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You wouldn’t believe the pronouns
wow this would go hard if it had more than 32 pixels
It’s simple. Humans aren’t cables. Any questions?
They’re more complex than cables. Not less.
Did you know under the right conditions you can urinate from your belly button?
I would call them the wrong conditions.
That would be an interesting party trick.
I present to you the IBM hemaphroditic connector!
IBM is, was, and will be run by crackheads. Seriously why make this?!
Behold: RP-SMA
Old Czechoslovak oval 380V (3-phase 220V) plugs have 4 genders. The contact gender depends on whether the receptacle is a power source or sink, the sleeve gender depends on whether it’s a cable mount (innie) or wall mount (outie). I hate this, they could have made it work with two while still keeping the water resistance flaps like the new CEE round ones.
Contact gender Plug Receptacle Female 
Male 
This meant that people needed contraptions like this to extend cables:
We have a homemade one with a dodgy wooden base, and two outputs: one has two phases swapped for counterclockwise power.
i agree with the master of electricity
but what’s the wall plug converter have to do with anything?
The only universal truth is that there’s a mate for everybody.
Putitin!
Tintin?
Meanwhile french plugs and outlets :
Plug me, like one of your French outlets.
The electrician’s 69.
Something something meatspin
Not gonna lie… my first reaction to that in this context is “two in the pink one in the stink”. Now I feel dirty, thanks, Beryl.
It’s the classic:
“It’s grade school biology!”
“Okay, but when you get to middle school…”
It’s middle school biology!
Okay, but when you get to high school…
It’s high school biology
Okay, but when you get to college.
It’s collegiate biology.
Ah, someone failed biology in college.
As someone who has experienced Post graduate biology, at that point explaining some things does reach the level of “trust me bro” when speaking to people that have no baseline biology knowledge.
Do you want a series of 1 hour lectures and a few thousand pages of reading material? No? Then you just need to trust the experts.
bUt I dId mY oWn rEsEaRcH oN fAcEbOoK aNd oPeNaI!!!
I’ll settle for some unlikely and interesting bits out of context, such as the existence of single-cell dogs.
Uh, I am listening to the experts, Dr. WolfenSturm1488 on YouTube.
ah, you failed biology
it’s remedial school biology
Funny enough I didn’t have to take biology in college
Most people don’t?
I mean why would anyone not studying biology (or related fields) have to take biology in college? Or is that a US-American thing?
It’s a common general education requirement for college in the US, yeah. Biology, physics, psychology, economics, English/writing, math, etc. are often all required, or at least a selection of most of the discipline-intro-level courses is.
Huh, that’s weird. Isn’t highschool sufficient for general education?
Thinking about it, it might not be. I’ve just checked and at least in Germany a US highschool diploma (including passing tests like SAT or ACT flawlessly) doesn’t (generally) qualify you for entering university here. That is, you are literally prohibited by law from enrolling.
I’m genuinely glad this isn’t part of university education here. I mean, I’m attending lectures because I have interest in a certain subject - not because I want even more general education after finishing secondary education.
When I was a kid our electricity got cut (yes we were poor). We found an outlet with power for some reason. Must’ve been wired to another unit in the 3 family home.
So my moms boyfriend went out to the hardware store and made this cable. Then plugged in the working outlet to a nearby dead one and we got power again…
I don’t remember how long we ran that but nothing exploded.
If I recall he was from another country and they did this all the time across houses when someone lost power or hooking up gas power generators.
Can I ask, what’s the (ill-advised) use case for this?
I don’t know anything about electronics but I readily believe this is a dangerous cable
But what I don’t get is what people want it for. I’ve never been in a situation that calls for this
just in case you think your fuse box is bored
They can be used to hook a generator to your house if your power goes out, but people will use them for things like if they strung up Christmas lights backwards so 2 female ends are next to each other.
hot damn. I once lived in a house that used a contraption like this to feed elctricity from one circuit into another. I didn’t know and I touched one end… I did fall off the ladder, but I’m still alive.
Of course this analogy is even more flawed than OOP’s.
Anyone know if female-to-female cords are a thing?
Yes and that’s totally fine.
/s
(This is a joke about homophobia)
they are useless, they keep getting cut when scissoring
they exist and my coworkers kept buying them from somewhere and I never trusted them not to kill themselves so I did the one underpaid above and beyond the boss didn’t deserve by fixing the idiotic wiring
Challenge accepted!
Another perfect example of flawed analogies and kneejerk conclusions vs. the benefit of thinking about it for a few seconds
like proving homosexuality isn’t real because magnets
Americans having a conversation about sexual orientation
💦
Fun fact, the plugs used in Europe are intersex.
We have hermaphroditic connectors that plug into identical mates.
We have pass-through headers, where a pin can simultaneously mate with multiple receptacles.
With a little solder you can get anything to mate with anything.
Electronics are freaky.
Hi, that’s a slur!
not in this context
It’s a slur no matter what you’re talking about: https://www.tumblr.com/status-quo-hater/793665456460447744
Can I get your take on the notifications that pilots get in the cockpit when they are landing some commercial airliners? It’s all like “50, 40, 30, 20, retard, retard”
It really isn’t, it’s the scientific term for a feature in a whole bunch of animals…
Like holy shit context matters, and I don’t mean that in a “it’s fine if it’s not meant as an insult” way, because people have a right to ask to not be referred to a certain way regardless of intent.
But also the tumblr links ask me to log in so I can’t tell if they would reveal this as sarcasm or they have an actually convincing argument.
It’s not a slur when used in proper context, and also are you really trying provide a random tumblr post as source?
US has those too, theyre 480v usually
fucking yikes.
that things safety feature is “anyone with intrusive thoughts has long since been eliminated from consideration”
Without having looked it up yet, I would assume that the exposed contacts are neutral/ground
The outer contact is ground, the inner pin is for locating (unconnected) and the other three are X, Y, Z. It’s a Nema SS22-50R.
