Waiting for .ml to tell me how this was all part of Mao's plan.
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2025
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As someone who lived in China for 7 years, the alternative is that the next best person who enters the bathroom takes all available paper home.
In my entire time there, I can count the number of times where paper was available on a single hand, with spare fingers.
Naturally, everybody carries a box of tissues at all times.
I've been told that China is so prosperous, why would there be no toilet paper‽
This is a whole new level of enshitification.
Yeah, I'd be carrying some kind of tool to rip that fucker open.
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Lmao if someone tried this shit in the US all the dispensors would be kicked off the walls by the end of the day.
Either that, or I will find something else to wipe my ass on. It's lose-lose for everybody really.
China is a whole other world than western countries. Having access to toilet paper, even paid access, in a public restroom is not common.
If their goal is to convince people to not wipe at all, this method will have some non-zero percent of success.
You’ve never been to China, have you?
Correct, but I think what I said would be true in any country.
Not in China.
Boring dystopia
This is why I don't eat in Restoraunts (besides the fact that I'm always broke).
Or scrape my ass across their damned dispenser.
Fuck that noise.
How is this any different than Germany where oftentimes the entrance itself is behind a paywall?
Dropping in a coin vs what seems to be downloading some sort of an app or at least opening some shady websites on your fucking phone over your fucking mobile data is where I see it. Even if you used the payment option, you'd have to disclose your online payment information to the provider. Privacy nightmare.
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The entrance being behind a paywall is bad, but if you're not aware of it before using the toilet this holds you hostage unable to get clean until you pay up, with either your money or your attention. I'd say this is a more evil design, even though both are evil.
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In Germany you're paying to access the bathroom, not the "privilege" of wiping your ass
Then I'm shitting on the door.
If you're not fat you can just go through the side of the turn thingy sanifair uses for free
I guess you could also just go underneath but that seems even less dignified
Hop it like the NYC subway.
They tried pay toilets in the states but people vandalized the shit out of them until they were gone. These days it can be hard to find public restrooms in places though.
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This is depressing :(
Watch the black mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits. Your walls are ads unless you pay, can't even close your eyes.
Oh I definitely know that episode! It’s one of the scariest ones for me. And here we are not that may years after it aired with this already starting to become a reality. :(
how "capitalistic" of the "communists" lol.
He who does not work, shall not wipe.
- Владимир Ленин
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Oh ok flushes baby wipes.
This is because of people stealing toilet paper out of public restrooms
https://www.vice.com/en/article/chinas-fighting-toilet-paper-thieves-with-facial-recognition/
Yo first line of that says that many public restrooms don’t have have TP at all and you need to bring your own. What the fuck even is that system to begin with?!
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Bring your own toilet paper?
Also China public bathrooms smell like absolute crap I have no idea why. I had to pee in China and walked into a public bathroom on the side of the road. I almost puked
Yeah, most people in china already bring their own. The only time I've ever seen it offered for free was in a crazy high end shopping mall.
Many are just 'squatty potties' - is a hole in the floor and a tank below.
And yah, tourists are told to bring TP already since some bathrooms don't have any.
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Basically almost a literal shitpost.
I don't like the ewaste tho.
Just shit right under it on the floor to show your disagreement.
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