I once argued this with my teacher in Uni.

“Do I have to find a quote of someone saying it if I say the sky is blue? Do I have to reference my parents when I put my name at the top of the page?”

Unsurprisingly, he said I was being obtuse.

Oh look, Apple. The bad guys do use your shit.

Trading off to pull more amps is not really feasible. Power is the work done, the product of voltage and current. This is what (watt) is being delivered to the water, ultimately. You can achieve this, in a very basic sense by either increasing the voltage or the current. However, a quirk of material interaction with electricity is that it is the current draw and the resistance that have a heating effect, I²R. However this is in every conductor, including the ones you have packed in behind your walls. This also means that if you deliver too little voltage to a product designed to pull a certain load (a given amount of power) it will make that power up instead by drawing more current, and hopefully only destroying the product, which I hope is cheaper than your home.

Additionally, your point about doubling the voltage is correct. If you took a live feed from breakers off both sides of your “split phase” distribution panel, that would actually mean you were delivering 240VAC @60Hz to an appliance, at the loss of your neutral line (frequency interactions are another consideration to an item) but many ships around the world work happily without a neutral line.

This is all very basic a way of looking at it. My apologies, I’m tired and not a teacher.

The loop of sockets could be as high as 32A but most appliance plugs are fitted with a 13A fuse.

A British kettle will pull around 3kW. What splits the wheat from the chaff is how quietly it’ll do that, for the most part. Fancy ones will let you pick a temperature, too. Tea is 100°C and poured straight on the bag, coffee is a wimp and cries bitter tears at such a high heat.

I’ve had friends from Northern Ireland (though anywhere reserves the right to claim proper tea making method) that will fuck you off if you take 10 seconds from the stop of the kettle and the contact of hot water to the teabag.

After listening to his rendition of She’s Leaving Home, does there need to be even be one Billy Bragg album

Oh god. Budd!

And they’ll become cheaper as they undoubtedly sack their talent, right?

I think if I buy a game under the pretext of it being entirely “man-made”, in 2026. If it then turns out to have been partially AI produced in 2030, I should have the right to earn a refund, even if I 100% it.

Dihydrogen Oxide

Also pretty fun coincidence that the northern one is the only one with actual bears.

Is voting in the US not anonymous?

You mean its not clipped into a swivel bracket on the underside of the slats for when your new partner escapes having his brains blown out in a bathtub?!

How will we know whether he’s surgical with that bitch, Jake?!

Man who signed up to a job to humiliate his fellow man, was himself humiliated. Demands justice.

Tit

Hmmm. And the poor have gotten poorer?

Almost sounds like theft.

He’s slinging his gob with all the hubris of a man that thinks his neck cannot be chopped or roped.

I can’t even imagine how much easier life would be at ten grand a day. It’s a baffling amount of money. And all we have is proof. Proof that more than that turns these people into something less relatable that an anonymous assassin that shot dead a health insurance company CEO.

Absolute madness.

Christ! This is a better description than the ‘million seconds vs. billion seconds’ one.

Ooooh youre not wrong!

Urgh!

Roald Dahl had a point about that in The Twits. That people that thinks wicked thoughts eventually start to show the effects of holding that in your head. But then, he just didn’t like people with beards, amongst others.

Do you ever want to pipe up in a group conversation with something you think might solve the topic of discussion, or has an interesting insight, then someone says something before you can barge in that essentially blows your point out the water and you’re so glad you kept your mouth shut for a minute longer?
This people seem to lack that shame.

She has the same look on her face as him. They’re either related or there’s like a carbon monoxide leak at their house.