Gadgetory

you know what really corks my screws whenever I go overseas I have to carry around this bulky looking adapter for all my gadgets and that is assuming of course that I can even get it into my overstuffed bag lest I have to pay another outrageous amount of money to heaven forbid check a bag with the airline and you know speaking of Airlines how exactly is it that we as a society have figured out a way to safely get thousands of flights to their destinations every day even between countries where the air traffic controllers don't speak the same native language yet we haven't figured out a way to get everyone using the same type of power plug and yes I know about the voltage differences worldwide with large parts of the americas operating on 110 volts while much of the rest of the globe uses between 220 and 240 but that's a rant for another day and besides there is absolutely no reason that these prongs that we use here in Canada couldn't carry a 200 something volt potential and did you know by the way that this same style of North American plug first appeared all the way back in 1912 that means the world has had at least a hundred years to get on the same page about this it's pathetic but you know hang on a minute because now that I think about it this style of plug actually kind of sucks I mean aside from them being super easy to plug in the wrong way and frustrating users way before USB ever did have you ever inserted a plug only partway and then got in a really nasty shock when you accidentally touch the prong well I have and let me tell you it's about as much fun as a soft kick to the privates well I guess I wasn't the first person to notice that as electrical power for homes surged in popularity long before there was any kind of serious international effort to coordinate how it was delivered so countries mostly developed their own outlet standards separately and some of them even intentionally deviated from the North American style in favor of safer designs with less exposed metal I mean the thing is all you really need for a working outlet is a couple of sticks of something conductive and then maybe a third prong for safety reasons so it doesn't really matter what shape they are or what kind of emotion the outlet on the other end ends up conveying so everyone just kind of said you know what who cares just make it work and we ended up with this whole mess of different plug standards that we have today I mean sure I get that when all of this happened no one was taking lightweight laptops and electric razors across the Atlantic all the time but like please won't someone think of the future generations of children I mean in fairness right around the time the world's electricity usage was starting to ramp up and different nations might have come together harmoniously holding hands to figure out this plug issue some jackass named Adolf Hitler was busy trying to conquer the globe so the international community was a bit more worried about stopping him than getting a record player that someone bought in New York to work over in London speaking of London did you know that the Brits hastily developed a new plug standard that nobody else was using in their effort to put their country back together quickly after the Blitz that's part of why gadgets from England need an adapter as soon as you get to the other side of the channel but it's 2019 and there aren't any world Wars going on and even the Cold War is a distant memory so why can't we go ahead and agree on one plug and one outlet standard I mean is it seriously just because it would be too much of a hassle to retrofit everything and it's much easier to just use them an adapter okay yeah I guess that's exactly the reason well until we figure out totally wireless energy transfer I guess I'll just charge everything before I get off the plane with those fancy International Chargers they have on the back of the seat or maybe I'll just start going to the United States for all my 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