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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 9h

Some of the empty space near the city center is the cantonment, common feature of a lot of ex-British colonies that unfortunately has persisted to the modern day…ASC = Army Supply Corps

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 10h

Gee I wonder where the favored quarter is

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 10h

You save huge cost on the stations, and running two-car trains every 90 secs costs the same as running six-car trains every 4.5 mins if they’re driverless

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 10h

Six cars is excessive for a new driverless metro, make it three or four and just run it every 90 seconds

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 12h

The Tushy and cheap Brondell seats that got popular in the U.S. during the pandemic use cold water. So is the Brondell handheld one I use.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 12h

What else can one use it for? Depilation?

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 12h

Unfortunately it seems to be falling out of fashion in Spain. Not sure about Portugal, @sashyenka.com would know though.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 13h

Yeah those are the Middle Eastern-style ones. I suspect the genealogy is via Muslim countries in South/Southeast Asia (they’re strongly encouraged in Islam: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic...), but I’m not sure.

Islamic toilet etiquette - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 13h

Somebody wrote a book with exactly this theme (and title): islandpress.org/books/americ...

America's Urban Future

islandpress.org

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 13h

As a child, I was CONSTANTLY clogging toilets. It drove my parents nuts, they used to get so mad.

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John Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social · 13h

Sanitary drainage systems with bidets are functionally different yet they are designed the same.

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John Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social · 13h

Based on current plumbing codes both in the US and abroad, it wouldn’t impact design at all, but should it? Less TP could allow for drains at shallower gradients, which could recoup losses from added electrical outlets and a second water supply stop at each WC.

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John Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social · 13h

Wads of toilet paper are one of the primary sources of blockages in sanitary drainage systems, so a system installed with bidets would likely lessen the risk of blockages. How would this impact design?

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 13h

Also, heated water is so unnecessary. You get used to cold water very quickly.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 13h

The Italian-style standalone bidets are the worst of the bidets, but are infinitely more civilized than not having one at all. And they (plus the window requirement) make the bathroom big enough that you can often chop one old-school Italian bathroom into two:

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 13h

I’m a big fan of the Middle Eastern-style ones. They are space-efficient like the washlets, but more maneuverable and with a bigger spray radius, and you can use them to clean other things too (especially the toilet bowl). Downside is they get the toilet seat wet.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 14h

There’s no way Canada has a 3:1 ratio of multi- to single-fam!

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 14h

Holy crap, I had no idea. Canada’s weighted density:

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 14h

also rapidly urbanizing (1.8k->2.4k->3k over the last 40 years) in a way the US is not (1.8k->2k->2.2k)

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 14h

**only exit

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 14h

Too little compartmentation…if smoke escapes the dwelling unit, the old exit is compromised, there is no intervening corridor for redundancy.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 19h

Can you tell me the code section for that? I’d like to update my report with it

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 19h

Now I wonder what it is for Spain, which also never requires a stretcher elevator…

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 19h

Another country with very small elevators and no stretcher requirement, ever…maybe that is the commonality

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 20h

Interesting! Is there any height at which a 1.1m x 2.1m elevator is required? Perhaps for firefighting reasons?

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 20h

What does lamella mean?

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