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f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4 t1_j52z5b2 wrote

Reply to Woman sues concert venue after getting so drunk she blew up a home, caused $15M in damages by EyeWantItThatWay

How do they prove she was "overserved"? I might not want to egregiously overpay for drinks, so I stop at the liquor store on my way to the concert, and enter the venue with a belly full of liquor. If I order one drink while I'm still sober, the bartender is liable after I absorb all the ethanol and start wreaking havoc?

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ghloperr t1_j52yjtg wrote

Reply to comment by Dopey-NipNips in The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off by Didyoucallforme

Yeah see there are small sized schools, medium sized schools, and large schools. An AVERAGE means a typical building size. This school has 1000 students which is not big or small, it's an AVERAGE sized school.

I have done full electrical and low voltage design for schools, hospitals, businesses, apartments, etc. You don't know shit lol

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Raistlarn t1_j52xxvc wrote

Reply to comment by ffxivthrowaway03 in The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off by Didyoucallforme

My comment has nothing to do with the breaker box being locked. It's about the door locks might be automated and on the breaker as well. If true then turning off the circuit breaker would probably default every single one of them to locked. I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't even a way to unlock them either judging by the idiocy of this school to neglect putting in a manual override for their lights.

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ghloperr t1_j52x4ph wrote

Reply to comment by 1ndomitablespirit in The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off by Didyoucallforme

https://www.rearviewsafety.com/safety/news/vehicle-safety-statistics-backovers

17,000 injuries and 200 deaths a year, and half of those are children. You literally cannot see a child in the review of a large truck, SUV, or crossover. It doesn't matter how observant you are. Really disheartening to see people so callously dismiss the deaths of over 100 children a year.

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Raevix t1_j52wr5k wrote

Reply to comment by AmericanKamikaze in Woman sues concert venue after getting so drunk she blew up a home, caused $15M in damages by EyeWantItThatWay

Nope. They can run the math of the sales and her blood alcohol during the crash and say she was definitely drunk when you sold to her and you should have known even if you didn't.

Yes, really

Edit: Yes a minimum wage employee at a grocery store is required to correctly determine if a customer is drunk based on a ten second interaction while selling one beer under penalty of jail time

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1ndomitablespirit t1_j52wo0i wrote

Reply to comment by ghloperr in The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off by Didyoucallforme

I guess that makes weird sense if you don't want to be observant, but it isn't like there was an epidemic of child squishing before backup cameras. Before I had a car with one, I would see around me if there were someone nearby that could possibly be near my car when I backed out. If there were, I'd tell them to stay back, and then I'd watch them in my mirrors. Somehow, I managed to not run over any kids or bikes or anything.

The unintended consequence with tech like this is that it will only lead to people paying even less attention to their surroundings while operating a 2 ton machine that can go 100 mph.

People and things are still getting backed into even with cars with backup cameras because people are allowing themselves to be too distracted. There is no fix for willful obliviousness.

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ghloperr t1_j52wl8k wrote

Reply to comment by Dopey-NipNips in The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off by Didyoucallforme

How many lighting circuits do you think an average sized building needs? Obviously not just one, but if they are using LED and HE fluorescent it shouldn't be more than a few especially if they are 277V. And they should all be at the same panel anyway.

If the lighting designer was a complete idiot and put 10 different circuits in 10 different panels that might be an issue, but most designers aren't that dumb.

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ghloperr t1_j52u43p wrote

Reply to comment by eighty2angelfan in The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off by Didyoucallforme

Ok I have to stand up for the designers and engineers of the world. Schools are public jobs and therefore go to the low bidder in most cases. Low bid contractors can sometimes be nice, but many of them are the scummiest, most untrustworthy, cheapest people on the planet. I have been screwed on school projects plenty of times because a contractor did work that wasn't on the drawings without permission or talked the client into changing my design because it would "save money". We had to have twice as many notes and details on school jobs than other facilities because the contractors were such weasels and would use any excuse in the book to dream up change orders.

And this isn't even getting into contractors not bringing up design issues during pre-bid RFIs, purposefully screwing over the entire construction team because they know they can get a fat change order. Yes, sometimes engineers make mistakes. But when the contractor doesn't act like a team player and screws over everyone else to make some extra cash it's a sign of a lack of ethics and professionalism. We are all just trying to get the job done and do the best we can for the client.

edit: And if this truly is a fully automated system, this is a simple programming issue. Which is done by the contractor, not the engineer. I guarantee the engineer did not write in the specs or their lighting sequence of operations that the lights have to stay on all night.

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bothunter t1_j52tro2 wrote

Reply to comment by Problem_Western in The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off by Didyoucallforme

As someone who lives in a super rainy area that doesn't believe in making lane markers visible in the rain -- lane assist is dangerous at best. That thing will pick up on anything in the road that happens to be more visible than the paint and try and steer the car accordingly.

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