Rivalarrival
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- Comment on Guidelines for dancing 4 days ago:
When in doubt, stay at least one Bible length away.
When not in doubt, grind away.
- Comment on Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits 4 days ago:
Weigh, hey, and up she rises, weigh hey, and up she rises, weigh, hey, and up she rises, early in the morning.
- Comment on My mom an old school nurse will stop at traffic accidents and try to help if no one is around, my new school sister nurse won't. Saying everyone is sue happy thesedays. Who is right? 6 days ago:
The crazy part was that her bills were only going to be covered if she filed suit. The original demand was for just $20,000 to cover those bills.
- Comment on My mom an old school nurse will stop at traffic accidents and try to help if no one is around, my new school sister nurse won't. Saying everyone is sue happy thesedays. Who is right? 1 week ago:
Depends probably on your location. In a lot of countries (for example Germany) you are obligated to give first aid (independent of yourknowledge) . You can even be sued for not helping in an emergency.
This is the case for licensed medical practitioners as well, including doctors and nurses. If a Flock camera catches the sister leaving the scene of an accident, and the sister is an RN, the sister can be civilly liable and possibly even criminally culpable for refusing to render aid within her professional scope.
- Comment on My mom an old school nurse will stop at traffic accidents and try to help if no one is around, my new school sister nurse won't. Saying everyone is sue happy thesedays. Who is right? 1 week ago:
It’s not the people who are sue-happy. It’s the health insurance companies trying not to pay for coverage. The completely absurd lawsuits - McDonalds coffee, aunt suing nephew, all the suits against good samaritans - are subrogated cases, where the named plaintiff is obligated to allow their insurer to file suit in their name.
Subrogation is also behind most medical malpractice cases: health insurers suing doctors and hospitals in the name of the patient, just so the insurer isn’t the one paying the bill.
- Comment on Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon? 1 week ago:
If they run Hillary or Harris again, you’re probably right.
Jon Stewart should be president. And Mark Kelly should be his VP.
- Comment on Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon? 1 week ago:
#GuillotineParty
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 1 week ago:
Nothing short of a parade of guillotines could have made OWS successful.
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 1 week ago:
Congress made a law greatly limiting what corporations and organizations could do with regards to publishing electioneering material. Citizens United wanted to publish electioneering material. Federal Election Commission said no. Citizens United sued. Case was appealed to the Supreme Court. SCOTUS said the law violated the first amendment rights of corporations, and overturned it.
- Comment on What is the name of this knot? And how does one tie it? 1 week ago:
That was my first thought as well. Probably called a “slipped” or “slippery” figure-8.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s because I have never seen a dishwasher in the US designed for a high current circuit.
Right. But, if they did make a 5000W dishwasher, it would not be difficult to power it in the US. Even though typical NEMA 5-15 and 5-20 outlets can only handle 1800/2400W, US electric code provides for 50A@120V, 20A@240V, and much, much larger circuits for ranges, water heaters, hot tubs, pools, arc welders, air compressors, etc. There is no electrical limitation preventing adoption of cold-water dishwashers.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The US uses many smaller circuits. I have two appliance circuits, a lighting circuit, a dedicated refrigerator circuit, and a 240V range circuit. Five separate electrical circuits, just for my kitchen.
Rebuilding after WWII, the UK standard was to run a single ring circuit for each floor of the home. They ran as few household circuits as possible, because they needed the copper.
If you look at the amperage/wattage ratings of UK circuits, they are considerably higher than other 220v/240v countries, because their circuits are intended to be shared among many more devices.
You know how they warn you not to plug in too many devices into a single circuit? The UK electrical system took the exact opposite approach, because they needed to. This is why they have a fancy plug that nobody else in the world uses: it is an essential safety component that serves the same purpose that the household circuit breaker performs for the rest of the world.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like a legacy thing.
Exactly. UK and European legacy standards required cold water dishwashers; US legacy standards called for hot water dishwashers. Once that expectation took hold, it’s somewhat difficult to alter it. Builders install plumbing for their respective systems; consumers buy appliances to match their plumbing. It’s a vicious circle with little compelling reason to break it. Neither is objectively better; neither is objectively worse.
Though I do think it’s very likely that a big chunk of it is as the other commenter said, an electricity thing.
The overwhelming majority of households had gas-fired water heaters, because for decades, it was significantly cheaper than electric, and those gas-fired systems remain in place in a majority of homes. In that sense, it’s an electric thing.
In the sense that US circuits simply can’t handle the current requirements of a permanently installed heating appliance, that is a complete myth. Trust me, we know how to
wasteuse electricity. - Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It is about the electrical system in the US not being able to supply water heaters in dishwashers and washing machines.
That is a myth arising from US typical residential circuit standard being 20A @ 120V, or 2400W.
Major appliances are not limited to this typical standard. US/Canada have code for and commonly install dedicated 30A@120V, (commonly used for large through-window air conditioners) as well as 240V circuits rated from 20A to 80A. The North American electrical system typically provides 200A @ 240V to the residence. That’s sufficient for heating hot tubs and in-ground pools.
No, the decision to use hot water instead of cold water arises primarily from plumbing factors, not electrical.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Plumbing code in the UK (and parts of Europe?) allowed/allows hot water tanks to be open to the atmosphere, to prevent boiler explosions. The specific tanks in question are filled via float valve, much like a toilet tank. Being potentially exposed to airborne bacteria, fungi, and other biological material, water out of these tanks is not considered potable. If you have one of these atmospheric pressure heaters, you shouldn’t consume the water, or clean cookware, dishes, and utensils with it. Because they might be installed in buildings with atmospheric pressure hot water, dishwashers in areas with atmospheric pressure hot water tanks are designed to be connected to the potable, cold water supply, rather than a potentially contaminated hot water supply.
US does not allow atmospheric pressure hot water tanks. US tanks are under positive pressure, using T&P valves to protect against excess pressure and boiler explosion. The water in US hot water tanks is considered potable. Dishwashers in the US do have heating elements, but they are designed to be connected to a hot water supply.
This is also why UK taps typically have two spouts. The cold water side is pressurized; the hot water can be gravity fed. This causes two problems: 1. If there is any restriction in the output, cold water can backfeed the hot supply and overfill the hot water tank. 2. non-potable hot water can contaminate the cold water in a mixing valve, rendering the cold water non-potable as well.
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 2 weeks ago:
Do you manufacture guillotines? That’s the only industry that is realizing actual, genuine benefits here.
Everyone else supposedly making money is in a circular ponzi scheme.
- Comment on Happy Kirkday! 2 weeks ago:
Base-10 is objectively terrible, though. Too many fundamental principles of geometry rely on 1:3 and 1:6 ratios that can’t be properly depicted in Base-10.
If there were a god, they would have given us 6 digits on each hand, inspiring us to develop a base-12 number system.
- Comment on Happy Kirkday! 2 weeks ago:
Base-12 is absolutely gorgeous for geometry. A metric system on base-12? <chef’s kiss>
- Comment on For-Profit Health Insurance is a major cause of death in America. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I’m philosphying. You should philosophying too. 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s a plucked chicken.
- Comment on Wait, you mean workers *don't* love the automatic dumbass machines that constantly threaten their jobs? 2 weeks ago:
Exactly the kind of horseshit I’m thinking of. The demand for mindless busywork is truly amazing.
I can only hope that the next big idea in business is a widespread push to “replace” AI production with “nothing”.
- Comment on Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral. 3 weeks ago:
It’s fucking Walmart. Why are you there?
- Comment on Wait, you mean workers *don't* love the automatic dumbass machines that constantly threaten their jobs? 3 weeks ago:
2008, here we come!
- Comment on Wait, you mean workers *don't* love the automatic dumbass machines that constantly threaten their jobs? 3 weeks ago:
It is perfect for producing garbage that should never have been produced in the first place. Marketing wank. Nobody cares what it says, so long as it is aesthetically pleasing to the intended audience. It’s perfect for doing shit that never needed to be done in the first place. Perfect for busywork.
It is worse than useless for any technical purpose. Verifying its output requires more effort than manually producing that output.
- Comment on feces 3 weeks ago:
You can suck a fuck.
- Comment on Finding mid-00s DNS info? 3 weeks ago:
Certainly, and likely. In which case, the DNS records would tell us nothing.
But we can draw a completely different conclusion if the records were taken down deliberately.
- Comment on Finding mid-00s DNS info? 3 weeks ago:
If the DNS records for the mail server were missing, it would suggest that they didn’t intend to receive mail, even if a mail server were actually up.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
20g but 17ml?!? I was promised that metric masses and volumes were interchangeable! They told me I wouldn’t have to use any weird conversion ratio!
Liars!
(/s)
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 3 weeks ago:
Walmart plans for extraordinarily high turnover. If the median worker is there longer than a year, they are overpaying for labor. If less than a year, they’ll bring on new workers at higher rates than their experienced workers. Why give the experienced people higher pay when they’ve proven they will stay on at less?
Walmart is one of the scummiest employers on the planet, and they have an outsized influence on the rest of the labor market.
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 3 weeks ago:
All of the essential, general information is true: Walmart, et al, deliberately short worker hours to avoid having to pay benefits. The end result of that is workers forced to try to live on the income from one or more part-time jobs, without employer-provided benefits like health or dental insurance. Without such benefits, they either have to pay those costs out of their regular pay, or we have to pay those costs on their behalf.
The exact amount of rent is not relevant, nor are any of the particular circumstances of this or any individual worker. The general condition is more than sufficient to garner outrage.