Been seeing a lot about how the government passes shitty laws, lot of mass shootings and expensive asf health care. I come from a developing nation and we were always told how America is great and whatnot. Are all states is America bad ?

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    1 year ago

    Walk around in a major city and you’ll notice there are outright no bathrooms available to the public, or paying customers only.

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      I guess the one argument for “public restrooms” is rest areas along major highways and restrooms in public (usually national or state, not little municipal) parks.

      So we do have public restrooms…they’re just nowhere near 99% of the population most of the time.

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      You just have to go to a place that’s big enough not to care. Want nice bathrooms, go to a nice department store, or oddly enough, Home Depot. On the road, stop at McDonalds. I’ve ever been forced to buy something at places like this, the big places like department stores and Home Depot won’t even notice. The only places where you have to worry about customers only are tiny places that have 1 tiny bathroom and you have to ask about. Do to places where you don’t need to ask, you just go.

      The first bathroom I ran into in London required payment to go in. Not having local currency yet, I just had to hold it. That sucked. It was in a park, I’ve never run into pay bathrooms like that in a park in the US. I’ve always seen them be free. Eventually in London I just started treating it like the US. I’d walk into a bar, look for the toilets sign, use them, and leave.