https://xkcd.com/2929

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While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.

  • @[email protected]
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    68 months ago

    Yeah, if you want to electrocute some poor linesman outside. If you have considered purchasing a generator for emergencies, get the transfer switch installed and be prepared so when you do it, you do it safely.

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      I’m hardly an electrician and even I know to have some sort of a cutoff switch that can isolate the home if I want to power it separately.

    • @Lizardking27
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      18 months ago

      Obviously you shut off the main breaker so as not to backfeed. Didn’t think anyone would be pedantic enough to make me say it. I wasn’t writing out a tutorial.

      Point being, there exists a purpose for the allegedly purposeless thing.