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

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.

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 for sharing. Hope it was a satisfying one.

This is the way.

Because of the massive trumps.

You make a very good point. I assumed way too much.

If she’s interested but shy and insecure, this could lead her into a spiral of worry and despair. Better to just say “I really like you” and see how she reacts.

Ah that all makes sense now, thank you for explaining.

This is a really good point.

I’ve been here about a year now. Good times. Your voice counts on lemmy in a way it really really doesn’t on reddit. People will engage with you because you’re human and say human things. It’s much more welcoming for people who like to talk somehow than reddit ever was. Don’t know why.

By the way, people talk a lot about how lemmy.world censors luigi, but I use lemmy.world and see, upvote and sometimes comment on plenty of luigi stuff without mod intervention. Maybe it’s just one of two communities (subreddits) where it’s enforced.

If you’re a communist and don’t like to hear China (or sometimes for some weird reason Russia) criticised, and if you feel that the USA is the Imperialist power that needs to be broken first, you’ll feel most at home in lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, but also lemmy.ml if you want to keep access to stuff from lemmy.world.

If you’re progressive or liberal, you’ll be fairly happy here on lemmy.world. If you’re a conservative, I don’t know where to recommend you.

There are various country specific ones you might find suit you for other reasons.

All in all I’m not sure it matters a great deal as much as it sounds in my post. People from different instances turn up and say stuff anyway.

The best advice is that you don’t have to lurk as much as you used to on reddit, you can show up and engage and the conversation will start around you.

Life goals.

Ah thanks.

I had my last tin of chicken soup last week and it was lovely. I’ve frozen the rest of the turkey because I’ve had enough for a while. Beef lasagne tomorrow night.

Ummm. I’m in that not everybody bit.