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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just as defensive of my standard but I've at some point in my life coexisted with one similar to yours and it was unsafe, put into simple therms.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yet people getting electrocuted here is rarer than people getting hit by lightning, and it almost always people working on power lines or high voltage equipment and virtually never from outlets.

They are not unsafe, they are fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Growing up with a similar standard, hearing people saying the exact same thing then, at some point the standard was altered, so someone found the previous lacking on some front.

I'm as defensive of mine as you are of yours.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And what was your previous standard? It may have been significantly worse than North American plugs.

North American plugs are actually fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't find pictures of it but keeping in mind the same basic two prong setup, remove the sunken safety socket, ground prongs, ground line and socket safety shutter.

It was essentially a flat face plate with two holes on it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Ya, that's way worse than North American plugs. We have a deep ground pin, and the slots hold plugs pretty tightly.