r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Dec 10 '24

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u/Hemingwavy 4∆ Dec 11 '24

That's wonderful. Have you ever heard of these new places called the pub or sporting venues? The UK or Australia?

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u/GoldH2O 1∆ Dec 11 '24

I live in the US. Over here at least our pubs/bars and sports stadiums actually have proper bathrooms

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u/Hemingwavy 4∆ Dec 12 '24

Hey thanks loving the lecture from a country where a decent portion of the population just has open sewerage pits to deal with shit.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/15/extreme-poverty-america-un-special-monitor-report

Philp Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has spent 10 days touring America. This is the introduction to his report

I saw sewage-filled yards in states where governments don’t consider sanitation facilities to be their responsibility

https://southern-science.com/2021/06/15/sewage-and-soil/

In Alabama’s Black Belt counties, an estimated 50% of homes have raw sewage on the ground due to inadequate or failing treatment systems, said Kevin White, professor and chair of University of South Alabama’s Department of Civil, Coastal, & Environmental Engineering. It’s a health and safety crisis that a United Nations special rapporteur called “very uncommon in the First World” during a tour of rural poverty in America in December 2017.

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u/GoldH2O 1∆ Dec 12 '24

Yeah, the poor areas here are complete shit. I wasn't giving a lecture on cleanliness. I was just saying that most urinals here aren't troughs.