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Toilet paper dispenser (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@toast.ooo to c/china@sopuli.xyz

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I heard rumors about it and couldn't quite believe it but here it was a toilet paper dispenser with payment via WeChat. I was lucky that my wife put 10 RMB on it foresting purpuses because otherwise I would probably need to call her to come in and pay for it.

It was 3.8 RMB and you get a small package of wet tissues. I have no idea if they dissolve as easy as normal toilet paper but I like the Japanese way with water bidets better.

On the way out I also realized that there is another dispenser for normal toilet paper at the entrance -you also pay for it with WeChat, not sure probably it's cheaper, sneaky.- ah no it says scan it for free paper, I guess it's played by advertisement.

Anyway cool mall here l, very flashy in the middle of Changchun by the train station.

OC by @jeena@piefed.jeena.net

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[–] TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

First they came for our shows but I didn’t stand up because I could ignore the ads. Then they came for our appliances but I didn’t stand up because I couldn’t afford them. Now they’ve come for our assholes and there’s no one left to stand up for me.

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wanna wipe? Gotta have a phone. Gotta pay. Gotta watch propaganda.

What a dump.

[–] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wana wipe? Gotta have a screwdriver and a disregard for corporate property.

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

BYOTP

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Someone at Meta is drooling over this.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

China is a communist country /s

[–] doc@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Time to EDC TP.

That reads as stupid as it was to type.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Thinking about it: There should be a contest to see who can fit the most functionality into the tube.

Future winner: "It wasn't easy to cram a fully functional oscilloscope inside... I had to shave off bits off the tooth brush handle, but ultimately it turned out great!"

[–] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

A report in 2017 said that a park in Beijing has installed toilet paper dispensers with facial recognition to stop visitors from taking too much loo roll, media reports say.

The new machines, placed at the average heights for men and women, dispense strips of toilet paper measuring about 60 to 70cm (24 to 27.5 inches) to each person.

They will not dispense more paper to the same person until after nine minutes have passed.

In September this year, reports show that there is a next phase of commercializing and surveillance: China's public toilets exchange tissue for ads -- (1 min, here is an Invidious link)

Charging to use public restrooms isn’t new in China or other parts of the world but having to watch an advertisement before being granted access to toilet paper is. Now, some social media users are criticizing the concept as “dystopian.”

[–] Isolde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Or you can bring wet wipes with you.