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[-] WagnasT@lemmy.world 157 points 1 month ago

ooh, Electrical Engineer here, I can answer this one!

No.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago

As a computer engineer, don't listen to my advice, once things go above 12v they get scary for me

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Ever short a car battery? Even 12 volts gets pretty scary pretty quick when you send it at like 700 amps.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

how did you find out? you shouldn't be sabotaging at work

[-] WagnasT@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

The same way an EMT knows you should wear PPE when riding a motorcycle.

Anyway, the ones that do this shit tend to be hard R republicans and I know they didn't fix their lonliness because right before they will say 'i use arc btw'.

[-] Droechai@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

I misread and started wondering what Arch Linux had to do with republicans who sabotage physical infrastructure

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 22 points 1 month ago

Ah, the EA games argument.

How do you know this game is crap when it’s not even out yet?

Sometimes, you know.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

Electrician here, please no.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

As an industrial engineer it’s obviously industrial sabotage that’s the solution

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pardon me, but the qualification to answer this is if you're lonely or not. Not whether you're an electrical engineer.

I mean there is some overlap there, but we don't know your situation.

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[-] waigl@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago

Attempted electrical substation sabotage is an easy way to fix your loneliness forever. And also all of your other problems.

[-] TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

I hear most people get free food and shelter for years afterwards.

[-] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 month ago

Not sure how much food a person needs after being reduced to a cloud of ionized particles and a small pile of soot.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 month ago

So you're saying I'll never have to worry about food costs again either way?

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Most people end up as a black spot on the ground

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Most people get a nice box in a nice hole with a stone on top.

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

I, personally, prefer to sabotage major data centers, such as the Switch data center in Vegas. Their HVAC units are a particular weak point since they entirely lie on the outside of the buildings they cool. Plus the facility is so big, they'll never even know you were there!

[-] MashedTech@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the pro tip!

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[-] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 month ago

No please! Electric substations are necessary to transmit power, and we actually need more of them if we’re going to build the amount of renewables we need.

If you’re looking for parts of the electrical system that I feel less positively about, that would include data centers (especially for AI and crypto mining) and coal-fired power plants.

Of course, industrial sabotage is a crime, and with all the high voltage and current going around, it’s a particularly dangerous one at that. Would not recommend

[-] magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org 11 points 1 month ago

Datacenters aren't the issue, like it or not they're required for modern society. The issue is data centers powered by unclean power sources.

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[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

It’s so funny to me that people will unironically bitch about data centers while posting to a website from their computer or phone. You do know that data centers do literally everything in your modern life, they aren’t just used exclusively used for one stupid type of generative AI you dislike.

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[-] swag_money@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

don't fuck with substations. you'll kill yourself and cause a power outage. this doesn't help us. it might also put lives in danger like those who are in hospitals.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Go to prison. Get a cell mate. No more loneliness

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[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 month ago

I thought it was catalytic converter theft. The goalposts are just moving constantly

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[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago

It's actually wrecking the property of the capitalist elites and their supporters.

[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Except it's not, because potentially hundreds of thousands of people, who are most definitely not "the elite", actually rely on them for, y'know, power? You're not fucking over "the elite" by fucking with public infrastructure. They have backup generators and batteries and plenty of other ways to run their houses. Not only that, with something like a substation, they'll probably cry to the government for help with an emergency outage and it'll just be more public funds going to the.

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[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Unironically yea.

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[-] Veneroso@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago
[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

All dem illegal immigrants flooding south from across the border, ruinin' our good country! /s

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[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Prostate stimulation.

[-] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 16 points 1 month ago

No, but it is a gateway to Power Plant sabotage.

[-] MashedTech@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

How further can I escalate it?

[-] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 9 points 1 month ago

eScAlAtE?!?!?!111

Say no to Power Plant sabotage kids.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

driving a train into the hoover dam?

[-] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

National power grid sabotage

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 month ago

And eventually comic megavillian who plans to put out the sun

[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 15 points 1 month ago
[-] Fleur__@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago
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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I recently learned that the attacks on substations thing is an idiotic attempt to trigger a race war of some kind in cities, which is "where the [slur] are."

I don't think they've ever heard of a cascade failure.

Edit: fixed typo

[-] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Original article was pickleball for anyone about to look it up

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[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Will it cure your loneliness? No. But it certainly makes it easier to bear for awhile.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Not really interested in the type of loneliness cure that would provide

[-] Daerun@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Asking for a friend...

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago
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[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Are you a Domstation? Then yes, the substation wants you to fuck with it.

Otherwise, no. Just look around you, participate in society.

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[-] Veneroso@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
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