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Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by nadieyninguno1 »

nadieyninguno1 wrote: post #260
greedo wrote: post #258

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You're defending indefensible conduct. These "protestors" were threatening board members, stating "We know where you live" etc. They weren't politely and respectfully arguing over funding disparities between sports and the math club. They were instigated by right-wing media that touts ridiculous stories of kids using litter boxes in classrooms, of trans kids assaulting others in restrooms, and other non-events.

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Oh look, leftists are brigading the thread now! Hi y'all :)

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by dang »

nadieyninguno1 wrote: post #270
mftrhu wrote: post #266

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> No sir, you are. You're absolutely fine with rampant sexual misconduct in our schools and pretend none of your politically inconvenient crimes have occurred while "the other guys" are evil for demanding their children be in a safe learning environment. "You are absolutely fine with rampant sexual misconduct "? That's a pretty harsh thing to accuse someone of, especially in the context of a discussion of people writ…

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Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by dang »

mftrhu wrote: post #268
nadieyninguno1 wrote: post #265

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Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by nadieyninguno2 »

dang wrote: post #272
nadieyninguno1 wrote: post #270

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And yet you don’t touch ‘greedo for the same conduct?

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Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by maxerickson »

dismalpedigree wrote: post #197
nightshift1 wrote: post #192

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I guess it's probably not enough to sustain a long time and there are probably protections in place to prevent that. Here is a short video showing someone doing almost exactly this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X_2lZqyCmls

Pretty confident that video is fake. The concept holds though. This video seems more realistic. https://youtu.be/2NKOlLDNknc Point being the initial path creates a plasma channel that then bridges the gap and lets current flow.

So I would expect an outcome like 3 or 2 in this video (where something bridges the lines, established the arc, and then it goes away):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOT8jx4jEzM

Is the arc dissipating because an automatic system is killing power to the lines? Is there going to be damage elsewhere in the system from events like 3 and 2 in the video there?

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by posterboy »

Trouble_007 wrote: post #267
posterboy wrote: post #257

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> from 19th-century horse-racing slang There's hardly any worse "source" for etymology than that kind of jargon. > "ringer" was a late nineteenth-century term for a duplicate, usually with implications of dishonesty, ... Is that it? > Hope this helps Not in the slightest, no. If anything it confirms my bias that editors are gullible. Which, to get back onto topic, would mean to think that the motivation was not exact…

> There's hardly any worse "source" for etymology than that kind of jargon. Care to provide attribution links for that claim? etymology:'Dead Ringer' etymology:'Wringer' Hope this helps.

I absolutely don't think so, no. Any link is unlikely to help you read and understand my initial comment, seeing that you communicate in bleep bloop

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by Trouble_007 »

posterboy wrote: post #276
Trouble_007 wrote: post #267

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> There's hardly any worse "source" for etymology than that kind of jargon. Care to provide attribution links for that claim? etymology:'Dead Ringer' etymology:'Wringer' Hope this helps.

I absolutely don't think so, no. Any link is unlikely to help you read and understand my initial comment, seeing that you communicate in bleep bloop

As you are obviously unable to admit that you are incorrect, and are incapable of preforming a basic search,

  it would seem pointless on my part to continue dialog with you.
Hope this helps.

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by x86_64Ubuntu »

todorus wrote: post #262
x86_64Ubuntu wrote: post #233

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Terrorism is a very plastic term, that in the modern era is only applied to non-state actors who act against Western interests. Many, many, many allies of the West would be considered terroristic if they didn't align with Western goals. The Northern Alliance in Afghanistan would be considered terrorist, as well as many of the Syrian and Libyan allies during the Arab Spring. In those instances, they aren't labeled ter…

To conflate the main activities of an occupying army with that of a tactical cell or rebel/insurgent and claiming they're the same in nature, really makes me wonder why we would have intelligence agencies or counterterrorist rapid response units. The army would suffice. This is not a "we're the good guys, and they're the bad guys" propaganda thing. It just defines a very different mode of combat. Nice try, but a terr…

I'm not claiming they are the same in nature, I'm saying that a group gets the "terrorist" designation based only on it being unaligned with the West, and as a non-state actor.

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by Trouble_007 »

Trouble_007 wrote: post #134
m0x wrote: post #91

U.S Department of Energy Secretary commented on the situation less than an hour ago, indicating that their CESER team is activated - https://twitter.com/SecGranholm/status/1599556157898735618

Tweet not found; Secretary Jennifer Granholm - @SecGranholm - 1h I've been in contact w/ @DukeEnergy about the vandalism causing power outages for customers in Moore County, NC and the @DOE_CESER team is working w/ federal partners. Law enforcement is investigating this serious incident and Duke is working around the clock to restore service.

This Tweet is now resolving for me, at the time of my first post ( 23 hours ago ), the tweet did not display.

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by dang »

JetAlone wrote: post #98
themitigating wrote: post #95

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Care to post an example showing that?

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