this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months 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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the classic sad onion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

85% sad onion. Secured.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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.