That's the cigarette lighter
this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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Its the piss light. You're supposed to piss on it.
It's the service light. You need to call an electrician.
... preferably from outside.
It's an emergency stop button and you need to press it NOW
Before someone asks why so much current to earth: blue N wires are connected to it too, so it's the PEN pole of the mostly obsolete but still very common TN-C system. Such current to PE would instantly trip GFCI/RCD in a modern TN-C-S system, now it's just overcurrent through some appliance or wiring gone short circuit and non-compliant breaker/fuse that failed to trip.
Ah, the Buddhist ground. Untethered from all earthly matters.
Also occasionally self-immolates.
This is the best comment I have seen in a long time.
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I am laughing my way to hell, along with you 😂
I remember one time I was at a large industrial site working on a cabinet cooler (dedicated air conditioning for large electrical cabinets) on a motor drive cabinet which was was running 480V 3 phase with feeder wires the size of my thumb when their safety guy walked by and saw me poking at the cooler fan with a screwdriver. The conversation went something like this.
Safety guy looking rather concerned: "What are you doing?"
Me: "Cabinet is getting warm because the cooler quit. The fan motor isn't running so I'm trying to give it a bump start with a screwdriver to see if the motor is siezed. Gotta do it this way because otherwise I have to pull the whole cooler off the cabinet to access it properly."
Safety: "You know those wires there are 480V right?"
Me: "Yup."
Safety: "You know those will kill you if you touch them right?"
Me: "That's why I'm not touching them."
Are you posting to Lemmy from the spirit world?
Alternativelly, having been bitten by a radioactive animal early that day, they're now an animal themed superhero.
How'd you think they became a warlock?
I thought that was how Lichs were created tho?
If you involve high enough levels of electricity you can choose which
Solid shitpost. I'm angry just looking at it. Someone, anyone fight me!
Your father is a hamster and your mother smells of elderberries.
The fact that you switched the mother and father makes me unreasonably irrate😆
Like God when a sperm is wasted
No, he becomes quite irate, not irrate.
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I fart in your general direction!
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You're going to be even more angry to learn that your apartment neighbor is using the shared building power to run an industrial aluminum smelter on his balcony as his side hustle. It does explain why he's posting all of those pallets of 6061 alloy bar stock and ingots for sale on Nextdoor and Facebook Marketplace though.
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I can smell this room.
Cherry flavour
It means that your fuse is still working for at least a couple more minutes
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Hey everyone, I am a layman(uneducated in this field) in these matters. How does one make this happen?
There's a positive wire touching where it shouldn't be. The metal object, whatever it is, leads to ground, completing a circuit. Metal acts as resistance, converting electricity to heat and light - like the filaments in a toaster or an electric heater. This can also create sparks. Either way it's a sure way to cause a fire. If the metal is thin or melts at a low temperature, or the electricity is high voltage, the metal can melt, causing leaks. Cold liquid coming in contact with hot metal can flash to steam and possibly cause an pressure explosion or worse, depending on if there's gas or other flammable stuff in the environment. It's also an electrocution hazard.
This can happen if summer critter gets in there and chews open a wire. That's what usually causes actual electric fires.
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Forbidden gummy
It's cherry flavored!
well you found the fuse
It's a low current warning. It means the system needs more amps!
Instructions unclear, now driving a time traveling Delorean
You gotta press it really hard to reset it but be careful because buttons that haven't been pressed in a long time are usually very cold
It just means the system is active. You can just ignore it.
It's cherry flavored!
That nut is working overtime.
Last time I heard this sentence, it was said by the then fiancée (now wife) of one of my friends, who lost a testicle as a teen (the friend, not the wife), when they announced she's pregnant.
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Ground lug nut and bolt: I'm tired boss
Slather it in butter ... then fry an egg on top ... keep cooking eggs and start up a small breakfast place and call it the 'Ground Nut Breakfast Joint'
Honest question.
Would touching it burn you, electrocute you, or both?
Burn, not electrocute.
The big grounding busbar there is giving the current a much better path to ground than your body would, so you're pretty much entirely safe from electric shock.
It do be pretty hot, tho, so your fingie is going to be ouchie burn burn.
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Yes
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