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I recently heard that an apartment block near me cannot have automatic emergency lighting or fire sprinklers retrofitted incase there is a fire on a Saturday. Forget about burning to death or falling down pitch-black stairs and breaking your neck, it is apparently more important that electrical circuits are not energized or a valve is not opened on a saturday! Absolutely absurd. I am indifferent to people stringing u…
>Forget about burning to death or falling down pitch-black stairs and breaking your neck, it is apparently more important that electrical circuits are not energized or a valve is not opened on a saturday! This is literally bogus. Nothing in Judaism prevents automated systems! That's the entire point of "sabbath mode" in elevators for example, and it's perfectly normal and usual to set electrical things to work on a t…
Re: The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)
#311But they're not automated are they? If there are e.g. motion-triggered emergency lights, and you move and they come on then BAM! You did some work.