Do the vertical giant blinds count as regular blinds or are those the large version? Link

I'd always heard them called "Venetian blinds", compared to roller blinds.

12 year olds

How in tf‽

Am I misunderstanding what pull cords are, or why not have it so the two strings can separate easily? The two strings in my blinds "snap" together so that it's easy to raise/lower the blinds, but the strings separate very easily from each other if applying force in any other kind of way (would be impossible for a child to accidently hang themselves with it for example)

I know a family whose baby hung themselves on the cord. Must be common enough that they just banned them.

Oh, I see you havent used the style that replaced them yet. Infinitely worse.

The idea in concept is you just lift up or pull down from the bottom of the blinds and they'll stay in place. In practice however, you pull down and they refuse to budge, risking you breaking them. And then when you lift up, they go to a certain point and then just stop retracting and will fall down halfway from where you wanted them.

I hate them. I hate them so much. Although, I will say blinds in general are just awful. Curtains are the superior window shade.

One string pulling up the left side, one string pulling up the right side. They are separated in the "down" position, so they have to be separated in the "up" as well.

If you use only one string in the middle, they will never stay level.

Little trick I figured out as a kid in case you ever have the string blinds again (also, never seen stringless):

Cut a string to the same length as the two coming out of the blinds, snip the little plastic cap off the two attached to the blinds, and braid the three strings together, tie at the end. Never pull unevenly again.

Probably because there isn't a giant mini blind lobby, and people plastering stickers all over their pickup trucks yelling about their mini blind rights.

The ones I put up in my house have a high tension spring inside the top. When you want to raise the blinds you lift them up when you want to lower the blinds you pull them down. They're not fantastic but they work well enough. You have to kind of coax them to go up lift them up a few times but then again mine were the cheapest Walmart had available

This is the only kind I know:

If we can only solve one problem at a time, then climate change is the only problem that matters.

They aren't illegal to sell.

Manufacturers can't make them any longer, existing inventory is permitted to be sold off. So they can be found on amazon, ebay, and a bunch of other places still. Just won't see any new stock coming in, and places that have less stock (as in, not gigantic warehouses) haven't been getting new ones in for some time. Nearly a year now I believe.

oh, Amazon will gladly sell you illegal goods. and no one will stop them

Natural selection is dead.

What a concept