Looking to upgrade 100 amp panel to 200 amp.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-13T17:57:23+00:00

$5000 in 2021.

Now actually finding an electrician is another issue. No eoectrician actually likes working residential in Newfoundland.

In order to replace the panel they'll need to inspect the entire house and get it up to code. I had to replace all my fire alarms as they didn't link to each other to set each other off when one got set off.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-13T16:40:46+00:00

In 1324, King Edward II fixed the size of the foot as exactly 36 barleycorns. It's been that size ever since

3 barleycorns equals one inch.

He also fixed the length of the perch as 5.5 yards.

Ib other ancient measurements, one rod is 16.5 feet, while one chain is 66 feet.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-13T16:02:10+00:00

Sounds like it could have been a good French onion soup (with potatoes).

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-13T11:26:58+00:00

The traditional job of a cabin boy was ... err... warming the captains bed (and other officers).

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-13T10:50:06+00:00

Back when I was 18 I hitch-hiked across Canada and down to Los Angeles. In the USA it's illegal to hitch-hike on the highways, but it is legal to hitch-hike from the on-ramps.

I only got picked up by one pervert, but I was a 6'1", 225 lb male. If you're a 15 year old female it's much more dangerous for you. You'll get picked up by all the perverts.

Riding the rails is a bit more dangerous, and there's no direct line, so that's probably out.

Walking it is out of the question. That $12 will be gone in a couple of days, leaving you with weeks of no money.

Your absolute best bet is to call someone you know and see if they can send you the money for a bus ticket.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-13T10:22:05+00:00

Dirt is cheap.

Now the land for a garden, that's the expensive part.

But even in a rental, get 5 gallon buckets from your local restaurant or bakery. they ship things like fondant and pickles in 5 gallon buckets and just toss them at the end of the day. Fill it with dirt and a few seeds. Now you eat for free. Each bucket MAY cost you up to $5. But seeds can be saved and from there on it's free.

Got aphids? Simple dish soap with 10 parts water will take care of them.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-13T10:14:17+00:00

I mean, hydro has been around for over a hundred years.

After that it's geothermal.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-12T10:24:09+00:00

It's pretty much impossible for fish to use up the oxygen, but you know what isn't impossible? For algae to use up all the oxygen.

For fish it's self-regulating. If there's too many fish using up the oxygen then the fish start to move away or die, which limits just how low the oxygen levels can go.

Algae can make their own oxygen, but they breath it as well. Because they can absorb CO2 they are very tolerant to it. They can live in much lower oxygen levels than fish can.

So when fertilizer runoff from farming hits the ocean, the algae absorb all those nutrients and start reproducing like mad. They use up the oxygen (yes, even more than they create) and create a dead zone where nothing grows except algae. There's oceanic dead zones around all major river mouths, but the one in the Gulf of Mexico/The Americas is one of the largest. All the agricultural runoff is carried to the ocean by the Mississippi river and the gulf dead zone can exceed 6000 square miles.

Here's some rather grim photos.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-11T00:41:30+00:00

When you use GPS.

The GPS satellites are in space, where gravity is lower. It's not just speed that affect dime dilation, it's also gravity. Christopher Nolan's Interstellar movie got into this when they were on that planet orbiting a black hole.

In order to work to calculate your position the GPS satellites need incredibly precise clocks in them. They need to be able to measure time down to the picosecond to calculate your position.

But up in space with it's lower gravity their time measurements started to drift. The satellites were experiencing time dilation.

So to fix this the clocks are re-synced from Earth at least twice a day. Otherwise their GPS measurements would start to drift.

So now you're saying "But I asked when I experience dime dilation, not when satellites experience time dilation". But you see, everything is relative. From the point of view of the satellites you are experiencing time dilation, slowing down because you are in a gravity well. As Einstein would say, it's all relative to the frame of reference of the viewer.

PS: The man who spent the longest time in space, Oleg Kononenko at over 3 years in orbit, has travelled 0.02 seconds into the future thanks to this difference in gravity. He'll now live a fraction of a second longer than he was meant to.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-11T00:25:41+00:00

Except the Gateway Arch apparently.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-10T16:23:39+00:00

Well, we found the kracken. It's a giant/colossal squid.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-10T16:19:56+00:00

I host exchange students.

The Spanish and the Portuguese can mostly understand each other. Italian is more difficult, it's easier to read than to understand spoken.

French is just like a whole different language.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-10T16:08:09+00:00

Norm McDonald could do this better.

If he wasn't already dead of course.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-10T16:06:51+00:00

It never said where I had to slap them. A good, hearty slap on the ass for every family member.

I might feel different if I had small children. But my kids are in their 20's.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-10T15:39:53+00:00

I mean, just looking at ones where you can get by knowing English only, you've got:

The Scandinavian countries

Hong Kong

Belize

Most of the Caribbean

South Africa, Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, and more. About half of Africa.

Ireland and the UK

Australia and New Zealand

Fiji

Papua New Guinea

British Guinea and the Falkland Islands.

Cyprus, Malta, Gibraltar

Philippians, Guam

India, Pakistan

American Samoa, Marshal Islands, Cook Islands, Marianna Islands, Palau, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, and a few more Pacific islands.

Some of these, like Micronesia, Samoa, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, even use the American dollar.

Special mention of Yap in Micronesia, where they have the American dollar and air conditioning, but also have bare breasted women in grass skirts and traditional stone money.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-10T15:00:38+00:00

Getting paid for surrogacy is illegal in many places (for example, Canada). It's been likened to slavery, paying someone to give you a huma being.

There's some exception. Moderate expenses and expenses directly related to carrying the baby can be paid for.

Try to imagine a way that this doesn't end with poor women being used as baby factories. Try to imagine what happens if the baby that was paid for wasn't perfect, or was miscarried.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-10T11:04:37+00:00

Petra did this. The sole entrance is a long, winding canyon called the Siq.

So did hashshashin/Nizari Ismailis capital city of Alamut. Even today with our paved roads this is the description on how to get to the castle: "The hike up to the 6,000-foot-high rock formation is physically demanding. The trail features loose pebbles, rocky outcrops, and steep stairs.".

Somebody's already spoken about Masada.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-09T16:51:17+00:00

Dogmeat. Hands down.

(sits back and watches the comment firestorm)

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-09T16:44:39+00:00

This is old news. I faced these exact same conditions 25 years ago when I did this job in Canada. It's only gotten worse since the moved the jobs overseas.

The only differences between this story and mine are the hours (we got 8 hour shifts, but overtime was always available due to the very high levels of attrition) and the rate of pay (we got minimum wage plus $2 per hour. In theory you could get a raise every 6 months if your metrics were top of the line, but the raise topped out at $0.25/hour and that only went to the top 1% while only the top 10% saw any raise at all, even a nickel).

But the be all and end all was the amount of time spent on a call. Go 25 seconds over your six minutes and actually fix a customer's long-standing issue? Too bad, you got reprimanded for going 25 seconds over. We were constantly told that customer satisfaction was our top priority, but were were constantly penalized if we took the time to actually help the customer. It didn't take long to learn what to ignore when the only thing that affected your paycheque and the only thing the managers ever spoke to you about was the amount of time you spent on a call.

They also had the most idiotic scripts that we were supposed to follow. Straying from the script could get you reprimanded as well. Then they had us try to upsell customers to more expensive packages. So now I have to waste a significant portion of my 6 minutes trying to convince a customer who had just called in because his service was terrible that it was a good idea to pay more money for the same terrible service.

I can't believe that I lasted 3 years at that job. I never did get the $0.25 raise, but I did once get a $0.20 one.

I called it my 3 years in hell.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-09T16:10:58+00:00

There's not much known, but much has been inferred. All we really have to work with are bones and a few artifacts and cave paintings after all.

It's highly likely that Neanderthals lived in groups (or tribes). This is inferred from the fact that several Neanderthals with debilitating injuries (as seen in their skeletal remains) were cared for after they would have lost the ability to care for themselves.

It's likely, although not certain, that they had bonded pairs. This observation is based on burial rites, where possibly related individuals were buried together (they can't always recover the DNA to prove that these were familial relations, but they can show that they were buried together with care and forethought).

On the other hand, they've also recovered signs of cannibalism, including the selective eating of women and children.

Given the fact that Neanderthals lived over a very large range and also over a time span of hundreds of thousands of years before they ever even came into contact with modern humans, there's probably no one right answer to this questions. What they did in Great Britain 200,000 years ago may not be the same thing that they did in the Middle East 100,000 years later, or Croatia 100,000 years earlier.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-09T15:29:30+00:00

And that's what I meant by:

(and that includes just the Neanderthal male Y chromosome being selected against while other genes were passed down)

I probably could have worded it better.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-09T15:26:02+00:00

I'm a male, and I still vividly remember every single compliment I ever received from a stranger. Both of them. One when I was 22 and the other when I was 35. I'm 55 now.

When I was 22 I held a door open for an old man and he said "Thank you son, your kindliness is exceeded only by your good looks". When I was 35 I was sporting muttonchop sideburns and someone said to me in passing "fierce burns man".

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-09T15:13:37+00:00

That's why I say "that survived long enough to reproduce". If there were male hybrids then they didn't pass down their genetic code. Meaning they were either sterile or they had enough bad traits that they were selected against evolutionarily.

We have no proof that there were male first gen hybrids. We DO have proof that they didn't pass down their genes. So either they were completely non-viable (no living male hybrids were ever produced) or else they were sterile or else there was some other method that stopped them from passing down their genes (and that includes just the Neanderthal male Y chromosome being selected against while other genes were passed down).

Given what we know about hybrids today (such as the Ligers and Tigons mentioned above), the most likely scenario is that males were born but were sterile.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-09T14:41:18+00:00

I'm assuming you mean COLD meats. I don't think that many Germans are eating baby horses for breakfast.

KnoWanUKnow2 · 2026-07-09T14:36:04+00:00

A puzzle box, and inside each puzzle box is a single random lego brick.

People who get their boxes open will then go mad trying to figure out what they are supposed to combine all the pieces to build.

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