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  • It likely is going to fall under child neglect. I don’t know of an actual law specifically for locking a kid in a car.

    As for the exceptions thing, that is the same in the states, it usually falls under law(s) categorized as “Good Samaritan laws”. They are moreso meant to protect the bystander if they see someone in peril but, breaking the window to save a kid or pet that is clearly in distress would normally fall under that. Personal injury also usually fall under these laws, like if you accidentally injured someone getting them to safety (like after a car accident) when it was clear they were in a dangerous location, it helps relieve the bystander liability.

    It’s also supposed to be the reason that EMS/Fire/Police have Qualified immunity. because when the call to action arises, you don’t want your first responders first thought to be “How will this negatively affect me” you want it to be “how can I do the most in this situation”



  • please don’t pancake vs waffle me, especially considering that I have clarified to you what I meant by that post. Just because I explicitly state neglect in one, doesn’t mean the other isn’t neglectful. Neglect still falls under bad choices, however I would not call intent to kill just a “bad choice” which is was the point of the comparator in the first place. Not debate over if its neglect or not.

    As for your analogy, I don’t really think that is a safe analogy to apply to this situation. A child left without food and water for a week will always lead to death, a child being left alone for a few hours in a climate controlled area will not. It’s a false analogy.

    instead I will respond with a fairer analogy. “Would it be considered neglect to leave a child unsupervised for 3 hours but leave food in the fridge” which I would still say is yes, but it’s weighed significantly less then someone who decided to go on vacation for a week leaving food in the fridge as was your first analogy. Or someone who didn’t leave food at all, which is more compatible to the first glace at this page.


  • Firmly agree with the statement that it was irresponsible because yes it was regardless.

    However, disagree with the statement that a climate control system is not meant to be operated while idle. That is an old myth that I expect came from back when there was fewer electrical components in the car so not turning the ac /off/ before turning the vehicle off would risk damaging the cars electrical.

    To a vehicle’s climate control system it doesn’t give a damn if it’s driving or idle. Now, while being idle, you have less fuel efficiency, And if you don’t have the engine running, it will drain more battery than needed, which will make your battery less efficient. But as for actual wear and tear on the components, running it at idle is almost no difference than whether you’re driving with it on.

    Again, though, didn’t claim it wasn’t irresponsible either way, But it’s highly unlikely that Climate system would have failed if the vehicle had stayed on.





  • She has pleaded not guilty to all charges and is being held in lieu of $1,080,000 bail,

    My initial thought for this was “How do you plea Not Guilty willfully leaving two children in a car for 90 minutes.” but then I found this later on

    However, her 2022 Toyota Corolla Hybrid is equipped with an automatic feature that turns the engine off if it has been left running for one hour while in park, police said. Police estimate that the engine turned off around 3 p.m. and the children were left without air conditioning until Hernandez returned around 4:30 p.m.

    Still super shitty, but also I think change the tone a little. Her expectation was that the car was going to be climate controlled for the procedure. Still stupid of her, and kids shouldn’t be left alone that long, but it defo let me understand the “not guilty” plea












  • I don’t doubt it with some of the translations I’ve seen. I think it would be better for them to just release the main content and then release subtitles further on down the road, But I assume there’s probably some sort of accessibility law that forbids them from doing that.

    It just gets super annoying watching a show and either having poor quality subtitles or subtitles that blatantly spoil parts of the series.

    For example, in one piece

    Early on one piece spoiler

    When you first meet Blackbeard, from memory, he doesn’t say who he is. He just stands there as an old drunkard. And you’re meant to expect that he’s just some crazy drunk person that’s interacting with the main party. You don’t actually find out who he is for a good 5-10 episodes. However, if you had subtitles on, they clearly label him as Blackbeard during the first encounter, so it ruins that entire revelation.

    I use subtitles because I have ADHD, And as part of that, it makes it so I struggle to keep up with audio versus comprehending it and subtitles give me a short delay of being able to catch up and still be able to read the text to understand what happened. when the subtitles are broken, I end up hard focusing on that. or get lost requiring me to rewind. Super annoying.


  • I should clarify it depends on your definition of fan. When you’re making a derivative work, there’s two versions. There’s fan which is The person is enthusiastic about the content and then there is the intellectual property variation of it, which is someone who is doing it for non-commercial reasons under fair use(or said countries equivalent). However, once you start requiring money for said process, it removes the protections the creator has shielding it and generally changes the definition to that version.

    Additionally, I agree a donation jar would be much better, but even then it’s been shown that that doesn’t resolve all liability because fan projects have been taken down for having a donation button even though the project itself is free, heck projects have been taken down for having advertisements on the projects website despite having nothing to do with said project