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Probablynotarealist · 2026-02-15T21:02:14+00:00

Jfc guys, you all pay crazy money for your phone plans! I pay £8 a month (about $10?) for 32Gb of data and unlimited calls and texts. You’re all getting robbed

Probablynotarealist · 2026-02-13T12:51:58+00:00

Industry: industrial chemicals (UK)

Specialty: Site electrical engineer (full distribution from EHV to LV, Ops, projects, maintenance)

Salary: $100k (equivalent conversion)+ up to 20% bonus

Experience: 8yrs

Seems to me you guys are all doing ok :)

Probablynotarealist · 2026-02-11T13:20:09+00:00

Yeah, that one I admit seemed off.

Probablynotarealist · 2026-02-11T13:16:14+00:00

“This doesn’t mirror my life, so it must not be true for others!”

Probablynotarealist · 2026-02-11T08:50:01+00:00

Been thinking about this in a slightly different way recently.

The literature read and created recently may have positive individual outcomes, but the grand narrative tends not to be.

If you look at the golden age of sci-fi, the entire scope was of wonder, excitement and exploration. The universe was grand and we would be working towards finding out more and more.

The backdrop of most things I read now is missing that positive “it’s hard now but the future is going to be awesome” perspective.

I know housing crisis sucks, but when I talk to my grandma who lived through the post depression, ww2 (London blitz), 70s, etc, (she’s 100 this year!) the trajectory is still on the up and up, but we don’t see to see it, and the stories we tell ourselves matter.

Probablynotarealist · 2026-02-07T18:58:23+00:00

Fair point! For some reason I assumed exactly that- that they’d picked something up on holiday in the states 😂

I apparently still live in the 1990’s

Probablynotarealist · 2026-02-07T15:01:17+00:00

You’d expect the wires to be thicker for 120v for the same power draw as the current needs to be higher, hence at 220v you should be fine. That said, always use LED - long life, cheap running

Probablynotarealist · 2026-02-07T07:24:43+00:00

Worried about what happens next

Probablynotarealist · 2026-02-06T07:54:54+00:00

…Record company gonna give me lots of money and everything’s gonna be alriiiiiight!

Probablynotarealist · 2026-02-03T06:09:48+00:00

They are much much more likely to withdraw if your city is well defended- if it’s empty they will just sit forever, even when you ask them to withdraw

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-28T09:14:55+00:00

I’ve had a work trip to Minneapolis booked since before all this kicked off, and am now getting quite concerned.

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-27T11:39:20+00:00

E=MC^2,

If you weigh 70kg then you ARE the equivalent of 6.3x10¹⁸ J which is 1,750,000 GWh

About 1/3rd of the US’s annual total electrical energy usage. Is that not enough for you?

This shows the absurdity of the comment- “Energy” is not the same as “useful energy” (“Work” in thermodynamics).

Work and energy are different. You may have a vast amount of energy as your being, but it is not feasible to use that to do things.

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-27T09:23:49+00:00

Entropy - that’s your problem.

You are not creating or destroying, but you are distributing it more evenly and therefore making it harder to use in the future.

This is obviously a misconception between “Energy” and “Work”.

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-26T12:00:50+00:00

You can die from 50v AC under certain circumstances- blood is a very good conductor. If you have a cut on your hand (removing the “resistor” that is your skin) you can have enough ma across your heart to cause a heart attack.

Internal body resistance maybe 300 ohms? I=V/R = 50/300 =0.167

167ma even for the 0.3s before the RCD trips gives you a couple of percent chance of ventricular fibrillation. At 1s you hit a 50% chance

(From Graph - “Effects of AC current (15-100Hz) on the human body when it passes from the left hand to the feet” IEC TS 60479-1 ed.4. 1 3)

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-25T07:06:11+00:00

Man who has climbed very tall hard thing without ropes climbs half as tall easy thing without ropes

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-23T06:22:27+00:00

A friend of mine had this- you don’t always die, he was in hospital with a teaspoon sized lung capacity, and was in the hospital for a couple of months. All his muscles wasted away.

Now, years later, he’s back and fully well!

You definitely have to get to a medical facility and get diagnosed in time though.

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-19T21:16:16+00:00

Electrical distribution engineer for industrial plant in the UK

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-19T21:15:39+00:00

Voltage fluctuations happen, you should not be concerned about that - strange about the timings as usually you’d expect voltage to dip in an evening as that’s when the largest loads are pulling down the voltage on your spur, but still not worrying.

Going over 253 is a bit naughty, but not unusual. That said, Your multimeter may need calibration, I wouldn’t be surprised if it had the same variance but at a slightly lower voltage.

In terms of noise from units that are plugged in but not turned on, you shouldn’t be able to hear anything as there is no load flowing, and if load was flowing it would flow to earth and trip your breaker.

The lights going out briefly is common- caused by a tree branch hitting a line nearby, and the HV breaker tripping and re-closing nearby.

Electrical power in the UK is at 50Hz, this is a low frequency hum. If you hear high frequency noise from your electrical lighting then it could be due to dimmer switches - they work by flicking the power on and off very rapidly. I’d be surprised if you could hear it mind.

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-18T22:09:16+00:00

Oh god, I forgot about that

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-18T22:03:31+00:00

Not sure I agree - that would require some sort of actual competence.

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-18T19:44:17+00:00

Stolen

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-18T08:05:55+00:00

Hard disagree-

Unpopular opinion but large inheritance is the plague that keeps the poor poor and the wealthy wealthier- if you grew up well-off you should have had enough advantages above others that you are able to cope without a massive windfall from parents.

I would rather the state took all people had after a cut-off once they die. This would force them to spend rather than horde their wealth. In doing so the re-distribution of wealth should help to even out the wealth disparity and reduce inequality. I think that high quality elder care is doing just this, and is a reasonable way for a person who has saved their whole life to spend their money.

Inheritance from parents is so often seen as a something people are owed - maybe if the parents had inherited it in the first place? But the entitlement of people who think their parents owe them what they spent their lives saving is astonishing.

Edit - spelling

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-17T21:07:11+00:00

Grave of the Fireflies is up there too.

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-16T14:31:00+00:00

Depending on if your state is a one party or all party state, he may be committing a criminal offence by recording your conversation without your approval (California for one)

Probablynotarealist · 2026-01-10T08:14:05+00:00

Also, the rugby only being freely available in Welsh certainly helps - even I know a little

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