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[-] forgedchaos@sh.itjust.works 86 points 1 month ago

May be something related to child resistant packaging. From the CPSC FAQ on the Poison Prevention Packaging ACT "For a package to be child-resistant, at least 85% of tested children must not be able to open the package during the first 5 minutes of the test".https://www.cpsc.gov/FAQ/PPPA

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 month ago

The bad news is your home is gone and your child with it in the massive flameball. The good news is, while we can’t quite say your kid was gifted

[-] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists (in reference to why the Yosemite garbage cans are difficult to use)

[-] Case@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 month ago

Worked in Yellowstone.

The bears are smarter than the majority of tourists.

Humans, being able to read and having signs posted in multiple languages for them, choose to ignore the various hazards and blunder through them.

Bears, only rarely, if ever, find themselves in trouble with natural features. And they can't read the warning signs.

[-] TheDorkfromYork@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Design a camp ground so that people who don't read the rules naturally fall in a pit that the rules warned about. Clear out the pit about sunset, and bus the pit folk to a motel.

[-] Soku@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Is that pit lined with mattresses so that those peeps will just isolate themselves for a day? I read the first sentence and nodded in approval: let the natural selection take the wheel but the second sentence made it much more humane.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I remember my wife asking our kid to open some "child-proof" packaging for her.

[-] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 83 points 1 month ago

Ah, the classic sad onion.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 53 points 1 month ago
[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You guys are way off, that's mostly TinTin on lockdown.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Blue blistering barnacles! You're right!

[-] Onii-Chan@kbin.social 2 points 1 month ago

Came here for the Ashens reference and was not disappointed.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

I believe it is indicating that the child lock is only 85% effective.

How the hell they arrived at that number we may never know, but I'll bet you it's buried on page 4,987,253 in clause 6, subsection 8 of European Union Product Safety Report 156.421a. Or something.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

They just had a hundred babies try to pick the lock. Most of 'em couldn't do it.

[-] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 month ago

... but those 15. We've gotta put them on some sort of watchlist.

[-] mynachmadarch@kbin.social 6 points 1 month ago

And hand that list to the lockpicking lawyer right?

[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

85% of the time, it works every time

[-] UsernameHere@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

It means this product was made with 85% child slavery

[-] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 month ago

85% of the child laborers who made this product were unable to escape.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Tintin in jail 85% of the time?

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

BILLIONS OF BLISTERING BLUE BARNACLES!!!

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 5 points 1 month ago

Got it, captain Haddock!

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

He's lucky he didn't get the electric chair for what he did.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's no death sentence in France

Edit: oops he's Belgian. But still.

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

A guess? 85% childproof.

[-] Raab@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Could be 85% alcohol and to keep locked away from children

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

85% baby in every lock

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

That baby icon clearly doesn't like fire very much. Or maybe it's mourning that it only has a 15%, per attempt, at stealing fire from the gods.

[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Where did you find this? What is the graphic to the left?

I don't think it's related, but there is a brand of sewing/embrodery machines called Baby Lock (as in smaller, home use version of an industrial overlocker sewing machine). Its logo is just the words Baby Lock inside an oval, nothing with babies or locks.

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