Why is an electric cord with two plug end (and no ‘outlet’ end) so cursed and could it have a use even if it’s kind of pointless?

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This all comes from an image I saw:
https://imgur.com/a/qio204X

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Answer 1

Well, it’s mainly a safety thing, it would make it a whole lot easier to shock yourself or start a fire on accident. For a double sided cord, if you have one end plugged into the wall, the other end has two metal pins that are live. If you lay that cord down on a metal surface, or accidentally touch the pins when you’re picking it up, bad things happen.

But such a cord does in fact have a use though. When using some gas generators, you can use a cord like that to backfeed power into the circuit and use the generator to power outlets on the same circuit when the power is out. It is not advised, because of the safety hazard i mentioned above, but it does work.