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God damn praise the lord for multi-meters and voltage detectors. I rewired my stove circuit yesterday and the previous home owner must have had suicidal ideations It was asbestos cloth cabling with the neutral connected to the ground creating a short. So when I turned off the mislabeled breaker it was still receiving power from another breaker. Replaced that illegal shit with some chunky 6 awg 4 wire metal clad with 50A breakers and a NEMA 14-50R.
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On 2/1/2024 at 4:43 PM, Dillpickle23422 said:
Yeah. I get not having the cash on hand, but I do believe that it's either you don't fix it or do it right. I wouldn't risk a 6 figure home to save 30$. if you've got an electrical issue, turn that dang breaker off that controls where/whatever the issue is, and live without it until you can afford to do it right. I'd rather live without power in a certain area than go to bed knowing damn well that tonight could be the night your house burns down.
Hahaha smart guy! I did exactly this as well. I found another 240v circuit that ran to an old washer/dryer hookup with cloth cables so I just turned the breakers off until I get the time to remove it. I can't fathom it passed inspection but it did
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On 2/3/2024 at 8:03 AM, BuckGup said:
Hahaha smart guy! I did exactly this as well. I found another 240v circuit that ran to an old washer/dryer hookup with cloth cables so I just turned the breakers off until I get the time to remove it. I can't fathom it passed inspection but it did
The home inspector must have forgotten to take off the 20$ bill over his eyes, given to him by the previous owner
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On 2/4/2024 at 3:49 PM, Dillpickle23422 said:
The home inspector must have forgotten to take off the 20$ bill over his eyes, given to him by the previous owner
Hahaha you are right though. I learned inspectors always favor the party that hired them. So always hire your own and not to take the sellers inspection report
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Do people still legitimately believe crypto is a scam? I have yet to ever hear anyone be able to actually articulate why they think so.
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It depends on what you mean by "crypto" and "scam."
Crypto in-and-of-itself is not a scam. The technology works. It can be used to make purchases. It is a volatile currency, and that makes it a risky investment, but something being risky doesn't make it a scam.
But if someone mints their own coins, claims that they are more valuable than they actually are, and cons people into buying them. That's probably a scam.
If someone is saying that buying Bitcoin is going to make you rich overnight, that's a lie, and could arguably be called a scam if the person telling you this is benefiting in some way from you doing that.
If a company claims that they are going to be using NFTs in some novel way, and convinces folks to buy them, but never delivers on any of their promises, that might be a scam, too.
So while I'm sure some people believe that crypto on the whole is a scam, I would imagine anyone informed about it will have a more nuanced take. Crypto is not inherently a scam, but there are many scams involving crypto.
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It's hilarious, the US has become so fixated on short term profits and capitalism if you simply offer a quality product consumers like at a price they think is fair you can easily get more sales and make more money overall
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2 hours ago, BuckGup said:
It's hilarious, the US has become so fixated on short term profits and capitalism if you simply offer a quality product consumers like at a price they think is fair you can easily get more sales and make more money overall
The really funny thing is, companies that started selling good products at a good price, then slowly cheaping out and selling worse products for even more money (looking at you, carhartt). (still pretty well made workwear from them but not nearly as good as they used to, and about 4x more expensive)
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It's hilarious, I signed up for the SAVE act for my students loans and allowed the IRS to send data to Nelnet (my loan issuer) to see what I qualified for. Within a day or two I got spam physical mail that had information that was from sharing it to Nelnet. So Nelnet sells all your data