Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Robertson Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: lithium explosion Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:20:10 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: <66195fa8$0$897417$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <66196ec6$0$897418$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Reply-To: spam@flippers.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 09:20:11 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="84b358cb4f0057d08b9c28a8f5f71c2b"; logging-data="3039811"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/BY2WdckZaLfFMHOPSngfrhD/qDA0j3PQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:R0ijmoo/BkuY6BhgFH2xd3L9Jaw= In-Reply-To: <66196ec6$0$897418$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Content-Language: en-US, en-CA Bytes: 3750 On 2024/04/12 10:26 a.m., bitrex wrote: > On 4/12/2024 1:07 PM, John Robertson wrote: >> On 2024/04/12 9:52 a.m., john larkin wrote: >>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:22:00 -0400, bitrex wrote: >>> >>>> On 4/12/2024 10:04 AM, Bill Sloman wrote: >>>>> On 12/04/2024 9:16 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>>>>> On 2024-04-12 07:19, Bill Sloman wrote: >>>>>>> On 9/04/2024 3:03 am, Jeroen Belleman wrote: >>>>>>>> On 4/8/24 18:35, John Larkin wrote: >>>>>>>>> https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68744317 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> It doesn't look like that one was charging. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Lithium battery fires are a big deal in New York too. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> San Fancisco is swarming with illegal, unlicensed electric >>>>>>>>> scooters, >>>>>>>>> surfboards, wheelie things, bikes, and motorcycles. >> >> As are most cities with access to Amazon/eBay...(no regulations on >> what people can sell on these platforms) >> >> ... >>>> And fretting about the hazards of exploding batteries with 300 million >>>> guns floating around is pretty schizophrenic. Compared to being injured >>>> by an exploding bike (or shot by a stranger for that matter) your >>>> chances of being shot by a police officer are at least the same, or >>>> higher. >>> >>> About 1300 people were killed by police in the US last year, out of a >>> population of 333 million, about 4 PPM. Cops rarely shoot polite >>> law-abiding citizens; don't threaten people, especially cops, with >>> guns or knives. >> >> Here in Canada the average number of people killed by police annually >> is just under 40 per year since 2011. Out of a population of roughly >> 40,000,000 or 1 PPM in other words. >> >> Perhaps our gun laws do make a difference. >> >> John :-#)# > > Traffic accidents kill about 50k Americans per year, firearms in the > same ballpark, and Covid is still dropping 500-1k per day. US death rate from Covid is around 30/day - not 500 or more! Which is now about the same as Canada. Deaths per 100,000 from Covid in Canada was about 1/2 the rate of the US. Most of those higher rates of death occurred under the previous US administration. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ John > > These fashions of death have been re-categorized as "acts of God" in the > public consciousness. > >