The secret to splash free male urination is..sitting down.

In a public toilet? Not happening. Back to square one.

Can't speak for everyone but in my experience using public toilets (predominantly UK, pubs and train stations):

* there's not always a properly functioning seat / seat at all

* the seat is not always dry

* the cubicles do not always have a functioning lock

* the bowl is not always 'clear'...for reasons probably best left unexplored, people seem to choose public toilets as a place to carry out the most incomprehensible and unimaginable of all bowel movements. I've been greeted with bowls that let's just say would be benefit being assessed by a trained professional

Public toilets are also often pretty grim places in general due to the smells, sounds and general lack of hygiene/cleanliness.

All that said...IF the toilets look in decent repair I personally will use the cubicle and sit down, but it's probably less than 30% of toilets that feel like that's an option.

Also just to say I am someone who always sits to pee whenever at home/in a person's home and i'm not someone who anyone would ever call a germaphobe, so I do generally choose to sit rather than stand.

The gents loo at a non-posh UK pub is about the lowest you can go in the western hemisphere.

I don’t care if my bare thighs were coated in the most potent prophylaxis known to man, I am not sitting on another man’s piss and or shit.

Yeah, the issue is that it takes one disgusting degenerate who doesn't know how to use a toilet and pisses all over the seat or worse.

I'm purposefully not calling these people uneducated, because I routinely encounter it in an environment full of highly paid and educated people with Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, etc... kind of education. These people come from money, earn money and are supposedly educated. And yet, they will happily piss all over the toilet seat and not even bother to clean it.

Shows also that money doesn't buy class.

Agreed it's 100% not an education/money/class thing. I moved into a larger office, high tech company, and the number of times people need to be told not to leave the toilet in a state or to take their rubbish out of meeting rooms when they leave is eye opening. A large number of people from all backgrounds are just animals.

In the line of thinking of educated toilet shitters - why clean up after oneself when there is, from childhood, always some underpaid person of color that does the cleanup for you?

a) sitting on piss

b) sitting on a seat you just wiped piss off

c) piss on the floor which will get on your trousers if you sit

Always carry wipes?

In my man-purse? Not enough space, what with the Swiss Army knife and travel can of WD-40 I'm already carrying.

At home? 100%. Out in the world? Very much depends.

I was just in a stall where the inside of door had a pictogram forbidding users from standing on the edge of the bowl and squatting. I assume this might be for visitors from countries where squatting is common.

Point being, you just never know what random members of the public will do with a door to hide behind.

Even women won't consistently sit down on public toilets

East coast:

Oh hey that’s not fair, we have equal amounts of beaches, the water is just a different color. You are going down with us..

Middle America: good luck eating when we cut off both of your food supplies.

Now both of you go stand in a corner until you are ready to work together to take down the government that has us all acting this way.

California alone grows about half of the US's nuts, fruits, and vegetables. Both the West Coast and rest of the country could reconfigure production to serve themselves if desired.

Californian here. I live in hope.

We can do more than hope: Move the wall from the southern border to the eastern border (and probably embargo whatever oil rigs and space launch platforms are planned for places like Monterey Bay)

That way, we can get to keep our beaches, and continue to hire migrant labor from the rest of America to help during harvest season.

I answered something similar above, but I'll paste it here too:

This was for a largish (40,000L) above-ground pool with no hookup to my home's plumbing system. The water was all pumped in from a water truck. The previous system was also installed by a non-professional and was mostly tubes. It leaked to all hell and looked generally redneck and awful.

First step was draining the pool and doing a nice deep clean. Then I ripped out all the original plumbing until it was just the pool outlets, pump, and filter.

I arranged it all and measured the dimensions. I fed the figures along with a tonne of photos and explanation to GPT. I spent a while talking pros/cons and landed on a design which lined up with what I'd seen on YouTube. I had it prepare me a full shopping list of PVC, tools, cements, etc. all linked to a local pool dealer. I picked it up the next day.

The PVC was all cut with a chop-saw then primed and cemented together. I found this part easier than I would have expected. I put a layer of TigerFlex hose between the PVC manifold and the pump/pool/filter inlets so it had some tolerance.

We've been swimming in it all summer, no issues whatsoever so far.

Presumably Fable 5 won't be made available on GovCloud Bedrock, right now it's not [1].

However what I'm not seeing discussed anywhere are government agencies that are on commercial AWS, have ATOs in place to use Bedrock, and are now being surprised with this new sharing of data with Anthropic and will have to scramble to disable(?) or institute policies banning Fable 5 usage in Bedrock. Throw in there all your sensitive industries, healthcare, insurance, etc.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/gov...

Edit: Fable 5 is not FedRAMPed, but it's not clear to me whether or not AWS permits access to it via GovCloud's model request process.

I have multiple login.gov accounts. They don’t let you change your primary email, so if you’re using corporate account and switch jobs the normal thing is to create new accounts. I’m sure this is padding their numbers.

If you must use login.gov for Social Security, and you will eventually be required to use it for the IRS (and everyone who has a US tax liability), I think the numbers are somewhat irrelevant. Almost everyone over the age of 18 will be a customer of it (for federal tax and benefits logistics). It is the idp you must use, and again, it is good enough (based on all available evidence).

Giving it the first full listen now. Loving it so far. Such an evolution of sound, but still clearly BoC. It will take its place amongst all the other BoC greats. Pretty emotional listening to this..

I really liked it, but still need to give it a full straight through listen.

What I love more than anything else, is it's an ALBUM. Not a 45 minute jumble of tracks, but a proper 70 minute sonic tour de force with a narrative. Don't know what it is, but it feels like it's there.

Good day today

As a die-hard fan since the 90ies this came as total surprise to me.

Listened a handful of times and I still love it.

Someone commented 'last album' or another 13 years :)

Life gets more distracting as we get older, and I suspect BoC care more about the art and less about the need to keep their brand alive.

Another before 13 years is up would be lush, I'm getting old! If they don't I won't be surprised, but hopefully they'll make sure more of their non-album works make it out and about. Like you, I love what they do and how they do it, and they've been in my life for a similar amount of time.

It's nice that BoC leave the art to speak for itself! As such, it's good to look at those inspired by them too methinks :)

We drank plenty of Schlitz malt liquor 40s in the late 90s. They were pretty gross..

Big issue that also seems to unfortunately be more and more common is variations in sizing within the same brand and article of clothing! Different batches with minor variations of the same exact size, or sizes changing over time.

Love the idea but difficult problem to fix.

Our public school system here in Maryland got hit, ransom screen.

Appears to have recovered, as has bleep.com. Their bandcamp page never failed though. Just wait if they post audio previews! Although I think I'd rather wait until May 29 to hear it. 13 years!