• slazer2au@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Because the house was built before ground wiring to all sockets was mandatory so I only have 2 wires in each outlet.

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        1 year ago

        meh. the ground is there for when something goes wrong. seeing as nothing is plugged in and they have safety caps in the sockets nothing should go wrong for some time.

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          1 year ago

          I was making an apparently too subtle joke about not being grounded as a person, extrapolating from there 😁

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          1 year ago

          I never said they were used exclusively in Russia. However, it is strange because I don’t think they are allowed in the EU - a grounded plug can be inserted without a ground connection, and the recess is way too shallow. Such sockets may have been allowed by lenient regulations many decades ago but the design seems way too modern.