During wars, looting of infrastructure for metals is common: piping and wiring of all kinds. Some do it to survive, others do it for greed and opportunidm.
As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling
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Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
The poster is not in Ukraine, he's in Sudan. It's hot there.
Ooops. Too many wars at a time right now. And yikes, it's really really hot in Sudan!
Indeed. Several dozens wars are ongoing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...
Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
We used field phones all the time when I was in light infantry (82nd Airborne). Pretty much any time we were in a fixed position out would come the commo wire so as to not give our position away. They even went as far as having us string wire out to our ambush sites when we were on the Iraqi border during the first gulf war and reel it back up when we came in. Zero radio signals out there because they didn’t want the…
All the way! I was 1-505 PIR.
> dumb Joe that keeps erasing the codes out of the radio by turning on the truck without putting it on standby
Oh man, I have nightmares about comms. Juggling frequencies while traversing areas of operation, trying to get satcom working in mountainous terrain with jammers, and depending on the finicky windows-tablet encryption device, was not a fun time.
Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling
#234I lived in the relatively safe stable part of a war zone as a foreign civilian for a few years, and had friends who were frequently in the less safe/less stable parts. So much of our modern world is designed for modern infrastructure, and when that infra falls down, you either have to do without or accept a level of danger that is probably higher than the modern world takes, but lower than what our ancestors 100 year…
You don't even have to be in a warzone... look at texas blacouts not that long ago. In my country, we had icy rain [0] destroy pretty much all above-ground wiring, and ham radio operators had to bring in their equipment to help rescuers. Somehow with the 'green agenda' we've started banning all the alternative ways of cooking and heating (wood, gas, oil,..), and in the future, it will get only worse. [0] https://www.…
The 'green agenda' is a red herring. The problem lies with companies not maintaining their infrastructure because it costs money, then blaming whatever is convenient when it breaks.
Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling
#235Daily reminder that online, someone well-off lying in bed with a nice bowl of soup can be talking with someone homeless in a third-world country with no chance of improvement whatsoever. Hopefully the OP in SE is not the latter and it's just a temporary situation, especially if they're in Ukraine and Ukraine wins.
The OP is from Sudan. Ukraine has been impressively fast in rebuilding critical infrastructure after Russian cruise missile strikes. It also helps that many of the Ukrainian men that have gone back to Ukraine are construction workers, electricians etc. Many of them are even working under the risk of Russian double-tap strikes.
it also helps when you have 1st world support
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Hear, hear. The torture is much more palatable when it's under the boot of a US propped dictator.
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
The communication of solutions to untrained audiences through the employment of simplified semantics is definitely an interesting field of linguistics. Visual smacks of Ikea.
it's impossible to squeeze experience into text. that's one thing AI will never be able to replace: 20 years of carpentry projects. I can show you how to do the thing with the chisel in this particular type of wood and humidity and grain and angle and pressure, but I can't write it down.
Fair point. In all seriousness though, it does often feel like Youtube is filling that niche quite nicely. It is almost as if the formerly wondrous power of written language to communicate across time and space is being debased and usurped by the power of video production and internet distribution...
Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Depressing world facts in April 2023: "I'm in a war zone." "Oh yeah, which one?" At least in March 2023 it was "slightly better" that people would go straight to assuming the answer is "Ukraine". Any other active wars going on[1]? Maybe Myanmar.. [1] Result for "active wars in 2023" gives me a page of potential conflicts: https://www.cfr.org/report/conflicts-watch-2023
> At least in March 2023 it was "slightly better" that people would go straight to assuming the answer is "Ukraine".
Ignorants perhaps. Several other active conflicts predate Ukraine's war[0]. It's just that nobody cared much, maybe as the people dying weren't white?
Wanna have fun? Pair the Wikipedia link about armed conflicts with the stats about the major arms exporters[1].
.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...
.1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267131/market-share-of-t...
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#239Interesting 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.
People unable to comprehend complexity tend to refer to complex situations as "crystal clear", "simple", "undeniable". Others try to refrain from making such comments, if not because they possess an advanced intelligence, because they want to avoid making a fool of themselves.
Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling
#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> if Russia were to stage a coup, install their guy, and deploy weapons. So... is your understanding that Russia's been "forced" to invade because the US was arming Ukraine to eventually invade Russia? I guess this is not an original argument to get into, but do we want to agree on some basic facts before we start: 1. Putin is corrupt. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_tFSWZXKN0 . Sure the people making the vide…
> So... is your understanding that Russia's been "forced" to invade because the US was arming Ukraine to eventually invade Russia?
Yes, among other things.
> Putin is corrupt
Probably true on some level, I don't know enough about it to judge it and I don't see how it makes a difference. Have you checked what the current alternatives to Putin are?
> The person ousted in the "coup" (Viktor Yanukovych) was also deeply corrupt
Yanukovych was democratically elected, so you can remove the quotes from coup. By the way Zelenskiy is also corrupt as revealed by the pandora papers[0]. I guess it's hard to do something in Ukraine without being at least a bit corrupt?
.0: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/revealed-anti-o...