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Even a minimally featured bidet will at least soften things up and make wiping more effective.

I used a tushy bidet to start, which is pretty cheap and easy to get going and get comfortable with it. I would recommend the warm water options, but you need to have a sink nearby to steal the warm water from. Fancier warm water bidets have an instant water heater, so you don't need a hot water tap, just power.

I have since upgraded to one with all the features, and here's how my process typically goes:

1. Sit down on heated seat
2. Push out what I can
3. Using the remote, turn on low pressure heated water with pulsating mode. I can also move the spray back/forth with the remote to get everything.
4. Switch to high pressure for a moment. That has enough pressure to get up in there a bit, which seems to lubricate/soften any parts that didn't come out through sheer effort earlier.
5. Pause, push out one more time
6. Go back to low pressure to tidy up
7. Turn on blow dryer for a bit, or dry off with TP if I'm in a hurry.

Why do you capitalize seemingly random words? Is this a translation artifact or something?

A bidet gets its water straight from the tap, not from the toilet bowl. His is the same water that you wash your hands in.

Someone mentioned the last mile problem, and someone else responded as if it doesn't exist based purely on their own situation (right now). I'm pointing out that it does exist with my situation as an example (right now).

That's all. Should we pretend like there's no last mile problem?

Maybe in some ideal world, the last mile problem could be solved purely with public transit. We don't live in that world. Investing as of we live in an ideal world is foolish.

If one approach is effective for more people, that's great, but shouldn't we also invest in solutions that fill the gap?

Here's a summary of this thread:

Guy 1 - why is anyone doing waymo when there's public transit

Guy 2 - last mile problem

Guy 3 - it works great for me in the city surrounded by bus stops, no last mile problem

Me - it doesn't work great for me barely outside the city. (My point being that it'll take a lot to get public transit to within 1 mile of where I am, let alone to someone even further from the city)

You - that's your own fault so stop complaining

Me - so fuck me and everyone farther out than me apparently.

That's how we got here. I simply stated my situation as it relates to public transit, and you tell me it's just my own fault and I should shut up.

We have a long way to go to get ubiquitous public transit in America. I doubt we will ever get there. It makes sense to consider other options as well.

I'm saying we should go to the moon AND develop nuclear fusion.

You want to know what's harmful to discussion? Pricks like you telling people that their opinion is irrelevant.

So fuck everyone who can't afford to, or doesn't want to, live in the city?

I can, do, and will vote for officials that want to expand public transit. I also appreciate other efforts being taken, because I don't let perfect be the enemy of the good, and I recognize that no one solution works for everyone.

I live on a 40mph road with no sidewalk or shoulder. That is connected to a 45mph road with no sidewalk or shoulder. My nearest bus stop is 3.2 miles away.

I'm not even that far out, I can drive to a major city downtown in 30 minutes.

That's great that you have all this infrastructure around you, but not everyone does. Like you said, a lack of perspective is not an excuse.

I think you are coupling a centralized voting system with one that gives equal access, and I don't think that's necessarily true. Being a centralized system makes it consistent, but not necessarily fair.

An independent body could be easier to undermine (single point of attack), and be just as likely, if not more likely, to reduce voting access across the country all at once. I think we'd have corruption either way. The inefficiency of the decentralized system could be slowing it down.

I think you are looking at the system with hindsight and assuming that because the current system is suffering problems, that a different system wouldn't suffer those same problems. I don't think you can justify that conclusion

I think the states handling election in theory makes sense. It's a decentralized system that is harder to undermine. An independent body may bring consistency, but I don't think that helps at all in combatting Trump's tampering.

Also, many states are using paper ballots and always have been.

Clearly, the statue was carried by ocean currents south from New York, through the Panama canal, then back north where it washed ashore at the tip of the Baja peninsula in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.