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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours ago

Dog starts house fire by chewing portable phone battery, officials say

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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours ago
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A dog in Tulsa, Oklahoma, started a house fire after biting into a lithium-ion battery, fire officials said.
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    Well, there are a lot of these dogs chewing things around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that pets aren’t safe.

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      My only thought was that the pet owners are idiots

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        Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.

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        My cat exclusively choose USB cables, other cables are not tasty apparently. Is difficult to plan for everything.

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          Cable plastics are derived from soy. They are designed to break down in landfills but the side effect is cat pasta.

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            Oh, very rigorous accessory engineering standards.

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          Well, some of them are built so that they aren’t chewed on at all.

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      But maybe lithium batteries aren’t safe…

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        Well, there are regulations governing the materials they can be made of.

        • Lorem Ipsum dolor sit amet@lemmy.world
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          What materials?

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            Well, cardboard’s out.

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              And?

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                No cardboard derivatives.

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                  Like paper?

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        It’s a reference to a famous funny video. Even the guys username is from it

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

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          Absolutely ludicrous, these are very very strong batteries.

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            Senator Collins, can you tell me about your government’s tax plan?

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              It’s a complete void.

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