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There are a few points to make here: 1) You need to understand how things work culturally in a country/region. SE Asia in particular does not have the same con
by ExoticPearTree 3y ago
There are a few points to make here:
1) You need to understand how things work culturally in a country/region. SE Asia in particular does not have the same concept of mandated safety like in the US or the EU. Which makes things easy.
2) People need to stop using "domain expertise" to gate-keep other people from doing something. Yeah, batteries can be dangerous, but that does not mean you need a highly qualified and expensive person to do something trivial, like welding batteries together. If we would have gone down this path, not Intel/Apple/Google would have been born because Fairchild semiconductor had the expertise, IBM was making personal computers and everyone used Yahoo or AltaVista for search, so what would people without experience achieve, right?
When there are no alternatives or they are more expensive than DYI, DYI will always win in places like this. Do you think in Indonesia people have thousands of dollars to buy batteries like they do in other regions?
- throwaway11460 3y agoComputer boards might burn but it's usually just a nuisance. Not so much for high energy batteries...
- ExoticPearTree 3y agoThis is not as big of problem there as it might be in other places. Here, a video of how fuel is transported in other parts of the world (popped randomly on my feed): https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGePEvYU5/ https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGePEvYU5/. It gets the job done, everything else matters very little to not at all.
- wolverine876 3y agoDead people, or living people with serious burns and lifelong disfigurement, or property loss - that "matters very little to not at all"? If those things don't matter, what does? Batteries?
- ExoticPearTree 3y agoIn a lot of cultures people would rather die trying to save their house. And in many places, for example, people would rather die trying to get their luggage from an airplane in flames thn just running for their lives. My point being that you should not see everything through “western” eyes where life is valued more over psysical possesions. And to answer your question: yes, cheaper batteries matter more in Indonesia than “safe” batteries. And I am pretty sure the same holds for pretty much all of SE Asia.
- wolverine876 3y agoThe talking point for every evil is to try paint any moral value as arbitrary and/or 'western'. It's transparently ridiculous on a rational level, and furthers real evil, real harm to real people. If you find yourself on that side of the debate, on that path, you've lost your way; you've followed the wrong people.