Dessau has been on my bucket list for a while, because of the Bauhaus site. Though, having read this, maybe that window has closed.

I’m imaging them gathered around him singing “For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow” and raising their glasses to him, before presenting him with an oversized stock certificate

Hey, if you don’t have traumatic brain injury, what are you doing on Lemmy?

A normal day on 4Chan

That would be the new ecologically-sound funeral service

It’s one of life’s great mysteries

Germany’s constitution places the security of “the democratic Jewish state of Israel” as the Bundesrepublik’s core reason to exist, with everything else flowing from this.

That is true, though it is still taking up far more space than it could if the system accommodated unearthed plugs.

George W. Bush was always the 44th President, and Jefferson Davis was always recognised as a President.

Private cars are the natural law of the free market only where government subsidies don’t underwrite their costs. So, if correctly implemented, this law would end government subsidies of gasoline and roads, as well as planning mandates for automobile infrastructure such as parking spaces. Also, air travel will get a lot more expensive.

Interesting. How far along is South Africa’s adoption of it? Are they appearing in newly built houses or on appliances? And how are they handling the transition?

If 2-pin Europlugs won’t fit into a Type N, Europe may be better off in adopting the Swiss variant (which they do fit).

And having your chargers look like clown shoes compared to the slender 2-pin chargers used in Europe, Australia and elsewhere is a small price to pay.

Do more kids really die of electrocution in, say, France or Germany than the UK?

For your toaster or iron, yes. For your USB power supply, mobile charger, LED table lamp, game console, etc., which doesn’t even have an earth connection, not so much. But your power board takes up twice the space of a European one with a row of slender unearthed sockets for such devices.

The British standard is still stuck in 1947, where the expected use cases were kettles, washing machines, pre-transistor radios using high-voltage thermionic valves, and the domestic labour-saving devices of the midcentury that needed to be earthed. That and the shortage of copper that led to British houses being wired with a ring main, and each plug having its own fuse, rather than separately fused circuits as elsewhere.

As someone who lived in the UK, the British one is far too chunky, especially in an age where most devices don’t use the mandatory earth pin (which is mechanically necessary to open the shutters in the socket). The one place it has an advantage over Europlug is in aeroplane seat sockets and such, where it stays in more firmly.

Having said that, the Swiss and Brazilian ones manage to get earthed connections into a slender footprint (the Swiss is compatible with unearthed Europlug, not sure about the Brazilian though it may be smaller). Apparently the Brazilian socket was proposed as an international standard by the IEC, though only Brazil adopted it.

Why is everyone still on Xitter when they could be bloomscrolling with kind, elderly trekkies on Mastodon instead?

Euler, most probably.

How dare Brazil build out infrastructure that’s not controlled extractively from the US!

Isn’t Wero being rolled out to more countries?

“Yay! A huge carnivore!”

Orange fascist has stroke thinking about his daughter, an ongoing series