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Cake day: August 20th, 2023

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  • It’s great in a world of electrical appliances which need to be earthed for safety, but the mandatory earth pin and extra-chunky dimensions take up much more space than required for unearthed devices (such as most modern electronics). There should be a Europlug-style 2-pin variant.


  • The Swiss standard, which is basically Europlug with a staggered earth pin, seems a step up from Schuko. You can fit three of them in the space of one Schuko socket.

    There’s a newer standard which is meant to be international, and which is like a slightly smaller version of the Swiss plug, but only Brazil has fully adopted it (IIRC, South Africa is in the process of moving to it)













  • They’ll need a universal basic income to preserve enough genetic diversity so that the AI-owner elites don’t habsburg the human species to extinction. Neoliberal ideology, however, states that it is immoral for people to be given something for nothing, and granting all of humanity ownership of common wealth, and thus making the basic income a dividend, would set a dangerous precedent that could undermine the actual owners. As such, the humans kept alive in the name of genetic diversity will have to be put to useless makework.