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		notch656a on Oct 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toil... The Philippines has pay toilets ("comfort rooms") everywhere. I've always wondered why the US has capitalism for everything but toilets. It really makes things more convenient as people have an actual incentive to offer toilets to the public, and the prices are low by local standards.

dalyons on Oct 20, 2022 [–]

there's actually bans against them in most states, from a student campaign in the 70s. Funny little piece of history: https://apnews.com/article/3b2787ac6c32405e8cd7aafe8789cd8e

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