Personally I love oranges but cant stand orange juice.
People rip on US electricity standards all the time, from voltage, via frequency, to the NEMA plugs, and for good reasons. But the most disgusting thing about it all is this:
US breaker panels are fugly. Sure, they work just as well as those from the rest of the world, but they’re aesthetically displeasing.
Two representative pictures I found of an average panel just now;
US:
EU:
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Is that EU picture supposed to look more aesthetically appealing than the US one? Because I flip a switch on the US panel and feel super serious, like Kurt Russell about to flip the switch on all power on Earth. I look at the EU picture and think of the electrical outlets behind the teacher’s desk in the 80 year old school building I attended.
Yeah, we quit using Frankenstein levers two centuries ago.
I contrast, that tense Jurassic Park moment when you flip a US breaker switch is probably the only thing I enjoy about them.
Why is everything sideways in the American one? From the numbers on the switches to the warning labels.
It’s done that way so the breaker box will fit between studs that are 18" on center, which is standard for USA residential construction.
You generally only see breakers on din rail in the USA in industrial equipment.
That makes sense.
2 big reasons for that:
- Fits better between studs as the other commenter stated
- Easier and cleaner to route the 2 power phases. US plugs are famously ~120V but what many don’t realize is that’s a single phase of 120V, and there’s two phases that go into the breaker box. By combining the +120VAC and -120VAC phases you get a full 240VAC for higher power appliances like stoves, dryers, heat pumps and electric vehicles.
This is the kind of unimportant but fascinating thing I wish we had a community for.
Just… hundreds of people around the world posting their breaker panels.
wait, how do you route cables in there? is there just a massive bundle right through the middle?
I’m Australian, but some of the older switchboards in industrial installations are similar in appearance to the top image.
The middle would have a busbar (or three if it’s a three phase panel) that connects the circuit breakers to the main switch. The cables are connected to the far left and far right sides of the breakers.
It could be different in the US, though, if anyone with more relevant experience wants to chime in.
Edit: looking back at the top image, I’m reminded that the US uses split phase in some places, so that top panel likely has two busbars down the middle.
Varies with installation type, age, and scale, but one common approach is to daisy chain the breakers via rails that carry each phase. I couldn’t find a good picture, but basically the rails and breakers are standardized so that a row of breakers will line up with the-rail terminals, so when you connect the rail to the mains you’re good to go. On the output of the breaker it’s common to use cable ducts to keep everything nice and tidy.
EDIT: Found a picture:
american version would probably only have two phases at best, and possibly just one
Every building receives 240V and splits it into a pair of 120V phases. Three phase power is basically only installed at large industrial sites or very specialized shops.
here if you need anything over certain power (6kW; depends on country i guess) you need a three phase installation, and even if you get single phase, it’s really handled as three phase split between single phase customers (a block gets three phase supply, then splits flats in three groups, each group gets connected to one phase). this gets supplied by a distribution transformer that might serve somewhere around 200 people per (in residential areas)
i understand that sometimes americans also get distribution like this, with 208/120 three phase coming from substation, without 240v available
Wait, does that EU panel have extra space for labels? That is sexy and now I’m jealous.
Yep I’ve held electrical qualifications for over twenty years and have some of the most stringent qualifications in the world, and the US shit is a joke
The worst thing is that people think it’s safer because of the shitty low voltage.
Wait… what do they look like elsewhere? They’re the same where I am in Canada…
US and Canada largely have the same power generation/delivery standards.
Probably stereotypical, but I find well done steaks to be a total waste.
I rarely cook steak, but when I do I go to a butcher and get something quality and fresh. Normally I don’t care how other people enjoy their food, but when I take the effort to get quality steak and someone at a family get together asks me to cook until the steak is grey in the center it just deflates me. Logically I know that if everyone is happy with their food it doesn’t matter, but personally having to mangle a steak so it has the taste of ground beef just goes against every cooking instinct I have.
I’ve learned that when certain people are coming to a holiday cookout to just cook burgers or BBQ instead. Everyone is just as happy with what they get.
I feel you. As a kid I thought I hated steak. Turns out my mom always cooked it well done. The first time I had a properly cooked steak it blew my mind.
I consider myself openminded and tolerant.
I once heard a fellow say he was from Minnesota and he thought ketchup was too spicy.
Outwardly I stayed calm but in my heart I wanted to burn the heretic.
I’m in Minnesota, and I can confirm there are people who think ketchup is spicy.
The first time I encountered “ketchup is spicy/a hot sauce,” I thought it was a joke. Then I also learned that there are truly bland people who think salt and pepper is “too much”.
I live in a very weird state.
I once gave a coworker a bit of prosciutto. She told me it was spicy.
Overall, this may also be related to a persistent refusal to distinguish between spicy and spices.
What leads to this… genuinely curious.
If you go back far enough, there’s a lot of Scandinavian heritage in Minnesota settlers, especially Sweden and Norway. Historically, Scandinavian foods lacked spice because there weren’t a lot of spices that grew there. The settlers brought the palette that comes with that with them.
I’ve known a few midwesterners like that, they likely grew up on “natural flavor” and never add anything to their food and eat the blandest possible interpretations of real foods, and since their taste buds aren’t used to any real flavor anything cooked with flavor is extreme to them
I once heard a US Southern expression.
“Food so good it’ll make you slap your mama.”
You comment brought that to mind.
That’s the name of a cooking spice I use often!
I fairly recently moved to Minnesota and I love very spicy foods. I just have to accept the fact that everything people here tell me is spicy is going to be very tame. People that get to know me have started saying “really spicy… for Minnesota” lmao
Do they have black pepper on the tables?
Generally yes, that’s peak Minnesota spiciness I suspect.
Thanks.
I grew up eating what most people consider very spicy food. I don’t care what level of spicy other people are comfortable with, but I’ve found that amongst certain types of people I have to be discreet about my preference for spicy food. Some people find it a novelty to gawk at which is just awkward.
I don’t eat meat at all anymore, but growing up, whenever we had steaks I would always prefer it well done. It wasn’t really that I enjoyed it that way though, just that I did not like the flavor and texture of steak even cooked perfectly, my father did and kept making me eat it, and cooking it to a crisp and then covering it with ketchup and paprika was a way to make it not taste like steak anymore.
I simply do not find well done steak to be an inferior taste, just different. I don’t really care it’s like eggs. I like them all ways.
I usually do medium rare when I’m the one choosing.
Dear Australia, I utterly love you, but please tell me how many vowels do you need to shove into the word No? It’s almost become the longest word in Australian English.
Mate when we hear those videos we just hear the Aussie say “no” same as everyone.
It’s not all Australians, but those who do it are all over social media for some reason.
Haaahaha
Nauwreigh does objectively sound awesome though 😎
Do you mean no as in yeah nah, or nah yeah?
Probably meant “naur.”
Add about 10 more vowels to that.
Peanut butter is disgusting. It looks disgusting, it smells disgusting, the texture of it is disgusting, the taste makes me gag. If it made a noise I’m sure that would be disgusting too.
Static typing can kiss my ass.
The only reason you like it at work is because you are surrounded by idiots.
Saying “bless you” for sneezing is the most bothersome human interaction (to me) that serves literally no purpose but people pretend that it does to justify doing it out of habit. And, oh boy, have I gotten so much shit for it.
There are many entirely-valid ways to write out the sound of laughter including endless variations of “heehee,” “heh-heh,” “hahaha,” and more, but I believe “hehehe” is just incorrect.
There is only one R in the word familiar.
Stop saying fermilliar.
I feel like that’s a British thing. I remember the BBC always saying “Obarma” instead of Obama. Accents are weird.
I’ve never once heard someone say that. Axe a question however…
I love that in Futurama, that gag is set up (lila makes fun of fry for using ask, not axe) in the first episode, and kept up throught.
Ermagerd
Boomer shooters > Souls-like games
Kind of diverging from your point, but I’m pretty sure that few boomers actually played what some people call “boomer shooters”.
I don’t think that Wolfenstein 3D (1992) qualifies, given what features it looks like people consider included, so probably Doom (1993) was the very start of that; couldn’t play one sooner.
The youngest Boomer, the very tail end of the Boomer generation, would have been born in 1964.
At bare minimum, someone would have had to have been 29 to be both part of the Boomer generation and played one of those early FPSes. In practice, most would have been rather older. And in the 1990s, video gaming was less of an adult hobby than it is in the 2020s.
I’d probably call early FPSes really more the province of Generation X.
But to young people, “Boomer” means “old person”. Millennials are Boomers, even GenZs are Boomers, everyone’s a Boomer now! (in the world where words don’t mean what they mean but rather how it makes someone “feel”, which ofc is subjective)
I can’t stand cantaloupe. It’s simply too rich and sweet for me, even the smell alone makes me gag.
i cantaloupe, but honeydew some people have a mild allergic reaction, itchy tongue which doesnt last long. honeydew and cantaloupe is best served in a cake, or fruit related parfait, or tart.
Not as rare of a take as you might think. It’s called a “musk melon” for a reason.
Interesting, I’ve never heard it called that before, thanks for sharing at least 👍
There should be more mature games.
I don’t mean like sex games, I mean like games intended for adults that can have mature content and mature stories without it being heavily watered down.
Games should have as much leeway as the film or book industry when it comes to mature content - Though I guess that’s getting murky too lately.
I personally love the story of spec ops the line, in the end you’re not exactly a villain but you certainly dont feel like a hero
A great example of this is Halo.
The Flood is a horrible body horror parasite that transforms your body and invades and consumes your mind, your thoughts and your memories. It’s corruption based on revenge of the Precursors for the Forerunner’s war against them out of petty anger. The original trilogy shows this off well, and acts like a horror game when you’re getting swarmed from all angles by them.
343 era games are like “bad guys are robots, Flood too scary and gorey we removed them.” All for that lower Teen rating just to sell more copies to a broader audience. They remove the bloodiness and the gore. Hell, you could make a lake of Covenant and human blood in CE. Now you might get a couple splashes of blood to not tip that ESRB scale.
Pathetically watered down in many other aspects, but this was one that always bothered me.
343 have no idea what the fuck they are doing and never have
Press a to fuck this wench
Press b to kill this wench
Press x to do both
Press y to do both in the opposite order
It’s “by accident” not “on accident”, you uneducated fools.
Pancakes are fragile narcissists. You need a WHOLE FUCKING INTERNATIONAL HOUSE TO SLAKE YOUR EGO, YOU THIRSTY, PATHETIC BREAKFAST FOOD!!
You’re nothing, nothing, compared to the waffle!
When something is taped, of possible, the piece of tape should have one corner folded over a little bit to make it easy to remove the tape.
I love orange juice, but can’t stand oranges
This is me and Ketchup. Love it, hate Tomatoes
This is fucked up
