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Post by thomascovenant on Jan 19, 2022 18:33:29 GMT
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Post by rhodar on Jan 20, 2022 3:25:29 GMT
It is part of the job of younger generations to make us old folks glad we'll be dead soon, more or less: to GenZ, I say: "well done!"
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Post by Paradoom on Jan 29, 2022 15:26:30 GMT
In a older manuals for a car you found detailed explainations on how to adjust the valve clearance. Today it tells you not to drink the battery acid.
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Post by thomascovenant on Jan 31, 2022 22:41:38 GMT
In a older manuals for a car you found detailed explainations on how to adjust the valve clearance. Today it tells you not to drink the battery acid. Although what you say may seem a bit exaggerated but indeed we see warnings on products that seem to be intended for really, really stupid people. So we must believe that there is a large enough portion of stupid people to the point that it is necessary to put such warnings
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Post by hackenslay on Feb 1, 2022 21:42:22 GMT
I think here in the USA it's more about preventing lawsuits from people pretending to be stupid than people actually being that stupid.
As an example, not many people are so stupid they don't know coffee is hot, but some woman won $3M in a lawsuit against McD's for that very reason.
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Post by amano666 on Feb 9, 2022 20:06:52 GMT
The case of Liebeck vs McDonalds interested me and I could not help but stop lurking and comment on it. From what I understand, which is not actual legal scholarship, Liebeck's attorneys argued that coffee served at near boiling temperatures is defective and more likely to injure someone than the normal coffee served everywhere else. After accidentally spilling the near boiling coffee that she was served on herself, Liebeck had third degree burns in her pelvic region, meaning total destruction of tissue, not just blisters or whatever, and required skin grafts and stuff. In the end the judgement award of $3M had $200k for her medical bills and the rest ended up being reduced, they settled for who knows how much but I bet less than $2.8M. For years I always had the view that this woman won this frivolous lawsuit that anyone could claim after spilling some coffee on herself, and that's how I remember the media portrayal as well. Now I wonder how much it cost McDonalds to put that idea in my head. While admittedly not knowing every detail about this case, I don't really see her lawsuit as stupid anymore.
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