Was it because Blanche is a southern belle and said “you all” instead of “y’all”? Cause I had to grumble about that at first.

And Linux, but agreed lol.

Yeah. Lenin, Marx, and The Golden Girls.

Not enough songs out there for the people who know they were the problem.

Also that.

Hah, thanks. The original discussion thread I linked in my first reply was full of differing opinions on that topic but everyone was approaching it from a “this works for me but you do you” angle. I’m disappointed and apologize the same topic under this post was so inflammatory. That wasn’t even what the post was about.

Edit: Oh, I replied to this from the inbox but am now realizing this was addressed to the room :facepalm:.

I’m eventually going for a hybrid heat pump model but I mentioned a cheap electric resistive one as a preheater because it’s easy to use as a dump load

I just got my two 314 AH batteries and 10KW inverter yesterday, so I’m not at the “spare solar power” point yet, but a lot of people will have a second electric water heater (in “front” of the main one) that acts as a dump load and pre-heats the water before it gets to the main tank.

I’m looking at getting a Slate EV truck hopefully next year, so that will also charge from my installation.

Grid-tie and exporting surplus PV generation isn’t an option for me due to electric company shenanigans.

I suppose when I do get to the excess PV point, I might just buy additional batteries

If you live to 100, you’re legally allowed to make up any reason for how you managed to do so. That’s as good as any!

Lol, thanks, that’s what I was going for. Not whatever (gestures to the other thread) that is.

Pro tip: It’s still a puzzle if you take it apart and put it back together in the right order. Just a different type of puzzle lol.

(Taking the stickers off and rearranging them is still cheating though).

Let me worry about my own dogs, yeah? We do walk with a harness, putting on shoes (me) and collars (dogs) before we go out has been a literal routine for years, and they do always wear their collars when they’re new and in training for exactly the reasons you all are harping about. We even do emergency drills for things like tornado warnings where I say “danger, danger” and they know to head to the basement (where I keep backup collars + ID tags and vet records).

For fuck’s sake, it’s a cute dog meme and y’all are pouncing on one trivial line in the caption like I’m the worst animal abuser in the world for wanting my dogs to be comfortable around the house. There are too many miniscule-chance-of-that-ever-happening "what if"s to worry about that I’m not going to live my life in a safety bubble. The yard is fenced, we’re in suburbia, they’re both chipped, they’re both trained, they’re both socialized, the neighbors all know them, and we’re doing just fine thank you very much.

Geesh, the number of people around here who always have to be right is staggering and extremely off-putting.

Lots of people. We’re a “no shoes, no collar” house.

Both dogs are trained to not bolt out the door when it opens, and I’ve got a fenced yard.

I love it!

These are all 90s cartoons, so if you can find them:

• Batman: The Animated Series (the one with Mark Hamill as the Joker)
• Animaniacs
• Tiny Toon Adventures
• Chip n’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers
• Pinky and the Brain Saw you have that one already

Are you able to tag the appliances after you’ve huffed all the freon out? I’ve got an old fridge in the basement I need to get rid of but can’t until I get someone out to extract the freon and put the evacuation certification tag on it.

DM me if you can help.

“How to Adult 101” and 102. I’m not qualified to teach 103+ though.

I will always use “M as in ‘Mancy’”

Tact

Ah. Okay. I use a client that handles YT embeds so that’s why then. However, when I’m on a VPN, sometimes it puts me through an endless captcha loop.

I’m assuming that’s a VPN problem? They always work fine as embeds for me.