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You’ve just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription | Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn’t making quite enough money...::Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn't making quite enough money...

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[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

You know what else happened in the 90s? Leaded gas was banned. I'll attribute it to that. Anecdotes don't mean much.

[-] wagoner@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

You need to publish a scientific paper on your SIDs discovery. Don't let this major work languish in some technology comment on Lemmy!

[-] jackalope@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Leaded gas was banned in the 70s.

[-] frazw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not saying baby monitors are the only reason for improved SUID rates. I'm saying they likely played a role. Despite your sarcasm, you might also be right that lead could have adversely affected unexplained infant mortality. The point I was trying to make was that baby monitors are not useless devices designed to extract money from you as implied by OP, whose comments by the way, were anecdotal.

$400 is excessive though. As is a subscription.

And data on SIDS is freely available. https://www.cdc.gov/sids/data.htm

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