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 7 months ago by pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 7 months ago
Dasus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
-98?
How?
Mobile data connections were dogshit even here in Finland up until late 00’s.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Considering I will probably never get to own a house, cardboard cuts will always be a thing.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Cardboard cuts make papercuts look like… papercuts.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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?
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months 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
doughless@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m clumsy enough that I’ve got a “paper cut” from aluminum foil while preparing dinner.
gasgiant@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Are the cuts from packaging different then?
Never heard of cardboard cuts…
Fondots@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
Paper cut is just one of the way the tree ghost exact revenge, there’s plenty of opportunities.
magikmw@lemm.ee 7 months ago
By the way, anyone ever got a bread crust cut? I did. On my own baked bread.
we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I’ve baked enough bread to know that sounds awful
tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Inside my mouth, yeah
Etterra@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh there’s plenty of paper and non-paper out there to do the same damage. Ever cut yourself on cardboard? How about those plastic straps they put around heavy boxes and packages? Or my personal favorite, splinters and burrs. Glass, rock, metal, sheets of plastic - anything thin will do if you hit it at just the right angle. It’s a tossup as to which bonus location is worse, under the fingernail or across the finger webbing. Or if you’re REALLY unlucky, the eye. a scratched cornea is no joke. Wear your safety glasses kids.
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I got a paper cut from grabbing a cornstalk this week.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
That’s a cornstalk cut, duh
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 7 months ago
well what about when society goes full cornless ?
Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Aren’t they already?
Botzo@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months 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.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Is this a think skin problem im too calloused to understand?
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Imagine the paradise slaves were living under, they could never be the victims of pay cuts.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh, they’ll find a way. Let me tell you mylar papercuts leave nice scars.
recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
this is honestly a solid shower thought👍
musta had a great shower✨
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Great except for my shampoo irritating the paper cut on my finger 😄
recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I can see where your thought came from😄
hope it heals quickly!