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India is Winning Its War on Human Waste!!!

... unfortunately San Francisco is losing that same war.

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Or you could be intentionally exaggerating the problem by about 100 fold.

Perhaps you'd like to show me the stats that indicate a million people (or even how about 2.5% - ~100k people) in the San Francisco metro area have begun shitting in the streets, in their drinking water, etc.

Or we could explore the possibility that the acceptable amount of human feces on the streets of a major city in a first world country is none.

You can't reliably tell the difference between human and other omnivore feces, and there are always going to be coyotes pooping wherever they please.

Gotta accept a bit of poop in your life.

There's not a lot of coyotes in downtown SF...

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-coyote-f...

> Record numbers of coyotes have moved into the city in recent years.

It's a joke.

I don't really come to this site for jokes. I come for the intellectual stimulation. If a stimulating post is entertaining that's great, but the post above wasn't stimulating in my opinion. I have no idea what they were referencing when they implied San Francisco is having a sewage problem because they gave no citations or statistics. They just posted something for an emotional response to gain upvotes, which is not good for this site in my opinion.

I thought it was funny. Does that make it okay? Or do you use this site the "right" way?

haven't been to India but anecdotally the amount of public defecation between DT SF and rural China is about the same - ie. quite rare in practice but brought up ad nauseam in online discussions, often to serve a political point.

on the other hand the only times I've managed to step in human feces is DT SF and DT Vancouver..

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