I had to send an email telling people that part of the installation process of a new application is that they need to restart the computer. Restarting the computer involves clicking the power button and clicking shutdown, closing the lid and then immediately opening it again is not restarting it.
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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".
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...
I once took a photograph of a pack of batteries that stated the warranty didn't cover sudden battery discharges due to acts of God, or something like that.
There was a toy batman costume that had the warning. Cape does not enable user to fly. Granted its for kids but common. Its not a superman cape!
"Don't flush gloves down the toilet." I think I might still have a picture I took of the sign somewhere.
Yep, rubber gloves specifically
Do they mean latex gloves like you might use in a hospital or do they mean actual rubber gloves you would use for washing up. Need to makes any sense.
"New study finds 'Trickle Down Economics' has not trickled down in any way over the last ~~30~~ ~~40~~ 50 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.
Trickle down is based on the mistaken assumption that rich people will spend all their money in the local community. When often they don't spend their money at all and just save it, and when they do spend it it's on expensive yachts in Monaco. They're not contributing to the economy in which they live.
The millionaire class were delighted when they saw this idiotic take and pushed its narrative knowing full well that it would be to their advantage.
I don't think I've ever heard it called a trickle up economics but yeah, it would work because most people have no choice but to spend locally. If I got some money from the government I would buy food in the local supermarket or get my house redecorated by a local tradesman.
Various tests of UBI have shown that it doesn't really increase laziness beyond the base level it was already at, after all it's mostly the rich who are lazy anyway, as they're the only ones who have the resources. All it really happens is people want more time off work because they can subsidise their income with UBI, but that is an expected and desired outcome as it means more people will be employed to cover the difference which gets more people in work and therefore paying taxes.
"Do not wash hands with boiling water"
During my time there, two people broke the rule.
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!
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.
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."
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.
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.