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That’s a Gillette Superspeed, or a modern reproduction. They’re about 3 inches long.

The man credited with inventing the mortgage was 15th century Englishman Nicholas Barbon. Sometimes his last name is rendered Barebon or Barebone; because Benjamin Franklin hadn’t invented spelling yet. Nicholas Barbon’s middle name was apparently “If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hasdst-been-damned”.

His dad’s name was Praise-God Barbon.

Look, if you ever want to know why American theology is as fucked as it is, it’s because we were colonized by people like THAT.

I seem to recall hearing that viagra will turn your vision blue. And then they released that series of ads for it with a blue tint, which struck me as an interesting choice.

Lies, damned lies and statistics.

It is kind of offputting how it’s phrased as “We make fun of men for being lonely, right? I mean, look at them. PFFFHAHAHAHAHA! But it might be an actual problem because it effects women too.”

See, the United States named our battleships after things like North Carolina and New Jersey, and they’re currently on display in North Carolina and New Jersey.

That’s the wrong approach. If you’re installing more than a couple hundred watts worth of panels you should either do an independent system or do a proper grid-tied solution.

And watch it print. Sit there and binge watch a season or two of Extrusion starring Nozzle and Build Plate. First of all, it’s got better written dialog and deeper characters than anything broadcast on television since my niece was born. Second, the folks who refuse to watch the printer print tend to be the ones wo go “It didn’t work. Why didn’t it work?” Watch it print, you’ll learn “Oh the part wasn’t being cooled enough so the edges curled, the nozzle caught on the curled up edge and the axis slipped.”

Do some of that, and you’ll start seeing the problems in the slicer before they happen.

Something I’ve seen people fail to do is watch the printer print. People go “Welp, I’ve bought my newfangled 3D printer, first out the gate I’m gonna pick out this giant model that I like, I’m gonna hit go, and I’m gonna go grocery shopping.” then they come back to a ruined model and a damaged machine and wonder what happened.

Start out small, and watch it print. You’ll find out what doesn’t work and how to design or slice around it.

I’ve got one of those big Anker Solix power stations. I have two ideas for it:

1. My wood shop is powered by one 20A breaker from my house. Running lights, dust collection and power tools is a lot to ask of a single 20A circuit, so the power station is basically another one.

2. As an emergency power source for my refrigerator. In the not infrequent event of a power failure, I have some power that isn’t a gasoline powered generator.

Turns out, it’s got a TOU mode. So if you’re on one of those time-of-use plans with your power company, you can set this thing to store power from when it’s cheap, pass through when it’s average, and provide power from battery when it’s expensive. My refrigerator, apparently, draws a near constant 165 watts. So I might look into that here.

There might also be some issues with how things are wired.

A lot of Europeans are under the impression that the American power grid distributes 110 volts. It doesn’t, it distributes 220. Our transformers are center-tapped, the center tap is considered neutral and the other two hot. Measure between the hots, you get 220, which is how we power big things like stoves and HVAC and such, normal outlets are wired between neutral and one of the hots.

The US has plug and socket standards for 220. You’d think you could take something like a British kettle, nip the weird British plug off of it, put an American 220 plug on it, and plug it into one of those 220 sockets, right? A resistive heater like a kettle doesn’t care about the AC frequency. It might care that what it thinks is the Neutral wire has 110V potential from Ground.

Actions have consequences. And these lead addled limp dick obsoletes have dodged the consequences of their actions for 6 or 7 too many decades.