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  • Citation needed. Where does one buy an outlet like this? Certainly not from the big box store.

    Yep, Home Depot, Lowes, etc is where you’ll find them. They cost about $15 each.

    These cheap outlets are okay for 240v loads that are only on for short periods of time at lower current, say 20A or maybe 30A. This would be fine for an electric clothes dryer for example. However, once you start pulling 40A through it for 5 or 6 hours, the minimal metal in the construction of the outlet can handle it, and they will literally melt from the heat. When they melt, they can cause fires.

    The outlets that are built to handle the heat and current do exist but they cost $60 to $100 each. Also, putting an outlet in the garage requires GFCI. The cost of a regular 50A breaker is about $20. The GFCI version of the 50A breaker is $120. So folks looking to go cheap will buy the $15 outlet and the $20 breaker and set themselves up for multiple problems.




  • Look, I’m just trying to say that this same thing has been posted thousands, yes, literally thousands of times. I’ve seen it hundreds of times, and it’s just eye-rolling bullshit.

    You’re in a Lemmy Community called “Microblog memes”, and you’re complaining about things being reposted? You get that this entire Lemmy Community is built on reposts from elsewhere, yes? Its literally its purpose.

    Talk to me, tell me WHY im wrong,

    I did, and it looks like you ignored it. This whole thread has nothing to do with US politics, GOP, trump, the “Dems”, or “converting MAGAts”. The world is more than just US politics. Not everything has to be about them. Yet here you are trying to do exactly that. The only person talking about US politics or MAGAts is you.

    Convince me I’m wrong. Don’t just downvote me, convince me that repeating copypasta is an effective tool. If you can’t convince someone that is on your side, then you have no chance at converting MAGAts.

    Your whole argument here is a strawman. You’re saying we’re failing at converting MAGAts, but no one here is trying to convert MAGAts with this thread.


  • In fairness, offing someone means your share goes up less than 1%, making the risk-reward for murder math out beneficial for everyone.

    Less than 1% (106 kids), so each share would be $160m each. However, if the murdering offspring has crossed the line into murder, why stop at just one murder? A single murder would net each surviving offspring an extra $1.5M. This also assumes there is only one murdering offspring. As soon as the first murder occurs there might be a second or third copycat murderer. With only 90 surviving offspring each survivor is getting a cool $188m each.

    However, if that 17 billion was split between two or three children, we might have the beginning of an Agatha Christie novel.

    Maybe not an Agatha Christie book, but the interesting novel would arrive where in the story one of the offspring figures out this math, and identifies common locations where more than one offspring would be at one time. So a single incident would net them multiple hits, and be hidden from obvious intent.

    “Tonight, sadness grips the city as the roof of the Claridon Center Arena fell in during the sold out concert. At this hour officials confirm 37 dead as the search for survivors continues. No cause has been reported for the roof failure yet.”

    “A city bus was engulfed in flames when a stolen fuel tank truck collided with it at high speeds. There were no survivors on the bus carrying 42 people. Curiously, the tank truck driver escaped unharmed at is being sought by police even now for questioning.”



  • If its okay to harvest organs from prisoners without their consent, even after they’re dead, then the state now has a vested interest in sending people to prison.

    There’s some terrifying speculative fiction based upon this premise by Larry Niven:

    “The ultimate danger, when a citizen could live for as long as possible if enough organs were available? The cause of it all was the organ banks. With good doctors and a sufficient flow of material in the organ banks, any taxpayer could hope to live indefinitely. What voter would vote against eternal life? The death penalty was his immortality, and he would vote the death penalty for any crime at all.”

    The story continues where the need for organs continues to rise and there aren’t enough murders to harvest organs from. So lessor crimes are then promoted to the death penalty so that those prisoners organs can be harvested too. Eventually you get down to jaywalking being punishable by death so that others can live longer on your organs. Obviously there’s a bit of creative license here in this fiction, but you can easy see where it can go in reality.


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    I’m hoping you’ve read the original post and see that this thread has nothing to do with MAGA, GOP, trump, or any US politics. I honestly am confused but your over-the-top reaction to a simple post of mine including your doubling down on three or four other followup threads spawn from it with other people. I can sense your frustration even if I can’t understand its cause. Friend, I think you may just be having a bad day. Things suck for lots of folks, and I want you to know you’re not alone. I hold no ill will toward you for anything posted here. I have no idea whats going on in your life today, but I truly hope it gets better for you.








  • That was the initial plan but it hit a number of roadblocks.

    1. The release of the Robotaxi product was much delayed, and had Tesla kept to the “no buyout of leased cars” they would have been swimming in returned vehicles with nothing to do with them yet.

    2. The policy was put in place at a time when the autonomous hardware was thought to be the “final” version (referred to as Hardware 3). It turns out the “final” version wasn’t powerful enough, so a new final version was released (Hardware 4). So all the cars that were leased were not going to be useful as taxi cabs, so they offered those for sale to their leasers.