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Inconclusive sauce here: https://mander.xyz/post/21607221/15388187
Include the publishing year in your reference.
That’ll cost them two points off their grade on the paper, shame
My vandals get a zero if they don’t use MLA citation.
Disgusting!
It looks like a mouth, it needs eyes.
And some lipstick.
This has been debunked btw. Fwiw, there is a huge behind the scenes fight between big towel and big airblow.
I’m not kidding. But basically drying via air is much more hygienic in actuality.
As long as you use soap at the very least. How can you blow germs around if you just killed most of them?
Trouble is a lot of people are gross and will do the wroom wroom to make people think they washed their hands, or just wash poorly in the first place.
Why are there germs on your hands right after washing them? Didn’t mythbusters already test it and concluded that they are only bad when people don’t really wash their hands.
Do you ever watch people wash their hands? Many wet them then dry them. A few rub a little soap around them. Nearly no one does the full hand wash method recommended by health organisations (where each finger is individually washed)
To be fair they probably didn’t rub each individual finger over their disgusting body parts while in the toilet.
Yes.
The followup question is “how many people think getting their hands wet without soap is sufficient hand-washing” and the answer is not terribly comforting.
that they are only bad when people don’t really wash their hands.
Well, yes.
I kinda got that sense from the moment that “AirBlade” sprayed all my germy hand water up into my face
…how? I genuinely haven’t experienced this; I like airblades precisely because the water is blown directionally, away from you.
But I thought all the piss sterilizes them.
“I hope that’s a clean wet!” flashback to the urinal
It sucks that the only device that works spreads germs. Will humanity ever find a hand drying method that not only dries hands but is also safe?
Pants.
POV: you’re Naomi, explain your wiping strategy
Paper towels? Lol
Paper towels?
BuT ThiNk oF tHe laNdFiLL!!!
That is such an american problem 😵💫. Reducing trash is a great motivation, but the reminder that the trash is just dumped and stored indefinitely over there just makes me want to scream.
Paper towels aren’t even trash, paper can be recycled and you’ll get new paper towels. But landfill it is…
They often are partially recycled material. But recycled paper isn’t like recycling aluminum or steel. There are limits to how often and how much of the cycled material you can add back to make useful paper products.
But paper towels can and does make great compost as most gardeners know. And a properly run landfill is a compost pile. But you need to keep the nasty garbage out.
Aluminium paper towels it is, then!
It’s a non-issue. Landfills are a negligible amount of land usage and the land can be repurposed after the landfill is decommissioned. I genuinely don’t get why people care.
Because the landfills produce methane, a greenhouse gas much more potent than CO2. Once a landfill is closed, the methane can mostly be caught. There are always leaks, however. Containing the methane and other problems creates forever-costs. Recycling as much as possible and burning the rest, greatly reduces the problem. Remaining ash from burning still needs to be stored, but has less volume. And while burning trash does produce CO2, the energy is used for electricity and communal heating.
The strong bleached ones which pollute the environment or the brown ones which tear apart on wet skin and you have to pluck pieces of them from between hair on your hand?
I was about to ask how much hair you have on your hand but then i saw your username…
Machine should have a “blow” vent above a “suck” vent with a drip tray that drains away. Any air that passes in close contact with the heating element would be sterilized.
I thought it was the dumb ass shape of them and how it just mists and sprays the bacteria on and off the walls. The old ones were fine. Point it straight down. Who cares if a couple of drops touch the ground
tried using one of those hand dryers and it made my hands smell terrible
Then the hand dryer is not your problem. Try using soap next time.
i wash my hands with soap so much they crack and bleed i dont think that was the problem. it was only that dryer
This is a skill issue.
what did u design that dryer or something why defend it?
I’m not defending it, as it needs no defending. You are right to be defensive about your nasty ass hands though. How are you gonna wash your hands, use a blow-dryer, smell your hands and realize that they stink and come to the conclusion that the blow-dryer is the reason your hands stink.
Telling on yourself a bit here.
because the only time it ever happened was because i used that blow dryer design. is it really that hard of a conclusion to come to? or do you just really feel like being an asshole today?
I feel like calling you out because your story is obvious bs.
Remember kids, when making graffiti, always cite your sources.
On the bathroom stall:
Here I sit all broken hearted,
Came to shit and only farted.
Then one day, just by chance,
Tried to fart and shat my pants.
- Anonymous
Funnily, that’s not really true. Such studies showing that exist but are sponsored by… paper towel companies
Fucking dystopian late stage capitalism… Every fact is not actually a fact cause it’s sponsored by corporate interests
Half the words are automatically capitalized when I text. Because they’re part of a corporation’s name.
I tell my phone to “Remove Suggestion” on that every time, but it never fucking takes and it pisses me off. Don’t capitalist twitter or god.
Yes, and the ones that show air dryers to be healthier are funded by… hand dryer manufacturers.
Someone should fund independent research.
I remember someone tested this, and the bacteria was found in a wider area.
Either way bacteria is everywhere and we got immune systems.
I went for a whole month drying my hands with only independent research and the results were similar to using paper towels.
But then how do I make money?
You make money?
Yet, the best hand dryers are still your trousers
Pants dry, trees die!
Zero waste and zero bacteria spread, truly perfect.
Denim is naturally anti-microbial
TIL
Is this true? Seriously curious.
Unfortunately it is very much true.
Edit: here’s a more recent source.
They used a jet air dryer, those are the shitty ones that spray everything everywhere. Of course it’ll be worse. I’d like to see how a dyson air blade hold up under that kind of test.
This is not hot air though, so the cited source does not apply.
Edit: but it does link to more relevant study towards the end, comparing different means of hand drying.
Findings: Air bacterial counts in close proximity to hand drying were 4.5-fold higher for the jet air dryer (70.7 cfu) compared with the warm air dryer (15.7 cfu) (P=0.001), and 27-fold higher compared with use of paper towels (2.6 cfu) (P<0.001).* Airborne counts were also significantly different during use of towel drying versus warm air dryer (P=0.001). A similar pattern was seen for bacterial counts at 1m away. Visualization experiments demonstrated that the jet air dryer caused the most droplet dispersal.
Isn’t the point to get bacteria off your hands? Isn’t it better to have them in the air than on your hands?
It’s a lot more likely I’ll eat something I touched than something that’s been sitting in bathroom air.
You’re right and I linked a fairly old study. I’ve edited my comment to add a more recent source.
Kudos.
Noted. Thanks OP
The hand dryers that promise you bacon are LYING BASTARDS!
Just keep your hands there long enough
You must become the bacon you wish to see in the world
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