It’s cardboard, not depleted uranium. How the fuck is it so dangerous I must dispose of it if damaged? The entire point of the product is for the furry psychopath that lives with me to damage it. It literally has no other reason to exist.

  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
    76·
    3 months ago

    The whole “discard if damaged” is likely just standard cover-your-ass legalese which the lawyers will copy-paste on every single product they sell, including this one.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      28·
      3 months ago

      It’s this.

      Lawyers: put the warnings on everything. Managers: what warnings? Lawyers: the warnings. Managers: yeah but Lawyers: on everything.

      • idunnololz@lemmy.world
        15·
        3 months ago

        WARNING: This product contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          2·
          3 months ago

          It’s like on medication when it says something along the lines of, do not take this medication if you are allergic to this medication or think you might be allergic to this medication.

          Good now it’s your fault if you have an allergic reaction.

    • Heydo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I would imagine this same label is applied to all of their products as a cost savings measure.

      • Sludge@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        3 months ago

        These things actually only degrade as your cat uses them in America. Elsewhere the cardboard doesn’t mix with hair and fall off into little cardboard chunks that are attractive for small children to eat. Also, the structural integrity actually only gets stronger in other parts of the world, so you’re actually encouraged to step on it, as after some play and what might seem like structural damage to a piece of cardboard, it can actually support the weight of a fully grown adult.

        • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
          8·
          3 months ago

          Honestly my issue with the way the US handles these things is that if wealth was distributed more equitably and fluidly we wouldn’t need to be half as litigious.

          If getting your car damaged didn’t mean your only transportation to and from work being nonfunctional in a way that would require several months worth of wages from that job to fix, you wouldn’t need to focus as much on who specifically changed lanes wrong, you’d just fix it. And if you could just go to the doctor and get care, and easily take time off work to heal, a little bit of muscle tension would be easy to catch, treat, and heal up from well before the possibility of lifelong and career ending injuries came into question.

          If we were able to have the resources and time to just handle most small things, we wouldn’t have to be constantly holding every individual working class individual personally liable for which direction they sneeze in. Litigation could be saved for serious and repeat offenders. But no, squeezing every last dime out of the working class is a feature, not a bug.

          • Sludge@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            3 months ago

            Ok, I’ll bite. So no warning labels? I understand that this is being interpreted as a result of litigation. If there’s not a warning label on a car seat or crib for your newborn… Honestly, why would I need to make sure there aren’t blankets in the crib or that the mattress isn’t too close to my space heater? If the mattress catches on fire or my child suffocates because they’re too small to rotate onto their back but their airway was obstructed by the comfy furry blankets I put into their crib - look, I just wanted them to be comfortable!

            I may have lost my baby, but there’s no point in suing anyone. I should have known better! There were no warning labels. I’ll just sleep it off - a life lost, but nobody to blame. It’s chill, all good!

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        You only hear about the ridiculous lawsuits. Local lawyer used to explain it on the radio all the time.

        • Media doesn’t report on the 99.98% of boring, and meritorious, lawsuits
        • Judges toss frivolous cases
        • Lawyers are loath to bring frivolous cases due to reputational harm, even disbarment

        Our sense of risk is absurdly out of whack with reality.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          2·
          3 months ago

          According to a friend who’s a lawyer she once had to explain to someone that she can’t sue her landlord because she slipped on a wet floor, since it was her house and therefore her wet floor. The landlord merely owns the house, but didn’t make the floor wet.

  • papalonian@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 months ago

    Maybe your cat is dumb, rips a chunk out, decides to eat it, cat could get sick or catch fire or something

  • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    It’s because for the corpo, it’s cheaper to say it might hurt you than to not say anything at all.

    • BussyCat@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 months ago

      The last line mentions not using it as a step so maybe someone was stepping on it and after a while it broke down and they fell and sued

      • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, kinda weir on that one.
        It is surprising how people can be unreasonable when they are given the ability to.

        Though I can think of conspiracy theories for this behaviour.
        Guess I should go to jokeconspiracy@lemmy.ca considering how many of these come to my mind.

  • Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    3 months ago

    The damage thing might be intended in the way packaged things intended to be swallowed say not to use if the seal was broken. I think it means if you open the new product for the first time, and it clearly had a transport accident and is soaked with unknown liquid and covered in white powder, don’t give it to your cat.

    If it looks as expected when you open it, and you know later damage was caused by your household and is mechanical only, that’s fine. Like it’s fine to use the sour cream that had an intact seal when it arrived in your house, but if the first time you open it from the store the seal is cut, toss it.