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  • I haven’t dealt with electrical engineering in a decade, but it sounds like you isolated the problem to the supply. Assuming you meant it was reading normally at outlets, but the supply read wrong at multiple outlets.

    Definitely do not try to do anything to fix it. It’s already broke and not worth the risk.

    So order the new one, don’t plug the old back in. And maybe someone who knows more can explain how the original broke.

    It’s good to want to understand this stuff, but it’s never worth rolling the dice on repairing something as cheap and constantly in use as this. Probably the biggest lesson with electrical shit is “don’t cut corners”.





  • Someone will pay more for a calzone than for its ingredients. More value, when distributed, becomes wealth.

    Bro…

    Do you have a magic pocket that makes money whenever you want a calzone?

    Because that’s pretty cool.

    In the real world no wealth is created. Some was moved from the calzone maker to the store for ingredients, then some other people paid more for a calzone than ingredients cost.

    No wealth was created, it was redistributed.

    If you spent $2 on ingredients and sold a calzone for $5, somebody just paid you $3 of their own dollars for you to do it.

    How the fuck did sonmany people up otw you for just completly missing the point?










  • Its gonna keep happening too.

    For years I’ve been getting spam cold calls/texts from investment groups trying desperately to buy my house.

    Everyone with a mortgage gets them, long before anyone starts thinking of selling.

    What we need is common loyalty. Everyone to refuse to sell existing homes to any bank/corp regardless of how much they’re offering.

    A single person always loses against banks and corps, that’s why they spend so much keeping us divided

    But the truth is the only reason there’s a homestead exemption is less than a century ago when banks would try to repo a house, the whole community would be waiting for them with rifles.

    The people changed the math on the risk/reward for seizing housing, we’d have never got that homestead exemption codified into law without the legitimate threat of violence.


  • or microwave with a wet paper towel over it.

    While that worked for decades, it’s where air fryers really shine.

    Outside will dry out and get crispy, but the inside retains moisture. I searched online first to make sure it was a thing, but there’s some math involved with how big it is because it’s so fast.

    But I put off getting one for years because I didn’t see the use for it. But I can’t remember the last time I used my microwave now. Everything that needs reheated goes in the air fryer.

    Just don’t put a liner in till it’s pre-heated or it turns into a flamethrower


  • You don’t need to be a billionaire or even own a boat…

    People stage accidents on rented boats and even cruise ships fairly often.

    Regardless of if it works and they get away with it, a lot of people have seen Dexter.

    Billionaires can just outspend the government on lawyers to get away with anything. So there’s probably a higher percentage who assume they can get away with it.

    Because DA’s are obsessed with win rate, they give cushy plea deals to people who can pay for good lawyers. Regular people and the government are the opposite, and innocent people are forced to take plea deals because time served and probation is always better than a 1% chance of 25 years in prison.

    For a billionaire they just have to keep stalling till the money runs out. Even where Kirk got shot, the local officials were immediately freaking out over how they were going to pay for it all. So it doesn’t even take being a millionaire in some places. There’s a reason the children of lawyers are usually insufferable…



  • It’s still wild to me people are rationalizing not even having a pistol let alone something equivalent to what ICE is rolling around with…

    We’re nowhere near rock bottom. Shit can, and unfortunately will, get a lot worse before it gets better. We can (and obviously should) still be hitting the brakes as hard as possible.

    But we’re in that brief moment where we’re still technically on the road, but you realize that nothing you do is going to be able to stay on it for more than another second.

    We still need to be swerving trees to the best of our ability, but having people out and openly armed is swerving the trees.

    Cops/ICE clearly have no qualms shooting unarmed people, but time and time again we see that when both sides have instant and equal access to deadly force in the moment, both sides are motivated to stay calm and actually de-escalate.

    It’s only when one side think they’re the only ones with guns that they get paranoid about someone taking their guns or secretly having one.


  • BLUF: you know we can just run someone who authentically wants to help Americans … Right?

    OR… Populists easily win votes by promising to do things they can’t (lower prices) or by promising that great things will come from things they can do (deport immigrants, raise tariffs).

    The left could also nominate populists who promise everyone two acres and a mule, but is that really what’s good for the country?

    It’s just unfathomable to you, that we could run someone who authentically will help now that the DNC isn’t literally funded by Hillary’s personal fundraising machine she built…

    Like, are you just unaware of all that?

    There are plenty of leftist populists elected in South America, yet those countries stay poor and crime-ridden

    Yeah…

    Mainly due to the fucking CIA, again, both under Republicans and neolibs.

    Don’t forget, just because we always wait a couple decades to declassify shit, doesn’t mean we perpetually just stopped that long ago. There’s always a giant backlog of shit they’re waiting till we don’t care as much.

    Clinton flat out told journalists she wouldn’t have let Palestine have an election, and the only way she would have, would be if it was rigged:

    Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton displayed a brazen contempt for Palestinian democracy in a 2006 meeting with Jewish journalists in Brooklyn, according to a new report. She also warned of the rise of “Islamo-fascism” as a “global threat that needs a global response.”

    According to the Observer, Clinton told the editors of the Jewish Press: “I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake,” said Clinton, then a New York Senator running for re-election and shmoozing with the editors of the Press. “And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.”

    https://mondoweiss.net/2016/10/palestinian-elections-determine/

    But obviously the reason leftwing governments don’t work in South America, is the United States of America.

    but the truth is that populists are good at getting elected and then fucking everything up.

    Liars are good at lying…

    Again, we could just pick someone that doesn’t lie, how is that such an alien concept to you?

    And even if that is your logic, how the ever loving fuck do you not understand why voter turnout is a huge problem? And that the fix is just running someone authentic?

    The logic in your comment just isn’t consistent. The only thing consistent is saying anything in the moment that doesn’t make neoliberalism look like the cause. It’s literally like talking to a trumpet.


  • Crazy thing…

    When you don’t hoard all the wealth from state parties and prevent them from fighting in every election, we win less seats than if we put a legit effort into winning every possible elections.

    But it takes billions to have a coin flip chance at convincing voters a neoliberal is better than a Republican, that’s just been the reality of American politics for decades.

    If we stop shoving neoliberalism down voters throats, we don’t have to continuously rob the state Dem parties to pay for the one presidential campaign every four years.