The Swiss standard, which is basically Europlug with a staggered earth pin, seems a step up from Schuko. You can fit three of them in the space of one Schuko socket.
There’s a newer standard which is meant to be international, and which is like a slightly smaller version of the Swiss plug, but only Brazil has fully adopted it (IIRC, South Africa is in the process of moving to it)
According to Swift, eras just became personalised, and rather than everyone entering a new one every ten years, you enter one after a breakup when you change your hairstyle.
A big chunk of that is probably on-device AI models that shareholders demand Apple force on its customers to demonstrate that they’re not being left behind.
Is she sadistic enough to hold her own against the big beasts of the party, though? She may be a toxic narcissist, but this is the big league and the performative puppy-killers and AR15 family photo people couldn’t eat her for lunch if she doesn’t bring her game.
What else could you expect from a country whose main tradition is seeing how many Cadbury’s Creme Eggs one can fit up one’s bum.
The Israeli spyware industry didn’t have anything suitable?
You know for a fact that the Trump Lady Liberty will look a lot sexier than the old one. She’ll look like a possibly trafficked Eastern European “fashion model” and leave little to the imagination. Which will trigger some liberals and radical leftists, but Trump’s fine with that.
The lucky ones got to go to America. There unlucky ones got the Soviet gulag.
You can tell by the power sockets. India uses the old British round-pin standard (like South Africa), while the UAE (like Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and other countries that gained independence from Britain after the late 1940s) use the current square-pinned one.
It’s an odd sensation to be passing through an airport somewhere exotic and then, oh hello, there’s a British power socket.
I’m guessing nobody asked the prostitutes how they felt about being married to a convicted criminal and sent into exile
Big Tiddy Garfield:
It’s great in a world of electrical appliances which need to be earthed for safety, but the mandatory earth pin and extra-chunky dimensions take up much more space than required for unearthed devices (such as most modern electronics). There should be a Europlug-style 2-pin variant.