Canonical_Warlock
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- Comment on YSK: The Lethal Danger Of Combining Welding And Brake Cleaner 1 hour ago:
Normally phosgene isn’t quite that deadly. If you catch it full concentration then you’re in for a bad time as your lungs start blistering but that definitely isn’t something that happens from a small leak unless its also in a confined space. I’ve gotten a face full of phosgene a few times on the job and you definitely notice it. Idk what it smells like because to me it just smells like pain. It feels like you just took a huff off a bottle of drain cleaner. If you get hit with enough of it, it’ll leave you short of breath and your chest burning but the only time I ever got hit with that much was the time I took a plasma cutter to an old refrigerant can I had forgotten to purge with nitrogen first while working in a closed garrage.
Suffice it to say, you would definitely know it if you got exposed to any significant amount of phosgene.
- Comment on YSK: The Lethal Danger Of Combining Welding And Brake Cleaner 6 hours ago:
Fun fact older refrigerants also broke down into phosgene under high temps. The old school way to identify a compressor burn out was to take a whiff of the refrigerant. If your sinuses started burning from the phosgene then that means you need to do a burn out cleanup.
Newer refrigerants are much more safe, they just break down into hydrogen floride which turns into hydroflouric acid on contact with water. Nothing leaves you quite as invigorated as hydroflouric acid suddenly forming in your lungs, sinuses, throat, and eyes.
- Comment on Never tried it but it sounds like fun 5 days ago:
Why are you posting a pic of my fleshlight?
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 weeks ago:
We’ll need a shit ton of that purple PVC glue though.
Nope, because you can’t use PVC for piping steam. You’re going to need to use metal pipe. Iron pipe is the cheapest bet but it’s such a pain to work with. Personally I’d run copper. I think that’s to code for low pressure steam anyways.
Wait, if it’s going into space then whos building codes are we using?
- Comment on The struggle is real 2 weeks ago:
Jokes on you, I don’t poop. I just use toilet paper to blow my nose.
- Comment on how do plants in a green house get enough co2? 3 weeks ago:
Plants don’t actually use up all that much CO2. An entire greenhouse worth of plants wouldn’t even consume as much CO2 as your body produces. Most oxygen produced on earth and CO2 consumed is done by algae. Land plants like trees can sequester more CO2 because they grow larger and use it to build their bodies but they do so slowly over the course of years.
So I guess plants don’t suffocate in greenhouses for the same reason that you wouldn’t if you sat around in a greenhouse. There is enough air infiltration through cracks and gaps in the walls that sufficient air gets exchanged to keep it breathable.
- Comment on Can I make a Bluetooth button to skip YouTube ads on the computer? 3 weeks ago:
Just use an ad blocker.
- Comment on How would I make a HVAC simulator to see what a thermostat would do if the indoor temp was 400°F 4 weeks ago:
HVAC-R tech here.
Not sure what you mean about simulating high temps on the thermostat. If you want to trick the thermostat into seeing a higher temp than it is actually at then you would need to find the temp sensor on the thermostat (usually a thermistor) and replace it with something where you can manually control the input like a potentiometer if there was a thermistor there.
If you’re talking about simulating calls from your thermostat to your hvac system, then you can usually do that with just some jumper wires if your hvac system has a built in transformer (almost all new systems do). You just remove the thermostat and jumper the hot wire (R or Rc) to whatever call you want to make.
- Comment on What a relief! 5 weeks ago:
Fuck miligrams. Do grams of LSD. Meet god.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 5 weeks ago:
His listeners are the kind of people who smoke newports through a hole in their neck.
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 5 weeks ago:
Don’t worry. A lot of places are also trying to privatize their public transportation.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 1 month ago:
Ah, yes. I too enjoy staging my road tripping vehicle like an interplanetary rocket.
- Comment on Fight me 1 month ago:
heat pumps don’t actually create heat
🤓 ACKSHUALLY
Heat pumps create a fair bit of heat due to friction and electrical resistance in the compressor.
- Comment on Data Centers Turn to Aviation Engines for Power Solutions 1 month ago:
That still requires a turbine to turn the steam into electricity. If turbines are the shortage then nuclear doesn’t solve the shortage.
- Comment on Just to make this clear 1 month ago:
- Comment on wax on 2 months ago:
Ey gril, can I get a peak at them glands?
~I prefer adrenal by thyroid also works in a pinch.~
- Comment on How the same joke has been around for thousands of years 2 months ago:
I’d rather be first than than anything after that. Because after one or maybe two, he’s going to be forcing it and it gets much more risky.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 2 months ago:
All at once?
- Comment on exausting 2 months ago:
I was actually tier 3 support. I just also happened to be the sole support for one specific area which meant even low level tickets from there got automatically directed to me.
Earlier hyperbole aside, I honestly fuckin love my job now. If I didn’t rely on having an income, I would still be doing this for free. But working a desk job drove me nuts. I’m sure it’s great for a lot of people but I just can’t do it.
- Comment on exausting 2 months ago:
The trades can attract fairly diverse people because you don’t have to fit into an office. Generally you’re just given your work and you’re expected to do it. Welders especially can easily be specialized enough that they can’t really be micromanaged.
- Comment on exausting 2 months ago:
As a current tradesman who is regularly burned, electrocuted, and cut on the job while rolling around in filthy crawl spaces, dragging 100 lb of gear up a ladder onto scorching rooftops, or freezing inside walk in deep freezers… working in IT was way worse.
I would sooner stick my tongue in a 480V panel than have to go back to answering “printer don’t work” tickets.
- Comment on How can I store a used water filter canister? 2 months ago:
If microbes are the concern then A UV system is going to be a whole lot cheaper in the long run. The UV bulbs in those are usually rated for 1 year of continuous use and if you only run it when there is a boil warning then it’ll last much longer than that. It looks like one of those will run you right about $100 which pays for itself pretty quick when compared to the cost of the more expensive filters.
- Comment on Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn 2 months ago:
They just want to bring back porno mags because the old gezers keep getting viruses trying to find it on line.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 2 months ago:
Really? I just get an immediate login wall on mobile.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 2 months ago:
Just an FYI, that graph is entirely unreadable in dark mode. I’m not sure why they chose to make a graph of all things have a transparent background.
- Comment on Only way that you're happy here... 3 months ago:
From what I’ve heard, it’s less that the actual employer cares and more the the employer gets a discount on their insurance rates if they drug test employees.
- Comment on A conundrum 3 months ago:
My actual mortgage payment is probably just under $500. Taxes and insurance just put it at about $1000. I bought a nearly crack den quality fixer upper about 6 years ago in a moderately low COL area. In the truely low COL areas I imagine you might still be able to manage the same pricing today. It’s probably doable, just not anywhere most people want to live or with a house that doesn’t have a bunch of issues.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 3 months ago:
Assume a spherical giraffe.
- Comment on Fox Host roasted for absurdly hypocrital take on Gavin Newsom’s posts mocking Donald Trump 3 months ago:
- Comment on the seven shits everyone meets 3 months ago:
Same ish. I’m pretty sure I was the mythical 8 the night I decided to eat most of a dominos meat lovers pizza as my first meal after getting home from getting my gallbladder removed. I stayed a 7 on and off for most of a year until my body got used to not having a bile sac anymore. But now I am once again rocking an even split between 3 and 4.
