Liquid Stevie

One time I dropped my toast and it landed on its side. Nobody believes me.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your phone charger can electrocute a toddler who pokes a fork into the socket. The British plug cannot. That difference comes from a 1947 engineering project that refused every shortcut and turned a household plug into one of the most deliberately safe objects ever mass-produced.

Britain published BS 1363 in 1947, built for the post-war housing boom. The country was wiring millions of new homes at once and needed one standard that would work safely for everyone. They picked the most paranoid option available.

The earth pin (the large top prong) is longer than the other two. When you push a British plug in, the earth pin goes in first. Inside the socket, it presses a lever that opens two metal shutters covering the live and neutral slots. A fork pushed into an empty British socket hits only shutters. The shutters block it.

The two conducting pins are also coated in plastic for their lower half. A plug halfway out of the wall is still safe to touch. You would have to pull it completely clear before any live metal is exposed.

Inside every plug is its own fuse. UK homes wire their sockets in a loop called a ring circuit, which runs at 32 amps, enough to melt a lamp's cord if the cord fails. So each plug carries a fuse matched to the appliance: 3 amps for a lamp, 13 for a kettle. When something goes wrong in your appliance's wiring, only that plug's fuse blows.

The standard US plug (flat two-pin or three-pin) has none of the pin coating and no individual fuse. American building codes began requiring shuttered outlets in new construction in 2008, decades after Britain made shutters standard. Even those newer shuttered versions lack pin coating and plug-level fuses.

Britain's plug is bulky because a fuse, a shutter mechanism, insulated pins, and three contact prongs all need room. The plug looks the way it does because safety engineers refused to sacrifice any of those features to make it smaller, and that decision is now 79 years old.

[Liquid Stevie @Liquid_Stevie]

@pocketgh0ul Roz from Frasier...

[Liquid Stevie @Liquid_Stevie]

@NevermoreRex @uncledoomer I call her Luna ❤️🌕

[Asanwa.sol @Chizitere_xyz]

The absolute funniest, most ridiculous lore of the modern dating market is how people now use clinical psychology and astrology as literal "Get Out of Jail Free" cards for being terrible partners.

​A decade ago, if someone ghosted you, lied to you, or treated you horribly, they were just a jerk. Today, they have a pseudo-intellectual PR team in their own head. People will look you dead in the eye and say, "I didn't manipulate you, my disorganized avoidant attachment style was just triggered by your anxious energy, and as a Gemini rising, I had to completely dismantle your self-esteem to protect my peace."

​It is absolute madness. We have an entire generation of people running around using PhD-level vocabulary to justify basic, entry-level selfishness. The timeline has convinced people that if they diagnose their own toxic behavior with a trendy TikTok therapy term, they no longer have to take accountability for the collateral damage they cause

[Liquid Stevie @Liquid_Stevie]

@DrAllyLouks Remember when the lady at the farmhouse would of leave a pie on the window sill to cool? The smell would take the form of a vaporous serpent that went straight up your nostrils? Then you'd be magically lifted through the air towards the pie?
Can't do that any more. Because woke.

[Liquid Stevie @Liquid_Stevie]

@All_Lee24 All of these approach suggestions are weird. The only true, socially acceptable approach is to paint yourself red, crouch-run up to her, then smash a sword through your chest.

[Liquid Stevie @Liquid_Stevie]

@klara_sjo Not seeing enough Motoko Kusanagi in the replies. It's basically her whole thing.

[Liquid Stevie @Liquid_Stevie]

@BasedPota18 I miss villains that are eeeeEeeEvil just because they're evil.
Purely in the context of The Trilogy... He just don't give a flip about nothing! Evil for evil's sake.
Now everyone needs a back-story, or worse, a sympathy story.

[Liquid Stevie @Liquid_Stevie]

@btchsdtm I'm not a disruptive person by nature, but it is an ambition of mine to be physically dragged from a bar so that I can yell "Unhand me, you brutes!"

[Geoff Wilt @geoffwilt]

I’m in my 40s over half my life is over I’m good never using AI, being a dick about it to anyone who does, and then dying

[Liquid Stevie @Liquid_Stevie]

@Mr_otkaa7 Watch it again in another ten years, you'll understand it even more.

[Liquid Stevie @Liquid_Stevie]

@_ToastedBrioche

[Liquid Stevie @Liquid_Stevie]

@KILLTHEICON @GigaBasedDad Lovely stuff... We'll look back on the NHS with warm nostalgia. Please don't Reform

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

What has the ECHR ever done for us?

Quite a lot actually, and we wrote it too.

[Liquid Stevie @Liquid_Stevie]

@MetalGear_OOC Anyone with any knowledge of MGS figured it out, pre-release, just from the date it was set.

But I do remember several game magazine writers at the time clearly knew nothing about what they were covering. With articles saying things like "Solid Snake is back... In the jungle!"

[Liquid Stevie @Liquid_Stevie]

@WalkAlanWalk @I_amMukhtar

[Liquid Stevie @Liquid_Stevie]

@ItComesInPintes @DAKKADAKKA1 To sabotage the efforts of the second InGen team, as stated in the movie.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Every British "journalist" objecting to a wealth tax:

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

The minimum wage should be a number that, if you work at that wage for 40 hours per week, you’re able to afford housing, healthcare, and groceries.

That’s not a radical belief.