davidagain

This guy would be the top, yes? Asking for a friend.

I'm not sure that's an either / or situation.

Strong "I don't support Trump, I just don't like Harris" vibes here.

There was a post on science memes that pointed out that male giraffes smell the urine of all the female giraffes and if none of them are on heat, have sex with each other instead. I found that the fact stuck with me. The thread got deleted by the mods because it all got a bit daft.

You voted for her while explaining how awful you thought she was, which put other voters off voting for her. The election was won for Donald "ethnic cleansing" Trump by people staying home because Harris was so flawed, a point made by republicans and useful left wing idiots alike.

Ah, this is fantastic. I learned some stuff, thank you.

Mainly they exist because there weren’t central fuse boxes for a while due to wartime copper shortages.

Someone elsewhere in the thread pointed out that the Wikipedia page for BS 1363 says they’re optional and weren’t added to the standard until 1967.

You're right, now that I think about it. Laptop power does it more than anything else.

Home electricity in North America has roughly half the voltage as elsewhere in the world, and double the voltage is double the arcing potential, so that figures.

Maybe, but with the switches on the sockets, I hardly ever unplug anything at all unless I'm moving it. Why would I?

So pretty much every time something's unplugged, it's in my hand or away in a cupboard, never lying on the floor.

Thanks. I've edited it.

their reason for wanting to use another word besides “free” to describe it is to explicitly deflate the right wing talking point that it’s being called “free” when it’s really not

Relentlessly parroting right wing talking points to stop right wingers making them is an implausible absurd and counterproductive strategy. I don't buy it at all, sorry.

Do you think that because the supermarket is paying for my buy one get one free box of cereal, it isn't free, or do you think for one minute that people who call it free don't realise that they're still making a profit?

We're not all morons, and we don't need anyone to say that taxpayers fund the government every time we like something they do, we're not five and we do understand, but the one thing we do know is that you don't pay for your healthcare, no matter how much you need or how often, no matter how little tax you've ever paid or ever will pay in your life. Healthcare is free in the UK. Free. No charge.