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Really RS Components, I am not allowed to order solder anymore??
Bassman59:
--- Quote from: S. Petrukhin on February 11, 2021, 12:44:27 pm ---As children, we smashed old batteries, shook the plates out of them with our bare hands, and melted them on the bonfire... 8)
My generation is not impressed by anything. But people are getting weaker and more afraid of everything. :-//
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Just because you managed to survive doesn't mean that a lot of kids didn't.
I see whinging about how all of the playgrounds here in the US have gotten rid of many of the old play structures, and replaced the concrete pads with the softer recycled rubber, and all of the whingers say, "kids today, they're weak, i didn't get hurt!" And that ignores the kids who did. Who were hurt seriously enough for those old structures to be outlawed and for safer structures to be mandated.
Am I glad my kid has safer play environments? Absolutely. Am I glad he hasn't broken any bones or lost any teeth like many of my friends did? Absolutely.
tl;dr: OK, boomer.
Bassman59:
--- Quote from: tooki on February 12, 2021, 03:57:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: magic on February 12, 2021, 08:55:09 am ---
--- Quote from: penfold on February 11, 2021, 10:14:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: magic on February 11, 2021, 09:40:37 pm ---...it's bureaucracy. ...
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That's the trouble with society, we should have seen this coming, its always the bureaucrats who take the lead...
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If I started a poll, most users of this forum would likely be in favor of banning sales of teratogens to consumers.
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I very much doubt that. I think this forum leans quite heavily on the side of personal responsibility and away from heavy regulation.
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It leans away from heavy regulation but the assertion about "personal responsibility" is made without facts in evidence.
it's more like "freedom to do whatever the fuck I want, fuck the man."
penfold:
--- Quote from: Bassman59 on February 12, 2021, 07:55:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on February 12, 2021, 03:57:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: magic on February 12, 2021, 08:55:09 am ---
--- Quote from: penfold on February 11, 2021, 10:14:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: magic on February 11, 2021, 09:40:37 pm ---...it's bureaucracy. ...
--- End quote ---
That's the trouble with society, we should have seen this coming, its always the bureaucrats who take the lead...
--- End quote ---
If I started a poll, most users of this forum would likely be in favor of banning sales of teratogens to consumers.
--- End quote ---
I very much doubt that. I think this forum leans quite heavily on the side of personal responsibility and away from heavy regulation.
--- End quote ---
It leans away from heavy regulation but the assertion about "personal responsibility" is made without facts in evidence.
it's more like "freedom to do whatever the fuck I want, fuck the man."
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It would be a very different story if authorities were more open and honest about policies such as these. Soldering is listed by the UK-HSE as not "significant exposure to lead" and the quantities of lead solder consumed by "consumers"(which I'm interpreting as hobbyists) is surely minimal compared with all other sources of lead into the landfill waste stream... surely there is another reason
james_s:
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on February 11, 2021, 09:28:05 pm ---Lead is harmful. In sufficient quantities. But even when lead was used freely everywhere most people saw no detectable problems with lead poisoning. But those who lived near heavily travelled roads did suffer from the tetraethyl lead used in gasoline. Some, but not all people who had lead pipe plumbing had problems. Depended on both the water chemistry and their usage pattern (water dwell time in the pipes). And children who ate dirt around lead painted houses and chewed on the walls of such houses.
By quantity lead in gasoline was by far the most usage. Orders of magnitude greater than others. Paint and plumbing next. Lead in ammunition was down the list. Electronics some where down in the decimal places. We have long since eliminated all of the real problems with lead exposure. These residual attacks on any lead use at all are a combination of theater and lack of understanding.
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That's how it always is. Any sort of program or movement created to solve some problem takes on a life of its own and does not simply go away once it has accomplished the goal it was created to accomplish. It will start digging deeper and deeper looking for problems it can solve.
james_s:
--- Quote from: Bassman59 on February 12, 2021, 07:51:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: S. Petrukhin on February 11, 2021, 12:44:27 pm ---As children, we smashed old batteries, shook the plates out of them with our bare hands, and melted them on the bonfire... 8)
My generation is not impressed by anything. But people are getting weaker and more afraid of everything. :-//
--- End quote ---
Just because you managed to survive doesn't mean that a lot of kids didn't.
I see whinging about how all of the playgrounds here in the US have gotten rid of many of the old play structures, and replaced the concrete pads with the softer recycled rubber, and all of the whingers say, "kids today, they're weak, i didn't get hurt!" And that ignores the kids who did. Who were hurt seriously enough for those old structures to be outlawed and for safer structures to be mandated.
Am I glad my kid has safer play environments? Absolutely. Am I glad he hasn't broken any bones or lost any teeth like many of my friends did? Absolutely.
tl;dr: OK, boomer.
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I struggle to think of a more condescending and stupid dismissive comment as "OK, boomer", it tends to make me think a person who says it is a smug moron, and I'm not even a boomer. It's just disrespectful, and a euphemism for "shut up idiot" or something along those lines.
The soft rubber pads on playgrounds is a nice improvement. Removing all the play structures that anyone could ever possibly get hurt on is stupid. I'm really glad I grew up in the 80s-90s instead of now, the bizarre obsession with safety beyond any sensible degree has just gone to ridiculous levels. You'd think bodies were piled up in heaps on playgrounds across the nation. Kind of circles back to my previous comment on organizations/efforts taking on a life of their own. Having solved more serious problems they start going after increasingly petty "problems".
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