It's the classic:
"It's grade school biology!"
"Okay, but when you get to middle school..."
It's middle school biology!
Okay, but when you get to high school...
It's high school biology
Okay, but when you get to college.
It’s collegiate biology.
Ah, someone failed biology in college.
As someone who has experienced Post graduate biology, at that point explaining some things does reach the level of "trust me bro" when speaking to people that have no baseline biology knowledge.
Do you want a series of 1 hour lectures and a few thousand pages of reading material? No? Then you just need to trust the experts.
I'll settle for some unlikely and interesting bits out of context, such as the existence of single-cell dogs.
Uh, I am listening to the experts, Dr. WolfenSturm1488 on YouTube.
bUt I dId mY oWn rEsEaRcH oN fAcEbOoK aNd oPeNaI!!!
Meanwhile french plugs and outlets :
Plug me, like one of your French outlets.
Not gonna lie.. my first reaction to that in this context is "two in the pink one in the stink". Now I feel dirty, thanks, Beryl.
Another perfect example of flawed analogies and kneejerk conclusions vs. the benefit of thinking about it for a few seconds
Americans having a conversation about sexual orientation
It's simple. Humans aren't cables. Any questions?
They're more complex than cables. Not less.
Did you know under the right conditions you can urinate from your belly button?
Fun fact, the plugs used in Europe are intersex.
US has those too, theyre 480v usually
fucking yikes.
that things safety feature is "anyone with intrusive thoughts has long since been eliminated from consideration"
Without having looked it up yet, I would assume that the exposed contacts are neutral/ground
The outer contact is ground, the inner pin is for locating (unconnected) and the other three are X, Y, Z. It's a Nema SS22-50R.
hot damn. I once lived in a house that used a contraption like this to feed elctricity from one circuit into another. I didn't know and I touched one end... I did fall off the ladder, but I'm still alive.
Of course this analogy is even more flawed than OOP's.
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Most circuit boards are an absolute pride parade. You have your male to male/female to female connectors, MtF/FtM transformers, master/slave setups, multiport adapters, splitters, switches, docking, etc
Another example where this argument falls flat is spaceship docking connectors, which are genderless so they can all dock to every other one.
In space being heteronormative is less useful.
My favorites are the ones where the plug is live and the socket draws power, and if you hold the plug wrong you die.
Beware the forbidden extension cable.
The perpetual power cord.
It'll power your stuff until the end of your life.
I’m going to live forever or die trying, so it’ll clearly thus last forever.
I present to you the IBM hemaphroditic connector!
IBM is, was, and will be run by crackheads. Seriously why make this?!
it's simple, as long as you don't know or think about anything
i mean males have 2 of the 3 holes too.
Old Czechoslovak oval 380V (3-phase 220V) plugs have 4 genders. The contact gender depends on whether the receptacle is a power source or sink, the sleeve gender depends on whether it's a cable mount (innie) or wall mount (outie). I hate this, they could have made it work with two while still keeping the water resistance flaps like the new CEE round ones.
| Contact gender | Plug | Receptacle |
|---|---|---|
| Female |  |
 |
| Male |  |
 |
This meant that people needed contraptions like this to extend cables:
We have a homemade one with a dodgy wooden base, and two outputs: one has two phases swapped for counterclockwise power.
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