Generation war is nonsense.
There was a time when everyone had common sense
Submitted 5 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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laserm@lemmy.world 5 months ago
d00ery@lemmy.world 5 months ago
many engines do not require this procedure. It depends on whether the engine is equipped with hydro-compensators: these are devices designed for automatic adjustment of the thermal gap. They work at the expense of the oil entering them from the engine (that is why, actually, and are called “hydro-compensators”) and completely exclude the necessity of periodic manual adjustment of valves.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 months ago
I’ve never met an engine that doesn’t need valve adjustments, even with hydraulic lifters.
Now the adjustment period is far longer today, like in the 100k miles range.
Just be glad you rarely see shim/bucket adjustment these days. Boy was that a bitch.
TwentySeven@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The engines I’ve seen with hydraulic lifters do not have anything to adjust.
Unless you’re talking about cleaning out the oil ports when they start to stick, but I wouldn’t call that an adjustment.
Could you give an example? I’m curious
(Not a professional, just interested in cars)
Pippipartner@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I never met an engine.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 months ago
I don’t think any generation is “smarter” than the last at any given age.
I think each generation is less “ignorant” because they are more “informed” by the learnings and failures of the generations before.
I also think people stop adapting as they age, and intellect declines medically, leading to the impression that the younger are “smarter”.
riskable@programming.dev 5 months ago
I think each generation is less “ignorant” because they are more “informed” by the learnings and failures of the generations before.
One has only to point a finger at the previous generation to figure out who is responsible for, “kids these days.”
Mickey7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t think any generation is “smarter” than the last at any given age.
I think the latest generation is smarter in some technological aspects because they learn them in school. Older generations didn’t have that opportunity because those technologies didn’t exist then. When I have a technical question related to things like Iphones I always ask the youngest person that I know.
One advantage of older generations is that they actually lived during historic events while the young can only read an author’s interepretation of those events
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The generation that fought fascism in the West is almost completely dead. And so, here we go again.
gencha@lemm.ee 5 months ago
So electric cars don’t have valves. Oh, you didn’t even think that far ahead with your boomer brain? Try to figure out why they put the warning in the manual. With all that leaded gasoline fogging up the brains, it’s fair to assume grandpa drank from a battery on a dare.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ouch, the edge!!
sirico@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Older vehicles easier to work on, go out of spec more often.
pyre@lemmy.world 5 months ago
if everyone has common sense back then we wouldn’t be in the middle of this shitshow today
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
/boomerhumor, because every generation that comes after is stupid.
obre@lemmy.world 5 months ago
OK Tucker
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 5 months ago
Maybe the previous generation of manual writers didn’t have the common sense to realize that a certain subset of people out there are stupid enough to drink the battery juice if you don’t warn them not to.
rubicon@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
The label isn’t there to prevent people from drinking battery juice. The same people who would drink it would never read a manual, let alone the warnings in it.
It’s only there to limit liability.
droporain@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Please do society a favor and remove the warning labels.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 5 months ago
I see this sentiment a lot, but honestly I think it would actually do the reverse of what people suggest. “Common sense” isnt really some inherit knowledge that everyone not stupid knows, its actually just stuff that we expect everyone to have learned at some point, presumably in fairly early childhood. But learning stuff requires being taught, and its easy enough for something to just have never come up for someone when they were a kid, because there are so many things to know. Having an explicit warning somewhere is both another source of information in case someone just never got the memo and a prompt for someone unfamiliar with the danger, be it a kid or some ignorant adult, to potentially ask someone why that thing is dangerous. Obviously this is a bit of an extreme example since drinking unknown things is a foolish thing to do in general, but it makes more sense to just apply the labels when in doubt than spend effort making a judgement for every dangerous thing and potentially missing something. I’d bet that having warning labels on stuff actually slightly increases the amount of common sense in society.
Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Before Reagan
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 months ago
This is the best way I can put it.
Before Reagan was elected, middle class was defined as one income supporting a family of four. In those days $1 million was still considered a vast fortune. By the time Bush Sr. was voted out, middle class had been redefined as two incomes to run the house, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
wiccan2@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s because in the last 50 years someone somewhere was stupid enough to drink the battery. You can’t blame that on the latest generation.
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No more boomerposting
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 months ago
There was a time when everyone had common sense
Oh, OP, you’re such a merry jester!
Mac@mander.xyz 5 months ago
OK boomer
superkret@feddit.org 5 months ago
50 years ago was 1985.
Feeling old yet?groknull@programming.dev 5 months ago
/remindme in ten years
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
We’ve actually been misunderstanding the phrase this whole time. It’s not “common sense” and referring to things everyone should know; it’s actually “common cents” and is about those take-a-penny-leave-a-penny things. 😌
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Okay, Dad.
BearGun@ttrpg.network 5 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_sense
The origin of the term “common sense” is in the works of Aristotle.
Right, I’m sure Aristotle knew a lot about take-a-penny-leave-a-penny and cents… Unless you’re just memeing, in which case ignore me
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
honestly, im at a point where i’ve become anti-humanist.
The political satire is strong this year, and it shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.
Perhaps the world will crash and burn, who knows, exciting times we live in!
kreskin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ive been voting giant meteor for a while now and it has not showed up.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
it will come eventually, it is quite literally, a matter of time.
nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
father i cannot click the book
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Ok, lead boy.
Shou@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Common sense is limited by the population size that shares the same way of thinking.
What’s common sense to one group, isn’t to the other. Common sense is people specific, not global.
nomous@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s an interesting observation I’d never thought about before. You’re right, “common” just refers to the common culture around you. The common sense approach to something in Germany might be entirely different than common sense solution in Japan.
Shou@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Like taking off your shoes before entering someone’s home. Why bring street dirt into a living space? Common sense in many asian countries, non-existant sense in the netherlands.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
And for what it’s worth those are the people you know have to argue with over whether or not drinking the contents of the battery is a good thing just because the manual told you not to.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
And who decided to change the manual to include warnings to not drink the battery?
It sure as hell wasn’t my generation.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Some one made the KEY comment about lawsuits. Today people sue over anything. Like you are so stupid you spill hot coffee on yourself. (coffee is hot) and then blame the people that you bought the coffee from. In earlier days simple logic was accepted and dumb people wouldn’t be able to find ambulance chasers to file lawsuits for them. Today “instructions” to guide the dumber people are actually to prevent lawsuits.
Pippipartner@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
The story with the hot coffee is a capitalist trope. Serving 88°C coffee to someone who than suffers third degree burns (prognosis: Scarring, contractures, amputation (early excision recommended)) due to a spill is a valid law suit. …wikipedia.org/…/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurant…
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Ok boomer
Otakulad@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As someone else pointed out, it was a justified lawsuit. Additionally, they were told the coffee was too hot and should lower the temperature and they refused.
The woman had to sue, and only asked for her medical bills to be paid, around $18k. Again, McDonald’s refused. They then hired people to act like this was an attack, when they knew they were wrong.
It was the jury who decided that $2 million was what the woman was owed. Also, I heard that was 2 days of hamburger sales. The fact McDonald’s is still around makes me think they recovered.
Turret3857@infosec.pub 5 months ago
The lawsuits are not about being stupid, theyre about money. Lawyers won that lawsuit, and they didn’t do it by being stupid.
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The problem are the shitty modern cars that are partly hard to repair so you have to pay for parts and service, partly because they want to sell you bs “features”, while they also break constantly, because they are made to be as cheap as possible. Brought to you by the generation that now makes fun about people stuck in the system they helped to create