Society will never go fully paperless. If we would have it would have been around 1998. Though I suppose depending on which apocalypse scenario gets us, there will be a time when paper cuts are a rarity only suffered by the few brave souls who scavenge the ruins of the Before Times.
Someday, when society goes fully paperless, paper cuts will be a thing of the past
Submitted 20 hours ago by pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 15 hours ago
Dasus@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
-98?
How?
Mobile data connections were dogshit even here in Finland up until late 00’s.
recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
this is honestly a solid shower thought👍
musta had a great shower✨
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
Great except for my shampoo irritating the paper cut on my finger 😄
recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
I can see where your thought came from😄
hope it heals quickly!
dsilverz@thelemmy.club 7 hours ago
Yeah but the PCB inside the paperless device would be as sharp as a paper, not to mention the component thin legs such as electrolytic capacitors (although the majority of electronic components are tiny blocks surface-mounted, there are components that need to be welded in a THT (through-hole) fashion because their electrical contents can’t fit the small space of a SMD).
magikmw@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
By the way, anyone ever got a bread crust cut? I did. On my own baked bread.
tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 54 minutes ago
Inside my mouth, yeah
we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I’ve baked enough bread to know that sounds awful
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Considering I will probably never get to own a house, cardboard cuts will always be a thing.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Cardboard cuts make papercuts look like… papercuts.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 19 hours ago
I had to send mail to the government recently and got a freaking paper cut on my tongue as I picked the envelope glue to seal it. 😬
MMNT@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Use a damp sponge next time, unless you write a letter to your lover in the dragon realm. That one should contain your saliva.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 18 hours ago
unless you write a letter to your lover in the dragon realm
Tell me more! How does one acquire a lover in the dragon realm?
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Is this a think skin problem im too calloused to understand?
doughless@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I’m clumsy enough that I’ve got a “paper cut” from aluminum foil while preparing dinner.
gasgiant@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Are the cuts from packaging different then?
Never heard of cardboard cuts…
Fondots@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Cardboard cuts are absolutely a thing, like a paper cut on steroids.
I used to work in a warehouse and spent most of my day opening, resealing, making, and breaking down boxes. Spend enough time around them and the boxes will get you.
gasgiant@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
Yeah but does anyone call them that? I’d still call that kind of fine cut a paper cut.
Never heard anyone say “ow I’ve got a cardboard cut”
pyre@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
if a papercut is like being cut with a switchblade, a cardboard cut is like being cut with a saw.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 19 hours ago
Paper cut is just one of the way the tree ghost exact revenge, there’s plenty of opportunities.
Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Aren’t they already?
Botzo@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I got my pet meds handed to me in a paper bag and somehow managed to give myself a paper cut getting the cat into the car while holding this bag. It was the first paper cut I’ve had in years, and my reaction was “I wonder if this is still recyclable.” Still better than plastic bags.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
This post was inspired by me wondering how I got one. I’m pretty sure it was from opening junk mail, one of the few ways I interact with paper anymore.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
I doubt society will go fully paperless, there are times when you need a thing that can be crushed, folded, whatever and doesn’t run out of battery, so unless e-ink technology develops in a very specific way I don’t think every eventually will be replaced, and even without purely functional applications I think art would never ever go fully paperless for many data security (leaking art before it’s complete), economic (things are more expensive when they’re limited in supply, and making either legal or illegal copies of digital things is so much easier) and sentimental reasons (it’s just nicer to have something physical) reasons