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I'd have gone with speaker wire with 2 blade terminals on the ends shoved into the socket instead of putting all the effort into that nonsense. If laziness is called for, go full lazy.

When there's an extended power outage, and you realize you can cut the socket end off an old extension cord and put another plug on it so you can hook your generator into an outlet of your choosing to energize the whole circuit. I would never... Instead I wired the cut end directly into the...

Well I'm doing everything wrong it seems. 6awg NM-B is the wrong wire because it has a 60 degree C rating, which de-rates it to 55 amps, which is less than the 60A breaker I need to run the 48A continuous circuit (the 80% rule). The bus will have a rating of either 200A or 225A for my 200 amp...

It's the weird perspective. It has a red and a black going to it.

I'll add my own project to this thread. Didn't realize the panel only allowed tandems on the lower 5 slots when I tore into it. I did however get around to replacing the 4 circuit 20A quad breaker with proper 15A ones. Apparently my solar installer didn't have 15A tandems when he needed to...

I used to invert a butane refill can and run a line across the kitchen, then light it. The whole kitchen would be on fire, for like 2 seconds. I've done much, much more dangerous things with fire. Not endorsing it, but the way to be competent with something is to survive the experimentation stage.

I mean, organic farming can't be better, or the products would be more affordable. It takes up more land area than modern farming practices. There's not even a controlled definition of organic farming. All that is soon to be a moot point. Soon we'll have robots with frickin lasers providing...

Dave Rubin came from The Young Turks. Probably everyone gets enough Chank at some point. Don't know why an old man named his "news" platform The Young Turks.

What value is a thing that can never be registered? Parts I guess?

That's the exact same thing I say about wind and solar. That said, 2+ car families with a garage to charge in probably are better off financially if one of the cars is an EV. Use the EV for commuting and grocery getting, and the gasser for longer trips.

There's an action that comes to mind followed by replying "men will be men".

It's parent's responsibility to control what content their children consume. I know it's tough; my parents struggled with my behavior. I deserved every spank with a spoon mom ever gave, and every spank with a belt my dad administered. Who knows how much worse of a child I'd have been if they...

The famous HP Black Friday Costco deal appears to have come early. I type this on the 10th gen Intel laptop I bought in 2019 intending to use it for BlueIris. The 13th gen Intel i3 is on sale at Costco for $350 now...

Hamas practices a tolerant religion. They tolerate people converting to their conception of Muslim, or being murdered. Very inclusive! I see why leftists are all about it.

Wait until you stumble across Steven Crowder...

I'm so thankful our kids were too young to even remember Covid lockdowns (one wasn't born yet). Oldest just started Kindergarten and probably doesn't even remember wearing masks on planes.

I don't know who Rapinoe is, but based on the background it looks like he purchased a VW using his Visa, and wearing Nike shoes, and then insured the vehicle with Allstate. So if you're an effeminate looking man with bluish hair wanting a new car, consider applying for a Visa and getting some...

This probably belongs here;

What was the warrant for?

Did I already share the story about how I thought smoke detectors were low voltage, and besides I was standing on the very top of a 6' fiberglass ladder, and I only fiddled with the wiring with 1 hand?

I learned how to game weak leftist Oregon sensitivities early on. In high school a mandatory pep rally was announced, so I went to leave campus early to my job to earn money. A teacher stopped me on the way out asking where I'm going, and I answered "to work". As I proceeded, the teacher put...

I don't think it was arbitrary that the 1st amendment came first. It's the most important, inalienable, self-evident (God-given) right. As Jordan Peterson says, the right to free speech isn't because it's important to say nasty things about others, but because that is how thinking works. The...

Well, I guess that's why there's a thread mocking the results of these terrible cameras. Still like having one, but looking forward to when the technology improves.

Focus issue on my Reolink? The bricks 15ft away appear in focus, but people 3ft away are soft. Is there anything I can adjust?

What is standard doorbell cable? I found out Cat 3 was run to my doorbell, and they just used 2 wires from it to run power. I wasn't able to use the cable as a pull cord to run cat 6, so I just spliced some in. Anyhow, if I had to do it again, I might consider the WiFi version, despite the...

Oh no, that's how it's wired to this day. I've been trying to get dad to tear the house down, so he took that advice and installed a new roof... on a house nobody has lived in for 15 years.

I had to go right to the source... listening now. There's something exhilarating about Daniel going into the hungry lion's den and coming out unscathed. EDIT: LOL, I'm already laughing. "Leaving it to the voters is controversial?".

Aw man, and a cop was right there too.

I stopped drinking water, because it's a chemical. I wonder what vehicle LEOs will be getting next?

Discrete. In SF you just take a dump on the sidewalk and then pass out naked.