Things along the range of:
“Checklist - 1. Ensure that the thing is on.”
I’ve seen stories of people who just don’t get it and need their hands held all the time, so what are things where you kinda feel that things are a bit too “hand-holdy”?
It is my favorite line from the Patrick Swayze movie Roadhouse.
Sign seen in men’s room of a dive bar.
DON’T EAT THE BIG WHITE MINT!
“Do not wash hands with boiling water”
During my time there, two people broke the rule.
“New study finds ‘Trickle Down Economics’ has not trickled down in any way over the last
304050 years”Some economist please corrcxt me if I’m wrong, but: Trickle down may not work. However, trickle up should.
If you do say, UBI, people will spend the stuff. And the money will go to the big players. They’ll buy their food at Walmart. Or meds at Target Pharmacy. Or get a loan at JP Morgan.
Unlike, say Walmart, who won’t buy their huge private jet collection from the swathes of less-than-well-off people across all of America.
So even if UBI made people lazy, even if it made people less productive, the money will still disproportionately end up in the hands of the rich.
Troubleshooting tips on the inside lid of a washing machine.
Problem: Washer does not start.
Possible Cause: Lid is open.
Solution: Close the lid.And so on.
Caution: For External Use Only
The curling iron nice way of saying “don’t stick this hot thing in you.”
Written on a window: “Please use door ->”.
The window only goes down to waist height, it doesn’t even look like a door. I really want to know the story behind that sign.
To give a quick highlight, because this case is often politicized and misrepresented:
The plaintiff, Stella Liebeck (1912–2004), a 79-year-old woman, purchased hot coffee from a McDonald’s restaurant, accidentally spilled it in her lap, and suffered third-degree burns in her pelvic region. She was hospitalized for eight days while undergoing skin grafting, followed by two years of medical treatment. […]
Liebeck’s attorneys argued that, at 180–190 °F (82–88 °C), McDonald’s coffee was defective, and more likely to cause serious injury than coffee served at any other establishment.
So, the lawsuit never demanded McDonald’s to put a warning that you’re not supposed to spill hot coffee on yourself. It argued that it’s an unnecessary safety hazard, because the coffee was served at hazardous temperatures.
No matter how many warnings you put down, it can happen that someone spills coffee on themselves and they shouldn’t need to be hospitalized from that.IMHO you didn’t make it sound less mad.
If coffee is made by pouring boiling water over coffee beans grinds, I would expect the temperature of the final product to be scalding hot. I would even go so far as to call it a feature.
Warning: Knives may cause injury. Well, yes, the whole point of them is to be sharp enough to cut something.
I’m glad I live in a less litigious society.
I’m glad I live in a less litigious society.
So are all the companies that have reason to fear litigation.
There are food safety standards for a reason. Coffee isn’t supposed to be served at that high of a temperature. McDonald’s intentionally broke the standard by serving coffee hotter than they were legally allowed to.
You prefer living in a place that McDonald’s can internationally, and repeatedly violate safety standards with no recourse? That’s a weird flex.
No of course I wouldn’t prefer living in a place where legal safety standards are ignored or non-existent. But that isn’t what I said either, so I refute your false dilemma argument :)
I don’t know the details of the lawsuit. I was merely commenting that the description of the case from the post I replied to didn’t make it make more sense. Your post did, though, so thank you for that. For what it’s worth in the UK and Denmark, the two countries I know well enough, the temperature of hot drinks don’t have a legal maximum and any liability would fall under “protecting customers from foreseeable harm” broad health and safety regulations.
So the question, at least from a legal perspective is what is foreseeable. Can coffee made with boiling water be foreseen to be scalding?
Certainly in the UK, case law suggest exactly that a hot drink should be foreseen to be scalding and therefore it is not negligent to serve it at scalding temperatures; see Bogle v McDonalds (2002) - https://cms-lawnow.com/en/ealerts/2002/05/recent-case-on-the-supply-of-hot-drinks
Almost every other animal dies pretty quickly after having their last round of children / losing fertility, but humans live almost twice as long. Elders have a literal hardcoded purpose in human evolution.
Because human offspring are so damn needy and take so long to mature.
I’m seeing this a lot with how people post on some instances in the fediverse. I’ve already made like several reports alone of the some of the posts people have made where they just simply disregard the rules of the instance. It isn’t to be a dick, its just pointing out the obtuse behavior some people have in regards to the rules in place.
If you want your posts to stick better, learn to read the rules. It is not that hard. And it isn’t like the rules are like miles long as they would be in Reddit. They’re short, comprehensible and not as confusing.
Guten tag rule Nazi!
