This is primarily a concern because extension cords aren’t fused, and there’s no control over how they are routed.

Most wiring in your walls come after a circuit breaker and are designed to allow for a certain amount of heating. The electrician follows a code that guarantees that the circuit breaker will trip before there’s any possibility of too much heat. This table indicates a higher ampacity rating for higher temperature ratings.

Now most extension cords are made cheaper by using lower gauge than the wiring in your walls. The general assumption is that they’re spread out, so the heat has no way to build up, and you won’t be plugging them permanently into something drawing the peak 15A allowed by the circuit breaker.

If you were to pile up a 100 foot extension cable and plug in a hairdryer, you’d probably start a fire. If it was all spread out, likely your hair dryer would just receive less than the 120V it’s expecting, and it wouldn’t get very hot.

Ironically, dinky christmas lights make very safe extension cords because they’re fused inside the plug.

I usually just give them the address 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

I’m not so sure this logic holds with how out of hand things have gotten. I’ve got automated spam calls that ask if I’m interested, I said yes, and they hung up on me.

It’s like the spam machine got left on over the weekend or something.

Also to add, look up suicide stats in England after coal gas was replaced with natural gas. Suddenly, poison gas was less available. Not only did gas related suicides drop, all suicides drop.

No way to prove causation, but for a lot of people, the decision to kill yourself depends a lot on convenience. There isn’t a lot of planning involved.

Shotgun physics get complicated. I remember hearing a case where the gas in front of the slug (or shot or whatever) propelled the shotgun out of the victim’s mouth, and the shot ended up skimming off their face.

Leaving them disfigured but very much alive.

In any case, suicide is largely an emotional thing rather than logical. Don’t read too much into it.

But if you’re up for a dark laugh on the topic of conscientious suicide, consider https://youtu.be/snjCj0ntG8E?si=8omBU_VZA_MqL-Lp

Not really. Mouthwash as well before bed. Never struggle with odor. And I wear a night guard to boot.

Edit: oh and a tongue scraper helps

I floss and electric toothbrush every night. My dentist routinely complements my hygiene. Every cavity I’ve had filled in the past 8 years started from before I had an e-brush.

At a recent visit after remarking on how little plaque I had, my dentist asked if I brush twice a day. I told him no, only once a day.

He immediately changed his tune and told me that I should brush twice a day for better results.

I think he’s in the pocket of Big Paste.

Well I mean the false ending

Portal

I mean there are a ton of efficiencies to be gained with using communal resources.

Why can’t a bunch of people share a park rather than needing their own back yard?

Not saying it shouldn’t be an option, but the American obsession with detached housing at the cost of higher density housing is a major contributor to insane housing costs.

Or public housing

I envy you.

I’m missing something here…

My sister has one specifically to sell novelty foods at craft fairs.

This and compost the rest. Now available in WA!

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I think the most made-in-America gaming hardware is probably the mac pro

Over the past few weeks, I realized that I wasn’t reading the news to “stay informed,” I was reading it because I was bored. As a form of entertainment, it’s pretty awful. 99% of what I read will have no direct impact on me or my family, and just sitting there and worrying about it without doing anything to fix it serves nobody.

Also, I’ve learned to be skeptical of basically every headline good or bad. I saw a headline this week about how upset Trump supporters were with his cabinet picks. Comments in the thread were talking about leopards eating faces. The article was a collection of 8 tweets from supporters showing disapproval.

This news site was just preying on people’s hopes and making a story out of absolutely nothing.

So I started focusing on some personal hobbies and have tried to re-teach myself how to focus by reading some long form fiction.

Some carriers specifically cater to unbanked people.

When I worked at Radio Shack back in the day, Sprint had a card you could just hand to the cashier with cash. Didn’t even need to speak any English. The card had all your details on it.

Of course they charged a $5 fee per transaction because fuck poor people.