Excellent, I will grab a couple that will be especially helpful for the kitchen where we occasionally accidentally run the microwave at the same time as the kettle.
I’ll still prod the landlord to have someone come look at the power main issue.
We only have like 5 outlets in the house, would it be okay to put gfci adapters on all of them and plug extensions into the adapters?
We’ve managed to trigger the main to flip 4 times—none on purpose.
First the main oven was clearly the trigger leading me to suspect a bad heating element.
Second one was the same scenario.
Third one was a single burner on the stovetop (no oven).
Then I turned off the oven breaker inside assuming oven needed repair.
Fourth time no kitchen appliances being actively used and stove/oven breaker is off. The items being actively used were the fridge, two medium sized tv monitors, an xbox one x, and a pc tower. Each setup plugged into a different circuit. I remember commenting that the xbox sounded like it was working hard soon before the outage. Xbox and one monitor were on one circuit and PC and the other monitor on the another circuit.
So yeah it does sound like we’re managing to trip the main breaker without tripping any of the sub panel breakers by running enough devices at once even if they’re on different circuits in the apt.
we’ve lived here a long time so the fact that this is and issue now and wasn’t in the past points to some element deteriorating whether it be circuitry itself or one of our devices. If one of the devices had a full short the inside breaker should trip? But maybe another malfunction that doesn’t quite amount to a short?
A PC and an Xbox shouldn’t combine to overload 50A, especially when they’re protected by a 15 and 20A breaker respectively (not enough to overload 50) so something is definitely not right.
I definitely won’t make a go of it myself, don’t worry! They also recently moved the sub-panel from inside a closet to a more accessible wall to bring the building up to fire code or something so I wonder if something could be loose from that process. I’ve lived here several years and didn’t even know the unit had a main breaker outside until this year when someone from the electrical company showed me how to reset it.
Yeah that one feeds my 1 bedroom apt. This is the inside panel. The oven one takes up two slots that are tied together then 3 smaller circuits for the two rooms (including fridge) and lights. No washer, dryer, air, water heater, or heater involved.
Will do:)
got it. Thanks for sharing your recipe!
When you say blend it do you mean in a blender or just mix them?
Excellent, definitely planning to move away from xbox once mine dies due to plan restructuring that has me paying the same amount of money to play online but without the benefits Gold originally offered (permanent access to select games each month)
The typical therapist advice about focusing only on the things you can personally change does not work well on macro issues. Issues that were created by lots of people working together like climate change require a bunch of people working together to fix. A bunch of people who don’t individually have the power to make any significant impact.
Moral philosophers get bogged down trying to figure out how to do a calculus that would reasonably obligate each individual to join the cause via our normal feelings of responsibility but these generally feel unintuitive and lack the kind of motivating responsibility most people feel towards things they had more control in creating or causing. I like Pinkert’s early work to help get my head around issues of collective responsibility and individual motivation.
Fact is that a whole lot of people need to take a leap of commitment to solve collective problems because if everyone acts rationally (in terms of their proportional responsibility to the problem and capacity to fix it) there is not nearly enough capacity to make a dent in issues like environmental pollution.
On the level of day to day life it depends on how you’re applying the advice but I personally don’t find it comforting to be told there’s nothing I can do to intervene—in this case too I feel better trying -something- and failing frequently vs forcing myself to be zen about my friend turning to drugs or my boss being a jerk all the time because my rational brain says my efforts won’t make a difference anyway.
Uh oh I think you’ve gone and added a new dystopia that we’ll need to incorporate:( I’d read it though, solid premise
Okay but hear me out, how would we craft a world that combined all of the dystopias science fiction warned us against if we left out mass surveillance?
In 2020 Freakonomics did a dive into the effectiveness of adverts. Link below (transcripts too). There are sources listed and such. My tl;dr based on memory is that ads in general are not very cost effective for most companies. Ads are very cost effective for companies that sell ads though.
They should always do 3 mini burgers instead of a big one
The communist manifesto was written for a different historical moment but so much of it is still spot on.
I mean come on, it opens basically like “Everyone in the current status quo has already painted communism as their biggest most powerful enemy, may as well unite and make it become that.”
Feels pretty topical given that multiple countries are thinking about naming antifa, which isn’t an organization, a terrorist group.
Here is level 1. If someone agrees to be my lemmy workout buddy I’ll share level 2;) There are 3 levels but I’ve never finished level 3 it’s too hard I just start over level 2.
I enjoy trying to keep walks just below the sweating point, glad to see I’m not the only one paying attention to this ha
Visible ones are, but strong abdominal muscles are good for other things like back support and that bit is not made in the kitchen!
Being shitty is much easier and takes much less effort so it prevails wherever people don’t collectively resist it.
I see, thanks for clarifying!