It’s preferable to remove unused wiring.

But as long as they’re in a junction box and it’s accessible, then it’s ok. But once it’s at least safe and you forget about it, eventually someone else will have to spend the time to figure it out. You saving a little time now could be someone’s much larger expense in the future

Confession time: I have a circuit halfway removed when the project got interrupted and now it’s been a couple years. People panic at the sight of bare wires, understandably, but only I know that most of it is removed so it could never be hot. That would fail an inspection and block a home sale. Do NOT do this

Decades later, I still remember a few weeks without skin on my palms, elbows, knees, forehead. At the time i wasn’t sure survival was a good thing

Maybe this is what we need to do. One argument is that we’ve done so well at preventing these preventable diseases that we’re insulated from the consequences, “surely it can’t be that bad”. Maybe people need to see the suffering and death for themselves, to come to their senses

There’s the middle ground of enough bishops get fired to bring the rest inline.

Bullshit. You can’t compare Catholic leadership to MAGAts. They may be pretty conservative but by and large are horrified by this administration.

This is not “both conservatives are the same”

Yeah but it’s back to the “good ole boy”network here. Not excusing the guy but there are assholes everywhere. However it t makes a huge difference whether their behavior is acceptable or not.

I like to believe that in most places people would be horrified and he would have immediately been discouraged/cesured/sanctioned and never do that again

That’s crazy. I’m seeing as long as 15 seconds ads and considering no longer wasting my time on YouTube

I was occasionally on the other side of that and really hated it. I’m four years older than my ex, but also came from a more conservative (small c) town. Usually we were at the same stage of life but …… Sometimes that four years was a generation difference, which was very uncomfortable

Art of the deal there - did fifa actually not get concessions for their bribe? Was it too early and he forgot?

At least as important is how many citizens and documented workers are terrorized by the threats and lack of due process and accountability

Oh this is outstanding! I just mentioned in a post, about an hour before reading this, about my annoyance toward a TV I accidentally turned on by streaming to but couldn’t find a way to turn it off!

Plus there’s the issue that they’ve been struggling to launch more frequently than every two years. If something happens, everyone is stranded where they are, and it’s not like anyone on the moon could survive there an extra two years.

While I see the reasoning for Artemis in the beginning, it’s been clear for years that it’s a poor choice

Recently shrinkflation hit juices. What used to be 1/2 gal, is now 1.5 L (at least in my grocery). It’s easier to just stop buying it: too much sugar anyway

I used to buy soda in 2L bottles as the best price, so it was sufficient for a family or a single person several days to a week. The reality is if it’s there I’ll drink it: the sugar rush is addicting. I think a lot of people still do this.

Now I buy soda in a can, despite the much higher price and packaging, because I’m more successful at moderating myself to a can a day (and it’s usually sugar free so the calories are no longer the problem)

33cl is the standard for beer

Same here historically. US beer cans and bottles used to be 12 oz and I still occasionally see them. I even have one in my fridge.

But most new beers (as in new brands, new styles, actual good beer) are sold in pint cans, which in theory should match a bar draft (but don’t always and there are no regulations to protect consumers)

I never go into the “swill” aisle of my package store so my perspective may be biased

the US continues to artificially prop up its EV market ex-China.

It’s not even that: a little protectionism is normal trade policy globally. This would be fine, if it were temporary and if there was a goal to develop the domestic industry.

The real problem is the combination of protectionism, while also rejecting the technology change and shrinking down to the home market. The protectionism will stop at some point. Realistically it has to. But when it does, American legacy manufacturers will find themselves struggling to sell buggy whips to a world that sees them as museum displays. We’re trying to milk a few more years out of the legacy technology at the cost of totally ignoring the future

Yeah, I have to say, I still see Tesla as the leader by far here in the us. And given how price of cars has skyrocketed, teslas are now also “affordable”. It’s a shame they seem to be abandoning the car market. There’s finally some EV choice but not much, half of the choice was just cancelled, and most are not good.

Rivian is our best choice for the next compelling EV, but R2 cost significantly more than Tesla.

• A lot of people online like the Equinox and it’s inexpensive, but poor efficiency, horrible software and no CarPlay. Also I’ve never seen one. GM cars in general don’t do well in my part of the US so it would be challenge to get people to see they exist
• Lucid looks great on paper and I’m excited to see their mass market vehicles in a year or two, but they e really been struggling. I hope the saudis continue to see it through
• Hyundai/Kia have been kicking ass on choice but low efficiency and still haven’t kicked their historical reputations for poor quality and easy to steal

Temperature and humidity is all I have other data sources to verify and even then it’s only temperature

• sensor is currently in my family room addition and it closely tracks the Remotec rm-22 ir blaster temperature there, so excellent. But a secondary goal is to decide whether it’s really worth it turning down the heat at night. You can see the family room heat pump takes most of the day to bring the temperature back up. I don’t think it’s a problem but heat pump sees the air temp is about right so doesn’t add much heat, while the thermal mass of the slab takes hours to come up to temperature
• humidity is fascinating how different from the rest of the house but believable: family room is running a heat pump so would dry, main house is a gas furnace burning inside air, so pulling in high humidity outside air. So mid-afternoon, for example, when both are heating you can see the heat pump dries type air while furnace raises humidity, while overnight the humidity evens out as both are off and the air circulates. This morning is explained by the heat pump being off: I was wonder why it’s a bit chilly. The temperature rising in the morning is misleading because there is some air circulation from the rest of the house

Thanks but this needs like half a dozen, so I don’t think this type of chart will scale

I don’t even have the right terminology so google and ChatGPT were not helpful …… does ha have some sort of trend graph that is a combination of different sets of values, over the same time axis?

A goal might be to identify events and their effects. For example perhaps turning on the dryer raises particulates and CO2: I know when I turn on the dryer so want to look at the graph for any matching changes in any measurement .

(Or maybe I’m fooling myself: I have no idea what the sampling frequency is yet)

I only have an hour of data so far

Edit: after a day’s data, now’s the hard part: deciding what to do about it and how much to trust the accuracy. I have not put the detector in the basement yet(primary goal is monitoring radon), but it’s in a family room addition on a slab, with old direct vented gas heaters (actually those are off right now, so it’s not ytesting those)

• VOC typical level is generally fine but there was a spike at 8pm well above the recommended limit. Is it a glitch/noise? Is it something I need to act on? Is it accurate? I don’t remember any event that could have caused it, so I guess for now see if it repeats
• pm10 and pm2.5 are generally fine but there was a spike just after midnight. Still within recommended levels so I’m not worried yet but will pay attention
• radon is still climbing. Still fine and they say it needs up to 30 days, but I’d expect the basement to be higher so I need this to level off soon. If it doesn’t, my likely action is to do a charcoal test and see how the numbers match up

Clearly I also need a chart that can display a limit, or two. For example, who recommends a limit of 100 for radon and epa recommends a limit of 148, so I’d like to see them both on the radon graph, and maybe a color change or something if a point in time exceeds them