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Sadly, a lot of pedestrians are stupid. I’ve watched them walking across a road, phone in hand, straight into an idling parked V6 with a hole in its exhaust, and still be confused.
Pedestrian warning systems are a good idea. But nature will always come up with a better idiot
Instructions unclear, trash can now wedged into my dishwasher and a pipe burst behind it
Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU) wrote a piece of fiction along these lines. In The Light Fantastic:
The reason for this is regrettably all too common. When the first explorers from the warm lands around the Circle Sea travelled into the chilly hinterland they filled in the blank spaces on their maps by grabbing the nearest native, pointing at some distant landmark, speaking very clearly in a loud voice, and writing down whatever the bemused man told them. Thus were immortalised in generations of atlases such geographical oddities as Just A Mountain, I Don’t Know, What? and, of course, Your Finger You Fool.
At least they’ve stopped forcing IM’ing into everything… Haven’t they?
…I’ll be in my bunk.
I’m in the exact same boat
Same username as someone that sensationally abused everyone at Discuit when they called out them cherry picking single point of view news sources and posting them in inappropriate communities.
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There is no limit to how far people will take their copium sometimes
They pass Australian safety ratings. They are rather popular here
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And if my nan had wheels she’d be a bike
Microplastics I guess. Or calamari/squid rings
It was never turned on in the first place. Read the article, not the clickbait headlines that have circulated (this one is on point though, credit to BBC)
The comments here are what has prompted me to stop using Lemmy altogether. Farewell.