I think you’re missing that it would be stuff that hasn’t sold yet

You had me until that last group.

If you opt out of participating, you deserve whatever happens without you.

We’re in this mess arguably because of all the people who chose not to participate.

Then why do you claim that liberal means blindly voting D no matter what? Your statements don’t seem consistent.

But you’re negatively judging Harris voters in swing states. To me that’s like negatively judging people faced with the trolley problem who chose to pull the lever because death still resulted, and then suggesting the solution instead is to go advocate against trolleys and people who tie people to tracks, when in reality that’s the same as not pulling the lever.

They may have preferred the outcome where she won but that was never going to happen no matter how you voted. The possibility that your vote was the difference between Trump and Harris, on the other hand, was within the realm of possibility.

We need ranked choice voting. But at the moment we don’t have it.

It would have been amazing if you had an option of a third outcome, but the reality is you didn’t. Life is full of situations where you have to pick between things that are both distasteful. But the trolley problem illustrates that opting out to avoid it is not an option at much as you try to convince yourself that it is.

If you look at the dictionary definition, it means pretty much exactly the opposite of what you said. Also, the D party is not highly aligned with the definition of liberal, so you’re also wrong about it meaning always voting blue.

You could have voted for your next door neighbor too and told yourself you were voting against genocide, but you’d be wrong then too.

You didn’t support the third party’s chances of winning because there was no way that was going to ever happen in this election. Elections aren’t about voting for candidates as much as they are voting for outcomes.

The word liberal is not the insult you think it is.

So as they are being killed, they can think “well, zarkanian didn’t vote for the choice that might have improved my chances of not being killed, but at least it was a principled wrong choice”

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Why on earth do you think Trump is going to result in the slaughter of fewer of those people?

The only two possible outcomes were

• genocide

• genocide plus fascism and other bad shit

By voting third party, you supported the latter.

Sure, killing the two party system is the long term solution, but this particular election was not the time.

But they choose to subscribe to that religion and could choose to stop. They could choose to no longer make it core to their being.

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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.

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.

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…

unless the gas pipe melted through

That looks pretty damn likely imminent to me…

So glad my wife is not like that

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