• vrek
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    1 day ago

    I think you drastically overestimating 99% vs 1% at scale. For example look at the Chicago Tylenol case. Atleast 7 people died. 31 million packages of Tylenol were recalled, the entire line of powder filled capsules was eliminated, nationwide redesign of medication packages was done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders

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      15 hours ago

      The question was about “how bad” though, and deaths are pretty bad. We wouldn’t ban restaurants if 99% served delicious food and 1% served slop.

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        12 hours ago

        Really? If 1% of customers of a restaurant got food poisoning… Well that’s exactly why we have a health department and food inspectors

        Now if by slop you just mean “not delicious” people would probably stop going and stop recommending. Some places may be able eat that loss(pun intended) but many would go out of business. Related, sorta, there have studies that one aspect of McDonald’s that added to its huge success is consistently being same basically everywhere. Yeah there’s some regional differences but you can eat a big Mac basically everywhere. And they are basically the same.

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        1 day ago

        No, I don’t think it was an opinion. My point is in a lot of cases something really bad would never hit 1%. Like commercial airlines, most do several hundreds of flights a day(just a guess but for the large ones seems reasonable across all airports). If one airline had say 3 crashes in a year I can’t imagine them still being active.

        Population of us in 2024 was 340,000,000. If it effected 1% that would be 3.4 million people. That’s like 1/2 of the holocaust victims.

        I believe most companies would be done at 0.01% if that. Only company I can think of with that body count is nestle… I don’t even think Raytheon has killed that many.

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            12 hours ago

            Possible but back when smoking was much more common (not like 2010s, I mean like 1930s when a pack was included in mre kits given to soldiers in ww2 and the Flintstones cartoon had sponsored segments where Fred and barney had “smoke breaks” and talked about the “smooth and delicious taste” of I think it was camel cigarettes ) There were many more companies making cigarettes. It was only really consolidated in I think the 80s due to lawsuits for causing cancer, false advertising, lying to congress etc. Most of the companies couldn’t afford all the fines and were bought out.