Replacing a broken set of blinds in my house and apparently no one sells the old standard kind where you pull the cord to raise them, I guess because kids and/or pets could tangle in the cord? Bit of an education in miniblinds today.

  • @[email protected]
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    -35 hours ago

    Anything is lethal when you give it to a million people. This is the main reason I take issue with pointing out individual examples of for example autonomous vehicle crashes and treating that as an evidence for why they’re inherently dangerous. Almost nothing is 100% safe. I bet there are dozens of people suffocating to their pillows each year.

    • @acosmichippo
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      135 hours ago

      Are you saying we should not have safety regulations just because we can’t make everything 100% safe?

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      54 hours ago

      So by your logic if a collision from bicycle or even from people running isn’t 100% safe, then it’s as dangerous as car?

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]
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      35 hours ago

      Username checks out. If they weren’t so awful, maybe people would care about defending them, but there’s just all-around awful. They’re uglier, harder to use, and seem to frequently get damaged (probably mostly from people trying to fight with them or just bending them out of the way because damaging them is worth it to avoid dealing with them…

      • @[email protected]
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        051 minutes ago

        There’s always roller blinds for the ones among us to whom mini blinds are too difficult to use.

        • Flying Squid
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          114 minutes ago

          Is it that they’re “too difficult to use” or is it just that they’re a pain in the ass? Because it’s the latter in my experience.