30V won’t kill you. Even with 170V it might not cause much harm, since the current is in micro Amperes. I hope you have a good MCB, and even even good curcuit breakers. If they are present and they don’t get tripped while operating or testing, it should not be lethal.

That said, you don’t know the reason for this leak. Better to take it a repair shop. If you like doing it yourself open up and see if there is any visible tear on power line insulation. If nothing is visible if can be some issue with winding of motor, some other component.

You can use it with gloves, a good foot wear, and a good set of circuit breakers, if it has to be used, but I won’t recommend taking such risks. Since it is an old machine I would say you get it repaired if possible.

My mental model is slightly different. I think of average speed of the car between source and destination. Every segment of the road will have an average speed at a given time, which may vary depending on the time of the day. This average speed is dictated by numerous factors, including traffic lights, number of slow vehicles on the road, speed limits, etc. You cannot really go significantly higher than this average speed, even if you try as aggressively as possible.

There are exception, especially in Asian roads. If you are a large vehicle, who doesn’t care about the law and limits, and they do very aggressive driving, then they go at a larger average speed. I have some completely asshole private bus services in my country.

The sudden rapid re-release of all that sequestered carbon is as natural as the process that formed it 378M years ago.

Let me highlight. You are telling industrial revolution, and the emmision of green house gases is as natural as, some other process happened in the nature? And humans continued doing it even after knowing the consequences of it, even when there were much better alternatives abundantly available?

I’m struggling to see the “natural” part of it.

I think it is just chain of trust. Many used Microslop as the trust authority (may be due to convenience? I have no idea). Debian has a nice page on Secure boot and how it works.

As far as I knows, Linus dropped that asshole founder mode, and moved on. There was a write up by him, how the linux conference and his holiday plans got overlapped, which forced him to rethink a lot about himself. Great person.