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[–] Dust0741@lemmy.world 117 points 1 month ago (4 children)

In what country can you get raided due to high electricity usage?

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 104 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago (7 children)

A judge would sign a search warrant because of a power bill? Damn

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 94 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There might also be a followup examination with a thermal camera of the property, which with a server farm, would also show significantly elevated temperatures.

This is why most of us in the USA live in constant fear that our hobbies of basement aluminum smelting operations will land us on the wrong side of the law enforcement.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

While everyone else lives in fear that their basement aluminium smelting hobby will land them in the morgue due to the fumes.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 39 points 1 month ago

Imagine if growing a plant in your home was legal and the police had to figure out something else to do with their time

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I sometimes wonder if really serious reptile hobbyists, the kind that'll have like a whole room full of terrariums, have to deal with suspicious cops. Reptiles like warmth, heat mats and lamps take power, one of the most popular brands for heat mat thermostats is technically meant for controlling indoor plant heating, and if they want to grow live plants in any of their animals habitats they might need grow lights too.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 22 points 1 month ago

As a former reptile enthusiast yes this was a valid concern. Making nice with the neighbors helped alot. Also red night lights made it look like we were running a brothel.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If there’s anything I’ve learned from my weed growing hobby, it’s that nobody cares unless you’re doing it on a near industrial scale, like converting an entire floor or house to a grow.

A hot tub requires way more power than your average hobbyist grow op these days. I can’t imagine a reptile setup is requiring 10+ kWh/day (what a fucked unit that is btw)

Plus, car charging is changing the game vs 10+ years ago. Everyone's got huge power draws happening all the time now while their 1 or 2 evs are charging each night/day.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Philote@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

America version 86.47 has been rereleased as “Land of the Fee” due to the R not willing to share its use.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 31 points 1 month ago

judges here will sign warrants for anything. the way their positions are doled out a key qualification to being a judge who signs warrants is intrinsically trusting cops

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago

Not even a power bill. They have been known to sign warrants for nothing more than an off the shelf infrared scanner/heat scanner showing increased heat from a specific unit in a building compared to the surrounding ones.

Like your house nice and toasty in the winter? That's a no-knock-raid.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 23 points 1 month ago

A judge would sign a search warrant because a cop pinky swears the target is a black ms13 Muslim antifa commiesocialmarxist.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've had cops come around to check out what they could when I was living with roommates and we had all kinds of equipment that used lots of electricity. We actually got a letter from the power company telling us we were in the 99th percentile of residential power use and to consider how much money we could save if we lowered our electricity useage. I'm sure if the cops saw anything they could construe as evidence when they were snooping around they would then easily get a warrant and do a raid.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder how high it needs to be to get to that point.

[–] MightBeFluffy@pawb.social 13 points 1 month ago

Depends on how behind the DEA is on meeting quotes

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Happened not long ago that, for the same reason, police raided a tomography & XRay clinic. Guess what, an MRI needs serious power to work...

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 87 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If I remember right, one cop brought his rifle in which got sucked into the MRI machine.

Even the warrant was based on a cop lying iirc. The basis boiled down to something like "energy use and tinted windows", which, you know... Medical imaging and patient privacy.

Idiots and asswipes.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

And then they hit the emergency shutdown, which is for when people have a plate in their head and they're stuck to the side of the machine. That one causes all the liquid helium to be quenched, thus needing to be refilled.

There is a slower shutdown that doesn't do that, but, you know, cops.

Every detail of that story was worse than the last, and it's 100% on the cops.

Edit: forgot another detail. The gun is probably magnetized now and might be unsuitable/unsafe for use anymore.

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A button worth $25,000 on the low end to refill+replace the magnet, a million on the high end if it needs total replacement. It calls to me when I sit with the mri techs. Looking like SpongeBob trying to not push it sitting in the back.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[–] realbadat@programming.dev 28 points 1 month ago

Thats right! I forgot about that part.

Cops are nightmarish levels of stupidity.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Guns getting sucked into MRI machines is a recurring news story at this point.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So, a moment of curiosity.

If my theoretical pistol did get pulled into am MRI machine, stuck against it by the magnet, and I, for the purpose of scientific inquiry, pulled the trigger, should I expect the bullet to fire more or less as normal, to fire, but the bullet be pulled back to the machine, or for the bullet to not move, or not move more than an inch or so from the barrel?

[–] selfAwareCoder@programming.dev 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But to address your main question, most bullets are not magnetic. Some are, in which case idk how the mri would impact them. But most would fire as normal

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

I guess it depends on the steel parts. I'm sure there are other magnets.

In any case, if the firing pin or hammer or anything in the trigger mechanism is steel, it's going to be difficult to move to actually fire.

Say the bullet has a steel tip or core though, and we are able to fire it. The force pulling that bullet is going to prevent the bullet from going much of anywhere. Let's pretend the barrel and firing chamber are frictionless and indestructible.the bullet will leave the gun, but immediately curve into the magnetic field, inevitably into the MRI itself, but likely not very far.

It would be pretty fun to watch though.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Ah, interesting. Good to know.

[–] MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Realistically, the mechanism would jam. I doubt the hammer would fall, being squeezed hard against whatever structure supports it

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Most modern pistols are striker fired not hammer fired.

I’d venture a guess nothing out of the ordinary happens thanks to lube and springs. Gun fires.

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting.

Not the answer I'm looking for, but still interesting. Thanks for the information!

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Probably higly dependent on the specific gun/mechanism

[–] Corn@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

It's also non ferrous, which is rather more the point

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn clinics, always growing weed!

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

SO THATS WHAT THE MEAN BY MEDICAL MARIJUANA!! SEE ITS THE PHARMACYS GROWING WEED, GASP

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they're so free, kinder eggs were (are?) banned lol

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There are "kinder eggs" here now, but they are in no way the kinder eggs that they have in Europe. They're the same brand, but with a ton more plastic packaging so that we don't get all confused about what's chocolate and what's not.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

If you mean Kinder Joy that's a different product that we have in europe as well

[–] Ardycake@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The chocolate has lowered in quality. The toys have been dumbed down. Is that everywhere or just US?

[–] ContriteErudite@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Between all the microplastics, digital babysitting, and the department of education, the US had to dumb down its toys or risk alienating the target market. Regarding the lower quality chocolate, they've begun adding crayons directly to the mix so the children grow to become better marine recruits.

obligatory /s

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

Land of the fuck I don't wanna live here anymore