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Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage
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#32As much as I love REUTERS, this one is incomplete: what about the monkey? And can we have a photo?
You can’t photograph what no longer exists…
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#33As much as I love REUTERS, this one is incomplete: what about the monkey? And can we have a photo?
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#34As 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.
How dare you force my brain to use more of it's processing power to understand the reference in your comment. /s
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#35can coming into contact with a single transformer disrupt power to the entire island?
Not in a healthy well-managed grid. Alas, this is Sri Lanka
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#36Related: just today came across this post on X..
"Sri Lanka will become next Bali as long as it gets fiber."
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#37The monkey was a foreign nation state sponsored insider testing the nation's grid. Sri Lanka is in trouble, and authorities are mobilizing fast and expanding the surveillance state to thwart future threats before they are realized. They are deploying AI at scale.
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#39Monkey business. Shock the monkey. ooh!
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#40It 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...
Wow that's crazy. You know when Greenpeace is saying they messed going organic up that they probably really messed going organic up...
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/on-sri-lankas-fert...