women are too stubborn to pee with the seat up
I think that's sarcasm, unless you actually meant to communicate that women are stubborn.
In any case, I think due to Poe's Law, you'd have gotten better votes if you included "/s" or "j/k" or another marker. (But, votes might not be a concern to you.)
Ah, the old PieFed RooSwitch!
If you flush with the lid down, don't you consider the lid dirty, since it caught all those "poo particles" you are scared of "flying around"?
I too prefer the commercial oval/egg bowls to the to residential round bowls.
Video is unavailable in my region, but thanks anyway.
I'd have to re-watch those segments. The part that remains stuck in my mind is that they found fecal particles on a toothbrush that was in a closed drawer.
I don't believe closing the lid helps that much, and I grew up with (and still have to deal with) a toilet that sometimes but not always needs a second (or third) press of the handle, so I keep the lid open so I can be sure the water really got flushed. (It drains the tank into the bowl, but sometimes it just slowly, but steadily, flows through roughly maintaining water level instead of crossing a pressure (?) threshold and flushing out the bowl and then refilling.)
But, I'm all for closing the seat and the lid when you are done. It keeps pets and dropped items out of the bowl, if nothing else. If we have to leave the lid up, I still say seat down; that's the "ready to use" configuration for all female and some male uses.
Every time this post comes around it just makes me think of Happy Time Murders or whatever it was. Muppet organ transplant!?
EDIT: Added link
Mythusters found fecal particles everywhere even when the lid was down. There's no escape from gross, just finding an acceptable level.
Bah, there's a LOT of devices that could talk to my father's phone over the LAN if they were programmed that way. But, they aren't. They report to a wall-known "cloud" server, and the app on his phone checks that same server for the latest status or to relay command/control.
Nice advantage: can get status / send commands even when he is not on the LAN. Bad disadvantage: when the rural Internet blinks out (like every time it rains) he can't tell the robo-vac which rooms to start cleaning.
It's a sin I had to scroll this far down to find the Silicon Valley reference.
I agree that the status of violence being monopolized is a net good for society, it fact I tend to agree that it may actually be the most important distinction between "civilization" and not.
That said, state violence needs to be intensely reviewed and unjust or overuse of it should be rectified. The U.S. idea of qualified immunity tends to be eliminated, and in the few cases where it is justified can be replaced with a much more narrow policy/practice. And that's just to start.
Also, restrained violence in defense of self or others, including resisting unjust state violence, is universally acceptable. It's necessity shows problems with how the monopolizer of violence is imperfectly dispensing violence, which must be expected from an imperfect actor.