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How long have you been in there?! A popular tourist destination in China has installed toilet timers. Reactions are mixed. (edition.cnn.com)

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A video recently shared on various Chinese news and social media sites shows a set of timers installed above a row of toilet cubicles in a female washroom, with each stall getting its own digital counter.

When a stall is unoccupied, the pixelated LED screen displays the word “empty” in green. If in use, it shows the number of minutes and seconds the door has been locked. ‘We won’t kick people out midway’

The original video was reportedly taken by a visitor who sent it to the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald, a state-run local newspaper.

'We won’t kick people out midway’

The original video was reportedly taken by a visitor who sent it to the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald, a state-run local newspaper.

“I found it quite advanced technologically so you don’t have to queue outside or knock on a bathroom door,” the paper quoted the visitor as saying.

“But I also found it a little bit embarrassing. It felt like I was being monitored.”

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[–] Deadeyegai@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Having been to China, their public toliets are not up to Western standards in terms of smell and cleanliness. Either these are equivalent to Western-standard and they trying to curb abuse because they are attempting to be equitable, or they are trying to boost productivity via public shaming. I saw the locals would just squat and smoke while playing on phones while being very exposed without any care in the world. I was shocked at how widely accepted that was and that was in like a public kybo. Never seen anything like it.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

Yes, in Shanghai proper, about 70% of the public toilets have toilet paper these days, and that ratio drops quickly to zero as you get into the exurbs. The newest bullshit are toilets which have paper, but you need a face scan to get it and it limits you to like 8 squares. It's like Japanese high tech bathroom, but instead of some anime Moe toilet character, it's abusive and dystopian. Almost as if it's forcing compliant indignity into every corner of society.