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Malicious Compliance (lemmy.world)
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[–] 42 points 2 days ago (4 children)

iirc, Mythbusters confirmed that this doesn't matter, at least in regards to shit particulates being over everything.

However, as an individual who has a bedroom right next to the bathroom, I can personally say the smell is a night and day difference between the lid being up or down before flushing.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

    They confirmed that it does matter, it was like a 6 meters radius of piss and shit particles with the cover open.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    The immediate effects are more apparent, but the result of the study was that fecal particles will cover every inch of your house from the bathroom, lid or no lid.

    But again, I still advocate vehemently for lid down. Whether it's more or less sanitary in the long run, in the short run it freaking stinks.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago

    Between the toothbrushes and the attempt to create a sterile salsa to find out if double dipping matters, Mythbusters taught me that it's a filthy bacteria's world, and we're just living in it.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Colorado University Study would disagree.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Not sure about toilets around the world but at least in the US, the toilets in that study are only really used in public restrooms and the like, not really in a typical home. They flush faaar more aggressively than a home toilet, like a pressure washer vs a hose, so I’m not sure it’s an exact comparison

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    It didn’t really show the flush pattern so I’m not 100% sure but that seemed like the standard toilet used everywhere in Australia.

    When I went to the USA I found the toilets super weird and it made a lot of sense from hearing Americans talk about toilets.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago

    Does it? It just says that particles get everywhere when you flush a lidless toilet. They didn't compare it to a toilet with a lid, and their paper's introduction talks about how the lid doesn't eliminate the aerosol plume.

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