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A California Question
I’ve spent a lot of time in California. It’s a beautiful state.
I’ve been everywhere, from the beauty of San Diego’s Torrey Pines to the rocky shores of Pebble Beach. I’ve done football in the LA Coliseum, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, and campuses of Stanford and Berkeley. If you live there, you are both blessed and cursed. And I have a question.
Tonight I bought a new band for my Apple Watch and this was on the package:
Just where the hell do you people in California wear your watches? And how tight do you wear the band?!?
Published in General
I wonder whether the one year limited warranty is on the watch band or on.. um…the appendage … which hosts said watch band.
Yet another reason not to move to California. I don’t want to have to unzip my fly to see what time it is…
Of all the people in the world, the warning is for california residents only; not even tourists, but specifically residents. No other people on planet earth should heed this warning, just strictly californians.
Where does Peter Robinson wear His?
You wouldn’t appear out of place in San Francisco. Just don’t wear a Rolex.. a snatch and grab would be brutal.
In California?
When @jameslileks visited some years ago, he remarked “California is beautiful. But it seems like everything here causes cancer.”
And he’s absolutely right. There are signs *everywhere* warning about chemicals that can cause cancer and birth defects.
This is due to California Proposition 65 , which leaves corporations open to lawsuits if they don’t comply.
Perhaps one of our legal eagles can explain it.
Yeah, but just think about having to rewind it.
Funny
This. They stick that Prop. 65 warning in the most absurd places. Because you can never know what some jury might award trillions of whatever the monetary unit is in use at the time, for some “contamination” his/her/their great to the nth grandparent might have been exposed to, 150 years in the future.
I had to make a simple image for sharing. You’re welcome. :-)
California would make it a lot easier on everybody if under the warning label, they had a picture of the periodic table . . .
It was a stupid proposition made to sound benign when it was voted in. Because of CA’s lawfare propensity, however, lawyers interpreted the proposition very conservatively. Thus the plethora of warnings, which no one pays any attention to, but corporations continue to provide, lest some attorney use it as a pretext to sue.
Proposition 65 is one of the worst safety regulations out there. Any detectable level of chemicals that cause cancer or reproductive harm get the label… but do not list what the chemicals are. This can include chemicals that do not cause cancer in the form presented – sand / silica is only a risk when fine particles are inhaled, and ethanol is only causes cancer in association with drinking booze.
Danger! Fatal if Taken Seriously. Harmful in contact with Government.
How do the girls wear them?
There is a benefit if it is self winding. Many satisfied women will concur.
Winnemucca?
That warning is on every public or commercial building in California. Has been since Prop. 65 passed many years ago.
Like in Pulp Fiction?
I get the impression that it’s not technically “any detectable level” (which would eventually mean “one atom detected in a mountain of material” as detection methods steadily improve) but rather “1-in-100,000 risk of cancer assuming lifetime exposure”. However, the fact that an ordinary extension cord must be so labeled tells us that the “lifetime exposure” must mean “a lifetime sucking on the disassembled components of the extension cord”.
To be fair, there is at least one molecule there of everything, and virtually everything does indeed cause cancer at the right overdose, as Bruce Ames showed years ago.
I refuse to wear a watch where Californians apparently do, because it might interfere with the full display of the tattoo I have there, which reads: WELCOME TO SCHNECTADY, HAVE A NICE DAY.
Or Commander Thomas Dodge.
Warning!
LIFE CAUSES DEATH!
Don’t go trans-phobic.
Why on a watch band I don’t know. But the warning is generally true. California is harmful to human reproduction since the state actively promotes killing as many human babies as possible.
At the same time, California recently banned the sales of incandescent light bulbs. As of earlier this year, I can’t order regular incandescent bulbs on Amazon, or anywhere for that matter.
So they’ve effectively replace a product with no cancer or birth defect issues, with LED or fluorescent bulbs, which do.
And they do it under the guise of saving energy, which it doesn’t.
I can’t help but believe there’s a juicy class action lawsuit waiting in there somewhere.
Pffft. Like you’ve never used natures sundial before.
Long time California resident and Apple Watch owner here (and I like both of them).
Two words: vibrate mode.
But it’s all been done via politics/legislation, hasn’t it? Doesn’t seem like they could get sued for that.
TMI.