I moved to California last year from Oklahoma. Occasionally I will say something about moving from Oklahoma and people are like, "oh that makes sense, you have a Midwestern accent sometimes". We all sound normal to ourselves but everyone has an accent. Like the way California people say their O's.

People in other countries use all sorts of crazy "languages". We don't bother with that here, we just talk normally.

Take the adapter off, moron.

One of worlds longest running experiments is when an european tourist visited america and tried to boil water using a kettle and a travel adapter.

The paper published on the experiment noted that water finally reached temperatures of 63c in 2017.

I didn't realize because I am too used to it.

Because it reads like this:

“In other countries, like [those in] Europe or South America”.

And in the big touristy cities in Europe, there's so many scam currency exchanges, while if you just take the time to go to official government exchanges, you get reasonable exchange rates. The problem isn't the locals, the problem is that you didn't do the research and you did a dum-dum. (Also fuck the people who are scamming tourists, that's just low.)

Houses in the US generally have 220v too but not at ordinary wall outlets

There's a technology connections video on it if you're interested in the specifics

Oh don't worry about that, just plug in your 110V appliances and watch them run twice as fast

It's less of a problem nowadays where most things have switching power supplies that can handle either just fine

Yeah. It always strikes me as bizarre how many people online see something that would only be satire in a sane world and completely assume it's serious. They have no doubts. Never occurred to them it might be a joke...

Euro plugs are perfect. They connect well, have no live metal exposed, power strips are safe, it can handle 230V Without a problem. They are being copied everywhere because they are well designed.

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i like the compactness of this triple-plug design used for Type-J, used in switzerland and lichtenstein, although it missed some other points (no insulated pins, no on-off switch, etc)

European plugs have the same problem. And you only get like, one outlet per receptacle? Guess you're shit out of luck if you wanna plug anything else in the same spot.

The standard amount of outlets per receptacle here (Sweden) is two. Maybe in very old houses it would be only one, but that's rare. If you run into that, there are splitters that make one into two, you don't need to have an extender to split it.

I don't think it's fair to judge plugs by how they behave when dropped on the floor (unless they're exposing live wires). Do you often have a lot of loose plugs lying around? If you find yourself unplugging things a lot to turn them off, you may be interested to hear the switch was invented not long after the light bulb for exactly this reason.

Does NA not have insulated pins? Where a half inch of so of the pin nearest the plug head is insulated so when plugging in the exposed part of the pin is inside the hole before the pin makes contact with live power?

UK plug for sure is amazing, the caltrops is just to get you ready for standing on Lego.

US used to be like that too. When polarized plugs first became a thing, they wouldn’t fit into older non-polarized outlets. It took decades for all those to be replaced and I’m sure they’re still out there. Somewhere