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What's the most painfully obvious thing you've seen have to be written out? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by lemuria@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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"?

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[–] narwhal@mander.xyz 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I recently bought a scale for weighting food and had a good laugh reading the manual when I saw "not to be used for illicit substance trade". I imagined some small time drug dealer reacting "damn it".

[–] FrederikNJS@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

I have a very nice scale that is accurate to 0.1 g and updates very rapidly, because I'm a coffee nerd, and need the precision to accurately dose my espresso. But one of the jokes in the community is that the only two groups of people that need scales like these are coffee people and drug dealers...