Why would you think that most people would just know it’s a terrible idea? After all, the vast majority of (digital) cables that people use mostly work just fine so long as they fit—leaving aside vagaries of USB-C and Thunderbolt.

> Why would you think that most people would just know it’s a terrible idea?

I dunno, statistic about deaths from electrocution?

And why would they connect overall statistics about deaths from electrocution to that particular thing? Lots of ways to get electrocuted.

Sure but they're pretty much overall, so adding "coz he used a suicide power cord" would show even less people actually affected"

The problem isn't that it won't work, it's the exposed live prongs.

Your estimate could be extremely high. What those quick with a dismissive comment forget is that 15% of the population has an IQ of 85 or less. So to answer the FAANG-employed Stanford grad's question of "how could anyone be this stupid?": easy, a non-trivial percentage of them are born that way.

Regardless, there are plenty of my Microsoft/Google/FB-employed neighbors that I wouldn't trust around anything more dangerous than what comes out of a USB port, either.