ghterve

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[–] ghterve@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sorry, I meant to type higher resistance. On my water heater, the equivalent part that is glowing in the picture is a really thin flexible corrugated gas pipe that surely can carry much much less current than the iron gas pipe feeding it before it went really high resistance. I could totally see it glowing like this with enough current. But if it is aluminum (not sure if it is), what you said makes sense.

My gas pipe to the house comes out of the ground inside a plastic protective pipe sleeve, so I can imagine it possibly not having enough of a low resistance path to earth to trip one of the cutout fuses on the primary distribution line. Granted, mine also has a big ground wire bonding it to the house ground, which I would think would help here...

/shrug I was just sharing what I read. It was supposedly the explanation as to why local breakers on the house didn't trip.

[–] ghterve@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

I think in this case the power heating the pipes is not coming from this house's electrical service, so killing the main breaker probably won't help.

[–] ghterve@lemmy.world 173 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

When this was posted on Reddit recently, someone claimed this was caused by a fallen power line that made contact with a gas line. So, power flowing into the house through gas pipe and back out through equipment grounds, heating up lower resistance gas pipes in the process.

Photo reportedly taken by fire fighters or gas company employees.

Edit: I meant to type higher resistance...

[–] ghterve@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (5 children)

unless the gas pipe melted through

That looks pretty damn likely imminent to me...

[–] ghterve@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So glad my wife is not like that

[–] ghterve@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I for one have been in denial and probably won't switch away until it literally stops working. So, there's hope.

[–] ghterve@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The word "just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your edit. The replacement for that dependency doesn't allow an extension to work as an ad blocker as effectively as the thing they are deprecating. This is deliberate.

[–] ghterve@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As if pointing out a single grammatical flaw somehow destroys their entire argument

That's not what that means. That means the person responding cared so little about what they had to say that they are completely ignoring it. It is an insult in the form of disrespect.

[–] ghterve@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I call that following the same successful recipe that got us the Falcon 9.

The mindset that considers those tests failures is the same one that would still be in bureaucracy hell determining what 40 year old technology we should repurpose to get a future over budget, late, and under performing solution designed and built.

[–] ghterve@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Fuel cells don't burn the hydrogen. There is no combustion.

[–] ghterve@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ah but how convenient it is that anything we look up that doesn't fit your narrative can simply be dismissed as being the MSM which obviously has an anti Trump agenda and therefore is a lie. That's pretty convenient, yes? It is almost like that's exactly why Trump made up this whole MSM is liars who are out to get him thing. He has even tried to turn "doesn't like Trump" into an insult that he then uses against anyone not supporting his lies to try to discredit them so that his own lies seem more believable.

I hope you can eventually see out of his cloud of lies, deception, and manipulation. It may be painful briefly, but you'll eventually start seeing all the ways you have been manipulated. It will eventually feel good like a nice warm blanket to finally be free of it.

[–] ghterve@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

She did sign that letter. But she had previously said they did have the affair (and described it in detail). And shortly after she signed that letter, she admitted to Anderson Cooper the letter was a lie. She explained that she lied because... Get this... She was concerned about legal complications because she had accepted the hush money to not reveal the affair.

She also admitted that statement was a lie during her recent testimony while under oath. Signing that statement was not likely a crime. But if she had lied under oath this month, that would be a crime.

So, she was clearly lying at some point. Why do you choose to believe the much less plausible option that she was truthful the one time in 2018 but she was lying all the other times? There's no logical explanation for that, yet the opposite (lied in the 2018 statement you posted) has much more logical support. The only reason I can see to believe her only that one time when she had reason to lie is because it lets you believe Trump's lies that you really wish were true.

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