China mall installs glass windows on men’s toilet doors that turn transparent when users smoke | South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3336723/china-mall-installs-glass-windows-mens-toilet-doors-turn-transparent-when-users-smokeOpen linkView original on lemmus.org
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It's amazing how many people blindly put their faith in their tech stuff to never malfunction. It's getting harder and harder to find single purpose things that isn't stuffed with shitty smart features. Mf just let me buy a car that does not get bricked by a software update.
The text is wrong this technology usually fails downwards to the opaque/blurred mode.
The article isnt accurate unless this is a rather unique privacy glass, they are opaque and require the driver to go on to go clear. So in a power outage these fail to opaque. They also are opaque when they fully fail.
Me:
hope nobody ever gets literally exposed by a false positive. would be very annoying to be sitting there taking a shit when suddenly you're visible to everyone because some dust made a sensor freak out.
It's pretty hard to get a false positive on a pm2.5 sensor if that's what they are using, though spraying deodorant would do it
New prank just dropped
so you're saying it has bonus functionality?
So, they also pointed cameras at the occasionally transparent toilet stalls?
If you're pooping with friends, what's there to be ashamed of?
I feel like they might be overestimating the amount of fucks a person that smokes in a public bathroom gives.
Not with that social point system, they ain't.
Do you even understand what the Chinese social credit system is?
If you smoke enough you won't be able to see inside again.
If so many people need a place to smoke, why not create a designated smoking area?
In Japan (Tokyo at least, idk about elsewhere)smoking is banned everywhere. Except designated smoking rooms. It's.... different.
I don't think they've banned it in all the bars yet
Yes, now that you mention it I do recall smoking bars in Tokyo.
I used to smoke a pack/day. Sure it sucks not getting to smoke for 10 hours, but it's seriously not like they're going to die. It doesn't hurt them, they just need to get their shit together and take a little bit of responsibilty for their dumb habbits. My view on this hasn't changed since I smoked.
Smokers can be some of the most inconsiderate, self centered douche bags in this world. I thought so too when I was a smoker. You know what sucks when you're dying for a smoke in an area where it's either prohibed, or just plain fucking rude? Smelling some douche nozzle's cigarette. It makes the need 10 times worse.
My solution is to not accomodate the addicts. They chose to smoke, they can choose to stop if they actually want to.
As someone allergic to it, my main gripe is "Oh its not that noticeable!" And I'm like "But it IS, just because you have no sense of smell doesn't mean I don't!!" It reeks and makes me so nausea feeling.
Ice pick headache for the rest of the day. Yeah, no harm at all.
if only there was some sort of product designed specifically to alleviate the need for nicotine when you can't smoke, like some sort of chewing gum with nicotine in it..
vapes, gum and patches seem like the best accommodation, but i'm not an expert.
So, loud as fuck smoke detectors don't get the job done?
it is nice to not cause a stampede because people think a fire broke out
Why just men? Is it a mainly guy thing in china?
Yep, few women smoke and around half of all men do
... I feel like for a very specific group this is probably like getting an extra scoop of icecream when they only paid for one.
my poops can be, uh, powerful. i'm concerned they could be mistaken for smoke.
So what stops people from walking into the bathroom, lighting up, and laughing at the honest poopers now perfectly visable?
Totalitarianism is a harsh mistress.
How is this even remotely onion-like?
The glass defaults to transparent.
Being a bathroom it should be the other way round, in case of power loss it should stay opaque.
It's oniony because no sane reasonable person would design it this way, unless they were intentionally being a terminal asshole. It looks like absurd humour.
I get that and appreciate the explanation.
But at least to me this doesn't read as satirical in the least. Which has been a trend for awhile. Nottheonion has become politics2 because people are just posting anything. The comments reflect the same. I haven't seen anyone say "Oop, you got me" in months.
I think it's more the other way round. Politics has become the Onion, and even gone well past it, while the Onion has stayed in the same place and accidentally become a serious news source.