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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.
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 man going to smoke while wearing a medical mask?
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.
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2025
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