ByteOnBikes@discuss.online to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 5 days agoDerail any conversation by mentioning "microwaving your water" rulediscuss.onlineimagemessage-square258linkfedilinkarrow-up1754arrow-down110
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minus-squareusrtrv@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·5 days agoSo why does Japan at 100V have electric kettles everywhere? It’s a cultural reason not the electrical grid.
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 days agogood point! i don’t know much about their grid, only that it’s 50Hz in the west and 60Hz in the east.
minus-squareEvilHankVenture@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·5 days agoI’ve never heard of anywhere in US using 50Hz and I’ve lived on the West Coast my whole life.
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·5 days agothat may be because we were talking about japan!
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·4 days agoI love that you’ve come into a discussion about Japan’s electrical grid and still assumed that the conversation is about America.
minus-squareEvilHankVenture@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·4 days agoI mean, the conversation started about America’s electric grid. It was ambiguous from context.
minus-squareHexarei@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoNo it really wasn’t. “I don’t know much about their grid” means the next “it” in the comment is referring to “their grid”. No ambiguity to be had, friend.
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 days agoNot that East and West, the East and West.
So why does Japan at 100V have electric kettles everywhere? It’s a cultural reason not the electrical grid.
good point! i don’t know much about their grid, only that it’s 50Hz in the west and 60Hz in the east.
I’ve never heard of anywhere in US using 50Hz and I’ve lived on the West Coast my whole life.
that may be because we were talking about japan!
I love that you’ve come into a discussion about Japan’s electrical grid and still assumed that the conversation is about America.
I mean, the conversation started about America’s electric grid. It was ambiguous from context.
No it really wasn’t. “I don’t know much about their grid” means the next “it” in the comment is referring to “their grid”. No ambiguity to be had, friend.
Not that East and West, the East and West.