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I was wondering if anyone else, has or ever wanted someone to control when you change or use your diaper?

It is truly incredible how difficult it is to make the human body incontinent. Based on all the experiences shared on this forum, I have reached the following conclusion: 1) You might be lucky enough to find or create a stent that works perfectly, stays securely in place, and feels comfortable—but, of course, that is merely a temporary simulation, not true incontinence. 2) Another possibility is to have a hollow channel scraped through the bladder neck, the prostate, and the sphincter. Sometimes such a procedure goes completely wrong, but if it succeeds, you become fully and permanently incontinent. Regardless of the method chosen, the result is constant urine leakage. Unfortunately I have yet to read a single success story from someone who underwent a procedure specifically to become incontinent in a way that the bladder starts emptying itself completely, suddenly, and uncontrollably. I can certainly understand why the body resists incontinence so strongly. After all, the consequences are profound—and even for those who desire it, it can sometimes be very difficult or embarrassing. Still, it would be nice if achieving this were somewhat simpler, more affordable, and, above all, less risky.

I fell behind on reading this story and just got caught up. Very interesting story with a lot of twist. One question that I have about Juhani, was the thumb drive found and that led to the unraveling of his scheme or did his assault of Aino lead to the downfall? I would hope that she would receive a reward or acknowledgment of her research.

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@NorthShoreAdam thank you for the reply. 1. I have been wearing nappies/diapers for the best part of 60 years, some include the Northshore brand. Experience has taught me that a fluffed diaper / expanded padding absorbs better and faster than an unfluffed one reguardless of brand, design or what you refer to as propriatory layering process. It has got to the stage that out of habit, I unpack a bag of diapers and place them on a shelf at least a week before I change into them. I have also a number of diapers (emergency pack) in a haversack that lives on the floor behind my drivers seat in the car, and simply due to them being in there and on their side, they are the most expanded nappies/diapers that I have and also the most absorbant. This I learnt the hard way from dealing with leaks where the nappy/diaper is too compressed to absorb despite it being dry from being recently changed. For a visual representation, consider the padding in a diaper to be many  balls of cotton wool. (I know it is a simplification for the padding, but it is very easy to visualize). When the cotton wool ball is uncompressed, it can absorb liquid. However, when it is as flat as a pancake, it cannot AND, if wet before it is compressed, it will release most of the liquid it has absorbed - the re-wet issue. Add a hydro-absorbant chemical within it like sodium polyacrylate (urine converts this to gel via a simple chemical reaction), and this will reduce the re-wet issue. However, in a high salt urine, this can cause the gel to release the urine back to the cotton wool. This process occurs irregaurdless to the layering within the padding.  2. You made a comment in relation to using paper boxes would increase the dimensions of each pack of diapers which would increase the dimensions of the outer, thus reducing the quantity that could be loaded into a truck, and therefore would increase the fuel and therefore, delivery charges. Mathematically and logically you are incorrect. Fuel usage is based on weight being transported... i.e. it costs x per gram of weight being moved, which is an extension of Newtons laws of physics... being "The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass". The mass (weight) is the vehicle weight plus it cargo weight. The cargo weight, you have refered to as being less being in cardbord boxes rather than plastic bags. The net force therefore is less, where there is a direct relationship to the required fuel to create the net force.  Secondly, a thin, dual layer cardbord box, can be equal or of lower weigh than its plastic equivilant, however, because it has a weaker tensile strength than plastic, the quantity within each 'bag' will need to be one less, which is 3 less per outer carton without changing the size of the outer carton. As a result, a truck of x dimensions would be able to carry the same quantity of outers but at a lower fuel costs and a lower hydrocarbon emissions level per distance unit. Yes, it would increase the individual unit cost in labour involved in delivery, but this would be offset by the fuel savings. 3. You stated that, where possible, you/your supplier uses recycled plastics. From a cost and quality perspective, since virgin plastic beads create a known controllable product, where recycled plastic add that variance, recycled plastic will always be more expensive on a unit by unit basis due to the higher error rate in production. When it comes to the outer bag, this product is made as a roll where most business' purchase the role of plastic printed to their design. Unless you have an onsite printing and molding, which due to simple economics, it is financially better to purchase this from a comercial producer than create that production line in-house. It is similar, in business, to purchase A4 paper in reams for office needs than create the production line to create the paper from pulp where the core business is not paper production. This is all based on the concept called ROI (return on investment) where unless I use enough of the paper being produced in the office, the costs involved in paper production will never be offset, and it is cheaper, and better economic sence to purchase reams of paper from a producer / supplier as and when needed. In your business, it may come to a time when the production of printed plastic for the bag / diaper may be cost effective to produce in-house, but the quantity will have to exceed P&G etc., as even they, being the largest diaper producer in the world with a net revenue of $10 billion, still order from trusted suppliers their plastic for the bags etc. Finally I dont expect you, as a business, to go down the rabbit hole chasing the impossible. All I am doing here is raising the attention level to the costs of plastics. Not all plastics can be eliminated in disposable diapers, but the bag is an easy replacement to a fully recycleable product like paper / cardboard. The strength of paper / cardboard is all about layering. After all, the internal walls in some aircraft is a combination of paper and glue where weight, strenght and thickness is all considered. The physics of this has been worked out years ago, but has been ignored due to widespread use of plastic and the drive of corporation to place increase weight on delivery vehicles... where they are ignoring the increased fuel usage and associated polution... after all, an accountant is not concerned on the wear and tear of the roads as s/he does not see it as effecting profit margins. Each gram of weight on a road is charged back to each citizen in increased tax charges to repair same. This, in the next few years, will increase exponentially due to the prediliiction to use the heavier electric vehicles. This is one of the hidden costs associated with the 'green' concept and lie of 'pollution free' vehicles where when an electric vehicle is directly compared to its ICE equivalant, the ICE is, over its lifespan from production to disposal, less harmful. As yet, the world has not created a cost effective way to recycle plastics, but due to the world wastage of resouces, has been forced to recycle some metals. We see this is the price of Copper, aluminium and others. Due to plastics being made from oil, and the world reserves of same being depleted, it won't be long before either the costs of plastics increase to unsustainable values, or the world finds a way to collect and recycle all plastics.