The sad thing is we desperately need people to stay organ donors if organ transplants that save lives are to stay a thing and these ethical catastrophes that should lead to mass arrests instead end with people leaving the registry and seemingly 0 consequences for the ghouls that caused the issue…

It’s not unlikely this will cause shortages for people in need that was completely preventable due to greed and capitalism.

Yeah I’d like to believe they’d get this half right and get actual professionals… but it’s Trump and he’ll just create a literal skyscraper of “the bearings will continue until morale improves” and claim it’s a new kind of mental health care or something

Oh this is definitely going to bring back the institutions of old…

Anecdotally, it’s both. Most of the people I talked to would be very pro Republican but then talk about how they didn’t understand why we didn’t make weed legal or help people in poverty* or whatever the ballot initiative was.

*aid or minimum wage and stuff was often times very dependent on phrasing. They liked the ideas but only if they thought of people they liked. If you let them run long enough they’d eventually start talking about “druggies” or something like that to justify why $7.25 was where they’d rather leave the minimum wage for example. Or start riffing on how McDonald’s workers shouldn’t make as much as they did typing at a computer doing “real work”

According to the article he needed a license to sell modified exhausts, yes. So the fine and jail time were for that.

The weirdest thing when I lived there was ANY liberal ballot measure was basically guaranteed to pass, but straight down the ticket only republicans won their elections guaranteeing this kind of outcome in the state.

So he sold parts he wasn’t allowed to sell without a license, that he didn’t have. This outcome shouldn’t be shocking to anyone. All he had to do was wait for the license like anyone else who applied.

This is toddler levels of tough guy negotiations

Plus it’s outside where there already is t an expectation of privacy? It’s always been legal in the US to take photos from the street/sky for evidence

I think the mistake we (myself included) tend to make is assuming people have any intelligence on average.

This reads and looks like it should be an onion headline

Of course they’re not, they were always bullshit that a toddler could see through

I’ve been told this everywhere I’ve rented with different reasons ranging from it’ll put undue stress on the sill, liability (non first floor apartment would’ve been bad if it fell out), and the current ones thought was they tend to leak water which can damage the pain and then damage the sill.

Exactly, they don’t want you to have time to think and call but even if weird any place I’ve used or worked has been fine with you calling back on the main line yourself to make sure it’s the right place.

Taking that time to think is hard in the moment though.

Long as the landlord isn’t regularly coming by the property for inspections then yeah fair

This sounds like a good reminder to never trust incoming communication beyond ending the conversation and calling the company/person/whatever directly using a # you already have for them/a number from their confirmed website.

Even renting a house it’s in my lease I can’t use a window unit. Which sucks because our swamp cooler outputs into the living room in a way that makes it very difficult to get its air into the second bedroom.

Ah yes the tried and true “fuck reforming them when it’s cheaper to rejoice in their death” argument. Yup, clearly no better way to have handled this than dead kids and paying to incarcerate someone for life. Definitely no cheaper way to have helped these kids to a better life nope no sir-ee….

Looking at the septa lines being possibly cut it’s gonna screw over a lot of people, in areas where cars are already problematically dense. It’s gonna be a shitshow

It looks like the Shelly device initiates contact with home assistant you may be able to just tell it to talk to the same api endpoint (following is for 2nd gen devices):

In this case, navigate to the local IP address of your Shelly device, Settings >> Connectivity >> Outbound WebSocket and check the box Enable Outbound WebSocket, under server enter the following address:

ws:// + Home_Assistant_local_ip_address:Port + /api/shelly/ws (for example: ws://192.168.1.100:8123/api/shelly/ws), click Apply to save the settings. In case your installation is set up to use SSL encryption (HTTPS with certificate), an additional s needs to be added to the WebSocket protocol, too, so that it reads wss:// (for example: wss://192.168.1.100:8123/api/shelly/ws).

Assuming you are buying a new unit I’d try following that guide after backing up and seeing if it updates normally. The first gen devices used a different protocol, full instructions for both can be found here.