Re: Re: Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Computing
  By: Mayayana to Richard Falken on Fri Mar 19 2021 10:46 am

 >   I think you're taking too much an engineer's point of
 > view. What about gardening? Cooking? You want
 > people to be forced to have the kind of expertise you
 > have, but that's a very abstruse kind of expertise. You're
 > looking at it as a techie. If that makes sense then why
 > can't a florist refuse to sell you a rose bush unless you
 > can show that you know how to take care of it? That
 > gets silly very quickly.

I am taking a tech point of view because I assume most people on this platform
are microchipheads.

Fun fact: I was actually thinking about cooking and cooking tools too, but I
didn't include it in my earlier post because it wasalready too much. But since
you have brought the subject, there are lots of people using cooking implements
and electrodomestics in dangerous ways, and nobody seems to be addressing this.

Here in the Hospital they nearly caused a fire because they put something with
a metallic can in a microwave, for example.

I think you don't have to be an expert to understand that you don't put metal
in microwaves, or use them to dry your cat after bath. However, you need to
have a basic level of awareness. Electrodomestics in the EU always come with
lots of disclaimers and invisible safety ingrained, but none of that matters
the least if you are braindead stupid.

Fools are great at beating foolproof systems.

My horses do my gardening for me for the most part, so I let them be the
experts in mowing the lawn. That only shifts the burden on my part: now instead
of needing to know how to manage a lawn mower, I need to know how to make
horses happy.



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