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 1 month ago by pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
-98?
How?
Mobile data connections were dogshit even here in Finland up until late 00’s.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Considering I will probably never get to own a house, cardboard cuts will always be a thing.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Cardboard cuts make papercuts look like… papercuts.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
I’m clumsy enough that I’ve got a “paper cut” from aluminum foil while preparing dinner.
gasgiant@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Are the cuts from packaging different then?
Never heard of cardboard cuts…
Fondots@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Paper cut is just one of the way the tree ghost exact revenge, there’s plenty of opportunities.
magikmw@lemm.ee 1 month ago
By the way, anyone ever got a bread crust cut? I did. On my own baked bread.
we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I’ve baked enough bread to know that sounds awful
tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Inside my mouth, yeah
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
I got a paper cut from grabbing a cornstalk this week.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
That’s a cornstalk cut, duh
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 month ago
well what about when society goes full cornless ?
dsilverz@thelemmy.club 1 month 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).
Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Aren’t they already?
Botzo@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Is this a think skin problem im too calloused to understand?
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Imagine the paradise slaves were living under, they could never be the victims of pay cuts.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh, they’ll find a way. Let me tell you mylar papercuts leave nice scars.
recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
this is honestly a solid shower thought👍
musta had a great shower✨
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Great except for my shampoo irritating the paper cut on my finger 😄
recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I can see where your thought came from😄
hope it heals quickly!