Seems like you dislike people being intolerant of others.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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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.

That already exists with UTC, but the fact that people don’t use it day to day speaks to how much more convenient localized times are.

You’re telling me that they’re not literally a tin can on skateboard wheels? /s Yes, of course that was hyperbole.

There are no passenger vehicles produced in the states with wheels that size. Smaller wheel size means reduced traction, which we both know these trucks suffer from, leading yo poor handling. You can say that they handle better and are safer than some US vehicles and I can say they are not. Neither of us have a way to objectively prove it, but apparently Maine and Rhode Island are of the opinion that they are not up to standard. I don’t disagree that they have their uses. They make fine farm/utility vehicles. But don’t pretend that they are in the same class as other vehicles on the roads in the US. Again, I’m not saying they should be illegal. I’m saying that there are valid concerns about them, and apparently some DMVs are finding them not to be up to snuff.

Have you actually been in one of those Kei trucks? It’s basically a tin can on skateboard wheels. It is extremely power limited due to engine size and handles poorly due to the wheel size. I’m not saying that they should or should not be banned, but they certainly are not safer than any US vehicle made in the last 35 years.

I mean you did delete my comments calling out your bullshit Gaza pier and Boeing. Seems like you can’t back up your baseless claims.

This account is either a troll or a bot, deliberately spreading misinformation.

This account is either a troll or a bot, deliberately spreading misinformation.

This account is either a troll or a bot, deliberately spreading misinformation.

This account is either a troll or a bot, deliberately spreading misinformation.

They don’t follow the grid frequency because the EU or US regulations require it, they follow the grid frequency because physics demands it.

This is only supplying like 3.5 amps, so not going to trip any breakers.

Unrelated to the incident, but I’m getting really fucking tired of articles using some unknown set of people posting online as justification for the conclusions of their articles. I don’t give half a shit what someone posted on the departments facebook page. I give a shit about the incident at hand. Don’t tell me how other people reacted online and expect me to do the same. Tell me what happened and let me come to my own conclusion.

Garbage article and garbage cop.