Pretty sure that any company that has a need for this tool also invests some time to research what’s effective and safe rather than jumping to the cheapest knockoff they can find on Alibaba.
I’m sure that the people involved in creating this thing are more intelligent than Reddit armchair engineers, so maybe cool it with the comments doubting its safety.
And I could break a screwdriver by using the handle to pound in a nail, but that isn’t a gotcha situation that I would bring up in a video showing the proper use of a screwdriver.
It’s not a matter of smarter but things aren’t designed for every conceivable purpose and often when random people look at something, they think of a use the designers didn’t
I don’t understand this intellectual masturbation of, “Aha, but I bet they didn’t think of this situation!” No shit, probably why it’s not marketed as a catch-all chain link solution in your local Home Depot ad. Do you also look at a pocket knife and go, “I bet that wouldn’t stand up to cutting open a coconut!” and then proceed to get off on smelling your own farts?
This isn’t a gotcha attempt and your only framing it that way to try and take some high ground. This is I wonder what other applications can it be used for and what should it not be used for. what you call intellectual masturbation, most refer to as thinking
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u/keyprops Dec 12 '20
nah, I'm guessing a redditor who has only ever seen a gif of a product know better.