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Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by master_kuro »

lostlogin wrote: post #49
roenxi wrote: post #30

It 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...

The relatively recent genocide also points to a high level of dysfunction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_genocide

This is absolutely insane. It's almost cartoonishly monstrous.

Why isn't this better known? The way the Tamils were treated is so pure a representation of evil that I can barely get through the Wikipedia page. This was the work of Buddhists, too! I've been taught that Buddhists were peaceful and non-violent by creed, but clearly not if the only Buddhist majority nation is capable of such abomination.

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by defrost »

master_kuro wrote: post #61
lostlogin wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The relatively recent genocide also points to a high level of dysfunction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_genocide

This is absolutely insane. It's almost cartoonishly monstrous. Why isn't this better known? The way the Tamils were treated is so pure a representation of evil that I can barely get through the Wikipedia page. This was the work of Buddhists, too! I've been taught that Buddhists were peaceful and non-violent by creed, but clearly not if the only Buddhist majority nation is capable of such abomination.

  Westerners rarely associate Buddhism with extremism or violence, but Buddhist movements in Asia have often raised few qualms about the use of force. Buddhist authorities have, at times, justified violence against the faith’s enemies and supported authoritarian regimes.
* https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/16/myanmar-rohingya-coup-b...

* https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/myanmar-s-extr...

These links are just Myanmar.

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by duxup »

ignoramous wrote: post #58
lostlogin wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The relatively recent genocide also points to a high level of dysfunction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_genocide

As for the civil war, things could have ended differently, except Prabhakaran seemed to have been gripped by arrogance. Though he was fighting for Tamils, paradoxically, Prabhakaran also became the big killer of Tamils. He annihilated all competing Tamil militant groups ... ... it all led to [Prabhakaran's] last apocalyptic decision to fight to the last day — and the last Tamil. Through Kumaran Pathmanathan, KP, the…

It's the story of most warlords / strong men types. Ultimately anything less than full obedience makes them the enemy, even (sometimes especially) the folks you are presumably fighting for.

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by duxup »

jamal-kumar wrote: post #40
roenxi wrote: post #30

It 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...

I like to think folks who know what they're doing, AND pushing dramatic change know that HOW you get there is as important as anything else. Behave recklessly and you've got no support anymore and you've undone your whole plan.

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by xyzzy123 »

roenxi wrote: post #30

It 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...

What happened was that they ran out of forex and couldn't buy it any more. The government subsidises it heavily.

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by danparsonson »

rectang wrote: post #24
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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).

I would also like to Orcas with baby seals to your list. Sorry.

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by rectang »

danparsonson wrote: post #67
rectang wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

I would also like to Orcas with baby seals to your list. Sorry.

I already brought up orcas and baby seals in a sibling comment[1], forty minutes before your response appeared. Have you grappled with my reasoning there?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035760#43064754

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by spikedavis »

allenrb wrote: post #47

The best line: “There were no immediate details on whether the monkey survived the incident.” Going way out on a limb here, but perhaps the monkey who disrupted equipment carrying enough power to mess up the entire country was most likely charred into an unrecognizable state. But hey, maybe it got lucky!

♫ This monkey's gone to Heaven ♫

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by Steven420 »

duxup wrote: post #64
jamal-kumar wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I like to think folks who know what they're doing, AND pushing dramatic change know that HOW you get there is as important as anything else. Behave recklessly and you've got no support anymore and you've undone your whole plan.

That very well could have been the plan
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