Technology Connections - Come watch a autistic man sperg over a fridge for 1 hour straight

[The Ghost of Sergei Witte]

how the fuck do americans cope even about this? people in this country can't admit that things are shit even if they are objectively shit.

I'm sorry Jersh, I think it's finally time to KNEEL and admit what PEAK outlet design is and who made it.

 

[Evan Kor]

I'm sorry Jersh, I think it's finally time to KNEEL and admit what PEAK outlet design is and who made it.

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We don't need those fancy European plugs because we use 110-120V for most things. Therefore we only risk getting about 1/4 the current if we get zapped. Those fancy European plugs exist the way they do because the higher voltage was far more dangerous due to Ohms Law. I used to stick my fingers in sockets and get zapped all the time when I was a toddler since my dad believed that electricity isn't deadly if it doesn't cross your heart.

 

[mlanguishi]

We don't need those fancy European plugs because we use 110-120V for most things. Therefore we only risk getting about 1/4 the current if we get zapped. Those fancy European plugs exist the way they do because the higher voltage was far more dangerous due to Ohms Law. I used to stick my fingers in sockets and get zapped all the time when I was a toddler since my dad believed that electricity isn't deadly if it doesn't cross your heart.

The US mixed voltage 3=phase system really is the best. Even TC said it. Most people think you can only do 120v, but you can do dedicated 240v too of course, for appliances. I don't get the complaining about this at all. I've been zapped a few times with a live 120v, it's annoying but unless you do both hands hard and it crosses your heart it's way less painful than a wasp sting.

Plug style ok, but I don't want those giant things really. Fuse in the plug seems like overkill too, especially since they have to use full size ones. Some say those on/off switches at the socket are nice, just use a strip if you want that.

 

[Mr.Bucket]

The US mixed voltage 3=phase system really is the best. Even TC said it. Most people think you can only do 120v, but you can do dedicated 240v too of course, for appliances. I don't get the complaining about this at all. I've been zapped a few times with a live 120v, it's annoying but unless you do both hands hard and it crosses your heart it's way less painful than a wasp sting.

Plug style ok, but I don't want those giant things really. Fuse in the plug seems like overkill too, especially since they have to use full size ones. Some say those on/off switches at the socket are nice, just use a strip if you want that.

Even UK plugs can be cheapened out on. Big Clive (gay scottish electrician) rants when chinese-made shit have ground plugs that are only metal for the last half of the length.

But yeah I hate UK outlets. They're comically massive and have so much waste space on them. You can fit like 8 US outlets in the space of the double outlet Sergei posted.

 

[Baked Al-Aqsa]

ITT:

Shitnigger who grew up in the shitnigger part of a shitnigger state who only ever lived in shitnigger housing built by shitniggers 50 years ago to shitnigger standards using shitnigger builder-grade materials, is surprised that the shitnigger cheap and ancient outlets which never had any gripping function to begin with don't grip any plug he plugs in.

Welp, sucks to be a poor shitnigger I guess.

At least I can plug in a kettle anywhere in my house because all sockets are rated to 16A and use the same type of connector

So can literally anyone in the United States, dummy. (picture from Google images since I don't feel like doxing the electric kettle in my kitchen right now)

 

[Pissmaster]

I'm sorry Jersh, I think it's finally time to KNEEL and admit what PEAK outlet design is and who made it.

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UK plugs feel like toys to me. They're big and goofy and blocky.

 

[Bonesjones]

Changing an american outlet is so easy, it takes 5 minutes and less than 5 dollars to do. You don't even need to find the breaker, just tap the wires together. Good luck doing that in Europe or Canada.

 

[Mr.Bucket]

UK plugs feel like toys to me. They're big and goofy and blocky.

I watch a lot of techmoan and it always astonishes me just how fucking huge UK plugs are whenever he tests something with a tiny powerbrick and the plug is like 3x the size of the thing.

Handy packable USB charger bricks with foldable prongs must not be a thing over there and I'm sad for them.

 

[ZipDisk]

INS did that too (under clinton)

The Elian Gonzalez case was an amplified shitshow, and Janet Reno was a waffling cunt. That poor nerd with the MP5 felt ashamed of that raid, and rightfully so.
Comrade Elian went back to his sunny shithole and his relatives seethed.

Weirdly enough, I'd chalk all that up as an INS win, even if the intense raid was pants on head fucking stupid. Dude went home. His uncle fucked up the process the way niggers fuck up a car lease.
A temporary stay is a temporary stay, not "Play house forever".
I will say kicking in a condo is kind of lame. And that cop did regret being a part of it.
The idiots on the no think boat tried to bail water with nylon bags. Elian on the other hand is a fucking engineer now. I'd bet his boats work.
Nobody got shot, it was just an unfortunate custody dispute, like the shrieking sirens our phones make when a dad steals his kids.
Wet foot dry foot is incredibly gay. The best thing Elian's mother ever did for him was fucking drown.

Huh, wikipedo wiped the name of the agent, didn't he do morning talk? I vaguely remember him saying he did his job, wasn't happy about it, but the job was the job.

Cubans should not be allowed to vote in the US. I wanted Gore.

 

[i440BX]

The American plug is genuinely the worst of any country I've been to and I think it is tbh

I agree, also it is a pity you don't use 220v.

The Japanese plug is basically the same as the American plug just without the hole for the ground pin, so it's slightly worse imo. Despite this, online electrical safety advocates say that Japanese plugs are almost as safe as UK and Euro plugs.
I'm told this is because they run all their circuits through a GFCI/RCD breaker instead of plugging neutral directly into ground, might be more worthwhile to adopt that practice than change out the plugs.

My gripe with American plugs (I used some charging adapters with us plug) is that it falls too easily from the socket. The Schuko European plug that my country uses doesn't have this problem at all.

But indeed UK style plug is the best.

 

[ZipDisk]

it falls too easily from the socket.

Why does this keep getting repeated. I made good money when the state I was living in mandated GFI's, some of the plugs we shitcanned were a fucking nightmare.
A good plug honestly kind of sucks from an end user standpoint, you plug it in, it goes "CLUNK" and it's in.

Pulling a plug out of those fuckers feels like you're going to break it. But the click is SOLID.

All you fall out plug people are dealing with whore outlets. I said it.

 

[Fenrir Ratatoskr]

Been a big fan of Alec for ages up to this point...

And I still am. I think he gets a little too invective on social media sometimes, but even the speech about ICE thugs in his latest video I thought was even-handed, if treading the line of a bit too hostile toward the people he's trying to reach. If anyone gets menstrual enough about tone to disregard absolutely everything he said out of spite because he hurt Dear Leader's fee-fees... well, that's their problem. But I definitely think Alec could have turned down the fire juuust a little. People can act like toddlers when they feel threatened ideologically, and it doesn't pay to antagonize needlessly when one can be diplomatic.

No complaints regarding the part actually about renewables, though. I'm fairly certain he isn't against nuclear, going off of everything else I've seen from him. Even in the video, he mentioned how solar alone isn't the end-all-be-all of energy and used a purely solar future simply as an extreme scenario of how feasible it would still be to address energy with greener methods than the ones we're insistent upon using. Oil is one thing because of all the other uses it has, but even then I'd prefer we pivot our use of it more towards things like plastics (especially since that uses far less oil than burning it for energy). On the other hand, coal is just fucking awful and everything about "clean coal" is bullshit. The sooner we get that shit out of our grid, the better.

It's funny to see Null alogging the dude though. I noticed the clip on the sidebar.

As a "fan" of alec's non lunatic period, I strongly disagree. He used to be far more even handed, and he fully admitted in the Electric car video, that "The electric car load on the grid would be insubstantial (in chicago) because of the nuclear power" He fully admitted that solar wouldn't be practical north of the south due to the very well understood overcast weather most of the year.
More over, I did not want my comfy griping about led christmas lights to be overcome by insane rambling about the ICE issue.
This kind of bullshit rhetoric, acting as if 3 retard Americans (who actively interfered in a federal government actions) being killed is the beginning of the brown holocaust is fucking lunacy.

He blew all his points up completely by losing the plot, which was to convince Americans about the virtue of improving infrastructure. It is a massive blow to his credibility, because now all I can think about is his panicky angry rambling. I still agreed with most of his past previous points on EV's and many other infrastructure/tech issues.
But this shit?
Fucking embarrassing.

 

[mlanguishi]

My gripe with American plugs (I used some charging adapters with us plug) is that it falls too easily from the socket. The Schuko European plug that my country uses doesn't have this problem at all.

But indeed UK style plug is the best.

It can if the socket is cheap. But the thing is a 3-prong plug with ground usually really takes a good tug to get out. The 3 with ground is solid enough, perfect.

Needing that little plastic bit to not touch the live plug.. How many times has that really stopped anyone from touching the metal? It really is the silica packet 'do not eat' scenario. I've never done that. Who has fingers small enough even as a child to fit into that loosened plug area to get a shock?

I love the peak autism going on here though, fantastic.

 

[ZipDisk]

Haha, I thought you were giving me shit but you meant him. Rock on.

 

[Mr.Bucket]

My gripe with American plugs (I used some charging adapters with us plug) is that it falls too easily from the socket.

As said quite a few times in here that's caused by worn out sockets. Especially worn out residential-grade ones. Fixed with a $2.50 commercial-grade socket.

And we do have 220v. I have several in my house and in my garage. Dryer, stove, EV charger, etc.

 

[i440BX]

As said quite a few times in here that's caused by worn out sockets. Especially worn out residential-grade ones. Fixed with a $2.50 commercial-grade socket.

And we do have 220v. I have several in my house and in my garage. Dryer, stove, EV charger, etc.

Oh I see. It would have been nice if you used 220v for all devices, since you would use less current, thus less heat. But its nice to have that option.

I wonder what tri phase plug do you use? We use IEC 60309.

 

[geckogoy]

Clearly we must re-standardize the entire north american continent to prevent the 1-3 outlet related electrocution deaths of stupid people every year because what we already completely uniformly have standardized to (unlike EU) for 100 years isn't good enough (it doesn't perfectly mechanically guarantee that it cannot ever maybe possibly electrocute you)

BTW like 300 people die annually to electrocution the vast majority of which is not outlet related, and its overall about the same per-capita as europe

 

[Mr.Bucket]

Oh I see. It would have been nice if you used 220v for all devices, since you would use less current, thus less heat. But its nice to have that option.

I wonder what tri phase plug do you use? We use IEC 60309.
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Dryers use NEMA 14-30r. I also use one for my EV charger since the previous owner cheaped out and only re-wired the garage with 30 amp instead of 50 amp.


Quick google-fu shows stoves use NEMA 14-50, which would be what I would have in my garage if the aforementioned previous owner wasn't a cheap bastard.


This is, of course, for residential use. I wouldn't even begin to know what my work uses for the 480volt line motors.

 

[i440BX]

Clearly we must re-standardize the entire north american continent to prevent the 1-3 outlet related electrocution deaths of stupid people every year because what we already completely uniformly have standardized to for 100 years isn't good enough (it doesn't perfectly mechanically guarantee that it cannot ever maybe possibly electrocute you)

BTW like 300 people die annually to electrocution the vast majority of which is not outlet related, and its overall about the same per-capita as europe

In my sperging I didnt complain about safety, every country has sloppy electrical work and great electrical work. Except 3rd world countries. I saw a photo from Mexico where the wiring was worse than any Communist era country.

My country has old country-side houses from communist era with no earth and shoddy soviet sockets. Some also use aluminum instead of copper which is horrifying.

I meant to say that the US residential plug grip is not as good as the Schuko one (but now I read threre are some special ones for that, maybe you should replace all plugs with that).

Also using 110v requires more current for devices.

Even UK plugs can be cheapened out on. Big Clive (gay scottish electrician) rants when chinese-made shit have ground plugs that are only metal for the last half of the length.

But yeah I hate UK outlets. They're comically massive and have so much waste space on them. You can fit like 8 US outlets in the space of the double outlet Sergei posted.

Europlug is the smallest plug we ever use:

 

[Roboute Guilliman]

Spoiler

@Null Your plug spergery derailed the entire thread

In regards to Alec, not a single person has shown anything that would lead me to believe that he is married let alone to a woman.