• LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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      6 hours ago

      Mark Rober lost me with his porch pirate booby traps.

      First of all, booby traps are illegal for a reason. Second of all, a lot of it was staged and it was pretty obvious.

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        44 minutes ago

        Booby traps are illegal if there is an intent to do harm. Something like this, or rigging your sprinklers to turn on when someone steps on your lawn wouldn’t be.

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          56 seconds ago

          If you intentionally turn on your sprinklers as a deterrent, and it does damage to a person or property, you’d be liable for that.

          What if someone had important papers that you ruined. Or you broke their non-waterproof phone? What if someone was stepping off the sidewalk to let a wheelchair pass and you just doused them and the person in the wheelchair?

          What if your automated sprinkler starts spraying the EMTs or Firefighters coming to help you cause you fell in your bathroom and can’t get up? What if it shorts out the Lifepack they were going to use to check your heart and deliver an AED shock, and now someone died?

          Automated booby traps are always bad because you can’t judge the intent of the person, or animal, that might trigger it.

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        2 hours ago

        I generally prefer it if YouTubers can self-fund based on merch, as opposed to hawking shavers, VPNs, and overpriced TV dinners. That said, the drop in quality has been noticeable from that point on. The drone defense video was particularly noticeable for being military propaganda.