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| TERRA Operative:
--- Quote from: blueskull on December 23, 2020, 05:15:02 am ---....I did learn, however, to take apart a stereo by that age. And the instinct not to get my ass beaten has taught me how to put it back together. --- End quote --- Seems that's an experience a lot of us share from our childhood. :D |
| KaneTW:
The plastic utensils ban is also a prime example of something no one asked for. Especially considering the replacement is both nonfunctional and harder to recycle, and the actual root cause (lack of recycling, dumping plastic into the ocean instead) isn't addressed. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: NANDBlog on December 23, 2020, 08:24:21 am ---I dont know if you ever saw a 3-4 year old, but they can throw a glass cup (that they get a hold of somehow) on the floor, swallow a battery and run into the the side of a table in 20 seconds (an start crying). You literally won't notice it happening because you are picking up the shards, so they don't kill your child. And if you think that: This one was dumb, I just make another one... No you wont, you will be devastated, crying 20 years later on Christmas eve. These things stay with and ruin a family. --- End quote --- Ah yes, the old "anything for the children!" hyperbolic nonsense argument that can be used as a reason to legislate virtually anything. But the children, what about the children, you'd care if it was your child, one death/injury is too many, etc, etc, it's carte blanche for useless feel-good rules and regulations that almost always have a negative impact on everyone else while having negligible effect on whatever they are actually attempting to do. The fact is, the vast majority of these useless rules intended to protect children are ineffective at doing just that, and as you indirectly point out, it's essentially futile because small children are very good at getting into trouble, eliminate one threat and they will find something else. Natural selection is going to happen no matter what you do, try to make something idiot proof and the world will evolve a better idiot. It's just a fact that no matter what you do, some people are going to make poor choices and/or experience bad luck and for some it will be the end of the line. The safer you try to mandate everything, the more stupid and careless people will become, already people expect to have warnings and railings around anything that can possibly hurt them and rush out to sue when they do find a way to hurt themselves. There exists a group of people for whom these sort of regulations seem to innately appeal though. For several years in the early 80s there was a law that cars sold in the US could not have a speedometer that went higher than 80 MPH, as if anyone would stop speeding simply because the needle won't go higher. The legislator who introduced that law said years later that she still believed that it saved lives, despite absolutely no data to suggest that. :palm: When I was a teenager one of my friends had a car with the 80 MPH speedo and he used to enjoy pegging the needle, if anything it encouraged speeding because it was possible to peg it all the way at the top while still being well within the capabilities of almost any car. Meanwhile even street legal race cars that some people did actually take to the track were compromised by the lack of a usable speedometer at higher speeds. |
| igendel:
"Can't parents just watch over their children", that's a Shibboleth for detecting people who are not parents. Why, it's as easy as writing bug-free code on the first shot. While doing all the other everyday chores of course. Nonetheless, there's still something to be said for natural selection. In the last month or so there were two separate cases in my country, where doctors surgically removed open safety pins (!) from the digestive system of babies. Turns out some parents pin charms against "evil eye" to strollers :palm: |
| Nauris:
--- Quote from: KaneTW on December 23, 2020, 03:39:44 pm ---The plastic utensils ban is also a prime example of something no one asked for. Especially considering the replacement is both nonfunctional and harder to recycle, and the actual root cause (lack of recycling, dumping plastic into the ocean instead) isn't addressed. --- End quote --- I have a solution! World is just so fixed making everything from plastics. I think if single use utencils were made from plain steel plate that would solve most problems. It would provide equal functionality, could be made from recycled material and is easy to recycle after use. And if ever thrown into nature would readily decompose into harmless rust. And cheap to make too. Some strip of 0.2mm tin-can plate fed into set of progressive carbide dies. First stamp the form then bend edges over to make them round. That could run fast, ten per second per die-set maybe. Maybe some light wax coating to prevent rust. |
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