FishFace

Tylenol is paracetamol, aka acetaminophen, not aspirin.

Maybe.

All of this means that your proposed method requires toilets every couple of hundred metres between city centres and suburbs. That sounds like a ridiculous waste of resources.

Yeah, so the idea that you can have enough toilets to prevent this involves having toilets every few minutes, or every few hundred metres. That’s kind of insane. We should try the paint, or deal with the mess.

I don’t know the details, but as soon as you break up the stream it will not reflect cleanly.

Peeing in a city is always going to affect others - there will be people nearby who don’t want to see and hear it, and unless it is raining at that moment, it will leave a mess that affects people. I believe even peeing in the countryside can cause some negative effects due to nitrogen run off.

No, just a regular toilet in a public establishment. I don’t know anyone who’s thinking “this toilet is gross, so I’ll piss in the fucking street”. I guarantee you noone is wiping down the street with anti bacterial spray.

Toilets can get busy, yet queuing for one is very normal. Have you noticed that no-one sees the queue and goes on the corner?

That’s because this is caused by drunk people failing to plan ahead and then when caught short not having any inhibitions.

I have been walking home with someone who pissed in the street less than a block (I don’t live in the US, we don’t have blocks, but it was a couple of minutes) away from home.

Cmon, use that imagination of yours to go beyond what you have directly experienced.

Remember too that all drunk people have come from somewhere with a working toilet, because places that serve alcohol have toilets.

So to you it is axiomatic that the problem is insufficient toilets. You cannot understand that there are people - usually drunk - who will not use a toilet unless they are already inside it. It is not feasible to blanket a city in toilets sufficiently to eliminate public urination, so maybe a multi-pronged approach including discouraging people from doing so is more sensible.

“The transit”? There is transit all over Hamburg and there are three directly outside the Hauptbahnhof.

When they piss on the piss-splashing paint, it splashes them with piss, so they stop. I believe the point is that it sprays back at all angles.

I’m not claiming it’s a magic bullet, but I am claiming that if you think this is about homeless people you are not thinking about drunk people and tourists, who are the genuine target.

The answer is drunk people.

I was once walking home with a drunk housemate who pissed in the street a few minutes away from home. Also “clean” does not enter into it. The street is not clean.

They have walked out of a club with a toilet five minutes ago. How frequently do you want there to be toilets?

The idea is that by putting the risk in people’s minds it’ll be a deterrent, or else by giving people a natural consequence (and also protecting the wall from being stained with piss) it’ll deter repeat offenders.

Well I didn’t spot that

I mean maybe it’s just some other formula

Right I’m sure the people who piss in our gateway, mysteriously every Friday and Saturday while bellowing at each other, are homeless rather than smashed out of their tiny troglodyte minds.

Hamburg has a vast number of tourists, which makes it even worse, because tourists don’t have to live in the city they’re pissing all over, nor see again the person they flashed because the fumbled pulling up their pants.

I’m trying to make “twinkle twinkle star-whose-angular-size-from-earth-appears-small” scan but it’s proving a challenge…

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I typo’d “undirected” if that affects anything.

My point is, people talk about this as if it’s the plants having a nice chat and a cup of tea and talking about politics. It isn’t - it’s more like a dog being able to smell some dog piss and understand something about the dog that pissed there.

What other understanding of sentience would we fucking use?!
The mycelium network thing is way overblown - it allows some crude, undetectedundirected signals to pass.

I don’t believe it’s easier than rsync.

If you want to know more, look up Multiple Round Simultaneous Impact