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๐ŸŽถ picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door ๐ŸŽถ (mander.xyz)
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A close-up image of a text quote attributed to Carl Sagan. The quote is formatted with a large opening quotation mark and a small, blurred profile picture of the author in the top-left corner. The text reads: "I can remember one occasion, taking a shower with my wife while high, in which I had an idea on the origins and invalidities of racism in terms of Gaussian distribution curves. It was a point obvious in a way, but rarely talked about. I drew curves in soap on the shower wall, and went to write the idea down. One idea led to another, and at the end of about an hour of extremely hard work I had found I had written eleven short essays on a wide range of social, political, philosophical, and human biological topics... I have used them in university commencement addresses, public lectures, and in my books." Below the quote, the name "Carl Sagan" is written in bold.
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[โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not the size of the water heater, it's the volume of water output.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Since shower water is a mixture of hot and cold, tank size, tank temperature, and cold water temperature are the predominant factors, at least initially.

    For a given shower temperature, hot water consumption rate will increase at an exponential rate until tank temperature falls to shower temperature, then shower temperature will fall.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago

    We were making sexual innuendos, not having a real conversation on water heater capabilities.

    Anyway instantaneous (in-line) heaters exist, I've got a 35-year old one, never runs out of water, it doesn't have a tank.

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