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Cake day: December 4th, 2024

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  • Exactly! Rural areas have been being shit on and neglected for longer than I’ve been alive. Things just continue on a slow methodical downward spiral with no end in site. At this point people just want literally anything to change. Yes trump draws a lot of racists and biggots for obvious reasons. But for a lot of the folk I know who voted for him who aren’t otherwise raging assholes it was more the equivalent of someone lashing out when cornered. They knew Kamala wouldn’t do anything for them but they didn’t know what trump would do so they went with trump. Those folks now almost universally regret that choice but I’m willing to bet they will make the same choice again if the DNC keeps running do nothing establishment goons. They’ll vote for anyone who believably prommises to change things regardless of of the changes because as most of those folks see it things couldn’t possibly get worse for them so any change at all is at least a chance of things getting better. That thinking is obvously wrong but the DNC also hasn’t given them any decent candidates since Obama who just so happened to win 2 terms.








  • Kinda similar. I work in HVAC-R. There are a ton of times where I’m working on a system where I would love to just spend a few more hours making part of it better and then another few hours streamlining things to make future work on it easier. But we charge $200 per hour so no customer wants me to spend 12 hours making their system perfect; they want me to spend 2 hours and just get it functional. If I didn’t have to charge money for my time then not only would every system I touch run like a dream, but they would also be beautiful. As it is people more frequently wind up with duct taped functional travesties and then refuse any follow up work to fix it properly.











  • It you’re using a relay to turn it on and off then just put like a 90F furnace high limit switch on the air inlet side of the heater and run the control signal for the relay through that high limit switch. That way if the air going into the space heater gets too hot from the room getting too hot or the area around the heater gets too hot from the fan failing, it’ll shut off. Also furnace safeties are cheap, easy to find, and already designed to fail open circuit for safety.



  • I’m not sure where you’re getting your air duster but none of the stuff I’ve seen is R-410a. It’s usually R-134a or R-152a. R-410a would be a much higher pressure. Trying to run an R-410a system on either of those refrigerants would not work out well.

    Also even if they are full of whatever refrigerant you need, they aren’t even close to pure enough to use in an AC system. I’m also not sure how you’d get it out of the can and into the system. You would need to make some sort of custom piercing tap or adapter for the can.