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Iran, take a good look at the amount of military support Armenia received when reached out to Putin after an attack by Azerbaijan:

"Despite Armenia's appeals for assistance from the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) and Russia during Azerbaijan's incursions in May 2021 and September 2022, both entities declined to assist, leaving Armenia on its own.[62][63] "

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And Armenia was a signatory on a mutual defense agreement CSTO. Iran isn't.

Tangentially, I was chatting with the owner of my local pub in Boston recently, and apparently it’s become something of a game (?!?!?!?!?) to try to slip people mickeys around here.

In some time periods in some places in the world, getting a hand cut off was punishment for theft. While that is a bit extreme, maybe assholes convicted of this should lose the final knuckle of their pinky finger as punishment for drugging people at bars.

(And, yes, unless apocalypse, and unless battery dies, I know.)

Simple batteries can be made from readily available materials post apocalypse such as potatoes or citrus fruits like lemons. You'd need a fair amount of them for any appreciable time. After the fall of civilization, such required foods would be considered offerings to the gods to grant the knowledge stored on your Kindle long after its Lithium battery bit the dust. This would be until humans are able to make lead acid gravity cells, which again, isn't that difficult. They aren't very portable, but if you are just needing to run the device you don't need it to be.

It makes sense to me, but they could have put the "£2.50 total" instead of just "£2.50" to make it more clear.

Sure, but now you have the science to back up being shocked.

Is it possible that Home Depot’s supply chain is contaminated with knockoff parts? I guess.

I never suggested anywhere that knockoffs were the cause.

The idea that there exists some lesser standards for home builds is a myth I’ve seen repeated over and over again and it simply is not true. But the idea that there are somehow separate standards for home and commercial electrical fixtures, and that home Depot is selling people the former, inferior standard is absolutely, 100% nonsense.

There are absolutely mechanical difference in residential and commercial constructed receptacles in general. Hospital grade being even higher.

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Is it your belief that Home Depot and Leviton are simply fleecing uneducated buyers by charging more for "Designed for EV charging" NEMA 14-50 outlets?

Leviton "Designed for EV charging" NEMA 14-50 receptacle

...vs the cheap contractor grade outlet?

Leviton contractor grade NEMA 14-50 receptacle

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How about Enphase/Clippercreek including their own NEMA 14-50 outlet which is a $60 Bryant receptacle? Why isn't Enphase putting a $10 NEMA 14-50 in the box instead?

Here's the official Enphase Training Installation video from the company (timestamped to the NEMA 14-50 receptacle instructions)

Enphase Training video timestamped to the NEMA 14-50 comment

"Even if you have a NEMA 14-50 already, Enphase is requiring you to replace that as we've seen some overheating from some older receptacles"

Is your assertion that Leviton and Enphase are just scaremongering unassuming consumers?

This is complete nonsense.

You don't need to take my word for it. Simply search "ev outlet melted" and you'll get piles of results showing the gory melted results (just equipment, not people gore).

Charging a Tesla:

Charging an Audi:

Charging a Rivian:

People are finding the cheap NEMA 14-50 outlets just can't handle the high current EV charging long term. The recommendation is for a Commercial grade NEMA 14-50 outlet instead of the cheap residential ones. Keep in mind the cheap ones work for weeks or months. Sometimes years, but this is the result of many of the cheap ones eventually.

Enphase/Clippercreek chargers actually ship with the high quality Commercial grade outlet specifically for this reason because they don't want you buying one from Home Depot for $10 and damaging the charger or your home.

Any UL listed plug will sustain a load indefinitely. There are millions of them running dryers in the US for hours at a time already.

Home clothes dryers aren't drawing 40A continuous current for 5-6 hours. Even when a clothes dryer is running for an hour its not drawing the full wire rated current. It cycles on and off the heating elements during the drying cycle.

Citation needed. Where does one buy an outlet like this? Certainly not from the big box store.

Yep, Home Depot, Lowes, etc is where you'll find them. They cost about $15 each.

These cheap outlets are okay for 240v loads that are only on for short periods of time at lower current, say 20A or maybe 30A. This would be fine for an electric clothes dryer for example. However, once you start pulling 40A through it for 5 or 6 hours, the minimal metal in the construction of the outlet can handle it, and they will literally melt from the heat. When they melt, they can cause fires.

The outlets that are built to handle the heat and current do exist but they cost $60 to $100 each. Also, putting an outlet in the garage requires GFCI. The cost of a regular 50A breaker is about $20. The GFCI version of the 50A breaker is $120. So folks looking to go cheap will buy the $15 outlet and the $20 breaker and set themselves up for multiple problems.

Nice try! Its probably $5 right now as a trial price that renews at a $100 cost next month and onward. No deal!

I never understood why trump did the pope thing. I think I get it now. He wants to sell Indulgences.

"However, the abuse of indulgences for almsgiving, so that they became a method of moneyraising or ignored the requirements for contrition or charity, had become a serious problem which the church recognized but was unable to restrain effectively.[9]"

All of that plus any "Punisher" logo on clothing or vehicles.

This is an easy one:

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Ask them to point to the depopulation occurring.

On the graph the fuzzy dot is on June 2021 which was around the time that vaccines were in full availability. According to their logic we should see a decline occurring from the "depopulation" occurring from COVID vaccines. Where is that decline?

CCP Games Inc made the following statement regarding today's announcements: "Interested parties should contact CCP Legal and provide offer details as well as proof of financing in the form of account statements in PLEX or ISK equal or greater to the stated offer. No lowballs. I know what I got." /s

but it takes a lot more than $1M in assets to afford a lifestyle commensurate to what people envision when they hear the word “millionaire”…

Being "a millionaire" ain't what it used to be. If you wanted to quit your job right now and just live off the dividends of your $1m, you could safely pull about $44k/year and never touch your $1m, meaning you'd never run out of money and always be able to take out $44k/year.

On one hand: "thats awesome! Money forever!" True.

On the other hand: $44k/year is equivalent to a job that pays $22/hour. Certainly not horrible, but that's not livin' large.

Further, inflation will continue to eat away at the value of your money and you're taking all your earning every year, so it will never grow. My guess is, 40 years from now $44k/year would be considered wages below the poverty line.

Keep in mind, this is the path if you never want to touch your $1m. If you're willing to "pick a date when you will run out of money" you can take larger withdraws greater than that $44k/year. This is the big challenge for retirees. You have to decide when you're going to die so you don't run out of money before that.

Likely the result of the last 2 years of gangbuster returns on the stock market.

Lets say on Jan 1 of 2023 you had $633,362 invested in the boring S&P500. Without putting another penny invested it would look like this:

• at the end of 2023 your investment was worth $799,872
• at the end of 2024 your investment was worth $1,000,001

Not worth it for a laptop. Making a laptop battery removable means wrapping the whole cell package with enough material that it can't be casually punctured on every single side. Further, you now also have to build into the laptop the mechanical means to hold that removable battery, and lose space to the release mechanism. It adds a measurably large amount of weight and size to the laptop.

Way back in the days when you would have to own multiple batteries (with a swap in between) to have a long enough computing session to be useful it made sense. Today it doesn't make sense. I recently replace the battery on my primary personal laptop, now 7 years old. I had to open the laptop one time to remove the old one and put in the replacement. I'm okay doing that every 7 years and don't need to sacrifice the size, weight, and battery capacity to have a removable one instead.

That used to be the case because the peppers were specifically grown just for Huy Fong. However, Huy Fong screwed over their exclusive pepper grower to increase profits. The peppers they get now don't taste the same.

Its not quite clear to me either. My guess is that the majority of rural populations vote GOP. So the ones that will face this particular impact are GOP voters. Again, this is just my assumption of what @Pistcow@lemm.ee was referring to. I'm not trying to strawman them.

Personally, I don't want anyone to lose healthcare, especially the poor rural folks, even if they are GOP voters.