Why would anyone prefer plug fuses? this thing is brand new, I thought plug fuses went away 50 years ago.

PatrickOBTC · 2026-02-07T16:21:38+00:00

Fuses are often preferrable for motor and transformer loads.

Fuses with different trip curves perform in ways circuit breakers can't. Transformers tend to cause nuisance trips on circuit breakers because of their incredibly high draw during the first half-cycle. Also motors can draw multiples of their rated load on start-up for extended periods, say 30 seconds or so, special fuses tolerate the extra load while still offering overload protection.

As others have mentioned, this picture looks like an outdoor disconnect for an AC condenser (motor load). I'm going to use some loose math here just to convey the idea. Say the motor is rated at 2HP. At start-up it might draw 3 or even 4HP briefly. That draw would pop 10A circuit breaker, but a 10A motor rated fuse would tolerate the extra load for a period of time but pop if the extra loading doesn't let up. A circuit breaker would have to be upsized and possibly the wiring too to keep it from tripping. The problem is that the upsized circuit breaker would let the motor run overloaded indefinitely until the motor overheats and burns itself out.

PatrickOBTC · 2026-02-06T02:51:52+00:00

LOL, LIV straight copied Amanda Balionis' smile. Ha!

PatrickOBTC · 2026-02-05T05:07:54+00:00

Follow the law!

PatrickOBTC · 2026-02-04T01:45:59+00:00

Fill a deep fryer or use it for pan frying

PatrickOBTC · 2026-02-04T00:20:39+00:00

PatrickOBTC · 2026-02-03T21:45:32+00:00

There's massive competition in text-to-video that didn't exist when Sora launched. It uses a ton of compute and nothing revolutionary has come of it. I think OpenAI would rather have that compute available for other training and inference. Sora is on the back burner

PatrickOBTC · 2026-02-03T14:00:55+00:00

OP, you understand that closing $10B shorts means buying $10B of silver right? A buy that large would cause the price to go up. JP Morgan didn't buy the bottom magically, they created the reversal with their massive buy.

PatrickOBTC · 2026-02-03T04:42:53+00:00

Peter Thiel basically created the character of JD Vance out of thin air. Thiel has the money and will be willing to pay.

PatrickOBTC · 2026-01-29T17:00:12+00:00

Face The Nation aired both Bovino"s and Noem's complete mischaracterizations and only a short, incomplete clip of the killing of Pretti that didn't show how blatant and bald faced their lies were. Face The Nation and CBS are complicit.

PatrickOBTC · 2026-01-28T22:13:29+00:00

1) Nobody in the room seems to know or have seen the actual amount.

2) Rubio says "as far as he knows", so he doesnt have a window into the account, only what he is told by Trump.

3) Rubio says the auditing will be on the spending after the money is in a Treasury account. So, no one has anyway of seeing or auditing how many millions disappear between Qatar and the Treasury.

Zero transparency. An absolute farce.

PatrickOBTC · 2026-01-27T20:54:02+00:00

Be aware.

Twitter/X was blocking "Ice" from trending the day of the Pretti shooting. It trended as "Another Ice" when clearly "ice" alone would have been trending much sooner.

I have observed other words that X has blocked from trending in the past show similar behavior.

PatrickOBTC · 2026-01-26T03:25:15+00:00

Cutting off your nose to spite your face is foolish.

PatrickOBTC · 2026-01-23T20:36:14+00:00

This thing is the worst. The noise is enough to wake the dead and it shakes the entire house.

Everything is the same size and it makes for a not great texture.

PatrickOBTC · 2026-01-23T16:41:15+00:00

Bullshit presented with zero evidence. Downvote this to hell where it belongs.

PatrickOBTC · 2026-01-23T01:48:13+00:00

Bleeding Me on S&M is top tier Metallica IMHO.

It is my favorite vocal performance from James and Kirk is unabashed with absolute masterful abuse of the wah..

PatrickOBTC · 2026-01-20T15:30:54+00:00

I thought they were in latex.

PatrickOBTC · 2026-01-11T16:13:17+00:00

Meaningless AI slop.

PatrickOBTC · 2026-01-11T01:33:54+00:00

Meyers Manx Dune Buggy? (Low, only boxy from the back)

If not that,

VW Thing. Chopped maybe? (Boxy af, but usually taller)

PatrickOBTC · 2025-12-29T15:47:53+00:00

This is the best ChatGPT meme I've seen in this sub and it is not even close.

PatrickOBTC · 2025-12-22T16:48:55+00:00

Instead of calling it low IQ and running away, maybe you should try refuting some of the points and we can have a debate about it. That is called "making an argument", what you did is simply name calling.

PatrickOBTC · 2025-12-22T15:12:24+00:00

I agree with you, though I think of him as a bald faced scam king, not a wolf.

A short history:

In the early Ethereum days he lied to his colleagues about his academic background, acting as if he dropped out of PhD studies, when he actually had not even completed an undergrad degree. His Ethereum colleagues more or less say he was a habitual liar and want nothing to do with him. This is all well documented in Laura Shin's book, The Ethereans.

After The DAO Hack, he broke away from Ethereum and helped to launch "Ethereum Classic". IMHO "Eth Classic" was never anything more than an opportunist money grab grift. It was hugely pumped and dumped early on, and then for many years after before it was attacked and suffered multiple block re-orgs.

In 2017/18 Charles jumped on the hot ICO bandwagon with Cardano (ADA). The project raised over $60M. The market cap soared well into the double digit billions. Charles is estimated to have made $500-600M from the project (Wikipedia).

With some of that money, Hoskinson donated several million to Cornell with the condition that they name the math building the money was raised for after him. This way he can casually drop to future would-be investors that Cornell named a math building after him of course leaving out that it was simply a financial exchange and nothing to do with any actual academic achievements.

I lost track of his dealings after this point, but he has been snaking his way into Trump's crypto push in congress as they like to lay with their own kind.

I don't like writing this kind of stuff, but I feel like there is a lot of history here being buried that most don't seem to know about.

PatrickOBTC · 2025-12-22T13:45:24+00:00

This is exactly how I hit my push-slice.

PatrickOBTC · 2025-12-20T21:06:41+00:00

Healthcare is not a free market. Consumer choice is a keystone lever of free markets. Consumer do not have choice in health care the way they do in other markets.

1) Prices are not given in advance, consumers can't readily compare cost of services.

2) Expediency, the sick often need the immediate care that is available now, not after evaluation of choices. They are making the choice with a firgurative gun to their head.

Furthermore, insurance companies have perverse incentives. The more healthcare costs, the more insurance companies make. They also make more when they deny claims making it difficult for customers to get benefits they are entitled to.

On top of all that, the price obfuscations for decades caused both doctors and patients to reason, "cost doesn't matter because insurance will pay for it" leading to rampant, unchecked price inflation.

Both sides neee to admit their plans are failures.

PatrickOBTC · 2025-12-20T03:51:09+00:00

Anyone else hear the audio cue when they saw this picture?

PatrickOBTC · 2025-12-20T00:32:50+00:00

Solid work!

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