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• licensed sign. if it’s not licensed, and printed overseas and shipped… it’s a looot cheaper. RadioShack signs were just black with red lettering. match the font, have plastic lettering made and use a black backing board and your done.

for internal signs, about $30 for large prints. they come shipped in a large roll.

it’s far cheaper than you think, what hurts you is things you cant simulate with plastic/cardboard/etc. actual goods on display.

depending on the business you are targeting and the era. getting products to display that are in mint condition is expensive.

surprisingly, the cheapest ones are clothing stores. you can just pick up reproductions. the plastic pushtags and original product label tags are cheap to make if you have references. they just make them in sheets with cardboard backing. you make a stencil, mark the outlines of each tag with a hobby knife and cut them out.

the most expensive cost is the space. leasing and restoring/maintaing a space is not cheap. even “abandoned” malls still want premiums for those stores…

I suggest you look into lucid dreaming, hypnosis and shared dreaming.

the brain is incredibly complex and only 1/15th of what we consider “conscious thought” is truly conscious.

When we sleep, some parts of our brains remain active. historically we think it did this to keep a eye on the external stimuli(senses) so we can react to predators.

but as we have evolved, our bodies and brains changed. we still try to process those sensory inputs, but we we sleep we stop receiving most of them, so our brain begins to fill in the blanks. as we do, our brain begins to recall trauma and pleasure, to try and process them. they are always ever present anyways, shaping how we experience reality. in this shapeless, sensory less space, its the primary drive of effectively internal hallucinations.

as we sleep, we process those emotions by expierencing, emotionally drive hallucinations by our brain.

how do we know this? it’s been documented via sensory deprivation experiments. the overlap with drugs such as LSD is uncanny and it led to a much deeper understanding of both psychology and dream studies.

this is also why we now know “phantom limb” disorders are a result of psychological effects, not physical ones. the brain is fully aware of the lack of tissue, our psyche is the one that refuses to accept it does not exist. this is why people born with missing or deformed limbs do not expierence the same.

all this said, dreams prevent us from going insane. without them, rest feels less fulfilling as our brain fails to relax. even a nightmare is better for the overall psyche, then endless silence.

perfect example of “coffee is hot” signs/labels. I think we all deeply understand the sentiment that the general public, is in fact, generally willfully inconsiderate to themselves and others, when they want something lol

Unless you physically impede some one, to disrupt their flow, they will not think twice about desire fulfillment in today’s society… Everyone needs to pee, but not everyone respects your need to pee.

NYC has laws that punish the poor for existing, allow people to piss in the streets and lets the homeless masturbate on public infrastructure/buses/trains to passers by, rather than get them the help they need by funding anything besides billionaires.

NYC is a example of a century of continued messes by wealthy, bigoted men… (and im not just talking the ghoul in a suit, “Garden Center” Giuliani)

its deeper than that, Cost of operation. Who pays the cleaning staff to disinfect those tiles so bacterial growth doesn’t occur? Plastics and many cheaper materials are bio-inhibitors. They can be covered in fecal and urine waste and not be literal petri dishes for bacteria, fungus’s and mold.

they also look plain (IE: “Industrial”, currently a desirable artistic trait. When we live in a society that is all doomer and see’s everything for its resale “potential”) and last a relatively long times(plastic erosion is significantly slower than cheap tile). In a era where operating a business is less about making or selling products you believe in, but making sure your investors (bank/shareholders) get paid. its one major cost(staff) off the top.

More so when most businesses rent the buildings they use, they do not own them. You want to blame anyone, blame the landlords that charge based on location, not based on business profits + their own costs.

lol, i never said its a good solution, just the only reasonable one. The best solution is having government controlled public restrooms and regulating where dining institutions can operate their businesses to restrict them to areas where these restrooms are located.

Then have a always on-staff, thats well trained, well payed and lives in the local area. A Government personnel to keep them clean and paid for by tax payers, rather than wait staff that are forced to do it on top of their already demanding jobs of dealing with customers. Treat it as public infrastructure like roads and sewer and the problem solves its self. People generally treat public infrastructure much better than business infrastructure. They see business infrastructure as a outlet to their gripes with a businesses practices. Some one wants to vandalize? its suddenly not a business they are messing with, but a government facility… holds a lot more legal weight and punishment. Additionally staff have only one job, that bathroom facility, so if something happens, they are not going to miss it for 12 hours until some one complains…

Would it be worth if financially? yes. Most governments spend more per year on research groups to make policy decisions than staffing. Staffing costs are generally one of the lowest operation costs, and infrastructure pays for its self when you tax businesses for the use of it. Businesses ultimately save money, as its additional infrastructure they dont need to maintain or clean, and less operational cost.

Will it be done? no lol
Nearly every nation is trying to shift national operational costs to private industry as decades of corporations lobbying and pressuring has made it appear as if its cheaper to build it and sell it to them, then to operate it yourself. People are stupid and easily convinced against their own best interest, because they get situational biased based on the fact bad experiences are heavier than good ones mentally and businesses know how to placate them with sweet words and entertainment… We will own nothing and like it. its the future.

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I mean, digital receipts and signs would take care of both those problems lol

Most parts of the world, public restrooms cost money.

I mean most ceos went to uni for business and paid others to do their course work it seems. Then got hired on the vibes.

Shareholders care about only one thing, and its not the company or its employees. Of course maniacal idiots are at the top of the list for CEO, their too narcissistic and lack empathy to care.

You know the best part about this, you can put so much on toast. SOOOO much.
Butter, syrups, jams, nut butters, or even just go plain and dunk it in something tasty (Hot Tomato soup in a mug, to dunk your lightly buttered toast is amazing).

you know the best part above all else, you can toast nearly anywhere in 2026. There is USB powered toasters, as DC buck-converters easily take USB-PD and warm up some coils!

There is toasters that toast in seconds, toasters that rehydrate while toasting to keep the bread perfect and toasters that let you midway pile on the toppings and make a filling toasted sandwhich.

None of this can be done in a microwave XD

While i know this is just a shitpost, i cant help but remember, in nearly all english speaking countries and excluding the few countries with no regulations, businesses must offer customers a restroom if they have a dining area… The reason is hygenic as much as biologically imperative…

There is no rules that state they cant /charge/ for restroom access however (EG: they have to buy food, meaning there is a method of tracking who went in by timestamp). Most businesses could avoid this with putting smart entry locks on the door, that scan a barcode on the reciept and every hour, having a shift manager check and log the state of the restroom to manage the cleanliness.

but thats money most businesses dont want to spend away from the primary income source. smh… its almost like “preventive” anything is a scare word to business owners.

Routine Maintenance. No one enjoys the blunt blade going over and over on the neck.