thewebroach

@thewebroach@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home renovations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Small correction- AC power doesn’t “travel in waves”. It just oscillates up and down with respect to its reference, and same with its current with respect to its impedance. Just looks like a wave if you look at its position over time.

  With a completed circuit with low impedance, it would trip your breaker. With completed circuit with large enough impedance to not trip breaker, it might burn your apartment down in a number of ways. Could also kill neighbor if they are somehow making a return path, as current disrupts your nervous system where once they get caught in the shock they lose control of their muscles and are held in the current unable to let go, electrocuting them until death. If insulation is high enough to effectively be an open circuit, your neighbor on the pole wouldn’t know it was electrified in the same way a bird sitting up on a power line doesn’t have a clue its anything but a normal wire in the air. Largely depends on how the pole is installed and if its touching any metal or electrical wires where it is mounted on top, bottom, or both. Also if neighbor is ground level or if another apartment beneath them. A lot of variables create.a lot of possible outcomes.

  Would not recommend, lot of risks with little to no chance of any reward

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “The reason women and some couches covrr their drinks”

  FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both meters and seconds are units of Earth specific measures of space and time. Pretty sure at a cosmic scale god would give fuckall about how we measure and name our shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still the same situation with illegal drugs, but America outsourced the production and supply chain largely underground (and to other countries as they are much easier to smuggle than alcohol.) So same problems and empowering gangs, but happening outside Americas borders, and thus not America’s problem. Most present day issues with drug cartels are a derivative of America trying to control peoples’ access to substances and driving them from the open market to the black market… seems to have done a lot more harm to the world and peoples lives than good (as an opinion).