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Teenagers Are Still Eating Tide Pods, But Don't Expect A Product Redesign
If you've never seen it, a Tide Pod looks like a little rounded packet, white with two separate swirls of blue and orange liquid. To be clear, a Tide Pod is laundry detergent heavily concentrated into a single packet, meant to dissolve in water and clean a single load of laundry. But these days, it's a dare — an Internet meme, in which teenagers try to eat Tide Pods as a "challenge." The trend picked up in December, but the pace of poisonings is still getting worse. So far in January alone, poison control centers have received 134 reports of "intentional exposures" to laundry packets, Tide or others. That's compared with 53 cases the American Association of Poison Control Centers reported for all of 2017, mostly involving teenagers.
[...] Designs like this are never willy-nilly, says Chris Livaudais, executive director of the Industrial Designers Society of America. The process starts by studying the habits of a potential user to find ways to make their life better in some way. In this case, the condensed formula does away with a heavy jug and the need for measurement.
[...] The colors are already associated with liquid detergent, Livaudais says. And the swirls "might imply how active the ingredients are and how well it would do the washing job."
Jones says the swirls were indeed a design choice — indicating that the pod brings together three ingredients (cleaning, stain-fighting and brightening, he says). The pod is transparent because customers have told Tide they like to know what they're putting into the wash with their clothes.
Livaudais says industrial designers spend a lot of time mulling best and worst case scenarios for the use of products. But if someone knowingly chooses to misuse them? "That's completely out of our hands," he says.
National Poison Help hotline: 1-800-222-1222.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday January 31 2018, @06:00PM (7 children)
Sad about the death, yes or maybe.
Sad about the reaction, no. I can see it as a natural instinctual reaction if one has repeatedly been a victim of a bully. Yes, seriously. Bullies are bad enough that they cause people to either kill themselves, or bring guns to school to kill others, or both but in reverse order. Nothing wrong with being honest about feelings about bullies. People honestly express rage and desire to kill certain foreign enemies -- especially ones who are monsters. I don't remember anyone shedding tears for Osama bin Laden. And I'm not too inclined to shed tears for bullies. Yes, there may be reasons why they became what they are. And THAT is the sad part. But the result of what they become is still what it is. Just an opinion.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @07:02PM (6 children)
That said I thought the scenes of jubilant laughter, grinning and ecstatic cheering were in poor taste. The guy instigated some terrible events but no-one's death should ever be cause for joyous celebration like that. A sombre end to a sad story. People who had felt fear would feel relief, sure, but if you rejoice openly like that, don't you lose any moral high ground? In the case of the bullies, I understand what you're saying about the feelings being a natural reaction for someone that was actually bullied by them and you're probably right.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 31 2018, @08:26PM
I remember what I read in Newsweek when Romania fell on 22 December 1989. As I recall, all of the people who swarmed the palace to lawfully arrest Nicolae Ceausescu couldn't resist the urge to unload all their bullets into him. There was singing and cheering in the streets. They were playing Christmas music over the town's public address system. Christmas music had been outlawed for over 40 years.
I'm not so sure you lose any moral high ground to be happy about the passing of people who deliberately and with joy, caused tremendous amounts of suffering of other people. I'll take the biblical example of the death of Jezebel. [biblegateway.com] (while they were celebrating her death, the dogs came and ate almost all of her remains -- as had been foretold.)
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday January 31 2018, @08:27PM (3 children)
I was in Park Slope, Brooklyn on 9/11. My street is near the top of the glacial moraine across the western end of Long Island and overlooks downtown Manhattan across the East River. The prevailing wind goes straight from where the twin towers were, and on that day little bits of burning paper were falling all around us like snow. When the towers fell I saw them and felt the ground shake. People were leaning out their apartment windows and screaming.
So, I wanted Osama bin Laden dead. I'm a progressive but I had no patience with the surrender monkeys who wanted to dissuade us from tearing Afghanistan apart. It was unbelievably frustrating to watch 8 years of Bush and Cheney fail to get the guy.
When Obama finally did get him, i felt no joy. It was more like...grim satisfaction. It was the same with the demise of Saddam Hussein and Qadafi.
No, we should not rejoice at killing mass murderers and tyrants, but we must put them to death. Justice demands it.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @08:47PM (1 child)
i thought an eye for an eye made the world blind.
maybe you can't really see that view though.
too bad the dictators in your example seemed to have managed to at least set expectations. the people in those countries now can't even go to a market or wedding without a fear of randomly being blown to bits by someone they don't know. the dictator's at least had rules, and if you followed them no matter how shitty they were, you wouldn't be blown up for being near someone with different religious beliefs and become collateral damage.
dictators at least want control along with the power. random violence isn't control, but anyway, the eye for eye thing has no place in a justice system. justice is already blind; you are merely repeating tribal rhetoric
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @09:09PM
Phoenix666 has noticeably changed to a more conservative tone post-trump. The emotional desire for retribution can be overpowering, it is built into our DNA.
Perhaps it had to do with Obama being so awesome on the face of things while secretly continuing the nastiest US practices. Just the drone program was a pretty terrifying thing. So Phoenix goes from President Uber Democrat to Precedent Krusty the Klown, I can totally see that causing a break in some people's psyche.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:40AM
Your version of "justice" completely fails when all we are doing are replacing them with worse mass murderers and tyrants (ii.e. ISIS).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:36AM
The guy *allegedly* instigated some terrible events.
He should still be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. *Especially* when he is prevented from ever prevented from appearing in court by the very people who want you to believe he is guilty.
If the powers that be are unhappy about that, they only have themselves to blame.