught fish from the piers specifically, I have caught bass in both lakes.
It might come as a surprise to find out I don't care about what countries recognize as legitimate. I don't believe in states.
It sorta sounds to me like you are just trying to min-max education.
Personally I fondly remember Spanish class in elementary school because it provided a wider understanding of cultures unlike my own.
You said it yourself...
"Because there are so many more things to do and learn in this world than there is time to do and learn them"
So with this in mind, I'm more concerned that my kid is learning something they find interesting and engaging. I don't care so much how it can be measured, just that my kid is enjoying the process of learning it.
For sure. That is my biggest concern, and probably why we won't end up doing it. But the urge to want to is very strong.
The focus on testing and STEM is VERY annoying.
Jesus christ. The urge to homeschool (non-religiously) is real.
Because it is exposure to something outside the norm? Why does something need to be quantifiable to be good?
What do you mean? I had Spanish in my rural school in the 90s. What else could kids possibly be doing today instead?
TROLL. TROLL. WE'VE GOT A TROLL HERE!
Would they feel better about "rooting" for the side that killed their own hostages?
Only one side is committing genocide here, and it is 100% the Israelis
Mosins are fun. Sometime I'll take mine up north for deer hunting.
Type 53 Chinese Mosin Nagant in action
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