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you know what really corks my screws whenever i go overseas i have to carry

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around this bulky looking adapter for all my gadgets and that is assuming of

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course that i can even get it into my overstuffed bag lest i have to pay

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another outrageous amount of money to heaven forbid check a bag with the

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airline and you know speaking of airlines how

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exactly is it that we as a society have

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figured out a way to safely get thousands of flights to their

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destinations every day even between countries where the air traffic

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controllers don't speak the same native language yet we haven't figured out a

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way to get everyone using the same type

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of power plug and yes i know about the voltage differences

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worldwide with large parts of the americas operating on 110 volts while

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much of the rest of the globe uses between 220 and 240 but that's a rant

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for another day and besides there is absolutely no reason that these prongs

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that we use here in canada couldn't carry a 200 something volt potential

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and did you know by the way that this same style of north american plug first

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appeared all the way back in 1912 that means the world has had at least a

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hundred years to get on the same page about this it's pathetic but you know

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hang on a minute because now that i think about it this style of plug

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actually kind of sucks i mean aside from them being super easy to plug in the

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wrong way and frustrating users way

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before usb ever did have you ever inserted a plug only part way and then

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gotten a really nasty shock when you accidentally touched the prong well i

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have and let me tell you it's about as much fun as a soft kick to the privates

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well i guess i wasn't the first person to notice that as electrical power for

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homes surged in popularity long before there was any kind of serious

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international effort to coordinate how it was delivered so countries mostly

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developed their own outlet standards separately and some of them even

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intentionally deviated from the north american style in favor of safer designs

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with less exposed metal i mean the thing is all you really need for a working

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outlet is a couple of sticks of something conductive and then maybe a

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third prong for safety reasons so it doesn't really matter what shape they

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are or what kind of emotion the outlet on the other end ends up conveying so

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everyone just kind of said you know what who cares just make it work and we ended

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up with this whole mess of different plug standards that we have today

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i mean sure i get that when all of this happened no one was taking lightweight

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laptops and electric razors across the atlantic all the time but like please

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won't someone think of the future generations of children i mean

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in fairness right around the time the world's electricity usage was starting

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to ramp up and different nations might have come together harmoniously holding

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hands to figure out this plug issue some

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jackass named adolf hitler was busy trying to conquer the globe so the

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international community was a bit more worried about stopping him than getting

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a record player that someone bought in new york to work over in london speaking

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of london did you know that the brits hastily developed a new plug standard

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that nobody else was using in their effort to put their country back

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together quickly after the blitz that's part of why gadgets from england need an

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adapter as soon as you get to the other side of the channel but it's 2019

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and there aren't any world wars going on and even the cold war is a distant

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memory so why can't we go ahead and agree on one plug and one outlet

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standard i mean is it seriously just because it would be too much of a hassle

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to retrofit everything and it's much easier to just use a an adapter

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okay yeah i guess that's exactly the reason well

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until we figure out totally wireless energy transfer i guess i'll just charge

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everything before i get off the plane with those fancy international chargers

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they have on the back of the seat or maybe i'll just start going to the united states for all my vacations i

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hear in europe some places it is actually illegal to offer free soda

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refills did you know that because i didn't

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