Honestly he’d do it for free if you’re willing to sit and listen to him about moths.

Strong Demolition Man vibes to this.

Motherfucker doesn’t know how to use a sledgehammer. Kills the momentum every single stroke.

I quite literally know a guy.

I kinda wonder if it’s panic at some point. Like they make a fuck up and then start going “maybe this will fix it, maybe this will fix it” and it’s just getting progressively worse but they can’t stop themselves.

I see this with my kids sometimes, without the panic, they see that they’ve messed up a line when painting and they try to fix it but they do the same thing just slightly over, rinse repeat until a 7mm line is now 30mm thick.

It’s exactly the same.

It’ll collapse or it won’t collapse or we’ll do something different, same as we always have. Pining for a rose tinted snapshot of 20 years ago or 30 years ago won’t make things better. It’s the same bullshit nostalgia fetishism the far right have for the 50s or 60s or whatever. Some things are worse, a lot of things are a lot better. All we can really do is support those we can support and make things better where we can.

Okay?

You’re saying things were better 20 years ago because there was false hope? By that logic 2020 must’ve been the best year ever because CO2 emissions actually dropped.

You’re kidding yourself, things may have seemed better 20 years ago but the economy was being bolstered by sub prime mortgage nonsense, it collapsed 2 years later and we’ve not had good times since.

Yeah, well, fuck you for being a reasonable person.

You say that, but have you ever tried doing physics simulations without assumptions?

I’m amazed at the reaction here, I’m not sure the last time I even noticed one of these while wearing a shirt.

Last time I checked old didn’t cover 30s+ even 50+ is still middle aged.

We’re not that old yet ffs.

Released under investigation, they don’t just arrest the king’s brother on a whim, pretty sure they’re pretty sure they can get a conviction.

Jesus fuck I feel attacked rn

Haha, I thought I better check to be sure. It’s such a fantastically straightforward sensible concept for a tool I’m honestly not sure why it’s not everywhere vs people shorting caps with a screwdriver.

Crimping a push fit terminal of some sort on the end would make a handy static wrist strap hookup too I’d imagine.

You obviously have the experience and tbh that might be the best guide I’ve seen on building a capacitor discharge tool (it might also be the only one, but it seems to make sense). For the sake of completeness I assume I plug in the plug and it’s just using the house’s earth?

Not sure how possible it is to reassemble it in an unsafe manner with the magnetron in the mix and I’m not sure how much peace of mind I’d have using it afterwards. But I certainly feel a lot happier about discharging big caps now.

I can’t emphasise enough how mad it is the cops are searching the home of a royal or putting them in the dock if it gets this far.