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  • TIL about 1 million liters of urine is spilled onto the bathroom floor every day in the U.S.

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  • Their research is based on a model like this, the million litre they say is being spilled would be 'saved' by comparing a model like this to their own extra splash resistant design. They say this model has to much backsplash.

  • TIL about 1 million liters of urine is spilled onto the bathroom floor every day in the U.S.

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  • TIL about 1 million liters of urine is spilled onto the bathroom floor every day in the U.S.

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  • The people who did the research do think it is a big deal, and it might be exactly the reason why you don't use a urinal (although that could also have to do with your body parts, I don't know you).

    [...] the researchers wrote in the study. "The use of urinals often results in significant splatter (splashback) as urine splashes upon impact with the urinal generating droplets which travel back onto the floor and user."

    This splashback is a breeding ground for bacteria, resulting in bad smells in public restrooms and the potential for the spread of diseases.

    "The surfaces of urinals have significantly higher concentrations of bacteria than traditional toilets, with surrounding floors having the highest level," the researchers added.

    This high level of spillage of urine requires frequent cleaning, which uses a large volume of water, is unpleasant work for custodial staff and is very expensive.

  • TIL about 1 million liters of urine is spilled onto the bathroom floor every day in the U.S.

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  • Just turn on the rain, that's all there's to it

  • TIL about 1 million liters of urine is spilled onto the bathroom floor every day in the U.S.

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  • Well good news, that is exactly what these researchers looked into.

  • TIL about 1 million liters of urine is spilled onto the bathroom floor every day in the U.S.

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  • I wonder wether they took these kinds of things in account in the research, if it's about collecting to highest percentage of pee possible than I'd argue this matters too. They also say their design is better for children and people in wheelchairs so who knows.

  • TIL about 1 million liters of urine is spilled onto the bathroom floor every day in the U.S.

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  • The researchers suggest that if Nautilus was to replace the 56 million urinals across the U.S., around 1 million liters of urine would be prevented from being splashed onto the floor every day. Assuming that the volume of water needed to clean up spilled urine is about 10 times that of the volume of urine, about 10 million liters (2,199,692 gallons) of fresh water could be saved every day, the scientists said.

    The widespread adoption of these urinal designs "would result in considerable conservation of human resources, cost, cleaning chemicals, and water usage, rendering large-scale impacts on modern society by improving sustainability, hygiene, and accessibility," the researchers wrote.

    They should drop everything and do this first thing.

  • TIL about 1 million liters of urine is spilled onto the bathroom floor every day in the U.S.

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  • The waste (╯°□°）╯

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  • The benefit is them offering a better service which might help them sell more subscriptions. They don't need this change for the more malicious benefits like more data for training or more insight in their customers etc.

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  • If you're not on a VPN they might still log your IP and connect your chats in the back end though.

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  • Yeah I don't think they encrypt it anyway so I guess if they would deny a governments request they might still find a way to get to data like this.

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  • For context: it already saved your data as you had acces to your previous chats. Then came the memory feature, which meant they saved like a summary in to a new dataset (eg 'the user lives in country x' and 'the user doesn't like birthdays'), so you are right it does save it already. The news is that they will now the bot will acces more of your chat history, I think when they write ChatGPT they mean it as 'your personal chatbot' instead of 'the company that offers the chatbot'.

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  • The headline: ChatGPT Will Soon Remember Everything You've Ever Told It

  • ‘Completely out of touch’: golf and dinners for ‘king’ Trump as economy melts down

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  • Just another day for King Louis Trump in Versailles Mar-a-Lago

  • Trump Admin Considering Giving $10,000 To Each Person In Greenland To Annex The Island

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  • More autonomous* you mean

  • Trump Admin Considering Giving $10,000 To Each Person In Greenland To Annex The Island

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  • I think it's for the opposite reason shops sell you stuff for 9.99 / 99 / 995 etc but you're right it does make it sound like a random number. I noticed myself people are less likely to hassle if it looks like a specific number (like 85 instead of 100 or 22 instead of 25)

  • Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love”

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  • He didn't literally say "Nazi's threated Jewish people with love", it is crazy he implied it but I want to point out the difference because if you ads in an argument with someone supports trump you only have a valid point if you use factual truths and if you'd tell a trump supporter that trump thinks Nazi's loved Jews they could easily say you're wrong because you're not using his own words but a dramatized version of them.

  • ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’

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  • how the f is this an actual quote from an actual human being?

    “Let the badge and guns do the badge and gun stuff, everything else, let’s contract out,” he said.

    fuuu