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The playgrounds I see now while being safer look way more fun and the kids actually use them. There is one near me that while the ground is this almost foam padding the actual playground looks like something from American Ninja Warrior. No kid would pick a bunch of scrap metal over it if given the choice.
This whole thread reminds me of Danny Carvey's Grumpy Old Man character from old SNL. Back in my day the playground was 30 foot off the ground and if you fell off they had to amputate your leg.
The whole thing is so strange. I think back to the odd videos from China at the very start of people collapsing in the street. Only the first videos the world seen of the pandemic and they had nothing to do with reality but no one cares. No big deal.
"The stock market went down today because of X"
We can't help ourselves even when we know this is a complete nonsensical over simplification.
I can't imagine any war in the last 2-3k years only has two causal variables in reality.
Of course, everyone drinking moonshine is also going to lead to more alcoholics than people just having a glass of wine socially.
I use to be able to smoke once a month and not even think about it the next day. Any modern strain I wake up the next day thinking "I should smoke more weed!". Just crazy.
It is almost like we can actually build web apps that do more than CRUD.