xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet
Title text:
Building Inspectors HATE This One Weird Trick
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3186/
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The only truly universal solution
It might be a final solution too if you’re not careful…
Seems to be incompatible with some plugs, after all:
For some reason the image doesn’t seem to work for me, so here’s the link to it, too
There are more in this series… They are used in Denmark FYI. This one is for hospitals so the cleaning lady does not plug the vacume cleaner into the same power lines as the life saving critical equipment but its compatible in the other direction if needed. The one you posted is the same idea but for IT equipment. EDB is the Danish equivalent to IT
I’m not sure I fully get the joke, considering the literal existence of outlets like this. Did Randall not know they exist?
Randall isn’t suggesting a universal wall plug, he’s suggesting you cut holes in your existing plates to make them “compatible”. (At least that’s how it reads to me)
Typical wall outlet in china. Any plug will hang loosely in there and work. Dangerously
I think Randal would enjoy my plug adapter
Ugh, what a shameless plug
You try spending your whole life getting penetrated by various foreign objects and not feeling shame
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Break the chain of abuse, but careful, something important might be plugged into the other end.
