Someone needs to link the “wild conspiracy theories later proven to be true” over the last five years meme, and add a new column for this one with a question mark placeholder.
> This Karen kept yammering on about her first amendment rights. But she waved those rights when she agreed to speak before the council. <
“I respectfully disagree. The First Amendment was crafted especially for situations like this one. Popular speech needs no protection. Unpopular speech does.”
Agreed. If I’m not mistaken, you cannot “sign away” your Constitutional rights. She would have no right to waive them.
The amount of damages here needs to be enough so that every resident feels it in their tax bill. Untill that happens, this crap will continue.
“Same reason your phone is unlikely to explode even though it’s lithium. Not enough there to cause a reaction.”
I have had a lithium battery catch fire as I was removing it from a small Apple tablet. I assure you that the battery in a phone could cause a fire and/or really severe injury if mechanically damaged or defective. Fortunately, for this to happen with a single cell in a phone, this is very rare (unless the phone is bent or punctured).
The tiny lithium batteries in disposable vapes have “gone off” with pretty spectacular results for their size.