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No but seriously. Why the gaps? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I assume it's because it's cheap infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, being literally as cheap as possible is the main design driver for poop stalls with large gaps. Very forgiving installation, so the cheapest possible labor can put them in to inconsistently built bathrooms with cheap parts using the least amount of materials on the cheapest hinges with the cheapest paint and cheap replacement parts when whatever is in there fails.

Also cheap to repair when it breaks.

Also, some amount of gap at the floor level means the whole room can be sloped down to a single drain when a toilet backs up instead of being contained in a single stall. That is also cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Eventually, enshittification will hit public restrooms hard and we won't even have dividers at all. Just a single, giant hole in the floor everyone is expected to pee and shit into while a bank of CCTV cameras watches every angle of the room.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I know of one rest stop that offers stalls with doors, but half of the door is removed so that they can see if someone is partaking of questionable substances in there.

I have heard of several, but that's the only one I've seen myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I've seen signs for the truck stop showers saying only 1 person is allowed in a shower stall at a time that are clearly only there because dudes be fuckin' in there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Eventually? My high school didn't have dividers and that was 30+ years ago. I feel like dividers are a product of the satanic/ homosexual panic.