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Cake day: September 26th, 2023

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  • Five amps?

    USian here. My refrigerator expects (and is legally required to have) a dedicated branch circuit of fifteen or twenty amps with nothing else on it.

    Been years a since I had to actually apply Ohm’s Law, but I believe since we’re on 120V and most of the world is on 240V, you’d only need half the amperage we do.

    You (and apparently most of your fellow citizens?) are expected to run your home most of the day on half the power available to an average American fridge? (Figuring that as 7.5A for US fridge at 220)

    Puts our privilege in perspective for sure. If you don’t mind what general area of the world are you in? (Need not be overly specific, just curious about region(


  • There are three restaurants I distinctly remember long-term as health risks: Chipotle, Chi-Chis (decades ago), and Jimmy Johns.

    The first, I still consider a risk. The second is long gone, and exists only as branding for salsa and the like. The latter, made a concerted effort to get rid of the one risky part of their product which couldn’t be cooked or otherwise sterilized (sprouts, by definition) and to my knowledge hasn’t had a large-scale problem since.

    JJs is the only one that handled it even remotely correctly, after either the first or second outbreak, by straight removing the risk. They’re also the only one of the two remaining above that I’ll patronize. I’ve never eaten Chipotle, and it strikes me as highly unlikely that I ever will.