[MC-308244] The piston starts without a signal.

Please refer to the image.

This is what happens if you break the piston first when going from image 2 to image 3

This wouldn't happen if the signal was destroyed first.

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Duplicate of MC-108

This is so called quasi-connectivity -don’t expect it to make sense.