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Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by manuel_w »

mrguyorama wrote: post #91
potatototoo99 wrote: post #29

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Vae victis. Whoever wins the war will set the record on responsibility, like they always do.

"Winner writes the history" is largely bullshit. 90% of the narrative about the third reich and WW2 right up until recently came from the very Nazis responsible.

I don't understand how that counters "Winner writes the history".

If the winner wouldn't write history it wouldn't be a problem to talk about

- Holodomor in Russia

- the genocide on the Armenians in Turkey.

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by elzbardico »

gota wrote: post #100
kranke155 wrote: post #14

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Fly to Brazil, take a cab around Central Sao Paulo. Your understanding of the world is warped by the safety and availability of goods. It's incredible when you get in places where the state doesn't function at let's say 50% of what we get in the first world. It's one hell of a learning experience.

I don't understand this. Sao Paulo is mostly indistinguishable from any large city in the US. Big concrete-and-glass buildings city centre, lots of traffic-related infrastructure, large swaths of residential areas including richer suburbs and poorer ghettos ('favelas', in Brazil). Are there any large cities that do not conform to this formula? What are you referring to, specifically? The only thing that comes to mind…

Downtown São Paulo, or the central zone is a decadent part of the city (think Bronx in 70s). It is overrun with Cracolândia (big gathering of crack addict homeless people). Most foreign people or even Brazilians that go to São Paulo stay only at the nice zones.

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by User23 »

gizmo686 wrote: post #60
paganel wrote: post #43

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For what it's worth the original poster seems to be from Sudan, another current (and more recent) war-zone. It's this part that made me think of that general area: > our concrete homes are not designed to be habitable without AC power. and a little web-searching confirmed it. The reason being that concrete-made buildings in Ukraine are definitely habitable right now without AC (I live in a concrete-made building myse…

Also, the OP pretty much says they are not in Ukraine in a comment: > I think Probably the war will end because Russia and America are busy in Ukraine

Yeah I don’t think it’s common knowledge in the west that our governments are doing the color revolution dance in Sudan.

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by elzbardico »

beebeepka wrote: post #75
wicharek wrote: post #21

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This remark implies that the warring parties are somehow equally responsible. I do not know where the OP is (Sudan?) and know nothing about what’s going on there. But Ukraine situation is crystal clear - there is the victim and the aggressor. Representing them as as equally guilty of war is at best misleading.

Be honest with yourself and try to imagine what would happen to, say Mexico, if Russia were to stage a coup, install their guy, and deploy weapons. Cuba has been under the boot for how many decades now? Are they not victims? The never ending "civil war" in Sudan is just one of the countless proxy conflicts between the US and Russia The population doesn't want to be under Russia's boot, of course. Nobody does. But you…

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Post by kelnos »

xdennis wrote: post #64
ethbr0 wrote: post #25

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No, it doesn't. It's a fair comment about external arms supply intensifying conflicts, without apportioning blame.

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I agree with the sibling that you are reading things into OP's comment that aren't there.

OP isn't saying anything about the validity or wisdom of supplying arms to Ukraine. They're talking about Sudan, and how no one is interested/non-busy enough to supply their warring parties with weapons -- coincidentally, because of the war in Ukraine.

(FWIW, I absolutely agree with your points: while the Western supply of arms to Ukraine has certainly intensified the conflict, the alternative is that Ukraine would have been fully occupied by Russia a long time ago. But I don't believe OP was taking a stance on that at all.)

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Post by yks »

beebeepka wrote: post #75
wicharek wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This remark implies that the warring parties are somehow equally responsible. I do not know where the OP is (Sudan?) and know nothing about what’s going on there. But Ukraine situation is crystal clear - there is the victim and the aggressor. Representing them as as equally guilty of war is at best misleading.

Be honest with yourself and try to imagine what would happen to, say Mexico, if Russia were to stage a coup, install their guy, and deploy weapons. Cuba has been under the boot for how many decades now? Are they not victims? The never ending "civil war" in Sudan is just one of the countless proxy conflicts between the US and Russia The population doesn't want to be under Russia's boot, of course. Nobody does. But you…

> The population doesn't want to be under Russia's boot

More importantly, the population doesn't enjoy genocide and torture that comes with "being under Russia's boot". The specific goals and ways with which Russia wages this conquest makes them unequivocally "bad guys" and Americans who help Ukrainians "good guys", even if this simplicity offends your cynical tastes.

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Post by kelnos »

wicharek wrote: post #21
dimitrios1 wrote: post #11

Interesting comment by the OP of the EE Post: "Yes. we already done that but not over do it because we hope the power will be restored.I think Probably the war will end because Russia and America are busy in Ukraine and hopefully will not supply fighting parties with bombs, rockets and ammunition and they have to keep fighting with sticks and swords"

This remark implies that the warring parties are somehow equally responsible. I do not know where the OP is (Sudan?) and know nothing about what’s going on there. But Ukraine situation is crystal clear - there is the victim and the aggressor. Representing them as as equally guilty of war is at best misleading.

I don't think the OP was saying what you think they were saying.

They were merely pointing out that the US and Russia are too "distracted" with Ukraine to provide arms to the warring parties in Sudan, and so hopefully the Sudanese conflict will fizzle out sooner than if the Ukraine war was not going on.

I don't believe OP was making any kind of judgment on whether or not the West supplying weapons to Ukraine is a good or bad thing, or is morally right or wrong. Just observing a possible effect on their own situation.

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

jugg1es wrote: post #37
ethbr0 wrote: post #27

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Out of curiosity, does electron flow influence oxidation speed at all? Or is its speed purely a consequence of temperature + environmental gases?

this is an interesting question. Electrical current creates an EM field that could repel water molecules and oxygen ions. Temperature could also slow oxidation down... like I'm trying to imagine a red hot piece of iron rusting. I wouldn't think it would rust as fast as a cold piece of iron.

> Temperature could also slow oxidation down

Gonna have to guess that you've never had to replace a car exhaust :-)

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by H8crilA »

sa46 wrote: post #140
squarefoot wrote: post #90

Steel is bad as an electrical conductor as its much higher than copper internal resistance would waste a lot of power. I don't know if the military still use wired field telephones, but in case they do, the field phone wire is excellent. It won't sustain lots of current, but if you're OK with a few amps, then that cable is sturdy, water and oil resistant and it has both copper and steel core, the former working as go…

Around 2014 or so, we (light infantry) had field telephones on the books, but we only used them once for a field exercise to practice assuming all modern tech was down.

WW2 stories of diversions to enemy communications: put small needles through the cable. At first you'd think you just have to cut the cable, but that actually makes it very easy to find and fix the problem. Small needles that short the wires are very difficult to locate. Unless you have a fast device that measures return latency on the shorted circuit, but that wasn't available in the 1940s.

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Post by kelnos »

dghughes wrote: post #39
legitster wrote: post #24

God bless the people on Stackexchange who actually answer the question that is asked instead of scolding you for your idea being bad or being pedantic about the way you phrased your question. Yes, I want to use jQuery. No, I may not be in an active war zone.

I think the majority of what I find useful on Stackexcahnge sites end up being a post locked down but someone manged to sneak in an answer.

I wouldn't say majority, but I too find a lot of useful answers on questions that have long-ago been locked down as "off topic" or "too vague" or "too opinionated" or whatever.
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