I'm 18 and I've seen both a check and a fax machine! My father has check books lying around, and I'm an electrician so I saw the owners bring a fax machine into a rehab center we were working at.
Its either that, or it was once used and got abandoned. Either way I can't help but laugh at a meaningless box, even if it makes more sense to just abandon it than go through the effort of tearing it out
According to the image on Wikipedia depicting the plates, there would then be 17 continents, although some of those 17 would be entirely ocean, or only small islands
Well thats the thing, you don't know about all the "good enough" things, you know when they fuck something up and it doesn't work. Then curse their name as you have to redo it...
On my jobsite, working in new construction, we still complain a lot about what the people before us did. Everybody on the crew is a competent electrician, yet we still have plenty of times where we look at the most experienced electrician there and think "wth was he thinking??"
Yes, kitchens, family rooms, dining rooms living rooms, parlors, libraries, dens, bedrooms, sunrooms, recreation rooms, closets, halways, laundry areas, and "similar areas" all require AFCI protection for homes. A bathroom would be GFCI protected, but does not have to be AFCI protected. A kitchen will be both. A hallway will be AFCI protected, but does not have to be GFCI protected.
Edit: should also clarify that this is according to the most recent version of the codebook, 2023. So this list only applies to brand new homes in areas where the 2023 version has been adopted. It's likely it's the same or similar for previous iterations, but I'd have to look back through a lot of versions of the codebook to see so uh... eh
In seriousness though, I'm not really sure. I would guess, like most things, money is the answer. The codebook we electricians use specifies what needs to be GFCI. You can always go above that, and make everything GFCI, but you don't have to. If you're bidding a job, you can estimate higher to have GFCI protected everything, but the customer is almost always going to go for the cheaper price, so why bother?
I am an electrician, but this is mostly my speculation and me talking out of my ass so uh... take it with a grain of salt.
I don't see anything obviously wrong with the picture, but for some reason this made me think it was AI immediately. I hate that my brain questions a picture of a cat nowadays
Obligatory link:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s9HyDRpJrsw&pp=ygURMiBtaW51dGUncyBub3RpY2U%3D