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3 months agoIt was a really poor design decision making it look so much like the ‘other-destruct’ button
It was a really poor design decision making it look so much like the ‘other-destruct’ button
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/80d060a0-9f1b-4779-b458-0d28ae8a5473.jpeg
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Basically this
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I think we’re just kind of bad at evaluating risks of a relatively low order. In the US, E coli kills some 3000 people a year, and most of us have exposure to that risk. It might just be that people don’t see much of a difference between chances in the range of, say, 0.1% and 0.00001% of serious illness.
Girlfriend at the time noticed this on my phone and had some choice questions for me.
About half were wiped out by flu, measles, and chicken pox when contact was made in the 80s.