As much as I love REUTERS, this one is incomplete: what about the monkey? And can we have a photo?
I’m guessing you can get the general idea from a photo of some charcoal briquettes.
Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very unlikely > The animal had come into contact with the transformer at the station, disrupting supply to the entire country Bro was cooked
Another example how human civilization, in its present form, is generally incompatible with Earth's flora and fauna. Obviously, going back to stone-age is not a solution for us. But we certainly need to update/devise methods that do not harm anyone living creatures (or at least the sentient ones). Poor monkey had no idea what he got into and suffered a brutal death.
Have you seen what animals do to each other on a daily basis?
Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very unlikely > The animal had come into contact with the transformer at the station, disrupting supply to the entire country Bro was cooked
Another example how human civilization, in its present form, is generally incompatible with Earth's flora and fauna. Obviously, going back to stone-age is not a solution for us. But we certainly need to update/devise methods that do not harm anyone living creatures (or at least the sentient ones). Poor monkey had no idea what he got into and suffered a brutal death.
Have you seen what other animals do to each other?
The monkey was probably dead before it felt anything.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another example how human civilization, in its present form, is generally incompatible with Earth's flora and fauna. Obviously, going back to stone-age is not a solution for us. But we certainly need to update/devise methods that do not harm anyone living creatures (or at least the sentient ones). Poor monkey had no idea what he got into and suffered a brutal death.
> we certainly need to update/devise methods that do not harm anyone living creatures (or at least the sentient ones) Nature is brutal. I distinctly remember a hike where I stumbled on a mother bear (RIP) tearing apart a still-alive baby elk for her cubs. Human civilisation has done a lot of damage. But we might also be able to spare a lot of sentient suffering, bringing care to the biosphere and taking station as na…
Humans are far and away the most cruel species that has ever walked the face of the earth. No other species has the capacity to invent torture, using our analytical abilities to keep the victim alive indefinitely while inflicting the most vicious agonies possible (e.g. torturing the child in front of the parent).
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#25This has the hallmarks of curious George
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#26Monkey business. Shock the monkey. ooh!
Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another example how human civilization, in its present form, is generally incompatible with Earth's flora and fauna. Obviously, going back to stone-age is not a solution for us. But we certainly need to update/devise methods that do not harm anyone living creatures (or at least the sentient ones). Poor monkey had no idea what he got into and suffered a brutal death.
Have you seen what animals do to each other on a daily basis?
I watch Congress on CNN. Yes.
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#29Not nearly the same thing but this reminds me of the Playstation game, Ape Escape. Real classic.
Ape Escape was great, and IIRC it was the first game that went all-in on the new DualShock controllers. You couldn’t even catch a monkey unless you nailed both sticks perfectly at the same time!
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#30It is hard to think about Sri Lanka without recalling [0] that this is the country which recently attempted to institute a fertiliser ban. My default assumptions about their general infrastructure management are unflattering.
[0] https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/fertiliser-ban-d...