• atro_city
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    364 months ago

    People will start cutting themselves on razorthin smartphones instead.

  • 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.

  • Mayor Poopington
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    174 months ago

    Considering I will probably never get to own a house, cardboard cuts will always be a thing.

  • @1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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    124 months 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

  • Annoyed_🦀 A
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    Paper cut is just one of the way the tree ghost exact revenge, there’s plenty of opportunities.

    • @Fondots@lemmy.world
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      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
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        74 months 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”

        • all-knight-party
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          74 months ago

          We do at my warehouse. They are usually worse than a standard papercut so the distinction does say something

        • @Fondots@lemmy.world
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          We definitely called them cardboard cuts, can’t say how universal it is but every job I’ve where I’ve handled a lot of boxes it seems to be in pretty common use

        • astrsk
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          14 months ago

          My friend and I call it a box cut because they’re often worse than a normal paper cut due to fibers that can cause additional irritation unless cleaned out.

      • astrsk
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        34 months ago

        Don’t forget the extreme dryness ptsd_dog.png

        • @Fondots@lemmy.world
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          Definitely, normally my skin is pretty resilient, never really been someone who needs to spend money on moisturizers and such, I could probably just about wash my hands with acetone and steel wool and be none the worse for it.

          But there were a few times when I worked there that my hands were getting noticeably dryer than usual, pretty sure if my skin were any more delicate I would have been in pretty rough shape.

    • @pyre@lemmy.world
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      54 months ago

      if a papercut is like being cut with a switchblade, a cardboard cut is like being cut with a saw.

  • Doll_Tow_Jet-ski
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    74 months ago

    @pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de

    I can see in the future paper cuts becoming an Olympic sport, like sword fighting. People of the future will stand in a ring with two pieces of paper and will try to make a cut on their opponent’s piece of artificially grown skin, placed at the center of their chest. People will cheer as the athletes try to cut their opponent with an ancient piece of technology

  • @Etterra@lemmy.world
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    64 months 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.