Yeah well cats aren't native to Australia, humans brought them here so that's on us, the common house cat is an apex predator here, cat owners need to take some responsibility for their murder machines or we end up with more 20 kg feral cats that can take out a kangaroo

There's a few, my folks have a family of bandicoots living in their backyard

In Australia there is an expectation that people keep their cats inside because those little murder machine are able to decimate a significant amount of our native fauna. I was shocked when I moved to the UK for a few years to find out that a typical requirement for getting a cat there through legitimate sources included committing to letting them roam outside.

I wonder if this guy ever thinks about whether his actions will ever catch up with him and what that might look like. He must know hes lying through his teeth every time he opens his trap. Regardless of whether he's convinced himself of some arbitrary greater good, he must know how much his actions negatively affect his direct constituents, and the wider US and global populations. He must be aware that regardless of claims of greater good, the legal tightrope he's walking is precarious.

He either has an outstanding ability to suppress what must be constant internal screaming highlighting extreme personal risk, or he's so fucking dense that he hasn't even considered it. It seems impossible that someone could fail upwards so extraordinarily so it makes me think the former must be true and in that case how the fuck does he sleep? How does he stave of total nervous breakdown? Why would you put yourself through that to achieve so much misery?

Maybe this comment more belongs in shower thoughts ..

Oh I'm not saying it's not a worthy plan, it's just a lot of them are ancient, there's only so much you can do with an 80 year old liver, regardless of how many total blood replacements the corpse has had..

True, won't be a problem for this use case though

There's only so many billionaires, with so many organs, a lot of those organs will be trash, so you could definitely count how many lives could be saved.

I think maybe we need legislation that you can't outright lie in advertising.

So long as it's wifi yeah, everyone can hear everything on wifi when your in range

If your freezer is on your local wifi and your computer is also on the local wifi you should be able to see all the packets it is transmitting over the wifi with Wireshark on your computer. If either your computer or freezer has a hard connection then you'll need a little more trickery as switches/home routers minimise network congestion by directing traffic to specific MAC addresses as required.

Assuming you are all wifi, basically you load Wireshark (is free software, easily downloaded) and tell it to capture all packets from your wifi adaptor (there should be a handy option on the initial screen when you load the application). Once you start capturing you'll be capturing everything on your wifi so it pays to be quick with what you want to achieve to minimise the data.

So, once you start capturing you open your fridge door a few times, leave it open till it beeps, maybe do that twice, then stop capturing. Following that you will just need to filter the capture by all packets from your fridges network IP or MAC (you should be able to find these from your home router). Once you have all the packets you should be able to click on them and expand all the details to see what data they are sending and where it's being sent to. You should also see all the packets coming back from the vendor.

Have you captured the data with Wireshark to see if it's readable? Could you have adguard/pihole/etc spoof the target DNS to a local server that then strips the data out of the packets and forwards them on to your homeassistant? Or have they garbled the information with some proprietary nonsense?