I’ve always thought of Australia as a benign, entertaining, social-safety-net sort of insane, as opposed to the seething, grift-addled infectious insanity of Florida.
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It’s worth pointing out that no one is rushing toward that collapsing bounce house in the news report. One woman is chasing a dog, and everyone else is just looking around. There is zero reaction to the bounce house of death in video.
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Or, you know, properly test the claim. (“Honey, I need the toddlers for science, I swear!”)
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Disregarding everything else, most things fail safe when power is removed. Is it beyond the wit of man to fit a bouncy castle with a valve so that if the power fails it deflates only very slowly? Even air mattresses have that.
I’m not excusing the guy, just pointing out that perhaps more consideration should be given to intrinsic safety in something to be used by children.
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Florida is full of people who moved there to get away from children. There are many places there that do not want kids around and many people wish they lived in one of these areas. Many towns do not even have schools.
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But they’re more than happy to continue collecting Social Security, which requires those younger generations paying in to stay solvent. Bad education = bad career choices = lower taxes paid = less in the SS fund.
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And in an even more fundamental sense requires younger generations if you want to have anything to spend that money ON. You can’t have a society comprised entirely of retired people; somebody’s still going to have to grow the food and stock the shelves and run the hospitals and whatnot.
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There’s been one documented death from suffocation out of the 65 deaths in bounce houses in the US between 2003 and 2013. The most likely thing to happen when you unplug the bounce house is that all the children bouncing around suddenly hit a hard surface and suffer injuries.
So while it’s not a “death trap” in the literal sense, it definitely fits the bill for a death trap in the hyperbolic sense it is always used in conversation.
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Jackass bouncy house operator fails to account for possibility that power loss kills their kids.
Or maybe everyone is just living with a reasonable amount of risk to live free range lives instead of staying on their couch seething.
Most of the jobs you’ll find there are service jobs for which an education isn’t really required. There are many communities that are comprised of strictly retired people. My Mom lives in a community in New Jersey where you have to be 58 to live in and you’ll find many towns in America like this. If you are young and want to find a job in a supermarket you live in one of the neighboring communities where there are no age restrictions.
This is pretty unsophisticated nonsense.
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I’m not sure why everyone seems to hate Voyager so much, either. Then again, I don’t understand all the love for DS9. That show bored me to tears.
This is getting painfully off topic…but how much is there really to say about this neighbor?
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