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Such businesses will close shop.

Tesla superchargers make enough that they can cover the cost of bathrooms and still be profitable.

Keeping them clean is the easy part. Doing it well would require building the infrastructure, maintenance, manning the station, preventing drug abuse etc, and getting into liabilities due to said abuse.

Tons of businesses stop doing business if they are forced into efforts that dont make money. The city/state should own sanitation. Not private companies.


Plainwire - a Text-first News and RSS reader. Still in alpha. Please feel free to take a look. https://plainwire.live


The web app has a 5-minute cache on dynamic content - which balances info freshness with performance. The architecture supports the ultra-light, fast-loading requirements by design.


Thank you. Images would increase the page size. Intent is to keep this accessible on slow/overloaded connections.


I think what he is saying is adding simple svg icons, not images. For instance this one https://www.svgrepo.com/svg/308550/earthquake-damage-earthqu... is 700 bytes, and it can most likely be simplified and compressed. (you can also lazy load them so they don't delay the content)



I've added them. Thank you.


Thanks! Could you gather feedback after you do, please?


Thanks for noticing. This has been fixed.


The weather API call has been fixed.

FEMA reported the earthquakes to be centred in San Ramon and not in Alameda. Will see how this can be handled.


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