this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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What is this thing?

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[–] forgedchaos@sh.itjust.works 90 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 36 points 1 year 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 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 year ago (1 children)

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 year 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 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 86 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah, the classic sad onion.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Blue blistering barnacles! You're right!

[–] Onii-Chan@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Came here for the Ashens reference and was not disappointed.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] mynachmadarch@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

And hand that list to the lockpicking lawyer right?

[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

85% of the time, it works every time

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

It means this product was made with 85% child slavery

[–] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago

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

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Tintin in jail 85% of the time?

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BILLIONS OF BLISTERING BLUE BARNACLES!!!

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Got it, captain Haddock!

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's no death sentence in France

Edit: oops he's Belgian. But still.

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

A guess? 85% childproof.

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

85% baby in every lock

[–] Raab@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 points 1 year 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 year 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.