Doesn't really matter since food dye is completely unimportant. Candy, cakes, and other foods will taste exactly the same without Red #3.
Better to eliminate any potential risks to ourselves and our pets/livestock than keep it around so Big Company can get better sales with their bright red whatever.
Nobody is learning Mandarin. Not even the Chinese! LOL
They're all relying on automatic translation and even the Chinese are using speech recognition to enter characters on their phones. The written language is rapidly being forgotten.
...which is the destiny of all pictographic and logographic languages so it shouldn't be seen as a bad thing, necessarily đ¤ˇ
Yeah but under the current misinformation curve the people who rely on government support the most will direct their anger at those that are trying to help them.
Says the guy that won't allow Meta Quest developers the same level of access to their own hardware. Example: How would someone develop a 3rd party controller for the Quest VR headsets? You can't. They haven't exposed that API (or the cameras fully!).
They don't even let you set the clock on your Quest headset! Need to change timezones? Factory Reset
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.
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Doesn't really matter since food dye is completely unimportant. Candy, cakes, and other foods will taste exactly the same without Red #3.
Better to eliminate any potential risks to ourselves and our pets/livestock than keep it around so Big Company can get better sales with their bright red whatever.