ghterve

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[–] ghterve 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

But they choose to subscribe to that religion and could choose to stop. They could choose to no longer make it core to their being.

[–] ghterve 3 points 1 month ago

Why would she be mad about her partner thinking about other women? Is she insecure?

[–] ghterve 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sorry, I meant to type higher resistance. On my water heater, the equivalent part that is glowing in the picture is a really thin flexible corrugated gas pipe that surely can carry much much less current than the iron gas pipe feeding it before it went really high resistance. I could totally see it glowing like this with enough current. But if it is aluminum (not sure if it is), what you said makes sense.

My gas pipe to the house comes out of the ground inside a plastic protective pipe sleeve, so I can imagine it possibly not having enough of a low resistance path to earth to trip one of the cutout fuses on the primary distribution line. Granted, mine also has a big ground wire bonding it to the house ground, which I would think would help here...

/shrug I was just sharing what I read. It was supposedly the explanation as to why local breakers on the house didn't trip.

[–] ghterve 19 points 1 month ago

I think in this case the power heating the pipes is not coming from this house's electrical service, so killing the main breaker probably won't help.

[–] ghterve 174 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

When this was posted on Reddit recently, someone claimed this was caused by a fallen power line that made contact with a gas line. So, power flowing into the house through gas pipe and back out through equipment grounds, heating up lower resistance gas pipes in the process.

Photo reportedly taken by fire fighters or gas company employees.

Edit: I meant to type higher resistance...

[–] ghterve 32 points 1 month ago (5 children)

unless the gas pipe melted through

That looks pretty damn likely imminent to me...

[–] ghterve 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So glad my wife is not like that

[–] ghterve 1 points 3 months ago

I for one have been in denial and probably won't switch away until it literally stops working. So, there's hope.

[–] ghterve 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The word "just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your edit. The replacement for that dependency doesn't allow an extension to work as an ad blocker as effectively as the thing they are deprecating. This is deliberate.

[–] ghterve 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As if pointing out a single grammatical flaw somehow destroys their entire argument

That's not what that means. That means the person responding cared so little about what they had to say that they are completely ignoring it. It is an insult in the form of disrespect.

[–] ghterve 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I call that following the same successful recipe that got us the Falcon 9.

The mindset that considers those tests failures is the same one that would still be in bureaucracy hell determining what 40 year old technology we should repurpose to get a future over budget, late, and under performing solution designed and built.

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