Marmite crumpets shouldn’t exist!

What other cosmic horrors are you creating in your kitchen‽

They should rename it then! The Steam OS version should be “GPD FTW” 👍

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.”

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.

The problem isn’t the lawsuits it’s the cost. Litigating anything is prohibitively expensive. Nobody but the rich and businesses can afford that so what you end up with is some huge percentage of cases being settled out of court without anyone (other than the parties involved) knowing about it.

It’s a big reason why settlement figures and jury damage awards are rising… You have to pay for the lawyers!

…which is interesting because lawyer pay is actually dropping and has been for some time now. The biggest firms are collecting all the money and most of that is flowing to the top. So most lawyers are in the same boat as the rest of us where wages aren’t keeping pace with inflation so they’re getting poorer and poorer every year.

That’s happening despite the fact that litigation costs are rising. Something is severely broken in regards to the economics of our criminal and civil justice system.

That’s the thing that hasn’t changed: Some folks have a DIY attitude/initiative and others have a defeatist mentality.

I have no doubt that if you took someone from 50 years ago who could disassemble their car’s engine and put it back together again and raised them up in today’s environment they’d be the ones learning Python and how to fool around with Linux.

Maybe amateur radio folks (from 50 years ago) would be more appropriate for the analogy but you get the idea. Smarts and ignorance are orthogonal concepts.

Give us a standalone VR headset that runs SteamOS and the world of VR will change overnight. Meta will instantly become a minor player!