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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just the voltage It’s also the allowable current per circuit. UK circuits allow much higher power (wattage) than single household circuits in the rest of the world. That’s why they need those big-ass plugs on each of their appliances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The standards the UK adopted pass higher voltages and higher currents per household circuit than pretty much anywhere else. They adopted standards that allow them to use use less wiring, less copper to provide the same energy. They can plug in many space heaters on one circuit, where two or three would blow a breaker on a US circuit.

  That higher voltage and higher current makes their household circuits inherently more dangerous than household circuits outside the UK. A fault in a UK circuit passes a lot more energy than a similar fault elsewhere, before tripping a current-limiting device. The exact same fault in a UK circuit is far more dangerous than in a circuit pretty much anywhere else in the world. The standards for household wiring in the rest of the world are a lot more restrictive than the standards adopted in the UK.

  UK plugs on Japanese appliance in Japanese houses (for example) are overkill. The safety provided by the UK plugs is built into the Japanese breaker panel and wiring. Putting the UK plug/socket into a Japanese circuit provides no significant additional safety benefit. The Japanese plug/socket on a UK circuit would be extraordinarily dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Post-war reconstruction, they had a massive copper shortage. The wiring standards they adopted allowed for using as little copper as possible. That meant fewer, high-amperage circuits, rather than many low-amperage circuits. They used “ring circuit” topology instead of “branch circuits” to allow them to use undersized wiring.

  Basically, all the shortcuts they took in their household wiring introduce considerably greater risks than exist elsewhere, including North America. Their household wiring is overloaded relative to most of the rest of the world. They mitigated the risks of their household wiring with stricter standards on their appliance wiring. Which is why they need a plug for their phone charger comparable to the plugs we use on a welder.

  It’s a good plug A damn good plug. It’s just complete overkill for electric systems outside of the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You are entitled to your opinion. They are entitled to theirs. I am entitled to my opinion: what they do with their space and who they allow into it is no concern of yours. Mind your own business, and leave them to mind theirs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The public park is owned by everyone, not just the women. You would be correct to be upset by men being excluded from this public space.

  Comms are not public assets. Your use of any comm is entirely at the pleasure of the administrators of that comm, and their designated moderators.

  Your opinion on the way they implement and enforce their rules is entirely irrelevant within their comm.

  My suggestion would be to do what you would for any other comm whose behavior you do not support and/or whose rules you find reprehensible: block them and move on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨G GG⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  lol, I typo’d the date I read… It’s got the BIOS date listed as 2012-09-11.

  ThoughtPads can’t melt steel beams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨G GG⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  2011? That thing became a ThoughtPad years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/…/International_Fixed_Calendar

  The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar, the Eastman plan or the Yearal)[1] was a proposed reform of the Gregorian calendar designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, first presented in 1902.[2] The International Fixed Calendar divides the year into 13 months of 28 days each.

  Kodak actually used it from 1928 to 1989.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Confederacy (or whatever)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on that neck, I’d say his masturbatory habits are predominantly oral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2³² will get interesting...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ll have matrix-style human farms producing people for the tracks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Health Secretary Kennedy says there's 'not sufficient' proof to show Tylenol causes autism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So in short, is there no conclusive evidence linking it to autism?

  Kennedy hears that there is no conclusive evidence linking tylenol to autism yet assumes the causal relationship exists. (It just hasn’t been proven yet.)

  Any rational person hearing that there is no conclusive evidence linking tylenol to autism assumes the causal relationship does not exist. (But acknowledges that the causal relationship has not been disproven.)

  A better summary would be “Kennedy acknowledges his claims about Tylenol are not supported by evidence.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Working in an office for 8 hours a day costs me an additional hour getting ready and commuting to to work, an hour away from home for lunch, an hour commuting back home and unwinding after work, turning 8 hours of paid labor into 11 hours of doing shit for other people.

  Working at home claws back 15 hours a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guillotine museum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.

  “I’m not stalking you. You’re to ugly for anyone to stalk. Quit stalking me!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah? Well, so’s your face!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicago fighting ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing good comes from antagonizing ICE directly. You will not stop a single person from being kidnapped by confronting ICE directly. They’ll just go back and get more funding, more manpower, more resources, more militarization, and more and more people will be kidnapped. So it’s not really like treating the cough with Robitussin. It’s more like treating it with cocaine. Or asbestos.

  If “Slashing Tires” is your level of commitment, you’re better off slashing the tires of a random millionaire. Instead of ICE demanding more resources for their operations, that millionaire will demand resources be diverted to protecting their cars instead of abducting people. Meanwhile, we all cheer every time we read about a 1% being targeted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicago fighting ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I will absolutely judge people for their wasted, wasteful, and futile efforts. Trying to target ICE agents just ensures you’ll be locked up or dead. You won’t stop any immigration action. You won’t spare a single victim from being persecuted. You’ll just serve as a warning to everyone else not to resist.

  If you’re choosing violence, choose an effective target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicago fighting ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are wrong.

  Eating enough rich people stops everyone’s friends from being kidnapped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicago fighting ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t fight the puppet. Guillotine the puppeteer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicago fighting ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t knife tires to fight back against ICE.

  Ice is the symptom, not the disease. If ICE was a persistent cough, knifing tires is treating it with Robitussin. Except that this particular cough is caused by tuberculosis, and the Robitussin will just make you feel better. While you die.

  You need to treat the disease, not the symptom. To fight back against ICE, barbecue a billionaire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Long ago, yes, but not by 1989.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Seems we’re losing the distinction between “one-to-many” (broadcast) and “one-to-one” (streaming) transmission models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  File a new W4 with your employer. From the instructions:

  Complete Form W-4 so that your employer can withhold the correct federal income tax from your pay. If too little is withheld, you will generally owe tax when you file your tax return and may owe a penalty. If too much is withheld, you will generally be due a refund.

  If you feel the correct withholding is “$0.00”, W4 is how you tell your employer to not withhold anything for taxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kya⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Self defense is predicated on the “reasonable person” standard. Anyone finding themselves (or another) imperiled by what they reasonably believe to be a machine gun is justified in doing anything they reasonably believe necessary to end the threat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone fact check this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So 20 miles per hour across 24 hours gets us a distance of 480 miles.

  Going from Europe to the Americas by way of Scotland and Iceland is going to be a bit of a problem for that bird, as it can expect pretty consistent 10-20kt headwinds for the entire journey. America to Europe by that route is a comparatively easy trip.

  I doubt that owls are capable of effective dynamic soaring, but that would drastically reduce the energy requirements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally I understand it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Go back like generations, and see how many times people had to have fucked just to make you. 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  30, you say? Ok doc. See you Wednesday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acetaminophen-American⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That might be the worst salute I’ve ever seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say it slowly.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some context might provide the distinction.

  • Adam: "Jane told me that he licked her asshole."

  • • Jane: “I never said he licked my asshole.” <-- He never licked my asshole, and I never claimed that he did. Adam is lying about both parts.
  • • Jane: “I never said he licked my asshole.” <-- He licked my asshole, but I never told anyone that he did. Adam learned about the asshole-licking from someone other than me.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acetaminophen-American⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Saluting in the US, your hand should be rotated so that the palm of your hand is toward your own face. The person in front of you should be able to see the back of your hand, not your palm. Also, the tips of your fingers should be touching the outside corner of your eyebrow, or the outside corner of your glasses, or the corner of the brim of your cap. The middle of the forehead is right out.