• mobyduck648@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    There’s a type of power cord

    You’ll touch the end and see the Lord

    And you wouldn’t want that current going through ya

    While male on male is usually great

    You’ll find yourself in a sorry state

    You’ll learn volts jolt but milliamps will kill you

    hallelujah etc

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      22 hours ago

      You’ll learn volts jolt but milliamps will kill you

      The whole volts safe amps kill thing is so stupid though, you can’t have any serious amps without serious volts, unless you have near-zero resistance, which a human body does not.

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        14 hours ago

        In fairness the sort of person who needs a song to remind them why male-male mains leads are an idiotic idea probably isn’t going to appreciate Ohm’s Law in any sensible capacity.

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        20 hours ago

        I find it similar to “the fall doesn’t hurt, it’s the sudden stop at the end”.

        But it’s not entirely accurate, because we can be exposed to thousands of volts. For instant, most ESD are between 2k and 10k volts. Van de Graaff generators can generate up to 1,000,000 volts, yet they are regularly used in school classrooms.