Spanish city charges $750 to pee in the ocean

[justinthyme]

I read the whole thing twice and still can’t figure out what this post is about?

[vernonbird]

@frauenfelder

Universal access to public toilets should be intuitively obvious.

FTFY.
Otherwise, how can you call yourself ‘civilized’ without acknowledging the existence of a basic bodily function & the need to attend to it?

[gracchus]

@vernonbird

how can you call yourself ‘civilized’ without acknowledging the existence of a basic bodily function & the need to attend to it?

“Free”-market fundies acknowledge its existence but see it only as a zero-sum business opportunity, like everything else in the world. This is how they define “civilised”.

[Jesse13927]

Wait, “charges 750 to pee” or “charges 750 for peeing?” There’s a bit of a difference in the order of things.

[vernonbird]

@gracchus

“Free”-market fundies

I’ve always wondered if they know There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Market [TANSTAAFM], or if they believe their own bullshit.

@gracchus

acknowledge its existence but see it only as a zero-sum business opportunity, like everything else in the world.

Oh, everything is a business opportunity. It just depends on the bribes.

@gracchus

This is how they define “civilised”.

Yeah, places with lax ethical codes.

[csilvest]

A Matrix?

[Slide]

Here in America the cops will tell you the cost is a criminal record of public indecency and sex offender registration ruining your life.