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welcome to the cocky ride home for Tuesday, November 9th, 2021.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

A deep dive down the drain pipe to discuss why America has so few public restrooms.

Plus, how Pinterest ruined Google search and a few options for fixing it.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Public restrooms, places often of discomfort, disgust, distrust, and at least in America,

disappearance.

The U.S. has never had a great track record with public restrooms,

but over the last several decades, they've decreased more and more in number.

And during the pandemic, the problem became even worse,

as businesses tightened their customers-only policies

and cities shut down public facilities for fear of spreading COVID-19.

Living in New York City, there's a joke that Starbucks is our public restroom. I mean, technically speaking, there are over 1,000 public restrooms in New York City and just about 300 Starbucks's.

But while the city-run public restrooms are often locked, out of order, or otherwise inaccessible,

the Starbucks ones tend to be

easy to come by, and at least cleaned a couple of times a day. While New York City, like other

urban areas, is one of the places in the nation with the greatest need for public restrooms,

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