So, loud as fuck smoke detectors don’t get the job done?
Why just men? Is it a mainly guy thing in china?
Yep, few women smoke and around half of all men do
How is this even remotely onion-like?
The glass defaults to transparent.
Being a bathroom it should be the other way round, in case of power loss it should stay opaque.
It’s oniony because no sane reasonable person would design it this way, unless they were intentionally being a terminal asshole. It looks like absurd humour.
I get that and appreciate the explanation.
But at least to me this doesn’t read as satirical in the least. Which has been a trend for awhile. Nottheonion has become politics2 because people are just posting anything. The comments reflect the same. I haven’t seen anyone say “Oop, you got me” in months.
I think it’s more the other way round. Politics has become the Onion, and even gone well past it, while the Onion has stayed in the same place and accidentally become a serious news source.
So what stops people from walking into the bathroom, lighting up, and laughing at the honest poopers now perfectly visable?
I feel like they might be overestimating the amount of fucks a person that smokes in a public bathroom gives.
Not with that social point system, they ain’t.
Do you even understand what the Chinese social credit system is?
The glass uses a special technology that is normally opaque and cuts off the power in a few seconds after it detects smoke, making the glass transparent.
The shopping centres ensure that bathroom users are aware of the function with a notice on the door that says: “The glass will turn transparent if you smoke. Hold your urge to smoke if you do not want to become famous online.”
1: I am not a fan of it requiring power to be opaque. Lights flicker and suddenly we’re all pooping with friends.
2: the power of shame is amazing
If you’re pooping with friends, what’s there to be ashamed of?
It’s amazing how many people blindly put their faith in their tech stuff to never malfunction. It’s getting harder and harder to find single purpose things that isn’t stuffed with shitty smart features. Mf just let me buy a car that does not get bricked by a software update.
The text is wrong this technology usually fails downwards to the opaque/blurred mode.
hope nobody ever gets literally exposed by a false positive. would be very annoying to be sitting there taking a shit when suddenly you’re visible to everyone because some dust made a sensor freak out.
It’s pretty hard to get a false positive on a pm2.5 sensor if that’s what they are using, though spraying deodorant would do it
The article isnt accurate unless this is a rather unique privacy glass, they are opaque and require the driver to go on to go clear. So in a power outage these fail to opaque. They also are opaque when they fully fail.
