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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The USA approach to this is to mandate a comical number of outlets everywhere (to prevent extension cord usage), mandate a large number of individual circuits (especially for things that draw a large amount of power), and more recently some combo of AFCI/GFCI/CAFCI breakers (to provide some level of sensing things going wrong and shutting off power).

  The stats are not great for the USA in terms of number of fires. I haven’t done deep research. From personal experience, most homes built after modern US electrical code was fleshed out are generally fine. Modern homes (or ones upgraded to modern code) seem very safe - the “smart” breakers tend to actually work.

  My anecdote here is that my relatively small hometown area (15,000 people, largely built up between 1860-1940) still has frequent fires relating to electrical and heating systems and the current city I live in (95,000 people mostly built up starting in ~1960) has very few fires ever. I spend 2 weeks a year around Christmas back in my hometown. 3 of the last 7 years had a structure loss fire while I was there. In the same period of time there have been 2 structure loss fires in my current city total.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the switches are nice but in the modern world you really don’t need to unplug a vast majority of things. Even my $30 120V USA space heater shuts itself off if it tips over or gets too hot. My cell phone charger pulls functionally 0W while idling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They were referring to the PS5

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this economy I think we can survive without the balls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In terms of “use electricity to make heat” it still trounces resistive heating. This whole thread is arguing about the definition of efficiency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Now do America

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly Bizarre⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this is probably a repost but the self-censorship is super annoying and has entered the lexicon in ways that can permanently damage human communication as a whole.

  Yeah sure censor stuff from kid shows but we’re at the point where “unalive” and “pdf file” are being used as code words. Everyone knows what they mean, even the censors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  D or G

  D gets you most of Middle Eastern, all of India, most of China, all of South Asia, most of Australia, most of Japan. Huge variety, extremely high number of options, lots of spice availability, lots of meat and nonmeat protein options.

  G mostly because of Mexico alone. I’ve traveled there a bunch recently and the food game is insane. You also get the US South (which does have a lot of great food outside of deep fried everything), Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.

  C gets an honorable mention mostly because of southeast Europe. That whole area has been a crossroads for a very long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The bad take I was referring to was OP claiming the mortgage payment would be lower than the rent payment. In the US this is almost never the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit lost it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t just that, a ton of subs are complete garbage now. Dumb meme? 15k upvotes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fudging the numbers a bit, but let’s say I’m paying $3000/mo for a mortgage. Brokers tell me I can afford $10,000/mo.

  I cannot afford $10,000/mo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mortgage payments are almost never lower than rent unless you are seriously downgrading

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad take. In my situation it went from us paying $1900 in rent to paying $4500 in mortgage.