I’m actually serious, which button is the right one? Why are there two?

Also should a Pic of a toilet be considered NSFW?

  • @[email protected]
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    ITT: A lot of Lemmy users showing their true colors. Someone asks for help, for information, and y’all decide to mock.

    OP: one button does a full flush, the other does a half flush. In your picture, the button on the right, does the half flush. Button on the left, does the full flush. Full flush is usually just x2, though I don’t think that’s a hard rule.

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        Actually the little button sends an SOS to local authorities, so chances are the little button works fine and you have an incoming SWAT raid with paramedics and police surrounding the building.

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      83 months ago

      This is boringly not always true, for a while some genius, probably Elon Flush, decided to invert the functions so that when you pushed the bigger button you got the small flush.

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        53 months ago

        A question is a question… Just answer the damn question without judging it.

        Better let someone know what the thing does instead of forcing them to experiment with it and (possibly) break it.

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          It was a very low stakes experiment. I wasn’t going to say anything until the high and mighty came to shame those razzing them about it

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        Ultimately I think my question, being smart or dumb is irrelevant, it brought activity to the community and that’s a great thing I think. The bad thing was the memes. The ‘how do I flush this’ posts kinda got wild.

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    This is your standard dual flush. One is flush, the other is eject. Which is which depends on the manufacturer. Just be careful, the eject can be quite forceful.

    As for which button is the right one, it’s definitely the one on the right. The other is the left button.

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    653 months ago

    This is so wholesome, never be concerned about asking questions like this. Most folks are lurkers, I’m sure your question educated more folks than you realize. Be well out there.

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      Is that common?

      Nowadays I just don’t know anynore. I find toilets where it’s swapped.

      I also want to say that I grew up with toilets where the bigger button is the one for your more common usecase - liquid waste. Oftern the smaller button is set up to push the bigger button as well - to clean solid waste.

      If using a new toilet, I always try out the bigger button first, since it’s easier to press and typically uses less water.

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        Only a filthy Star Wars nerd would want to use hyperdrive!

        /uj Star Wars has some good and interesting themes, and none of it has to do with FTL technology. If you want a superior version of the same technology with more depth and dramatic implications, look at Halo. If you want what George Lucas was trying and failing to plagiarise, look at Dune. If you want to arbitrarily move around at whatever speed the plot demands or instantly, look at Stargate. And if you want a military fantasy, look at Star Trek. Hyperdrive is an inferior compromise between all four of these better written FTL techs that fails to execute any one idea well. Which is perfectly fine, because Star Wars isn’t about hyperdrive. It’s about taoist/buddhist philosophy, political commentary on fascism, and the power of individuals in the face of overwhelming systems and impossible odds. None of that has anything to do with how fast a ship moves, the hyperdrive is just a plot device that lets us skip the boring stuff and have more of the stuff Star Wars is actually good at.

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    383 months ago

    So the smaller seashell shape makes a small flush. The larger seashell shape makes a bigger flush, and the combined seashell shape (both buttons) makes a huge flush.