MinorLaceration

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MinorLaceration ,

Then why would you imply that power surges are necessarily caused by shitty infrastructure and not by physics/nature/technical limitations/unpreventable system faults? Just to feed into the enshitification circle-jerk?

MinorLaceration ,

There are many causes of power surges. While one potential cause is poorly maintained equipment, that is far from the only cause. Things like lightning strikes, tree or storm damage, load fluctuations, or equipment faults can cause them. They happen quickly enough that the protective systems can't always prevent damage to equipment downstream, but those systems are designed to protect the distribution equipment, not the loads themselves. Surge protectors are designed to protect your loads from surges and are important devices to protect sensitive equipment. OP is supposedly an electrical engineer, but this is either outside of their wheelhouse or they are just trying to jump on the enshittification bandwagon.

MinorLaceration ,

The loophole is they never applied for federal jobs or benefits so they fell through the cracks. Hence the fix.

MinorLaceration ,

You say that like they're trying to hide it, but it's literally the stated purpose of the Selective Service registration. Nothing surreptitious about it.

MinorLaceration ,

Is the issue here really that they were practicing their religion, or is the issue the 125°F heat?

MinorLaceration ,

Yeah agreed. I'm just saying what's the difference between someone choosing to subject themselves to that heat for religion vs someone who chose to do it for some other reason. I'm not religious, but the fact that someone else died practicing what they believe doesn't make me happy. The initial comment I replied to is just feeding into the atheism circle-jerk that's really common here.

MinorLaceration ,

Seems like you dislike people being intolerant of others.

...and you choose to manifest that by being intolerant yourself.

MinorLaceration ,

Calling bullshit, given you made an emotional argument with no backup.

MinorLaceration ,

It's fairly common knowledge that imperial units are anchored to metric standards now, but that connection doesn't make someone metrically inclined. Still gotta do the backflip. Continuing to use a worse system is annoying and not something everyone prefers to do, hence OP providing the conversions.

MinorLaceration ,

And that's pretty cool.

MinorLaceration ,

What is it engineering up there?

MinorLaceration ,

That's more or less 2/5 and 3/5. Not a big difference and not something I'd like to brush off. That's verging on "sure the dems are crooked, but what about the republicans?" Nah, put the pressure on all of them.

MinorLaceration ,

"Who cares what somebody's skin colour is if they need help?"

Exactly. Helping people is helping people, regardless of who.

MinorLaceration ,

abc.net.au.....

MinorLaceration ,

Parents seriously need to be more aware of what kids are doing on their phones. Why the hell is a 12 year old on snapchat to begin with?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt snapchat requires photo ID in order to make an account. Besides requiring ID, it's not clear to me how else snapchat would be able to know that she is a minor and that the perpetrator is a sex offender.

MinorLaceration ,

Something tells me you didn't read my comment.

Unless we want snapchat and other apps to require photo ID, how would snapchat actually know who is a child and who is an adult? Why did the parents not know or care that the kid had snapchat downloaded?

MinorLaceration ,

https://cdn3.whatculture.com/images/2017/03/6068dd200535b55f-600x400.jpg

MinorLaceration ,

'In a statement obtained by PEOPLE, Biden-Harris 2024 Communications Director Michael Tyler reacted to Trump's promotional appearance over the weekend, stating, “Donald Trump showing up to hawk bootleg Off-Whites is the closest he’ll get to any Air Force Ones ever again for the rest of his life.”'

MinorLaceration ,

Ignoring a potential problem until it becomes an actual problem sounds pretty fucking stupid to me.

MinorLaceration ,

The title is deliberately written to sound like a new species was discovered. That is not even close to what happened. An alligator snapping turtle was found in England, outside of its natural habitat. I'm going to guess it was someone's exotic pet or something (not sure on the legality of export/import).

Trash, clickbait article.

MinorLaceration ,

I mean, I could have pointed out your lack of discernment in posting this, but I chose not to. I'd hate to spread my misery to anyone else.

MinorLaceration ,

It's pretty telling that this guy was remorseful for breaking the law, not for the fact that he raped, tortured, and murdered these boys/men.

But I agree, not a very profound or "chilling" last statement.

MIT Passive Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water, scales down to the size of a suitcase. ( news.mit.edu )

According to MIT, this technology works even at small scale, with one the size of a suitcase able to desalinate 6 litres per hour, and only needing to be serviced every few years....

MinorLaceration ,

I realize this isn't explicitly a news community, but man, Lemmy has a thing for posting old articles as if they were just published. I mean, this is probably fine in a tech community like this, but I just want to point out how common it's becoming across lemmy.

MinorLaceration ,

'The Houthi leader vowed to continue the attacks until Israel lifts its blockade of Gaza, saying that “nothing – not all the threats, the missiles, the pressure – will change our position.”'

The Houthis say the strikes will never change their stance, but their stance doesn't matter if they don't have the military assets to attack commercial shipping.

MinorLaceration ,

Why are we updating a four month article as if it just happened? I'm noticing this happens fairly often on Lemmy.

MinorLaceration ,

Makes me think ape caretakers should hang portraits of those apes that have passed away to see if it is a benefit to the rest of the troop.

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