America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.::America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

  • beigegull@lemmy.worldEnglish
    98·
    1 year ago

    Because imagining that someone might have a legitimate reason to want a product or service that a regulator might not have thought of is currently a “Republican” trait in the US.

    • tired_n_bored@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Does anybody use incandescent light bulbs as radiators? Because it’s the only alternative use I can think of.

      In the European Union we banned them 10 years ago and people just continued their lives. I wish people were as mad when books get banned, but sadly it’s not the case

      • beigegull@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Does anybody use incandescent light bulbs as radiators?

        Yes. I’ve done it personally a couple times.

        Because it’s the only alternative use I can think of.

        The thing about alternative uses is that they’re still real even if you can’t think of them.

        Broad bans are a bad policy tool in general. Even if you believe in the progressive ideal of expert regulators making broad societal policies, a simple thought experiment shows the problem: What would it take to do the study to accurately determine all the negative effects of a ban? Not guessing, not wishful thinking, but really collecting and analyzing the information.

        I wish people were as mad when books get banned, but sadly it’s not the case

        When was the last time the US federal government banned a book?

          • beigegull@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Once you’re doing resistive heating any resistive element is just as efficient as any other. Incandescent light bulbs have three advantages: They are cheap, easy to work with, and it’s really obvious when one is turned on.

            As for your link, it’s talking about arguments about which books should be made available at school and local libraries. In no sense is that even related to the federal government banning books.

            • tired_n_bored@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Well I’ve never said the US federal government is banning books, but I wish people were as mad when their local schools and libraries do that :-)

          • tired_n_bored@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            The link seems broken even if I copy-paste it? Wtf. It’s a Wikipedia article titled " 2021–2023 book banning in the United States"