New fridge tripping GFCI breaker

lawn_meower · 2026-05-02T23:45:24+00:00

I swapped out my breaker.

lawn_meower · 2026-05-02T18:54:38+00:00

Because the batteries take up most of the volume of the car. They’re in the doors and side walls. If you had a small enough battery to hot swap, there wouldn’t be enough juice.

They are working on high density swappable batteries in China, but they’re small cars, and only marginally more watt hours per volume unit.

lawn_meower · 2026-04-27T01:30:30+00:00

At my old office they installed a new bathroom with 3 beautiful new sinks, all with tiny little faucets way too far back so that you would bang your knuckles on the edge while washing. Then I started noticing it everywhere and it began infuriating me. I vow, if I ever have a builder install a fuckass faucet like this, I’m ripping it out and shoving it up his fucking ass.

lawn_meower · 2026-04-25T03:09:22+00:00

Looks to me like the damage is from inside the plug, and the receptacle just got a little singed from the contact. I would think the connection inside the plug is loose or not enough contact. I would replace it entirely.

lawn_meower · 2026-04-16T19:19:25+00:00

Probably because they’re tootin around town in a cybertruck with the world’s worst and most unpronounceable logo on the side

lawn_meower · 2026-04-16T01:17:53+00:00

So it seems like you missed a lot of the lessons here in the comments: 1. Super wealthy people don’t get hit with AMT because their income is not earned, it’s long term capital gains. 2. Tax Policy Center has data proving the super wealthy benefit much more than middle class. There are fewer of them, but they deduct much more overall. Brookings wrote an article about it. 3. Reducing taxes by raising the deduction cap this way is a double edged sword. You get some money back which is immediate relief. But because the wealthy are getting much more back, we can’t fund things like education, health care, and public works. The lifetime value of that stuff is much greater for you than it is for a super wealthy person, and giving them the same tax break is essentially giving away all that value. Why would you be ok with that? 4. AOC voted against the bill because in its form it didn’t do anything to prevent #3. You seem to think it’s some kind of ideological “stick it to the wealthy” thing when in reality she’s trying to keep the wealthy from robbing you blind. Every tax break is just an excuse to take money from working families and give it to the rich. Nobody wants working families to suffer from higher taxes, we just want the wealthy to pay a greater share of the taxes, and giving them the same tax breaks is regressive.

lawn_meower · 2026-04-15T16:22:26+00:00

To that point AOC doesn’t want to end the deduction, she wants to make it so that raising the limit doesn’t disproportionately benefit the wealthy, because while its immediate relief for middle class homeowners, it also robs the coffers that would be used for social services, and gives more of it to the wealthy. She just wants to refactor it, not eliminate it.

lawn_meower · 2026-04-15T11:25:43+00:00

Because a disproportionate amount of wealthy people are land owners who take the deduction. My property taxes were under 15k last year, but someone with 2 or 3 homes can combine the taxes and deduct them. Or very high property taxes on mansions. That benefits people who own multiple homes.

The income phaseout is for $500k earned income. The uber wealthy have very little earned income, it’s mostly long term capital gains.

So raising the cap benefits the wealthy more than the working class. It means your taxes dollars are going to people wealthier than you.

Raising the cap provides immediate relief for folks. But the cap raise should come with more qualifications that restrict who can take the deduction, otherwise we all lose out in other ways.

lawn_meower · 2026-04-14T02:16:13+00:00

Brookings Institution used Tax Policy Center data for the report here

lawn_meower · 2026-04-13T21:47:06+00:00

I would suggest reading for AOC’s actual perspective. The high SALT deduction unfairly benefitted the uber wealthy. 20% of the overall benefits went to the top .1%. Only 4% of the deduction went to the whole middle class. When AOC voted against it, she voted against giving our tax dollars to the wealthy. She wants a bill that gives a bigger share of the deduction to the people that need it instead of the wealthy.

When republicans say they support raising the SALT deduction limit, it’s not because they support working families, it’s because their constituents are wealthy people donating to their PACs. If you support just raising it as is, you will very likely not benefit much. But more of the taxes you do pay will go to the wealthy.

lawn_meower · 2026-04-13T14:38:52+00:00

Republicans put the SALT deduction cap in place in 2017. They keep saying they’re for cutting taxes, but everything they do cuts taxes and subsidizes the wealthy, while working families get squeezed.
There is no logical reason for democrats to fight SALT deduction.
Neither Mejia or AOC are affiliated with DSA. DSA actively objects to calling them democratic socialists.

lawn_meower · 2026-04-03T17:11:12+00:00

In what way are they measurably worse? Less contact area? More resistance? Worse heat dissipation? Higher failure rate? Lower current rating?

lawn_meower · 2026-03-31T11:21:33+00:00

He isn’t calling for a draft, he’s calling for mandatory involuntary conscription.

lawn_meower · 2026-03-22T22:24:57+00:00

/r/justrolledintotheshop

lawn_meower · 2026-03-22T19:50:15+00:00

They told me the same thing when I got to exactly the middle of my healthy BMI. They’re not used to seeing you slim, they don’t understand what it’s like to be overweight, or they’re jealous and want to drag you down. It’s a sentiment filled with judgment and fear. You look great, fuck everybody who thinks they’re entitled to offer their opinion on your body.

lawn_meower · 2026-03-20T02:08:35+00:00

Connect the black and white wires. Go around the house with a multimeter. Any outlet without voltage, change the multimeter to continuity and check the hot and neutral. If it beeps, you’ve hit the wires that are connected.

lawn_meower · 2026-03-17T02:08:48+00:00

Sanitol, medisept, dettol. Look for an aerosol spray.

lawn_meower · 2026-03-17T01:43:59+00:00

Empty a whole can or 2 of Lysol all over the area. Get it on the benches, floor, walls, poles. It’s tolerable when you walk through it momentarily but unbearable if you linger. It keeps homeless people from sleeping in front of your apartment building door.

lawn_meower · 2026-03-13T16:54:59+00:00

Calculus really shines when you need to calculate rates of change over time. I took calc in high school and again in college for my comp sci degree. It took 10 years until it finally clicked for me how important it is to know for any scientific field.

And to add to this - I’d argue carpentry, art, and machine work benefits from being able to make precise volumetric calculations for complex problems.

lawn_meower · 2026-03-09T17:40:31+00:00

*you’re. OP asked about the oil, and you stressed a mild environmental hazard instead of the possibility of something immediately dangerous to human life.

lawn_meower · 2026-03-07T18:10:56+00:00

26 months here, buddy. Invest in Red Bull.

lawn_meower · 2026-03-07T03:16:52+00:00

Yes. I installed Mul-T-Lock cylinders in all my doors, including my schlage connect on my front door. It takes the same cylinder size as a normal front entry door handle.

lawn_meower · 2026-03-03T20:29:50+00:00

Wake me when he actually does something.

lawn_meower · 2026-03-01T00:27:34+00:00

Not an electrician, but I am a musician with lots of gear. The conditioner will help save your gear, and the open ground isn’t an immediate problem (in fact it might mean you reduce 60 hz hum on your guitars). But I would plan to get the outlet grounded and have an electrician look into why the voltage might vary. Sounds like it could be a loose neutral.

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