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I feel the right position is outrage (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
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[–] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

πŸ«–πŸ”Œ

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Ah, but that’s a US power plug, do you want to wait 8 minutes for the meagre dribble of volts they provide to eventually boil the water? Not like our glorious high speed kettles. How about:

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[–] geekwithsoul@piefed.social 21 points 1 week ago

In the US, you just need to connect the kettle to a car charger πŸ˜‰

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Don't put the teapot in the onsen

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The USness of the plug is a font issue. I don't believe the Unicode standard specifies. Switch to a UK English font.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ah the plug unification fiasco, truly the Unicode consortium’s greatest error

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

The UK power plug is πŸ“ŒπŸ’£πŸ‘£

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Looks like a type F or type C plug to me, got em all over Europe.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

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