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Got to admire that American wild west mentality sometimes.
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Sometimes is right. I think the reason things like this can slip through is that it isn't on the bureaucratic inspection checklist. You could have the wildest looking car with no metal reinforcement used at all, dead babies, endangered species, contraband, etc. under the hood, but as soon as your power steering pump belt is missing, you fail. Everything else the inspector saw had might as well not ever existed.
As awful and pervasive that mindset of total lack of responsibility and lateral thinking is, sometimes it works to an advantage. There wouldn't be an EM without it. Which makes me wonder what the world would be like if EVERYTHING were engineered to peak efficiency. What would my life be like if most of my time
wasn't spent thinking about counter-acting things that don't work as well as they should...