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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Forget the moon. We're all within a few generations of the first people who had access to indoor toilets on a mass scale.

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

India basically introduced toilets in a single generation.

According to this article, in 1993, 70.3% of the Indian population did not have access to toilets. By 2021, the number dropped to 17.8%. So literally more than half the population of India got access to toilets within 30 years.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

the flushing kind or the hole in he ground kind?
the there's a sink kind. or there's a communal soap bar to wash your asshole with and the other hand to eat with kind?
wonder how many Indians are left-handed, or if that's even culturally accepted

the flushing kind or the hole in he ground kind?

Any kind. There's further breakdowns in access to flushing toilets, dry latrines, composting toilets, etc., but this is part of a long standing project to get people to stop open defecation in places where untreated human waste will mix into drinking water, food supply, etc.

[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I want to know about this shared soapy ass bar and also I don’t.

[–] Nythos@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago

The ancient Romans had a communal toilet which used a communal sponge for wiping