It has the same issues as any other permanent punishment in that if somebody is wrongly convicted then it can’t be reversed. Hell, we still execute people we know were wrongly convicted fairly frequently. If this passed then there would definitely be wrongly convicted people getting castrated. Being castrated also doesn’t prevent sex offenders from reoffending. The lack of sex hormones would reduce sex drive but for most offenders it’s less about the sex and more about control. Also if a reduction in sex drive is the goal then there are chemical means to acheive that (which still don’t actually stop sex offenders).

So you would just wind up castrating a few innocent people while still making no difference in the actual offenders ability to reoffend.

Unless we can know with absolute 100% certainty that the accused is guilty then the best thing to do with people who are convicted of henious crimes like that is to just lock them up. That way they can’t hurt anyone but if new evidence comes out that proves them innocent then they can be released and the damage can still be somewhat remedied.

Even if we somehow could know with absolute 100% cetainty that they were guilty (I’m not sure how that would even be possible) castration still wouldn’t make sense because it still leaves them the chance to reoffend. IMO if we lived in a magical world where absolute truth could be known by all then rapists should just be killed because the risk of a rapist reoffending outweighs the worth of a rapist and nothing else will actually ensure they won’t reoffend.

It still doesn’t beat the long term durability and 100% recyclability of copper though. If I was doing an install in a factory or somewhere where the plumbing would require frequent modification then the fact that pex is easier to work with would probably make me go that route. But in my house where I will be replumbing once and then it will be almost entirely burried in the walls and left alone for decades, I would rather just put the extra work in and do it with copper.

I’m not sure about shower valves in particular but I have devinitely brazed directly to regular nylon core plumbing ball valves before by using the rag trick.in that case you just wrap the valve itself with the wet rag.

Yep. Thas is all that’s in silphos. For any work that isn’t copper to copper then I would need to use silver brazing wire which is just copper, zinc, tin, and silver.

Yep there are crimp fittings but they cost more and the seal in those fittings is only rated to last so long. Of course that is a very long time (50 years I think) but I still prefer sweat fit copper that lasts for the life of the pipe.

Copper pipes don’t leach microplastics into my drinking water, are 100% recyclable, and are more durable.

The same is actually true of a lot of refrigeration components as well. You just wrap a wet strip of rag around the pipe to act as a heat barier between where you’re brazing and the sensitive component. As long as the rag stays wet (which it will unless you go really slow) then heat won’t significantly propogate past that point. Just doing that can let you braze a joint within 1" of a plastic component as long as you’re careful where you point the torch.

Remember, your refrigerator is just a heat pump; it also has a hot side.

I actually love when my boss asks me to do shit afterhours but that’s only because I get paid double time to do so, I have no life, and I can always just say no if I’m not the one scheduled to be on call at the time. It’s amazing how if you pay people enough and treat them well then they are willing to do things for you. Funny how that works.

Technically yes, but in the current political climate phrases like your initial one are frequently said by right wing wackos to alude to various protected classes indirectly. For example. With your initial comment

and as such the system is beneficial to minorities (specific ones, not all).

The first thing that pops into my head isn’t billionares, it’s alex jones ranting about “the jews” and “the world order”, because the way you wrote that comment had a lot in common with the way those people talk when they’re trying to not say the quiet part out loud.

I think they were meaning the billionare class and they just phrased it very suspiciously.

GROND

Well, at least bi.

Actually just don’t try to use those stairs at all.

I think you responded to the wrong comment.

Exact opposite here. My mom is riddled with auto immune disorders and my dads genes look like a ransom note, but here I am perfectly _physically healthy.

What, you don’t want your keys to crunch when you press them?

People like you are why I love Lemmy. Thank you. Even when I was looking online earlier I couldn’t find anything nearly as thorough as what you sent.

So it sounds like 240V would be better as far as sheer power goes but is much more fidly. However, my provider is also unlikely to care too much about balance as far as household consumption goes. If I have 3 phase then the heaviest consumer in my house (hvac) is going to be running on that and therefore perfectly balanced anyways. Basically every other load is going to be intermittent so I shouldn’t ever have an unbalance large enough that my provider would care.

That’s kind of what I was figuring on the phase imbalance. I’ve seen it before on industrial sites. I just wasn’t sure if a household power draw could cause the same issue or not.

Good point. Ill add it to the og post. USA:MN