honestly, im at a point where i've become anti-humanist.

The political satire is strong this year, and it shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.

Perhaps the world will crash and burn, who knows, exciting times we live in!

I'd make a "print a pdf" joke, but honestly, that's already an unnecessary "skill".

Sadly, technology has moved towards single finger usability and thrown out features in the process. Printing a PDF is now easy, because there's a big button (that sells you a cloud subscription for some reason), but it's also the only thing the app does.

Stupid people always existed. The difference is now they have TikTok and twitter, so we can see their stupidity more.

Older vehicles easier to work on, go out of spec more often.

OK Tucker

Generation war is nonsense.

Any time my father brings up stuff like this, I remind him that he and his brothers drove their car onto a frozen lake and almost broke through the ice, and more than once they bought tennis balls, soaked them in gasoline, and threw them at each other with welding gloves.

I know for a fact that he and his brothers did tons of dumb shit, and I won't let him forget it even if he finds it convenient when comparing generations.

Isn’t this more of making sure to cover all bases in case someone gets an idea of doing something dumb so they can sue? Especially in the US because it’s the most litigious country in the world.

Maybe the previous generation of manual writers didn't have the common sense to realize that a certain subset of people out there are stupid enough to drink the battery juice if you don't warn them not to.

father i cannot click the book

That's because in the last 50 years someone somewhere was stupid enough to drink the battery. You can't blame that on the latest generation.

I don't think any generation is "smarter" than the last at any given age.

I think each generation is less "ignorant" because they are more "informed" by the learnings and failures of the generations before.

I also think people stop adapting as they age, and intellect declines medically, leading to the impression that the younger are "smarter".

Well guess why we have those warnings, they came from somewhere.

So electric cars don't have valves. Oh, you didn't even think that far ahead with your boomer brain? Try to figure out why they put the warning in the manual. With all that leaded gasoline fogging up the brains, it's fair to assume grandpa drank from a battery on a dare.