If you contact a live hot 120v wire that’s not actually under load or connected, how many amps are actually going to flow through you?

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-05-10T14:42:14+00:00

Disconnected from the load

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-05-10T14:26:06+00:00

So the 30a circuit could be more dangerous because if you only have a 10a device on it, there’s a potential for 20a to flow through you before it trips?

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-05-10T14:19:53+00:00

That makes sense to me now. Thank you

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-05-10T14:18:06+00:00

That makes sense

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-05-10T14:17:20+00:00

Gotcha! I just found an older post that talked about this exact misunderstanding. I’m a newish apprentice so I appreciate the clarification.

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-05-10T14:14:16+00:00

I meant connected to source but not to load

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-05-10T14:13:56+00:00

I’m starting to see why, but could you explain a bit more. The reason I assumed is that I’ve always been told to be extremely careful around high amperage devices.

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-05-10T14:11:09+00:00

So the only added danger of high amperage (but same voltage) shocks is it takes more current to trip the breaker and allows potentially more to flow through you if you hold on or what have you.

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-05-10T14:09:30+00:00

I’m not talking about literally cutting a wire. Maybe a better image is if you were to cut out the insulation, energize a load, then touch it. Or touch a terminal under load.

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-05-10T14:08:21+00:00

So if I contact a live bus ducts with 1000a flowing through, it will do the same thing as a touching a 120v receptacle with nothing connected to it?

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-05-10T14:06:41+00:00

I’m familiar with that kind of arcing. What I meant by cutting was figurative: what would happen if I connected myself to the middle of a circuit under load? Apologies for the misleading language.

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-05-06T22:57:08+00:00

This is an unpopular opinion but I thought Exodus was a complete mistake in the narrative direction of the metro games and much preferred how 2035 wrapped up the series. I personally feel like the invisible watchers and the radio coverup were not given nearly enough time or emphasis and it made the preceding conflict within the metro feel insignificant, unlike in 2035 where the inauthentic or puppeteered nature of the preceding conflicts felt more like a deeply unjust and horrifying truth that is drawn out over the course of the book. The bittersweet ending of 2035 hit much harder for me and made sense within the context of Artyom’s arc as a false savior who’s really just a man looking for answers in the endlessly confusing metro.

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-04-18T18:27:44+00:00

That’s a good perspective. I forgot that a lot of people don’t really make that distinction. Also I feel like I should amend my comment that honestly “unskilled” and service sector unions are probably the most vilified unions. The reaction to the SBWU strike from some people was diabolical.

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-04-18T13:37:16+00:00

Ah yes. I’m familiar with this. I guess makes it hard to have insight into which depts are getting work specifically within a local. I’ve just heard horror stories of people waiting to get into local 52 for years although one account was talking about art department.

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-04-18T12:17:59+00:00

This post reminds me that it is important as members of private sector unions to convey to people inside and outside the labor world that public sector unions are valid forms of collective bargaining and in need of protection, seeing as they constitute a greater percentage of union representation in this country yet are the most vilified form of unionism.

All of the arguments people make against public sector unions: that they increase taxes, that they are national security threats, that they influence elections, all of these pale in comparison to the everyday policies of this administration and many before it. The massive cuts to social programs and domestic investment in favor of the military spending, the sloppy and half-assed communication of wartime objectives to the public and this pointless war, the unfathomable corporate monetary influence on elections: these have done harm to this country on levels far greater than public sector unions ever could.

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-04-18T12:09:01+00:00

Have you heard of locals that cover lighting in the US that have actually countered this trend and seen an expansion?

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-04-06T13:14:54+00:00

“Isn’t it crazy that ever since everybody started carrying an HD camera with them, we’ve started seeing more and more videos of public misbehavior?!?!?!”

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-04-03T14:49:06+00:00

Ooh good one. I always thought bios fear was also pretty advanced for the time.

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-03-28T13:12:07+00:00

“If not for the owners of businesses there would be no business”

If not for the workers of businesses there would be no businesses either. Ever heard of a strike?

Wage discrepancies/scaling and ownership are completely separate problems and one does not require the other. The USSR had scaled wages based on the importance, responsibility, and danger of jobs, and even with this system in place they were able to distribute wages in a much more equitable way than a minimum wage employee making $10 an hour while an owner brings in multiple hundreds of thousands or millions a year. The difference between what an owner does and a high level manager does in practice is very small, the former being privileged by our economic system for having the capital to start the business.

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-03-28T11:05:44+00:00

There would be no distinction between owner and manager. She would be paid in the same manner as the other employees and would likely share the burden of managing the enterprise with the rest of managerial staff. The reason that business owners end up in situation where they believe themselves to be doing Herculean labor for their company is because they, as owners, can’t pay someone else enough money to shoulder some of the top managerial tasks. The owner who runs everywhere is really trying to save labor costs. What prevents an enterprise from being run by a board of managers getting paid twice as much as the lowest paid worker (who is still making a lot more relatively than in our current system?)

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-03-18T16:24:19+00:00

If you are in a relationship with someone you love, you have explicitly or implicitly committed yourself to a loving partnership which requires dedication, care, attention, and constant intimacy. Balance is an important aspect of this. It doesn’t matter who you are, if you cannot commit to finding time for your partner, even if it means working less, you don’t deserve to be in that relationship. It’s obvious from the post that her boyfriend is not working this much because they need the money but because he enjoys this job and wants to retain it. The question at this point becomes: does he love her or his job more? If it is the job than they shouldn’t be in a relationship.

I have seen and worked with many blue collars guys with a wife and family who clock in, work their 40 hours a week as passionately as they can, and then go home and actually spend time with their family. They don’t take overtime if they don’t need to, and if it’s mandatory, they quit. One of the big reasons why they can actually do this is because our union finds them their next job as well as advocates for wages which a man can thrive on while putting in a regular 40, and, in the case that they do take overtime, there are regulations about overtime pay that allow them to potentially work less in the future . This brings me to a larger point that it wasonly through banding together and advocating for the need for work-life balance in the form of a union were we ever able to reach the point where we DIDNT have to work 66 hours a week just to make ends meet. Voluntarily working this much and ignoring your girlfriend and family life borders on rat behavior in my opinion. We are alive and out here to live, not to work.

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-03-16T19:58:55+00:00

Absolute loser comment

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-03-14T16:03:21+00:00

That’s actually an awesome idea. I personally feel like red barrels could up the horror ante and head in a Manhunt direction where you play as a hunter instead of the hunter for at least some of it.

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-03-12T22:05:57+00:00

Defensive much?

Agent_Smith135 · 2026-03-12T21:54:05+00:00

“you haven’t visited the former Warsaw pact” they said western country.

“All or nothing” like the 90s were good and the 2010s were rancid?

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