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Meanwhile french plugs and outlets :
Plug me, like one of your French outlets.
Not gonna lie… my first reaction to that in this context is “two in the pink one in the stink”. Now I feel dirty, thanks, Beryl.
The electrician’s 69.
It’s the classic:
“It’s grade school biology!”
“Okay, but when you get to middle school…”
It’s middle school biology!
Okay, but when you get to high school…
It’s high school biology
Okay, but when you get to college.
It’s collegiate biology.
Ah, someone failed biology in college.
As someone who has experienced Post graduate biology, at that point explaining some things does reach the level of “trust me bro” when speaking to people that have no baseline biology knowledge.
Do you want a series of 1 hour lectures and a few thousand pages of reading material? No? Then you just need to trust the experts.
It’s simple. Humans aren’t cables. Any questions?
They’re more complex than cables. Not less.
Did you know under the right conditions you can urinate from your belly button?
I would call them the wrong conditions.
That would be an interesting party trick.
What conditions? Getting stabbed there?
Another perfect example of flawed analogies and kneejerk conclusions vs. the benefit of thinking about it for a few seconds
like proving homosexuality isn’t real because magnets
Most circuit boards are an absolute pride parade. You have your male to male/female to female connectors, MtF/FtM transformers, master/slave setups, multiport adapters, splitters, switches, docking, etc
There are also gender benders… Turn male to female or female to male.
They included that already with MtF/FtM
Master/slave terminology needs to die off. What a blatant callback to slavery times.
Should be using Dom/Sub amirite?
Oh, surely you must’ve meant Kermit/Miss Piggy.
Noo! It just needs to become kinky instead.
I quite agree. Personally I use Main/Secondary, I find it does away with the problematic terminology while needing no changes in acronyms.
Eh, I think master is used (AFAIK) unproblematicly in other contexts like a master key, recording master, and master pattern. Converting it to “main” seems like a change or loss of meaning, but the problem may be that there is not really a consistent meaning across electronics usage to start with. I think “secondary” has some connotation of filling the same purpose or type as the primary, which doesn’t really fit for m/s usage. Master/sheep is my most similar option that keeps the “m/s”, but it feels awkward enough to draw attention to what it replaces. Could just do master (or main) and sub, where “sub” could mean substitute, subordinate, subscriber, [submissive,] etc. as needed.
I like sender/receiver
Pitcher/catcher?
No, no, perhaps not.
top/bottom
I like parent/child. Add something? Parent adopts. Remove something? Parent abandons, leaving the process or component with trauma that will require years of therapy.
Then you get people asking how you kill abandoned child processes
Americans having a conversation about sexual orientation
I present to you the IBM hemaphroditic connector!
IBM is, was, and will be run by crackheads. Seriously why make this?!
I think that’s for token ring. I remember using an adapter to plug Ethernet into a wall version of one of these. Massive things.
So it’s just a fucky old school data connector? That actually makes some sense, given how old Ethernet cables are these fuckers probably date back to when ribbon cables were the standard for connections, like that bastard radio shack computer from 1979 that I have.
Behold: RP-SMA
hot damn. I once lived in a house that used a contraption like this to feed elctricity from one circuit into another. I didn’t know and I touched one end… I did fall off the ladder, but I’m still alive.
Of course this analogy is even more flawed than OOP’s.
Anyone know if female-to-female cords are a thing?
Yes and that’s totally fine.
/s
(This is a joke about homophobia)
Can I ask, what’s the (ill-advised) use case for this?
I don’t know anything about electronics but I readily believe this is a dangerous cable
But what I don’t get is what people want it for. I’ve never been in a situation that calls for this
It allows you to move power from a live circuit to a dead one by connecting the outlets between them. The most common use I’ve seen is to easily hook a gas generator to a household circuit during a blackout.
But yes, they’re very dangerous and there are less-stupid ways to hook up a generator that won’t make tripping over a power cable lethally dangerous or risk burning down the house by bypassing the circuit breaker and overloading the wiring in the walls.
But this one is popular because it can be done very quickly and easily with minimal supplies.
just in case you think your fuse box is bored
They can be used to hook a generator to your house if your power goes out, but people will use them for things like if they strung up Christmas lights backwards so 2 female ends are next to each other.
I’m a three-phase gender kinda person myself.
Another example where this argument falls flat is spaceship docking connectors, which are genderless so they can all dock to every other one.
In space being heteronormative is less useful.
now I’m interested, any recommendations too learn how every work?
Unfortunately, it’s difficult to find a good shot of the docking adapters in nomal docking videos. Scott Manley has a bunch of good shots in this video, and I found this fantastic video showing the docking process in detail.
Or read the wiki on the International Docking System (IDS), or spacecraft docking systems in general.
Unfortunately, the IDS isn’t androgynous right now, the passive and active sides are slightly different. Androgyny is planned for a future version.
Fun fact, the plugs used in Europe are intersex.
US has those too, theyre 480v usually
fucking yikes.
that things safety feature is “anyone with intrusive thoughts has long since been eliminated from consideration”
Without having looked it up yet, I would assume that the exposed contacts are neutral/ground
The outer contact is ground, the inner pin is for locating (unconnected) and the other three are X, Y, Z. It’s a Nema SS22-50R.
No one tell the straights about generator pigtails
Suicide cords?
You wouldn’t believe the pronouns
Shamefully, when I’m speaking to someone who starts spouting the usual nonsense about homosexuality or genders, I’ll ask " What about bears? ". I know nothing at all about bears, but seemingly its a great question to flounder moronic confidence. If it isn’t enough, I’ll add that bears display LGBTQ+ varieties in the wild and in zoo’s. Deapan / confused delivery is key!
I have read a bit about biology and the science is kinda clear cut on it. That is to say, sex is a false dichotomy. Not even the chromosomes are a deterministic 100% guarantee for other things like genitals, breasts and even “male/female normatieve brain patterns”. So yeah, follow the science and discover biology is not binary.
Definitely going to try to add that to my “What about bears” question for future use. Much appreciated. I’m not certain that many recipients of my challenge will understand the words. I may be on a witchcraft charge in some places
Do you have penguins in your bears question? They can form monogamous same sex bonded pairs that can adopt an egg from another couple and raise it.
That’s a fun one to fuck with 'phobes about
snails are hermaphroditic, impale each other with sex arrows, and then proceed to twist around each other while hanging from a rope of slime and they impregnate each other.
Jellyfish spew their sperm and eggs into the water around them, hope for it to meet up and make an egg that hatches into a larva, which roots itself to the ocean floor and grows into a polyp where the adult jellyfish grow like a stack of plates and each one individually buds off.
wait, like bears, or bear bears? are bear bears like bears?
Just so!
