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 @4b16f0b6 Preventing learning, obstructing, mandating... in other words preparing for modern education and work and politics. Electric plugs where I grew up were round and 220 V. Twice in my life, on purpose to feel how it is I stuck large nail in and got shocked. First time about 6-7 yrs old, second time after i kind of forgot how it felt at about 10yrs. So I tried again. Educational. Turned out not only live but engineer and physicist building accelerators and MRI systems,poking w radiotelescopes