Donald Trump’s yes-men at the Consumer Product Safety Commission are withdrawing a series of proposed safety rules, including an appendage-saving safety mandate for table saws. This will mean thousands more fingers lost per year.

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    this will mean thousands more fingers lost per year.

    No, this will mean we’ll continue to have thousands of fingers lost per year, not introduce additional incidents.

    They are not removing a workplace safety requirement, they are preventing a new one from being implemented.

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      That’s the subheading. The body of the article says;

      More than ten people per day in the United States suffer amputation injuries using table saws, meaning the rule had the potential to save upward of four thousand fingers and over $2 billion in health care and other costs a year.

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        Gotta make sure real estate stays expensive by making sure construction is as unsafe as possible and minimizing long term prospects for construction workers.

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      That’s the same thing.

      Thousands more fingers lost than there would be if this safety requirement were not implemented.

      If a thing is not stopped then it continues to happen. Those future incidents are all in addition to the ones that happened in the past.

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        No it isn’t. Adding

        … than there would be if this safety requirement were not implemented.

        Makes it correct. This didn’t exist in the original article.

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          It doesn’t need to be said. Things that happen in the future are in addition to the things that happened in the past. “I ate scores of breakfasts this year. I will eat dozens more each month.” is not false. No need to add “… than I would if I stopped eating entirely.”

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            Lol. I can also say…

            I will die today

            And

            I will die today if I drink this poison.

            Pretty different meaning.