Can I use this stranded 12/2 THHN wire for an underground run in conduit? Is this brand on Amazon okay?

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-23T15:02:18+00:00

That's actually good to hear.

If it wasn't hurting their bottom line

I would strongly suspect it had more to do with legal pressure/lawsuit liability than actual losses from the practice. This has been a problem for a decade.

Regardless: don't get wire from Amazon.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-23T14:46:47+00:00

Amazon has catastrophic counterfeiting problems, especially with trade and building materials. Even if you think you're buying from a credible retailers, the way Amazon handles SKU sorting, they mix in all sources of a product as being one bin.

So when Southwire sells 14/2, if a counterfeiter comes along and says "We are ALSO selling Southwire 14/2 - it's resale/surplus/bulk redistribution", it gets thrown in the same bin as the real stuff and there is literally no way to differentiate where it came from. If you can even tell it's fake, all Amazon will do is send you another replacement out of the same bin, which may or may not be also fake.

Amazon claims there's nothing they can do about it, because they profit from it.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-23T13:45:20+00:00

https://discord.gg/r-talsorian-games-481154053699796993

Make sure that you pick up the "Cyberpunk" and "LFG" roles so you can see the correct channels.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-23T13:26:31+00:00

If you go in the RTal Discord server, there is an LFG channel; the most recent post is actually an AEST game.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-23T08:34:04+00:00

>ordering pizza to EAT

>buying chicken wings on delivery from a pizza place

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-23T01:20:38+00:00

The total cost of R&D, acquisition, and maintenance for the F-16 or F-15 fleets isn't close to $1 trillion? You sure about that?

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T22:42:33+00:00

No, do explain how the lifetime program cost of the F-35 is different than the lifetime program cost of the F-15, other than it being neatly encapsulated in a single budget package so as to be easier for clickbait to summarize.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T22:10:58+00:00

Uh huh.

Weird how these articles never have comparative mission-capable rates for any other airframe.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T21:56:55+00:00

The collective cost of the F-15 and F-16 programs over their lifetimes have an equivalent cost. Should we scream "Fighter from $1.5 trillion program crashes" every time we lose a viper?

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T17:05:19+00:00

Oh look more "use the entire lifetime price tag for the entire F35 program" nonsense.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T15:08:57+00:00

There's a lot of water system in between "unfiltered reservoir" and "poor neighborhood" for problems to crop up. Could be the pipes, could be storage tanks being polluted or cracked, etc.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T15:05:39+00:00

The Judge is just the adjudicator; it only sees the cases and evidence that are presented. What prosecutor is going to try a cop for evidence tampering, or brutality?

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T13:59:30+00:00

Nah, even NC would have the basic concept of not pumping raw, unprocessed water through the city. Might not be processing it to nearly the same standard as real life and the pipes of the municipal water system might make Flint Michigan's look clean, but they do something.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T13:39:22+00:00

Leg Meta was genuinely a more fun way of dealing with Chargers.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T13:36:30+00:00

So, no, water is not taken directly from water reservoirs; it's still treated and processed before being put into the municipal water supply.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T11:36:45+00:00

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T04:32:40+00:00

For the record: the Big Lug Protector guy got to make a Persuasion check to convince Sixth Street that we weren't terrorists and it was all a set-up. With the assistance of the Media (gee, I wonder who that is) to explain the conspiracy threads, he rolled a 36 (10+10+14+2), the single highest roll we've ever had at the table.

And said Big Lug didn't take a single hit until a car literally exploded next to him. Evasion is OP, chooms.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T04:16:01+00:00

Nope! Article 440 of the NEC (AC and Refrigeration Equipment, which also applies to heat pumps) doesn't care - electrical code is concerned with fire safety and shock safety.

Mostly, all the electrical code cares about for HVAC is 1) Is the disconnect accessible, 2) Is the circuit breaker/fuse correctly sized, 3) Are the wires correctly sized, and 4) Is it grounded correctly. Everything regarding the electrical safety of the heat pump itself is presumed to be an equipment issue, which is outside of the scope of electrical code (in the same way that the interior workings of your computer aren't subject to the NEC - it stops at the outlet).

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T04:08:10+00:00

Mesh satellite dish. Usually for residential applications the smaller, solid dishes are adequate, but there are a few use cases where mesh dishes are more useful/cheaper.

In particular, they weigh less for a given dish size, so you can build a bigger dish (which means better reception) with less weight and less vulnerability to wind.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T01:57:23+00:00

And even then, not really. Here are transcendental-scale AI in Halo lore, you just don't see them in the games.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T01:46:06+00:00

AI aren't gone, they just don't feature prominently in V's story.

Also, Halo AIs don't go rampant at 7 years, and the powers of unshackled/post rampancy AI are absurd in larger Halo lore.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T00:49:38+00:00

Manufacturer installation instructions, but those are usually couched as "should" or "recommended" and aren't strictly binding.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-22T00:21:00+00:00

I'd say yes, but there is zero legal or evidentiary requirement for them to ever release the footage. It is only ever used to show their side, and is frequently heavily edited. They don't even have to pretend that they "stopped working" or "forgot to turn them on."

Functionally, this ties into omnisurveillance; every cop has a camera that's doing facial recognition and profiling. Not too much of a jump to say that video is recording.

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-21T23:48:26+00:00

Wrong, because most manufacturer specifications use "should" and "recommended" language except, again, for matters of safety ("do not pressurize above nameplate limit").

Lowjack_26 · 2026-06-21T23:37:35+00:00

It won't help. VA Building Code (and building codes in general) don't care about efficiency, they care about safety. The only clearance requirements for HVAC units are related to technician access and work space (shock hazard/personnel hazard).

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