be me
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be me
come back to my office
hear ups screaming
walk to my desk find my work computer is shut off completely
look at my power strip and see it's offline
look at the outlet
try to plug it in tighter
it slips back out but this time there's still enough contact
you know what fuck it ok im just gonna leave it like that gonna make a note to myself not to grab a paper clip and short the contacts -
boost this to scare the Europeans
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"what is that a plug from the 1950s?" actually this building was built before america had 3 phase power. so probably
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it was built between 1900 and 1925 i will not give the exact date so yeah lol
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our radiator loops are still single (hot or cold, no dual where i can get either) and the piping for it is asbestos insulated, painted in lead paint to contain the asbestos and then wrapped in a plastic sheath to contain the lead paint
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jiub :v_enby: :v_trans: :v_est:replied to Amber last edited by
@[email protected] i could be wrong, but it looks suspiciously like that's a grounded plug with the ground pin cut off
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self explanatory
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Amberreplied to jiub :v_enby: :v_trans: :v_est: last edited by
@[email protected] you are wrong. it’s grounded
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@puppygirlhornypost2 would it work to wrap some paper around the first few millimeters of exposed metal or is a special material necessary to avoid the paper clip situation? Do not try please, only theory.
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@[email protected] i am the only person who sits at my desk so the risk of people getting hurt from this is minimal otherwise i would do something about it
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@puppygirlhornypost2 you're supposed to snap the earth pin off and plug it in upside down.
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@puppygirlhornypost2 this is what happens when you're mounting the nema sockets upside down so they make the shocked face
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@[email protected] not necessarily true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNj75gJVxcE (courtesy of @[email protected]). He went into detail about it
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@puppygirlhornypost2 ah hadn't thought of the right-angle plugs (even though that's the majority of them in europe...)
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@[email protected] yeah unfortunately this outlet has a uh, window mount air conditioner plugged into it as well that's a right angle plug
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@puppygirlhornypost2 Yeah, but is the ground actually connected to, you know, the ground? @jiub
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@[email protected] @[email protected] if this was a GFCI circuit there'd be a very easy way to test this by using a paper clip but unfortunately this is not GFCI.
