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- Comment on public freakout video 1 week ago:
I have never heard the phrase “apocalyptically gay” before. I need to figure out how to use this in my life lol.
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 1 week ago:
You guys have the best flag tho
- Comment on Have it! 2 weeks ago:
Me as an ace
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 2 weeks ago:
God…whenever I use the device of a relative and see that there are no ad blockers on their yt, it is literally unwatchable. 90 second ads every 90 seconds, I swear, interrupting what’s going on in the video mid sentence. I have absolutely zero clue how people tolerate that.
- Comment on Got my pumpkin today. All ready for Halloween 4 weeks ago:
Great detail on having the hole finally the way through to really highlight it.
- Comment on My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined 4 weeks ago:
Lol what is this a reference to
- Comment on geography is neat 4 weeks ago:
Florida has always been the most penis-shaped state tho imo. America’s wang, if you will.
- Comment on My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined 4 weeks ago:
Always mesmerizing when a human goes full on thumb form.
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 5 weeks ago:
Lmao so I worked at a Dollar Tree for a few months before. Shit was wild. You were expected to check out customers, stock shelves, and put away “go backs” (items that customers didn’t want) on the shelves all concurrently. Because there was never anyone working in the store bahaha
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 5 weeks ago:
I honestly did not realize Walmart ever had greeters. They’ve always had someone at the entrance/exit. But they just check my receipt to make sure I didn’t shoplift. I didn’t realize anyone acted as greeters there. Is it the same people checking your receipt for shoplifting or no?
Also, in case OP wants to know…most stores do NOT have receipt-checkers at the exit, either. It’s just that Walmart does because it’s a store that is prone to shoplifting.
- Comment on What even is money at this point 5 weeks ago:
It’s one banana, Michael! What could it possibly cost? $10???
Yes.
- Comment on I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall? 5 weeks ago:
I’m confused. How could there possibly be no wires or pipes in between the shared walls?
I guess I could see how you could get away with it in terms of pipes, but wires? If you couldn’t put wires in shared walls, then like 80% of the wall space on your average townhome couldn’t have an outlet. I have plenty of outlets on my shared walls. Pretty sure one of my shared walls has plumbing too because that’s where I had a water leak. Quite frankly there is hardly any additional wall space left for an outlet if the shared walls couldn’t be used for outlets and switches.
- Comment on I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall? 5 weeks ago:
That definitely would be a more amusing way to find studs.
- Comment on I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall? 5 weeks ago:
It gives very inconsistent readings around the wiring in this wall so it’s difficult for me to determine this sort of thing. I get the manual is just like “try again from further away”, but it still doesn’t make it any easier to figure out where the wires actually are because of the inconsistency.
- Comment on I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall? 5 weeks ago:
If that detector is a recent purchase, might want to see if there’s any sort of manual included in the packaging or try looking up a brand name and model number. Most (if not all) that I’ve used have you start by holding the device to the wall to establish a baseline before doing a sweep across the area of interest. I usually try a few spots as the initial calibration point and also tap on the wall to listen for hollow/solid areas to see if the device readings are sane.
Yeah I mean the stud detection part isn’t the issue. That works just fine. It’s the wire thing that has me uneasy. My model works the same as most…hold it against the wall to calibrate and then slowly sweep.
This stack exchange post has some useful tips as well. One specifically mentions touching the wall for grounding to reduce false positives, sounds like it could be related to what you’re seeing. There’s also a suggestion about adding layers of paper to decrease sensitivity so you’re filtering out the weak results that may be another source of false positives.
So I was reading some things about this online which is why I tried the hand thing. The thing is that the manual states for me to NOT put my hand on the surface being scanned. While it makes the warning go away, I’m wondering if it now makes it a false negative.
- Comment on I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall? 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, there’s not enough info to help without risk of mistake. Do you live in a single home structure or shared(condo, apartment, duplex, etc.)? What’s the age of the structure? Is your breaker panel on either side of the wall you’re working on? Is it an exterior or interior wall?
I live in a townhouse build in 1998, so many shared walls. The breaker panel is an entirely different area of the home. These are interior walls.
When you say stud/wire detector, what do you actually own? There’s no device I know of that combines voltage detection with a stud finder, so I’m guessing your device is a stud finder marketed to also find other buried elements.
I have this model. Sorry. It detects AC wires, not voltage, per se. It is a Zircon HD55.
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- Comment on Shh 5 weeks ago:
I mean, I’ve worked at a number of hospitals in the US and never seen a recycling receptacle for our waste. Our waste either goes in a biohazard bag to be incinerated, sharps containers to be disposed of (altho not sure in what way), or a regular trash can to presumably in a landfill.
Not sure if other countries are different, but I can’t imagine they sort through our biohazard waste bags for plastic materials.
- Comment on ALONE-AF 5 weeks ago:
Was wondering if this was a fake image but it seems to be real lol
- Comment on Why is saddam hiding in my grandpas hospital bed? Is he stupid? 5 weeks ago:
Lmao what the actual fuck is this
- Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 5 weeks ago:
Yeah that bit has always confused me. I get that they shouldn’t be killed too long before cooking to prevent spoilage…but with basically any other animal, we kill it first, not cook it alive. So wtf? Why not just kill it quickly and then throw it in the pot?
- Comment on in sickness and in health 5 weeks ago:
Can I get a prescription for beach vacations from my doctor?
- Comment on Shh 5 weeks ago:
I work in healthcare and sometimes I think about the amount of waste I generate in a day and it’s wild
- Comment on This Nutella waffle place has the weirdest name. 1 month ago:
Idk why but somehow the voyeur eye looking over the Nut now stand just completes this scene
- Comment on Soup season 1 month ago:
- Comment on I wanna know what love is.. 1 month ago:
Ah…you know I never ended up playing the portal games. People my age played them at the time tho!
- Comment on I wanna know what love is.. 1 month ago:
What is this a pic of
- Comment on Happy holiday 1 month ago:
This is ridiculous I love it
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 1 month ago:
Lmao ok but what in the world is happening in the second pic
- Comment on Broken stair step 1 month ago:
This is totally unhelpful, but I just wantes to say I absolutely love these stairs!