If this were any other country doing exactly the same thing to American citizens or legal residents, U.S. officials would condemn it as the torture it is.

The news always fails to mention that this kind of stuff is knowable. The engineers that sized the fire suppression system knew with some degree of precision how much heat the company’s paper products generate when ignited. The system should have been sized for significantly more than that, specifically so a fire can’t get out of control and destroy the entire warehouse.

The fact the roof collapsed stinks of cost cutting. Or maybe something just failed?. We’ll probably never get that kind of detail.

That was my plan, but since GrapheneOS is based on Google’s Android 16 code I’d expect it to have the same bugs.

Don’t know about hospital costs, but lab costs are cheap and we have blood tests done in Mexico without hesitation. A test might run $9 for the exact same test that is a couple of hundred when done in the US. The $5 doctor visits are for doctors connected to pharmacies and are great for simple things. For anything more complex you’ll need to find another doctor with a regular practice, but even a visit with a specialist was less than $50 a couple of years ago.

I spend lots of time in Mexico and generic drugs are mostly dirt cheap. Name brand drugs that don’t yet have generic equivalents are a different story. They may be 1/3 or less than their U.S. price and affordable for Americans, but hundreds of dollars per month is still out of reach for most Mexicans.

Not surprised Apple’s market share is improving.

I bought a Pixel 10 and Google’s software quality control is laughable. Ridiculously simple things just don’t work properly. For instance Google has broken Bluetooth for some common devices, USB won’t connect at all to some computers, and audio players are killed to save battery even when the phone is plugged in.

Never thought I’d consider an Apple but an Iphone my will be my next purchase.

And giving tax cuts to the wealthiest people on the planet.

Sounds like their suppression system was seriously undersized. I’d guess it was sized for regulation compliance rather than for what is actually needed for a warehouse filled with paper products.

Bianco thinks he’s Judge Dredd: “I am the law!”

“I’m conservative so I can force everyone else to live by my rules. How dare those other conservatives try to do the same thing to me!”

The stupidity of these people is fucking painful.

Anyone know why a warehouse full of highly combustible goods would not be required to have a sprinkler system?

I’ve had occasional problems with z-wave devices that stop responding. The fix has required power cycling them at the breaker box, then re-interviewing and rebuilding routes. Hope that works in your case.

Have you tried re-interviewing the devices as a first step?

Hell has officially frozen over.

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After the horror of watching an older friend succumb to early onset Alzheimer’s and literally becoming an inanimate object with a pulse, IMO the risks of these drugs are meaningless. The real horror is forcing these people to continue living when they can no longer speak, eat or even be aware of where they are. It is utterly cruel.

If my friend had realized how she was going to end up she would have taken a one-way trip to Switzerland a decade before she finally died.

You’d think running against a Russian agent, pedophile, rapist, thief, insurrectionist and an unapologetic fascist would be easy, but the Democrats will “Go High” and fuck it up again anyway.

For years there were opinion pieces in publications about how much better renting is than buying. Financial experts made the case that the expense of purchasing and maintenance weren’t worth any benefits of ownership, especially in the long term. After dealing with big rent increases, insane landlords, and apartments being shown while I was living in them I wasn’t convinced. When adding in the relative stability in the of costs of ownership I always thought those experts were full of crap.

Turns out none of those articles took sudden increases in property values and rent into account. Trying to rent an apartment for someone on a moderate fixed income in my area has become damn near impossible. Rents have gone up ~60% in 5 years far exceeding the COL increases most people see from retirement income or even the raises they may be getting from their employers if they’re working.

Buying a home was one of the best financial decisions I’ve ever made.

Let’s see here… Billions paid for illegal tariffs, massive increases in food prices, a collapse of international tourism, reduction in all travel due to the refusal to fund TSA, massive DOGE layoffs, further layoffs and closures of multiple government agencies, multiple government shutdowns, fuel price increases we’re just seeing the start of, double digit electricity rate increases, doubling and tripling of healthcare costs for millions of Americans, and international boycotts of American products. That’s just some of the dumpster fire Trump and the Grand Old Pedophiles have provided us. Too bad there’s not a way to include Trump’s misery factor.

We’ll be very lucky if it isn’t a full blown depression.

Battery charge limit will allow you to set it to stop charging at partial charge. Doing so greatly increases the battery lifespan and can reduce possible fire risk even further while still leaving far more backup time than a UPS would provide.