Blast some tunes while you work and it’ll go by faster and more pleasantly! It’s gonna feel great to have that done in the end.

Ooh, I’m filing that tidbit away for use on an unfortunate potential future date. I rarely use my disposal but it’s pretty important that it works when I want it to lol.

Replacing the heat element didn’t solve my problem. Thanks to your comment, I did some digging and found that my dishwasher should have a sort of safety shutoff switch which would’ve likely been triggered by a call for heat while the box was empty. I took the dishwasher back out, flipped it on its side, and looked for it. I followed the wires to a switch with a little black button and pressed it. I heard a click.

I haven’t tested it yet, but I think that’s all I had to do lol. Thanks!

Edit: FIXED!

That’s what I’m talking about! Tutorials on YouTube seem to be done in model houses where nothing is actually connected to anything, so it’s like they forget to mention this sort of thing.

I flipped the breaker and unplugged it. I’ve gotten unexpected shocks from inaccurately labeled breakers in the past lol.

I’ve had my Earfun Air Pro 3 earbuds since like July and I like them okay. Currently on sale for $76. I used to eat in front of my TV in the living room even when alone, but now I just sit at the dining table and pop these in. Especially with Vanced YouTube. The ads on the PS5 YouTube app became obtrusive to the point that I just don’t use it anymore. I’ll also pop these in while doing chores around the house. They pair to my phone and Steam Deck without issue.

I had other earbuds before this that were about $35 but not noise cancelling. They fell out of my pocket while I was out of town, so I splurged on something that would sound better, and I’m happy with them for the price point and form factor.

Excellent thought, but we’re on public sewer. That’s why I’m confused about why they would’ve been bleaching the water heater.

Built shelves into the back wall of the garage. It’s been great for storage.

Installed a water softener, but more on that in a minute.

Also wrote with sharpie on the wall of the maintenance closet the dates of routine PMs for the furnace and water heater. Unfortunately, I found out the hard way that they weren’t particularly diligent about the water heater stuff. It just said “bleach” and dates, but they clearly weren’t flushing it properly. I found and removed probably like 15-20 pounds of scale and replaced the lower element that it killed. I have a theory that they installed the water softener well after living with hard water for a while, and by then there was already a bunch of scale in the water heater. Combine that with dosing bleach which is higher pH and not properly flushing it out and they welcomed crystallization of the dissolved solids that were already there. Then under deposit corrosion killed the lower element. I’m not sure why they felt the need to dose bleach though. That would only really attack organics, and the water is already treated before coming through. Idk, it’s my first home so maybe I’m the one who’s a clueless idiot here, so I shouldn’t judge too harshly here lol.

Definitely not 100% more electricity assuming you’re handwashing with hot water and have an electric water heater. If you’re on a gas water heater, then you’re burning more gas to wash your dishes. You’re also using way more soap than if you used powder or liquid detergent in your dishwasher. And no matter how you slice it, using your dishwasher is significantly more passive as you can run it, go to bed, wake up, and unload it. You washed your dishes in your sleep.

I agree with you that it all comes down to preference, but it’s downright silly to believe that running your dishwasher is an “extra step” lol. Just load it properly (not too much stuff and face soiled sides down and toward the center), run hot water to your faucet before running so that the initial rinse cycle is rinsing with hot water, put some detergent (not pods) in the detergent door but probably only like half full, close the detergent door, put like a teaspoon extra outside of the detergent door, and just run it on normal or medium or whatever your dishwasher says that seems standard. Try it tonight. But check the filter at the bottom and clean it out first. If you have water spots on your glasses when it’s done running, you probably have hard water. You can either install a water softener which would be great for your showers and your laundry too, or you can just buy jetdry or some other rinse aid which will chemically soften the water in your dishwasher. Or your water spots may be from putting too much detergent in. You really don’t need to fill that little cup. Filling it is for running a very full dishwasher with very stubborn, caked on shit.

It’s your preference. Maybe you like spending 20 minutes handwashing. I don’t. I’d rather load dishes as they get dirty to keep it all from piling up around the sink. I prefer to use less electricity, less water, less soap, and less of my time.

Sorry for my passionate defense of dishwashers. I’m a water chemist who has been working in power plants for over ten years and I’m passionate about this sort of thing. I’m a true dull man.

I think you mean “doldrums” here. Noun, a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, or depression.

This. Conservatives have poor media literacy. They don’t understand that they’re the punchline in stuff like that. They miss the point of stuff like RoboCop and Starship Troopers and unironically like those movies for the action and don’t even recognize the social commentary. They watched Team America and guffawed into their 24 packs of light beer at every shallow joke without recognizing that the jokes were intentionally shallow to point out what an idiot would think is a good joke. It’s like the TV show in Idiocracy. The real joke is below the surface.

I appreciate the info!

I opened hot taps on the floor above to break vacuum. My wife had questions about the sounds she was hearing and I compared it to putting your thumb on the top of a straw to hold liquid in the straw; I just took the figurative thumb off the top of the figurative straw to drain it.

I don’t have a shop vac (yet). I’m a new homeowner and have bought plenty of new things lately and wasn’t in the mood to go to the store in the middle of what I was dealing with, so I just stirred up and drained the bits I saw through the element hole. I didn’t know just how much it was until I’d already been at it for a long while anyway lol.

The house is only about 7 years old, and I’m assuming the water heater is too. There’s a water softener attached, but I bet it’s a new addition they put in in response to the hardness they were growing in the water heater.

I had googled thermostat settings and was mostly seeing about 125° as the recommended temp, and the thermostats I bought were factory set to 120 and the manual recommended against raising it. Now I know I can bump mine up a touch if I feel like it!

I’m a power plant operator with a background in water chemistry. I was uniquely prepared to understand this situation, but not as well equipped as you would’ve been lol.

Is that the same as a heat pump water heater? They typically need a lot of air around them to work properly and my water heater is in a small closet next to my gas furnace in a townhouse, so that’s not really a great option for me.

Eventually, I’d like to upgrade my heat/AC to a heat pump though. They’re much more capable and efficient than they used to be. Modern ones heat fine even when it gets down to 0°F, which it occasionally does here around this time of year.

Anode looked better than expected, especially considering it still had manufacturer insulation and cap over it, so it’s literally never been changed and the house is 7ish years old.

I always used to use hot water when I needed to boil water for stuff like pasta or rice to get it there faster. I guess now I know haha.

It’s only about 7 years old, so I’m pretty sure I got to it in time. I hadn’t thought of it plugging a leak at the time, but that’s a very valid concern. I’m pretty sure that under deposit corrosion was what killed the element, so it could’ve attacked the tank itself too. The anode rod must be doing an okay enough job lol.

I appreciate the response. I’d heard that it’s similar to pork, and I’ve heard of prion diseases like kuru being a problem (which might be a non-issue if lab-grown maybe?)

It makes sense for religions to have a problem with it, possibly all meat made this way and not just human as it’s “unnatural” or whatever. I’m no expert on religions of the world, but I’m not aware of any explicit directive to not eat human meat, but it wouldn’t surprise me either way really.

So I guess assuming it were safe to eat which was my assumption, only secular people would really consider it. But maybe a lot of religious people wouldn’t bother with any of the lab grown meat in the first place, so it’s possible that lab grown human meat would be tried by as many people as any of the other options.

Yeah, asking for real. We might see such a scenario come to pass in my lifetime. If there’s no human suffering and nobody has to die for it to occur, is there anything other than “seems icky” that would stop most people from at least trying human meat at some point in their life? Would it be illegal, legal but restricted, or as legal as beef? If not illegal, would you try it, and if so, how?

Without hesitation. If the taste, consistency, nutrition, and price are all the same, then the only differences would be whether an animal was bred to suffer until slaughter and the likelihood of illness from consumption. I’m assuming that stuff like e coli would be nearly impossible through this. Plus less demand on farm meat means less chance of coronavirus mutations like the 2009 swine flu outbreak. And less of a need for the real estate, feed, and potable water to grow those animals. I must be missing something because I’m struggling to see a downside here.

I’m sure that, in the same way that there’s still a market for objectively inferior exploitatively mined diamonds as a status symbol instead of lab created diamonds, there would still be a market for rEaL meat where “you can really taste the suffering” or whatever.

Now here’s the more interesting question that actually has me on the fence: if “growing any kind of animal tissue” is what has been achieved, where would you stand on consuming lab-grown human meat? Is it immoral? Are there risks? Should such a thing be restricted in some way like alcohol or handguns? What would be the proper etiquette and presentation and everything if it became socially accepted? What wine would pair best with it? Or would it be more of a beer pairing? If this weren’t socially acceptable, would no-suffering chimpanzee meat be okay?

If it only takes a small cell sample, would it be unethical to dig up extinct animals like mammoths or dodo specifically to enjoy their meat? If that’s okay, and it chimps are okay, would neanderthals be okay to eat? Where would we draw the line?

I think you’re already forgetting just how prevalent the story of the murder was. It wasn’t just local news. It was unavoidable.

Luigi is innocent until proven guilty. I think it’s weird that cops found a backpack in central park with no real evidence, but found a gun, a suppressor, and a written confession that started off with praising the cops on this guy who decided to get McDonalds in the middle of the day. I’m not saying that the cops planted evidence to have somebody to finger, but it seems convenient.

Not OP, but with the aforementioned schedule, there are still weekends before and after that are still very valuable. The weekend before vacation could be used to catch up on chores and errands that would be nice to get done before the vacation, plus maybe pack. Then when you get back, your coming home to a clean place and not having to deal with running around straight away. Just be ready for only two days of work. Then another weekend to get rested up before a full week of work.

Two weekends bookending two half weeks of work bookending a week off from work is very nearly the same as a week of vacation and a week of staycation for only 5 vacation days. Sure you can’t go out of town for an extended period with that plan, but I’m kinda ready to go home after 4-5 days away anyway.