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John

@Jackwood@noauthority.social

Born 1994
Frac hand from Texas and Bitcoin enthusiast.

God-fearing musician, audiophile, student, and libertarian.

Live not by lies

"If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry." -Satoshi Nakamoto

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@BowsacNoodle @black6 @cjd @Robert_Edwardly Post shower towels are used once, or possibly twice at most and never shared between washes. The hygiene issue is made more significant (in the eyes of Americans) with anything touching the butt. Of course, the obvious solution is paper towels which would be dispensed in a trash can, instead of being flushed, but because TP is designed to be flushable, trash cans are rarely included close enough to toilets in men's restrooms for this to be a solution.

@BowsacNoodle @black6 @cjd TP is unsuitable when wet to any significant degree. It can't be used to drying purposes because it leaves debris behind. Bidets create a moisture issue that requires a drying solution compatible with septic systems (rural areas do not have sewers), and tp is generally effective for the purpose it serves without complicating an already surprisingly sophisticated engineering problem with additional moisture. And I'm not sharing a butt cloth with you. No thanks.

@cjd @black6 @BowsacNoodle The funny thing is that I've used toilet seat bidets and still find toilet paper (except in public restroom settings with the thinnest, cheapest, most abrasive paper coming out of impossibly frustrating dispensers) more preferable. I think the issue comes down to discipline in some weird way, and that at least in America, it's difficult to trust strangers to use sanitary tools correctly. Toilet paper is designed to be hard to fuck up, and invaders still use it wrong.

@black6 Let's not forget that in the same way that Europe finds itself unfortunately suffering from regulatory over reach that has left the masses suffering, the US (albeit to a less existential degree) has also found itself in a similar situation with issues such as regulations on vehicle emissions which has decimated the small and mid-size diesel vehicle industry. Instead of pointing and laughing, we should be learning valuable lessons from their real and unfortunate suffering.