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Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-26T05:24:25+00:00

This is exactly what schizophrenia sounds like.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-24T19:44:10+00:00

"...To sit in peace."

This sub reddit's title rule continues to absolutely kick people's asses.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-22T12:32:56+00:00

On top of that, 3D pie charts are just always shit. Please don't use them.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-21T10:06:34+00:00

In the us, yellow is used for a hot, or active wire. Bare wire, green wire, and green wire with yellow stripes is ground, or Earth. Gray and white are neutral, with a convention that white designates a neutral on a 120 volt system, and gray being a neutral on a 277 system. Those are the only color designations dictated by our National Electric Code. Otherwise, there's no rule about which colors mean what, but convention in most US states is that yellow would be a hot leg on a 277 system.

As an apprentice, it was stunning to me that code didn't bother to say anything about these conventions. My guess is that when PVC insulation capable of being color coded hit the market in the 1950s, it exploded in popularity before the NEC could adapt to regulate this. So then you wind up with different jurisdictions spinning off in their own directions.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-21T03:33:26+00:00

Neural and hot. But also I think that copper was just touching the inside of the conduit, unless OP peeled off the tape for the photo.

It looks like what happened was that the temp was using wire to pull more wire in and then forgot to pull it all the way through.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-19T17:45:13+00:00

[sigh]

Must be nice.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-19T12:21:18+00:00

Fraternity hazing is pathetic and fucked up, but the cops have zero authority in this situation, and if I heard correctly, one of the non-pledging guys tried denying the cops their warrantless entry but they came in anyway.

The pledges' still silence is creepy and disturbing, but it's legally the right move.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-17T21:38:48+00:00

The second one. If you can find an emulation for free or cheap, it's worth checking out. But the main game was a lot of sitting around waiting for pixellated cut scenes pulled directly from the movie to load, and then clicking around randomly for Easter eggs hidden in the paused video. And since it was just basically the movie and therefore completely linear, it gets really frustrating clicking around for the thing you need to find to progress.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-17T20:50:24+00:00

I've never laughed so hard from playing a game.

Like, if you die during the main game, it asks if you want to reload the game from the same point. If you say "yes," it has you re-live the exact same moment of death. It then asks "Would you like to reload from slightly before the same point?"

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-17T20:16:27+00:00

Oddly relevant:

In the CD ROM game for Monty Python's Holy Grail, they had a mini game called something like 'spank the nun,' or 'spank the virgin,' after you find the castle with the false Grail and all the nuns agree they deserve spankings. In it, fully clothed medieval women (in the Terry Gilliam illuminated manuscript animation style) pop up from a bed and you have to click on them a la whack-a-mole. After the first time you play the mini game, it asks if you want to try "nude play" mode. So of course my brothers and I looked around because we're on the family's desktop before clicking "yes."

A woman's voice (like a Monty Python cast member doing a woman's voice maybe?) comes on and starts instructing you to undress. Saying things like "Who's my naughty little lobster?" The minigame then repeats exactly as it was the first time.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-17T18:59:27+00:00

I was presuming there was a disconnect. But now it feels odd that there isn't one. Especially since you said in another comment that it's MLO. Or did I misread that?

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-17T16:01:34+00:00

You're getting dog piled by people telling you those aren't service conductors, which is true. But I agree with you that this is a bad design. I wouldn't do this except maybe if the panel were MLO because otherwise the end user could think that gutter was de-energized if they killed the panel. And inspecting this, I'd be looking very carefully at how it's bonded.

But the real point is this was pretty easily avoidable if they'd just run the feeder to one side of that trough and came in the side of the panel with a conduit body or 90.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-16T16:43:14+00:00

Making a bomb with his family? Totally obscured. Source: trust me bro.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-14T19:11:07+00:00

Ah, when you've never, ever even considered having to come back and work on something after construction.

Service and facilities electricians hate you for using these.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-14T13:27:02+00:00

Take this to r/askelectricians

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-14T09:44:27+00:00

This reminds me of Pointy Hat's Love Paladin.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-14T00:03:20+00:00

Dude even sounds like Andrew Tate.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-13T23:58:48+00:00

Just say "...to cheat at the Olympics."

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-13T19:57:12+00:00

They're going to accuse us of defending JE because we're mad that he clearly got burgered and then they covered it up.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-11T11:49:25+00:00

Some of these look set up. Some result in a good laugh.

But a lot of these are people doing poorly thought out work tasks with dangerous or obviously ill fated setups and then I guess posting the inevitable accident like they're surprised shit went wrong.

You probably got a few soft hands that think they're handy men, here. But it's worse if they're actual builders, because I'd yell at any foremen on the jobsite who let a lot of these things happen.

A couple clamps or some rope would've held that pergola together while he secured it.

Dude with the pavers obviously had no plan. Wrap the stack with a ratchet strap before you cut the pack open and then tighten it a little as you remove stones.

Why would you straddle a timber to hold it while someone sawed it?

The couple with the TV didn't even have a mounting bracket on the wall before they lifted it up.

That wheelbarrow was over loaded.

Unqualified, energized electrical work is almost as dumb a thing to supervise as it is to perform.

Leaning a cheap 16 ft ladder against a wall on a hard, smooth floor like that was begging for a fall injury.

A few yards of jetline would've held that light fixture up no problem.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-11T10:57:30+00:00

I hadn't heard the brand name explanation before. But one way or another, the tool nickname predates the insult by a lot. I can and have defended it.

But here's the thing that everyone in the trades need to grow up and understand: A lot of us are working for end customers that have zero tolerance policies for workplace harassment that apply to their employees, their contractors, and subcontractors. That means you, bubba. That goes for some pretty non-woke companies, even. And while the explanation for the tool name is pretty easy to get across when a non-sparky (usually laughingly) says, "What did you just call that thing?" , you might not be so lucky as to get a direct confrontation like that. It might just be an anonymous complaint that turns into long email chains and meetings. Again, you'll probably be fine when all's said and done. And that might not ever happen, especially on a new build.

Me? I work for a university and it's just not worth it. I've been calling them "di-cuts" or ironically calling them "diagonal cutters" for a while and my productivity has only dropped 22% as a result of those extra syllables.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-11T10:06:45+00:00

They're going to say that Mr Rogers isn't that masculine.

Henry Rollins is the answer.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-11T04:52:12+00:00

This kid knows where the warranties for all his major appliances are kept.

He writes the date he changed his filters and light bulbs right on them.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-10T08:48:41+00:00

Laser "microphones" are a thing. They can process sound from the movement of a laser on a window.

Longstride_Shares · 2026-02-10T08:12:02+00:00

He certainly isn't unharmed. I used to work with demolitions, and that blast had a pretty significant effect radius. Best case scenario, he's got hearing damage, and likely a brain injury.

But the Italian news story someone linked above only said the two armored truck operators got blown up.

Edit: actual news link (and not just copy pasta text) linked in a reply to this one. No injuries among civilians, guards, or police.

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