The Genius of the day !

[thomascovenant]

Manotick residents along the banks of the Rideau River were forced into an unexpected water rescue Sunday afternoon after a woman crashed through the ice while driving her car on the frozen river.

The woman was uninjured and was seen — in images and videos widely circulated on social media — smiling and taking a selfie as the car sank into the frigid river.

www.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/01/18/driver-selfie-car-ice-rescue-canada-jarrett-dnt-newday-vpx.cnn

[rhodar]

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!"

[Paradoom]

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.

[thomascovenant]

Jan 29, 2022 15:26:30 GMT Paradoom said:

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

[hackenslay]

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.

[amano666]

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.