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.

    • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com
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      1 hour ago

      Well, nothing is 100% safe, and we allow plenty of things that are demonstrably unsafe to continue. So if you compare bike-car collisions against say, firearm suicides in the US, you’ll see that bike-car collisions aren’t that bad.

      The fundamental argument is that nothing is totally safe, but some things are safer than others.

      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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        59 minutes ago

        so by your logic since nothing is as bad as [choose any cause of death], we should just… give up on improving safety?