50 years ago was 1985.
Feeling old yet?*40 🙃
*75
Fifty years ago was 1940?
Sounds about right, now I feel less old, thanks 😌
/remindme in ten years
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if everyone had common sense back then we wouldn’t be in the middle of this shitshow today
honestly, im at a point where i’ve become anti-humanist.
The political satire is strong this year, and it shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.
Perhaps the world will crash and burn, who knows, exciting times we live in!
Ive been voting giant meteor for a while now and it has not showed up.
it will come eventually, it is quite literally, a matter of time.
father i cannot click the book
OK Tucker
It’s there because someone stupid fuck did it, and the car manufacturer don’t want to be legally responsible next time it happens.
It’s actually because valves were shit way back when and they are no longer something that the owner’s manual needs to explain. Many car manufacturers suck but this one is actually because they don’t anymore.
Our generation has warning labels because their generation actually did it. Buncha lead addled boomers acting like we’re fools for learning from their stupidity.
My dad would print this meme out and mail it to me if he knew how to rightclick
He can always mail you a manuscript
And who decided to change the manual to include warnings to not drink the battery?
It sure as hell wasn’t my generation.
I don’t think any generation is “smarter” than the last at any given age.
I think each generation is less “ignorant” because they are more “informed” by the learnings and failures of the generations before.
I also think people stop adapting as they age, and intellect declines medically, leading to the impression that the younger are “smarter”.
I don’t think any generation is “smarter” than the last at any given age.
I think the latest generation is smarter in some technological aspects because they learn them in school. Older generations didn’t have that opportunity because those technologies didn’t exist then. When I have a technical question related to things like Iphones I always ask the youngest person that I know.
One advantage of older generations is that they actually lived during historic events while the young can only read an author’s interepretation of those events
The generation that fought fascism in the West is almost completely dead. And so, here we go again.
I think each generation is less “ignorant” because they are more “informed” by the learnings and failures of the generations before.
One has only to point a finger at the previous generation to figure out who is responsible for, “kids these days.”
Who’s job is it to teach common sense? If you find the future generation lacking, that’s probably your fault.
When I was a teenager, my dad gave me shit for not knowing how to change brake pads, and my response was “Who was supposed to teach me?”. Like, it’s not like I could afford a car working weekends, and he was always too busy to have me around whenever something went wrong. So next time he changed the brakes, he actuality taught me.
I just want to point something out: Knowing not to drink battery fluid is not common sense!
Common sense is something that anyone would “just know” by instinct. Like not running out on to a highway with vehicles traveling at high speed. No one needs to teach that because it’s obvious from a glance.
If someone had never encountered a highway and never heard of such a thing they might wander out onto one when there’s no traffic. Would that be a failing of common sense? No! Because that type of decision-making requires some education/experience.
Lead tastes sweet! I haven’t tried it (haha) but there’s a reason why loads of children get lead poisoning by eating it every year. If you didn’t know that it’s poisonous and haven’t been educated about not eating/tasting random things you might just try the lead acid of a car battery! Especially if it’s really old and has become less acidic (that’s what sulfation does: Reduces the acidity).
“Common sense” is actually just a practical form of, “basic education”. Not everyone gets it and everyone always has gaps in their knowledge. What’s common sense to one person isn’t to another.
TL;DR: Common sense is a myth. We’re all born ignorant.
To paraphrase an answer I once read: yes, we tend to introduce warnings against bad behaviours we detect and deprecate obsolete information.
In this case: I don’t need to tinker a valve in an engine nowadays. The fuel injection is done through an incredibly precise system, controlled by a computer. Even mechanics require specialized tools and equipments to fiddle with that part of an engine.
Car batteries have been built more and more to be maintenance-less; you buy it, run, when it dies you replace it and that is it. Battery acid is a thing and it is dangerous, hence the attempt to divert people from messing with it.
But because less and less people are prone to go into mechanics, the need to advise against tinkering with your battery really needs to be reinforced.
Warning labels are often first written in blood before taking form of paper and ink.
No there wasn’t.
Any time my father brings up stuff like this, I remind him that he and his brothers drove their car onto a frozen lake and almost broke through the ice, and more than once they bought tennis balls, soaked them in gasoline, and threw them at each other with welding gloves.
I know for a fact that he and his brothers did tons of dumb shit, and I won’t let him forget it even if he finds it convenient when comparing generations.
I’d ask how many people of his generations drank the battery acid that they had to make a warning about it.
